Beauharnois—Salaberry

Beauharnois—Salaberry
Quebec electoral district
	Beauharnois—Salaberry in relation to other Quebec federal electoral districts
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1947
District abolished	2012
First contested	1949
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	109,381
Electors (2011)	86,431
Area (km²)	2,447.99
Census division(s)	Beauharnois-Salaberry RCM, Le Haut-Saint-Laurent RCM, Les Jardins-de-Napierville RCM
Census subdivision(s)	Beauharnois, Hinchinbrooke, Huntingdon, Napierville, Ormstown, Saint-Anicet, Saint-Chrysostome, Saint-Rémi, Sainte-Martine, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Akwesasne Reserve

Beauharnois—Salaberry is a former federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1949 to 2015.

Geography

In 2003, the riding was re-defined to consist of the regional county municipalities of Beauharnois—Salaberry, Les Jardins-de-Napierville, and Le Haut-Saint-Laurent, including the parts of Akwesasne Indian Reserve No. 15 that lie within Quebec. In the 2006 census 88.7% of its population reported French only as their home language, 9.3% English (mostly in Le Haut-Saint-Laurent).

The neighbouring ridings were Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry, Vaudreuil—Soulanges, Châteauguay—Saint-Constant, Brossard—La Prairie, and Saint-Jean.

History

Beauharnois riding was created in the British North America Act of 1867. Beauharnois was merged into Beauharnois—Laprairie in 1932.

In 1947, Beauharnois riding was re-created from Beauharnois—Laprairie and Châteauguay—Huntingdon.

In 1952, it became Beauharnois—Salaberry.

See Beauharnois for information on the riding prior to 1952.

The name of the riding was changed back to Beauharnois from 1966 to 1971, and from 1976 to 1977. The rest of time it was known as "Beauharnois—Salaberry" as it is known as today.

In 1952, Beauharnois—Salaberry consisted of the county of Beauharnois, the cities of Salaberry-de-Valley field and Beauharnois and the town of Maple Grove, the municipality of Saint-Joachim-de-Châteauguay, the towns of Châteauguay, Châteauguay Heights, and De Léry, and the municipalities of Saint-Anicet and Sainte Barbe.

Beauharnois—Salaberry was abolished in 1966 and redistributed between Beauharnois electoral district and La Prairie (federal electoral district)

Beauharnois—Salaberry was re-created in 1971 when Beauharnois was renamed. It consisted of the Cities of Beauharnois and Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, the Towns of Huntingdon and Maple Grove, the County of Beauharnois, and parts of the Counties of Châteauguay and Huntingdon.

Beauharnois—Salaberry was abolished in 1976, and redistributed between Beauharnois and Châteauguay (federal electoral district), but in 1977, before any election was held, Beauharnois was renamed as Beauharnois—Salaberry. It consisted of the Cities of Beauharnois and Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, the Towns of Huntingdon and Maple Grove, and parts of the Counties of Beauharnois, Châteauguay and Huntingdon.

In 1987, the riding was re-defined to consist of the towns of Beauharnois, Huntingdon, Léry, Maple Grove and Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, the counties of Beauharnois and Huntingdon, and the County of Châteauguay excluding the towns of Châteauguay and Mercier.

In 1996, the riding was re-defined to consist of the cities of Beauharnois, Huntingdon, Maple Grove and Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, and the County Regional Municipalities of Beauharnois—Salaberry, Le Haut-Saint-Laurent (including that part of the Akwesasne Indian Reserve contained in the Province of Quebec) and Les Jardins-de-Napierville, excepting: the City of Saint-Rémi; the parish municipalities of Saint-Édouard, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur and Saint-Michel.

It was abolished for the 2015 election.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Beauharnois—Salaberry Riding created from Beauharnois
22nd	1953–1957	Robert Cauchon	Liberal
23rd	1957–1958	Robert Cauchon	Liberal
24th	1958–1962	Gérard Bruchési	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	Gérald Laniel	Liberal
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Beauharnois
28th	1968–1972	Gérald Laniel	Liberal
Beauharnois—Salaberry
29th	1972–1974	Gérald Laniel	Liberal
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988	Jean-Guy Hudon	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993	Jean-Guy Hudon	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Laurent Lavigne	Bloc Québécois
36th	1997–2000	Daniel Turp	Bloc Québécois
37th	2000–2004	Serge Marcil	Liberal
38th	2004–2006	Alain Boire	Bloc Québécois
39th	2006–2008	Claude DeBellefeuille
40th	2008–2011	Claude DeBellefeuille
41st	2011–2015	Anne Minh-Thu Quach	New Democratic
Riding dissolved into Salaberry—Suroît and Châteauguay—Lacolle

Electoral history

Beauharnois—Salaberry 1971 - 2015

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Anne Minh-Thu Quach	23,978	43.78	+32.22	–
	Bloc Québécois	Claude DeBellefeuille	18,182	33.20	-16.86	–
	Conservative	David Couturier	7,049	12.87	-7.37	–
	Liberal	François Deslandres	4,559	8.32	-6.55	–
	Green	Rémi Pelletier	1,003	1.83	-1.45	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			54,771	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			778	1.40	–
Turnout			55,569	62.34	–
Eligible voters			89,141	–	–
	New Democratic gain from Bloc Québécois		Swing		+24.54

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Claude DeBellefeuille	26,904	50.06	+2.53	$57,397
	Conservative	Dominique Bellemare	10,858	20.20	-6.31	$85,410
	Liberal	Maria Lopez	7,995	14.87	-0.14	$6,993
	New Democratic	Anne Minh-Thu Quach	6,214	11.56	+4.01	$2,272
	Green	David Smith	1,764	3.28	-0.10	$5,184
Total valid votes/expense limit			53,735	100.00	$89,601
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		-4.52

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Claude DeBellefeuille	26,190	47.53	-3.1	$51,521
	Conservative	David Couturier	14,609	26.51	+17.3	$7,923
	Liberal	John Khawand	8,272	15.01	-19.6	$80,914
	New Democratic	Cynthia Roy	4,163	7.55	+5.6	$6,039
	Green	David Smith	1,864	3.38	+0.7
Total valid votes/expense limit			55,098	100.00	$82,960

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Alain Boire	26,775	50.7	+8.3	$40,737
	Liberal	Serge Marcil	18,293	34.6	-13.6	$66,136
	Conservative	Dominique Bellemare	4,864	9.2	+1.3	$56,391
	Green	Rémi Pelletier	1,415	2.7	–	$30
	New Democratic	Ligy Alakkattussery	1,018	1.9	+0.5	$252
	Marijuana	Félix Malboeuf	480	0.9	–
Total valid votes/expense limit			52,845	100.0	$81,152

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Serge Marcil	23,834	48.3	+14.8
	Bloc Québécois	Daniel Turp	20,938	42.4	+2.7
	Progressive Conservative	Roma Myre	2,133	4.3	-21.2
	Alliance	Stephane Renaud	1,782	3.6
	New Democratic	Elizabeth Clark	703	1.4	+0.2
Total valid votes			49,390	100.0

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Daniel Turp	20,449	39.7	-11.7
	Liberal	Linda Julien	17,226	33.5	+2.0
	Progressive Conservative	Dominique Bellemare	13,160	25.6	+10.3
	New Democratic	Erin Runions	652	1.3	-0.7
Total valid votes			51,487	100.0

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Laurent Lavigne	25,934	51.4
	Liberal	Linda Julien	15,867	31.4	+4.7
	Progressive Conservative	Marie-Andrée McSween	7,687	15.2	-43.1
	New Democratic	Marc Dubuc	985	2.0	-9.9
Total valid votes			50,473	100.0

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Guy Hudon	29,149	58.4	-4.8
	Liberal	Linda Julien	13,351	26.7	+0.7
	New Democratic	Daniel Payette	5,937	11.9	+5.7
	Green	Luc Bergevin	771	1.5
	Rhinoceros	Robert Joseph Hamon	729	1.5	-1.3
Total valid votes			49,937	100.0

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Guy Hudon	27,614	63.1	+48.1
	Liberal	Jean-Guy Gaudreau	11,395	26.0	-47.1
	New Democratic	Gus Callaghan	2,720	6.2	-1.1
	Rhinoceros	Réal Le Parfait Gingras	1,216	2.8
	Parti nationaliste	Maurice Vaudrin	798	1.8
Total valid votes			43,743	100.0

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gérald Laniel	27,476	73.1	+9.3
	Progressive Conservative	Camille Gibeault	5,629	15.0	-3.3
	New Democratic	Michael Wiltshire	2,738	7.3	+2.7
	Social Credit	Claudette Largess	1,017	2.7	-7.6
	Independent	Marc Laviolette	410	1.1
	Union populaire	Ls-Dona De O'Hara-Gingras	217	0.6	0.0
	Marxist–Leninist	Larry Tansey	77	0.2
Total valid votes			37,564	100.0

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gérald Laniel	26,048	63.9	+12.0
	Progressive Conservative	Rolland Philie	7,460	18.3	-11.9
	Social Credit	Georges Boulanger	4,190	10.3	-0.3
	New Democratic	Gilles Gagne	1,866	4.6	+0.1
	Rhinoceros	Réal Gingras	967	2.4
	Union populaire	Martine Godard	240	0.6
Total valid votes			40,771	100.0

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gérald Laniel	16,828	51.9	+3.5
	Progressive Conservative	Laurent Cyr	9,801	30.2	+9.9
	Social Credit	Jean-Paul Leduc	3,430	10.6	-12.7
	New Democratic	Arthur Brown	1,445	4.5	-3.4
	Independent	Guy Fortier	911	2.8
Total valid votes			32,415	100.0

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gérald Laniel	16,745	48.4	-1.6
	Social Credit	Jean-Paul Leduc	8,061	23.3	+17.6
	Progressive Conservative	Armand Miron	7,040	20.4	+1.0
	New Democratic	André St-Cyr	2,727	7.9	-3.1
Total valid votes			34,573	100.0

Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.

Beauharnois 1966 - 1971

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gérald Laniel	17,203	59.8	+9.8
	Progressive Conservative	Armand Miron	8,703	30.3	+11.0
	Ralliement créditiste	Jean-Paul Poulin	1,764	6.1	+0.4
	New Democratic	Joseph-Aurèle Patafie	1,087	3.8	-7.2
Total valid votes			28,757	100.0

Beauharnois—Salaberry 1952 - 1966

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gérald Laniel	16,145	50.0	-1.3
	Progressive Conservative	J.-Clément Le Veque	6,242	19.3	+1.8
	Independent	J.-Gérard Banville	4,167	12.9
	New Democratic	John Williams	3,544	11.0	+5.2
	Ralliement créditiste	Paul-Emile Asselin	1,847	5.7	-19.6
	Rhinoceros	Denis Bosse	321	1.0
Total valid votes			32,266	100.0

Note: Ralliement créditiste vote is compared to Social Credit vote in the 1963 election.

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gérald Laniel	15,892	51.3	+8.2
	Social Credit	Jean Boyer	7,836	25.3	+4.7
	Progressive Conservative	Florian Paiement	5,440	17.6	-18.7
	New Democratic	Denis Bosse	1,795	5.8
Total valid votes			30,963	100.0

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gérald Laniel	13,290	43.1	-5.2
	Progressive Conservative	Gérard Bruchesi	11,175	36.3	-15.4
	Social Credit	Paul-Emile Asselin	6,341	20.6
Total valid votes			30,806	100.0

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gérard Bruchési	13,202	51.6	+37.1
	Liberal	Robert Cauchon	12,368	48.4	-17.2
Total valid votes			25,570	100.0

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Robert Cauchon	14,030	65.6	-10.4
	Independent	Médard Cousineau	4,246	19.9
	Progressive Conservative	Guy Guerard	3,109	14.5	-9.4
Total valid votes			21,385	100.0