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Gaspé
National Assembly Member	Guy Lelièvre Parti Québécois
Electors, 2007	27,763 [1]
Electoral district created	1972
Region	Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine

'Gaspé' is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It was created in 1972 from a merger of a portion the electoral district of Gaspé-Nord and the electoral division of Gaspé-Sud which both existed from 1931 to 1972. The riding also existed from 1867 to 1927.

Contents

Geography

Linguistic demographics

Members of Legislative Assembly

Gaspe riding

Gaspé-Nord riding

Gaspé-Sud riding

Members of the National Assembly

Gaspé-Nord riding

Gaspé-Sud riding

Gaspé riding

Electoral results

References

Neighbouring electoral districts

Geography

The riding is located on the eastern edge of the Gaspé Peninsula.
It consists of the municipalities of:

★ Cloridorme

★ Gaspé

★ Grande-Rivière

★ Grande-Vallée

★ Murdochville

★ Pabos

★ Percé

★ Petite-Vallée

★ Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé.

Linguistic demographics

★ Francophone: 91.3%

★ Anglophone: 8.4%

★ Allophone: 0.2%

Members of Legislative Assembly

Gaspe riding

#Pierre-Étienne Fortin, Conservative Party (1867-1878)
#Edmund James Flynn, Liberal - Conservative Party (1878-1890)
#Achille-Ferdinand Carrier, Liberal (1890-1892)
#Edmund James Flynn, Conservative Party (1892-1900)
#Xavier Kennedy, Liberal (1900-1904)
#Louis-Joseph Lemieux, Liberal (1904-1910)
#Joseph-Léonide Perron, Liberal (1910-1912)
#Gustave Lemieux, Liberal (1912-1931)

Gaspé-Nord riding

#Thomas Côté, Liberal (1931-1936)
#Joseph-Alphonse Pelletier Union Nationale (1936-1939)
#Perreault Casgrain, Liberal (1939-1944)
#Joseph-Alphonse Pelletier, Union nationale (1944-1948)
#Robert Lévesque, Liberal (1948-1952)
#Alphonse Couturier, Union Nationale (1952-1960)
#Claude Jourdain. Liberal (1960-1962)
#François Gagnon, Union Nationale (1962-1966)

Gaspé-Sud riding

#Alexandre Chouinard, Liberal (1931-1936)
#Camille Eugène Pouliot, Union Nationale (1936-1962)
#Guy Fortier, Liberal (1962-1966)

Members of the National Assembly

Gaspé-Nord riding

#François Gagnon, Union Nationale (1966-1973)

Gaspé-Sud riding

#Guy Fortier, Liberal (1966-1973)

Gaspé riding

#Guy Fortier, Liberal (1973-1976)
#Michel Le Moignan, Union nationale (1976-1981)
#Henri Lemay, Parti Québécois (1981-1985)
#André Beaudin, Liberal (1985-1994)
#Guy Lelièvre, Parti Québécois (1994-present)

Electoral results

|-
|Parti Québécois
|Guy Lelièvre
|align="right"|7,662
|align="right"|40.96
|align="right"|
|-
|Liberal
|Georges Mamelonet
|align="right"|7,022
|align="right"|37.54
|align="right"|
|-
|Action démocratique
|Bruno Cloutier
|align="right"|3,162
|align="right"|16.91
|align="right"|
|-
|Québec solidaire
|Annie Chouinard
|align="right"|858
|align="right"|4.59
|align="right"|
|-
|}
|-
|Parti Québécois
|Guy Lelièvre
|align="right"|9,033
|align="right"|47.40
|align="right"|
|-
|Liberal
|Johnny Gérard
|align="right"|8,052
|align="right"|42.26
|align="right"|
|-
|Action démocratique
|Denis Paradis
|align="right"|1,743
|align="right"|9.15
|align="right"|
|-
|Green
|Luc-Reno Fournier
|align="right"|227
|align="right"|1.19
|align="right"|
|-
|}

1995 Quebec referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Oui	15,186	58.50
	Non	10,771	41.50

References

★ Quebec Votes 2007, Riding Profiles ''Canadian Broadcasting Corporation'', retrieved 25 February 2007

★ Information on the Electoral Divisions Holding Elections ''Directeur Général des Élections du Québec'', retrieved 25 February 2007

★ Référendum du 30 octobre 1995 ''Directeur Général des Élections du Québec'', retrieved 25 February 2007

★ Gaspe election results

★ Gaspe-Nord election results

★ Gaspe-Sud election results

★ Map of Gaspe

★ Quebec electoral map

Neighbouring electoral districts