Canadian federal election results in the Eastern Townships

Canadian federal elections have provided the following results in the Eastern Townships.

Regional profile

In 1988 and 1984 this area was nearly swept by the Progressive Conservatives under Brian Mulroney, winning all but one seat in 1988 (Shefford) and two in 1984 (Shefford and Richmond-Wolfe). Previously, the Tories only had one riding won in either 1979 or 1980, and that was in Missisquoi in 1979. The Social Credit party also won a seat here in 1979, in Beauce.

By the following election in 1993, Mulroney had left office and support for the Tories all across Quebec moved to the Bloc Québécois. Locally, the Bloc won all but two seats; the exceptions were in Beauce, which was won by former Conservative Gilles Bernier who ran as an independent, and in Sherbrooke, where Jean Charest was one of only two PC candidates to win in all of Canada.

By 1997, Charest was PC leader and local candidates running on his coattails did well, resulting in a split between the Progressive Conservatives (four seats) the Bloc Québécois (three seats) and the Liberals (two seats). However, in 1998, Charest moved to provincial politics as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party (which is independent of the federal Liberals, despite the similarity of names), and without him local support for the PCs declined.

By the 2000 election two of the PC members, David Price and Diane St-Jacques, had left the party and joined the federal Liberals. André Bachand remained with the PCs in 2000 and was re-elected, but declined to join the newly merged Conservatives and retired from politics in 2004. Traditional Bloc support in this region is concentrated in the northwest part, and in the Frontenac-Megantic region. Nonetheless, Bloc support weakened across the board here in 2006, primarily to the Conservatives.

In 2011, the New Democratic surge cost the Bloc six of its seven seats in the region; the two Conservatives retained their seats. Four years later, the Conservatives picked up a seat at the expense of the Bloc while Liberal support climbed enough for them to steal three seats from the New Democrats.

In 2019, the Bloc regained popularity and the NDP was wiped out of the region with 2 losses to the Bloc and one to the Liberals.

Votes by party throughout time

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! scope="row"|1979

| 180,096 49.5%

| 7,194 2.0%

| 71,426 19.6%

| 92,750 25.5%

| 12,393 3.4%

! scope="row"|1980

| 212,965 61.5%

| 18,891 5.5%

| 68,504 19.8%

| 36,900 10.7%

| 9,131 2.6%

! scope="row"|1984

| 151,983 39.5%

| 21,502 5.6%

| 454 0.1%

| 206,403 53.6%

| 1,170 0.3%

| 3,664 1.0%

! scope="row"|1988

| 130,657 32.2%

| 39,504 9.7%

| 511 0.1%

| 232,274 57.3%

| 2,671 0.7%

! scope="row"|1993

| 93,199 22.8%

| 4,736 1.2%

| 196,524 48.2%

| 379 0.1%

| 87,472 21.4%

| 25,806 6.3%

! scope="row"|1997

| 112,671 26.9%

| 5,405 1.3%

| 144,928 34.7%

| 153,067 36.6%

| 2,124 0.5%

! scope="row"|2000

| 165,281 41.5%

| 4,221 1.1%

| 162,525 40.8%

| 41,423 10.4%

| 21,104 5.3%

| 3,954 1.0%

! scope="row"|2004

| 136,896 33.2%

| 45,646 11.1%

| 11,777 2.9%

| 205,380 49.8%

| 12,748 3.1%

| colspan="2" rowspan="8"

! scope="row"|2006

| 70,492 15.7%

| 144,889 32.2%

| 24,356 5.4%

| 190,469 42.3%

| 17,820 4.0%

| 2,236 0.5%

! scope="row"|2008

| 80,460 18.3%

| 126,357 28.7%

| 50,229 11.4%

| 168,716 38.3%

| 13,558 3.1%

| 1,347 0.3%

! scope="row"|2011

| 46,504 10.1%

| 102,468 22.3%

| 192,809 42.0%

| 107,742 23.5%

| 8,863 1.9%

| 483 0.1%

! scope="row"|2015

| 155,340 31.1%

| 113,105 22.7%

| 126,491 25.4%

| 91,724 18.4%

| 10,488 2.1%

| 1,732 0.3%

! scope="row"|2019

| 129,958 25.2%

| 119,950 23.2%

| 56,740 11.0%

| 163,611 31.7%

| 21,615 4.2%

| 24,756 4.8%

! scope="row"|2021

|128,008 25.5%

|133,265 26.6%

|36,787 7.3%

|161,960 32.3%

|6,896 1.4%

|34,949 7.0%

! scope="row"|2025

| 202,205 36.0%

| 164,881 29.3%

| 16,102 2.9%

| 164,617 29.3%

| 4,472 0.8%

| 9,863 1.8%

Detailed results

2021

| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Beauce

|Philippe-Alexandre Langlois 7,018 12.32%

|Richard Lehoux 27,514 48.29%

|Solange Thibodeau 8,644 15.17%

|François Jacques-Côté 1,654 2.90%

|Andrzej Wisniowski 486 0.85%

|Maxime Bernier 10,362 18.19%

|Chantale Giguère 1,096 1.92%

|Sébastien Tanguay (Mar.) 206 0.36%

|Richard Lehoux

|rowspan=3 style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Brome—Missisquoi (judicial recount terminated)

|rowspan=3 |

|rowspan=3 |Pascale St-Onge 21,488 34.96%

|rowspan=3 |

|rowspan=3 |Vincent Duhamel 9,961 16.20%

|rowspan=3 |

|rowspan=3 |Marilou Alarie 21,291 34.64%

|rowspan=3 |

|rowspan=3 |Andrew Panton 3,828 6.23%

|rowspan=3 |

|rowspan=3 |Michelle Corcos 1,466 2.38%

|rowspan=3 |

|rowspan=3 |Alexis Stogowski 1,982 3.22%

|rowspan=3 |

|rowspan=3 |Maryse Richard 961 1.56%

|Lawrence Cotton (VCP) 216 0.35%

|rowspan=3 |

|rowspan=3 |Lyne Bessette$

|Dany Desjardins (Ind.) 145 0.24%

|Susanne Lefebvre (CHP) 133 0.22%

| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Compton—Stanstead

|Marie-Claude Bibeau 21,188 36.66%

|Pierre Tremblay 10,087 17.45%

|Nathalie Bresse 17,681 30.59%

|Geneva Allen 4,288 7.42%

|Sylvain Dodier 1,623 2.81%

|Yves Bourassa 2,167 3.75%

|Déitane Gendron 576 1.00%

|Sylvain Longpré (Ind.) 186 0.32%

|Marie-Claude Bibeau

|rowspan=2 style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Drummond

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |Mustapha Berri 9,614 18.78%

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |Nathalie Clermont 9,179 17.93%

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |Martin Champoux 23,866 46.62%

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |François Choquette 5,709 11.15%

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |Josée Joyal 1,728 3.38%

|Sylvain Marcoux (NA) 419 0.82%

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |Martin Champoux

|Lucas Munger (Animal) 674 1.32%

| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Mégantic—L'Érable

|Adam Lukofsky 6,329 13.63%

|Luc Berthold 26,121 56.26%

|Éric Labonté 9,318 20.07%

|Mathieu Boisvert 1,308 2.82%

|Emilie Hamel 592 1.28%

|Jonathan Gagnon 1,677 3.61%

|Real Pepin 680 1.46%

|Gloriane Blais (Ind.) 403 0.87%

|Luc Berthold

| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Richmond—Arthabaska

|Alexandre Desmarais 8,543 14.95%

|Alain Rayes 28,513 49.88%

|Diego Scalzo 14,150 24.76%

|Nataël Bureau 2,550 4.46%

|Nadine Fougeron 2,058 3.60%

|Louis Richard 897 1.57%

|Marjolaine Delisle (Rhino.) 448 0.78%

|Alain Rayes

| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot

|Caroline-Joan Boucher 12,030 22.68%

|André Lepage 7,166 13.51%

|Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay 25,165 47.45%

|Brigitte Sansoucy 6,170 11.63%

|Sylvain Pariseau 1,445 2.72%

|Sébastien Desautels 1,055 1.99%

|Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay

|rowspan=2 style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Shefford

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |Pierre Breton 19,968 33.49%

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |Céline Lalancette 7,234 12.13%

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |Andréanne Larouche 24,997 41.92%

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |Patrick Jasmin 3,173 5.32%

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |Mathieu Morin 1,059 1.78%

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |Gerda Schieder 2,073 3.48%

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |Joël Lacroix 599 1.00%

|Jean-Philippe Beaudry-Graham (PIQ) 239 0.40%

|rowspan=2 |

|rowspan=2 |Andréanne Larouche

|Yannick Brisebois (Mar.) 284 0.48%

| style="background-color:whitesmoke" |Sherbrooke

|Élisabeth Brière 21,830 37.52%

|Andrea Winters 7,490 12.87%

|Ensaf Haidar 16,848 28.96%

|Marika Lalime 8,107 13.93%

|Marie-Clarisse Berger 1,670 2.87%

|Marcela Niculescu 1,453 2.50%

|Maxime Boivin 787 1.35%

|Élisabeth Brière

2019

2015

2011

2008

2006

2004

Maps

Beauce
Brome-Mississquoi
Compton-Stanstead
Drummond
Mégantic-L'Érable
Richmond-Arthabaska
Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot
Shefford
Sherbrooke

Image:et04.PNG|Key map

Image:etbq.PNG|Bloc Québécois

Image:etcpc.PNG|Conservative Party of Canada

Image:etgpc.PNG|Green Party of Canada

Image:etlpc.PNG|Liberal Party of Canada

Image:etndp.PNG|New Democratic Party

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2000

1997

1993

1988

1984

Notes and references

Notes

References

fr:Élections fédérales canadiennes aux Cantons-de-l'Est et Centre-du-Québec