Frontenac—Mégantic
Frontenac—Mégantic was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2004.
Quebec electoral district | |
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Defunct federal electoral district | |
Legislature | House of Commons |
District created | 1996 |
District abolished | 2003 |
First contested | 1997 |
Last contested | 2000 |
It was created in 1996 from the Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead riding. It was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed into Beauce, Compton—Stanstead and Mégantic—L'Érable ridings.
It consisted of:
- the cities of Black Lake, Disraeli, Lac-Mégantic, Scotstown and Thetford Mines;
- the County Regional Municipality of L'Amiante;
- the County Regional Municipality of Le Granit, excepting: the municipalities of Risborough and Saint-Robert-Bellarmin; the Municipality of the United Townships of Risborough-et-partie-de-Marlow;
- in the County Regional Municipality of Le Haut-Saint-François: the village municipalities of La Patrie, Saint-Gérard and Weedon Centre; the township municipalities of Ditton, Hampden, Lingwick and Weedon; the municipalities of Chartierville and Fontainebleau.
Members of Parliament
This riding elected the following Members of Parliament:
Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
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Frontenac—Mégantic Riding created from Frontenac and Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead |
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36th | 1997–2000 | Jean-Guy Chrétien | Bloc Québécois | |
37th | 2000–2004 | Gérard Binet | Liberal | |
Riding dissolved into Beauce, Compton—Stanstead and Mégantic—L'Érable |
The riding was a swing riding between the Liberal Party and the Bloc Québécois.
Election results
1997 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Bloc Québécois | Jean-Guy Chrétien | 14,433 | ||||||
Liberal | Manon Lecours | 13,968 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | Carole Dodier | 9,885 | ||||||
Natural Law | Serge Trépanier | 365 | ||||||
New Democratic | Sara Mayo | 252 |
2000 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | Gérard Binet | 17,069 | ||||||
Bloc Québécois | Jean-Guy Chrétien | 15,703 | ||||||
Alliance | Stéphane Musial | 1,751 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | Nicole Massicotte | 1,497 | ||||||
Marijuana | Pierre Luc Fournier | 698 | ||||||
New Democratic | Olivier Chalifoux | 427 |
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