Chicoutimi is the most populous borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, Canada.
Saguenay is a city in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, on the Saguenay River, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Quebec City by overland route. It is about 126 kilometres (78 mi) upriver and northwest of Tadoussac, located at the confluence with the St. Lawrence River. It was formed in 2002 by merging the cities of Chicoutimi and Jonquière and the town of La Baie. Chicoutimi was founded by French colonists in 1676. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 145,000 and the metropolitan area had a population of 165,000.
The 1956 Quebec general election was held on June 20, 1956, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Union Nationale, led by Maurice Duplessis, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Georges-Émile Lapalme.
Chicoutimi—Le Fjord is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1925. The riding consists of the northern part of the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, as well as the La Baie borough and the municipalities of Ferland-et-Boilleau, L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Petit-Saguenay, Rivière-Éternité and Saint-Félix-d'Otis and the unorganized territory of Lalemant.
Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. An earlier Charlevoix—Montmorency riding was represented in the House of Commons from 1917 to 1925.
Jonquière—Alma was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004 to 2011.
Manicouagan is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968.
Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou is a federal riding in the province of Quebec, Canada, that have been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1966.
Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1949 until 2015.
Chicoutimi—Saguenay was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1925.
Charlevoix—Saguenay was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 1949.
Lac-Saint-Jean is a federal electoral district in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region, northeast Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1925 to 2004, and has been represented since 2015.
Jonquière is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 2004 and again from the 2015 election onward.
Jean-Pierre Blackburn, is a Canadian politician and diplomat. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Jonquière—Alma from 2006 to 2011; earlier, he was the Progressive Conservative MP for Jonquière from 1984 to 1993.
Jocelyne Girard-Bujold was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2004. She is a businesswoman and political assistant by career.
André Caron was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 1997. He was a school guidance counsellor in the Jonquière area and became a church deacon in 1988.
Dubuc is a provincial electoral district in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes part of the city of Saguenay as well as Saint-Honoré and Saint-Ambroise.
Jonquière-Kénogami was a former provincial electoral district in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada that elected members to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
Gilles Marceau was a Canadian politician. He was a former mayor of Jonquière and a Liberal Party member of the House of Commons of Canada.
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