Verchères (provincial electoral district)

Verchères
Quebec electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	Suzanne Roy; Coalition Avenir Québec
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District created	1867
District abolished	1939
District re-created	1944
First contested	1867
Last contested	2022
Demographics
Population (2006)	57,095
Electors (2012)	56,094
Area (km²)	404.4
Pop. density (per km²)	141.2
Census division(s)	Lajemmerais (Marguerite-D'Youville)
Census subdivision(s)	Calixa-Lavallée, Contrecoeur, Saint-Amable, Sainte-Julie, Varennes, Verchères

Verchères is a provincial riding in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It corresponds exactly to the territory of Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality.

It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada). It disappeared in the 1939 election and its successor electoral district was Richelieu-Verchères; however, it was re-created for the 1944 election.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu to the riding of Richelieu, La Présentation to the riding of Saint-Hyacinthe, and several municipalities to the riding of Borduas, but gained Sainte-Julie from the defunct riding of Marguerite-D'Youville. Sainte-Julie is now the biggest municipality in the district

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Legislature	Years		Party
1st	1867–1871	André-Boniface Craig	Conservative
2nd	1871–1875	Joseph Daigle	Liberal
3rd	1875–1878	Joseph Daigle
4th	1878–1879	Jean-Baptiste Brousseau
4th	1879–1881	Achille Larose
5th	1881–1886	Abraham Bernard
6th	1886–1890	Albert-Alexandre Lussier
7th	1890–1892
8th	1892–1897
9th	1897–1900	Étienne Blanchard
10th	1900–1904
11th	1904–1908
12th	1908–1912	Amédée Geoffrion
13th	1912–1916	Joseph-Léonide Perron
14th	1916–1919	Adrien Beaudry
15th	1919–1921	Adrien Beaudry
15th	1921–1923	Jean-Marie Richard
16th	1923–1927	Jean-Marie Richard
17th	1927–1931	Felix Messier
18th	1931–1935
19th	1935–1936
20th	1936–1939
Riding dissolved into Richelieu-Verchères
Riding re-created from Richelieu-Verchères
22nd	1944–1948	Arthur Dupré	Liberal
23rd	1948–1952
24th	1952–1956
25th	1956–1960	Clodomir Ladouceur	Union Nationale
26th	1960–1962	Guy Lechasseur	Liberal
27th	1962–1966
28th	1966–1970
29th	1970–1973	Guy Saint-Pierre
30th	1973–1976	Marcel Ostiguy
31st	1976–1981	Jean-Pierre Charbonneau	Parti Québécois
32nd	1981–1985
33rd	1985–1989
34th	1989–1994	Luce Dupuis
35th	1994–1998	Bernard Landry
36th	1998–2003
37th	2003–2005
37th	2005–2007	Stéphane Bergeron
38th	2007–2008
39th	2008–2012
40th	2012–2014
41st	2014–2018
42nd	2018–2022	Suzanne Dansereau	Coalition Avenir Québec
43rd	2022–Present	Suzanne Roy	Coalition Avenir Québec

v t e 2018 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Suzanne Dansereau	17,073	37.49	+7.14
	Parti Québécois	Stéphane Bergeron	16,246	35.67	-6.92
	Québec solidaire	Jean-René Péloquin	6,723	14.76	+7.67
	Liberal	Agnieszka Wnorowska	4,017	8.82	-10.12
	Green	Pierre-Olivier Downey	701	1.54
	New Democratic	Vincent Hillel	403	0.88
	Conservative	Lisette Benoit	380	0.83
Total valid votes			45,543	98.47
Total rejected ballots			708	1.53
Turnout			46,251	77.38
Eligible voters			59,769
	Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois		Swing		+7.03
Source(s) "Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.

2014 results reference:^[2]

* Coalition Avenir Québec change is from the Action démocratique.

2012 results reference:^[3]

2008 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Parti Québécois	Stéphane Bergeron	15,664	55.42	+14.17
Liberal	Vincent Sabourin	6,464	22.87	+8.68
Action démocratique	Daniel Castonguay	4,377	15.49	-21.83
Green	Christine Hayes	845	2.99	-1.21
Québec solidaire	Lynda Gadoury	749	2.65	-0.40
Parti indépendantiste	Yvon Sylva Aubé	164	0.58	–

2007 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Parti Québécois	Stéphane Bergeron	13,811	41.25	-27.95
Action démocratique	Luc Robitaille	12,495	37.32	+27.20
Liberal	Paul Verret	4,751	14.19	-3.45
Green	Geneviève Ménard	1,407	4.20	-
Québec solidaire	Michelle Hudon-David	1,020	3.05	+0.01*

* Increase is from UFP

Verchères by-election, December 12, 2005
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Parti Québécois	Stéphane Bergeron	13,118	69.20	+14.42
Liberal	Jean Robert	3,344	17.64	-10.52
Action démocratique	Denise Graveline	1,919	10.12	-4.69
UFP	Jean-François Lessard	576	3.04	+2.41

2003 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Parti Québécois	Bernard Landry	16,963	54.78	-5.86
Liberal	Mario Lebrun	8,720	28.16	+4.97
Action démocratique	François Pratte	4,585	14.81	-0.30
Bloc Pot	Sébastien Drouin	505	1.63	-
UFP	Marc-André Morvan	195	0.63	-