Groulx

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Groulx
Flag of Quebec.svg Quebec electoral district
Quebec 2011 Groulx.svg
Location in Thérèse-De Blainville
Provincial electoral district
Legislature National Assembly of Quebec
MNA
 
 
 
Eric Girard
Coalition Avenir Québec
District created1980
First contested 1981
Last contested 2018
Demographics
Population (2011)74,165
Electors (2012) [1] 56,154
Area (km²) [2] 53.9
Pop. density (per km²)1,376
Census division(s) Thérèse-De Blainville (part)
Census subdivision(s) Boisbriand, Rosemère, Sainte-Thérèse

Groulx is a provincial electoral district in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the city of Boisbriand as well as a few other small cities.

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It was created for the 1981 election from a part of the Terrebonne electoral district.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it gained a small part of the city of Blainville from the Blainville electoral district; it did not previously include any part of that city.

In the change from the 2011 to 2017 electoral map, the riding will lose the Saint-Rédempteur neighbourhood of Blainville to the riding of Blainville.

From its creation in 1981 until 2007, Groulx was a bellwether riding always sending a member from the governing party to the National Assembly. Since the ADQ breakthrough in the suburbs of Montreal in 2007, the riding has been targeted by all major parties and is part of a collection of ridings that determine Quebec elections. The riding is overwhelmingly francophone and white, and has a strong nationalist undercurrent, making it a battleground riding between the Parti Québécois, ADQ/CAQ, and the Quebec Liberals.

In 2014, the PQ nominated Martine Desjardins, former leader of the FEUQ during the 2012 student strike. She was seen as a star candidate. While the PQ began the campaign with a strong lead among francophones and heavily targeted CAQ-held ridings such as Groulx, the fall of the PQ and rise of the CAQ during the last two weeks of the campaign kept this riding in the hands of the CAQ, albeit in a tight 3-way split with no candidate receiving more than 31% of the vote.

Members of the National Assembly

LegislatureYearsMemberParty
Riding created from Terrebonne
32nd  1981–1985   Élie Fallu Parti Québécois
33rd  1985–1989   Madeleine Bleau Liberal
34th  1989–1994
35th  1994–1998   Robert Kieffer Parti Québécois
36th  1998–2003
37th  2003–2007   Pierre Descoteaux Liberal
38th  2007–2008   Linda Lapointe Action démocratique
39th  2008–2011   René Gauvreau Parti Québécois
 2011–2012   Independent
 2012–2012   Parti Québécois
40th  2012–2014   Hélène Daneault Coalition Avenir Québec
41st  2014–2017 Claude Surprenant
 2017–2018   Independent
42nd  2018–2022   Eric Girard Coalition Avenir Québec
43rd  2022–Present

Election results

2022 Quebec general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Coalition Avenir Québec Eric Girard 17,43147.75%+7.14%
Québec solidaire Marie-Noëlle Aubertin5,91916.21%-1.02%
Parti Québécois Jeanne Craig-Larouche5,58815.31%-0.49%
Liberal Audrey Medaino-Tardif4,02411.02%-9.24%
Conservative Valerie Messore3,1778.70%+7.69%
Green Victoria Shahsavar-Arshad3681.01%-1.20%
Total valid votes36,507
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Electors on the lists
2018 Quebec general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Coalition Avenir Québec Eric Girard 14,77140.61+9.76
Liberal Sabrina Chartrand7,36920.26-9.98
Québec solidaire Fabien Torres6,26817.23+10.44
Parti Québécois Jean-Philippe Meloche5,74515.8-14.2
Independent Claude Surprenant 8122.23
Green Robin Dick8022.21
Conservative Vincent Aubé3681.01
Citoyens au pouvoir Chantal Lavoie2350.65
Total valid votes36,37098.37
Total rejected ballots6041.63
Turnout36,97470.25
Eligible voters52,633
Coalition Avenir Québec hold Swing +9.87
Source(s)
"Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.
2014 Quebec general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Coalition Avenir Québec Claude Surprenant 12,77630.85-7.17
Liberal Vicki Emard12,52030.24+10.27
Parti Québécois Martine Desjardins 12,42430.00-4.00
Québec solidaire Sylvie Giguère2,8106.79+2.49
Parti nul Jonathan Davis4931.19
Option nationale Alain Marginean3840.93-1.11
Total valid votes41,40798.49
Total rejected ballots6351.51+0.36
Turnout42,04273.48-5.60
Electors on the lists57,216
Coalition Avenir Québec hold Swing -8.72
2012 Quebec general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Coalition Avenir Québec Hélène Daneault 16,71138.02+17.57
Parti Québécois Raymond Archambault14,94834.01-4.05
Liberal Linda Lapointe 8,77619.97-15.70
Québec solidaire Sylvie Giguère1,8924.30+1.92
Option nationale Alain Marginean8952.04
Green Alec Ware5911.34-1.80
Independent Alex Munteanu1400.32
Total valid votes43,95398.85
Total rejected ballots5111.15
Turnout44,46479.08 
Electors on the lists56,228
Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois Swing +10.81

^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ.

2008 Quebec general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Parti Québécois René Gauvreau 11,22637.62+8.73
Liberal Monique Laurin10,82336.27+9.07
Action démocratique Linda Lapointe 6,03620.23-17.22
Green Carmen Brisebois9553.20-0.93
Québec solidaire Adam Veilleux7012.35+0.01
Parti indépendantiste Sébastien Hotte1020.34
Total valid votes29,84398.41
Total rejected ballots4811.59
Turnout30,32461.33-14.02
Electors on the lists49,441
2007 Quebec general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Action démocratique Linda Lapointe 13,63037.45+18.07
Parti Québécois Rachel Gagnon10,51328.89-9.78
Liberal Pierre Descoteaux 9,89827.20-12.34
Green Robert Harenclak1,5034.13
Québec solidaire Adam Veilleux8502.34+1.09*
Total valid votes36,39499.15
Total rejected ballots3110.85
Turnout36,70575.35+1.83
Electors on the lists48,715

* Result compared to UFP

References

Information
Election results
Maps

45°37′40″N73°49′09″W / 45.6277°N 73.8192°W / 45.6277; -73.8192