Drummond (electoral district)

Drummond
Quebec electoral district
Coordinates:	45°54′00″N 72°27′00″W / 45.900°N 72.450°WCoordinates: 45°54′00″N 72°27′00″W / 45.900°N 72.450°W
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
;
District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	98,681
Electors (2015)	80,750
Area (km²)[2]	1,670
Pop. density (per km²)	59.1
Census divisions	Drummond RCM
Census subdivisions	Drummondville, Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover, Saint-Germain-de-Grantham, Wickham

Drummond is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968. It was created in 1966 from Drummond—Arthabaska, Nicolet—Yamaska and Richmond—Wolfe.

Geography

The riding, located along the Saint-François River in the Quebec region of Centre-du-Québec, consists of the RCM of Drummond. The largest city is Drummondville.

The neighbouring ridings are Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour, Richmond—Arthabaska, Shefford, and Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot.

There were no changes to this riding from the 2012 electoral redistribution.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Drummond Riding created from Drummond—Arthabaska, Nicolet—Yamaska and Richmond—Wolfe
28th	1968–1972	Jean-Luc Pépin	Liberal
29th	1972–1974	Jean-Marie Boisvert	Social Credit
30th	1974–1979	Yvon Pinard	Liberal
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988	Jean-Guy Guilbault	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993	Jean-Guy Guilbault	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Pauline Picard	Bloc Québécois
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011	Roger Pomerleau
41st	2011–2015	François Choquette	New Democratic
42nd	2015–Present	François Choquette	New Democratic

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	François Choquette	15,833	30.5	-21.1	$46,839.41
	Liberal	Pierre Côté	13,793	26.5	+18.1	$17,306.35
	Bloc Québécois	Diane Bourgeois	11,862	22.8	+0.8	$34,502.97
	Conservative	Pascale Déry	9,221	17.7	+1.8	$58,680.41
	Green	Émile Coderre	1,270	2.4	+0.3	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			51,979	100.0		$217,456.41
Total rejected ballots			1,098	–	–
Turnout			53,077	–	–
Eligible voters			81,303
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-19.6
Source: Elections Canada^[3]^[4]

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	François Choquette	24,489	51.6	+34.8
	Bloc Québécois	Roger Pomerleau	10,410	22.0	-16.8
	Conservative	Normand W. Bernier	7,555	15.9	-9.4
	Liberal	Pierre Côté	3,979	8.4	-8.4
	Green	Robin Fortin	987	2.1	-0.4
Total valid votes/Expense limit			47,420	100.0
Total rejected ballots			878	1.82	-0.38
Turnout			48,298	62.59	–
Eligible voters			77,162	–	–

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Roger Pomerleau	17,613	38.8	-10.9	$41,200
	Conservative	André Komlosy	11,490	25.3	+3.0	$77,182
	Liberal	Jean Courchesne	7,697	17.0	+0.6	$13,625
	New Democratic	Annick Corriveau	7,640	16.8	+10.5	$6,172
	Green	Réginald Gagnon	1,144	2.5	-2.8
Total valid votes/Expense limit			45,404	100.0	$82,531
Total rejected ballots			1,022	2.20
Turnout			–	–

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Pauline Picard	22,575	49.7	-6.6	$38,371
	Conservative	Jean-Marie Pineault	10,134	22.3	+5.4	$51,057
	Liberal	Éric Cardinal	7,437	16.4	-6.4	$75,543
	New Democratic	François Choquette	2,870	6.3	+4.5	$1,903
	Green	Jean-Benjamin Milot	2,418	5.3	+3.1	$865
Total valid votes/Expense limit			45,434	100.0	$76,054

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Pauline Picard	23,670	56.3	+11.2	$55,860
	Liberal	Roger Gougeon	9,591	22.8	-11.4	$60,104
	Conservative	Lyne Boisvert	7,123	16.9	-2.7	$72,925
	Green	Louis Lacroix	921	2.2	–
	New Democratic	Blake Evans	745	1.8	+0.8
Total valid votes/Expense limit			42,050	100.0	$73,968

Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in the 2000 election.

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Pauline Picard	18,843	45.1	+2.9
	Liberal	André Béliveau	14,285	34.2	+11.1
	Progressive Conservative	Lyne Boisvert	6,593	15.8	-17.8
	Alliance	Jacques Laurin	1,606	3.8
	New Democratic	Julie Philion	424	1.0	0.0
Total valid votes			41,751	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Pauline Picard	18,577	42.3	-12.5
	Progressive Conservative	Lyne Boisvert	14,777	33.6	+13.7
	Liberal	Christian Méthot	10,165	23.1	-0.9
	New Democratic	Alexandra Philoctéte	441	1.0	-0.3
Total valid votes			43,960	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Pauline Picard	24,930	54.8
	Liberal	Bernard Boudreau	10,935	24.0	-10.7
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Guy Guilbault	9,041	19.9	-33.7
	New Democratic	Ferdinand Berner	600	1.3	-10.4
Total valid votes			45,506	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Guy Guilbault	23,703	53.5	-2.7
	Liberal	Jean-Claude Lagacé	15,380	34.7	+1.2
	New Democratic	Ferdinand Berner	5,204	11.8	5.6
Total valid votes			44,287	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Guy Guilbault	23,693	56.2	+41.5
	Liberal	Michel Yip	14,137	33.6	-39.2
	New Democratic	Louis G. Garreau	2,610	6.2	-0.2
	Parti nationaliste	Camillien Belhumeur	1,057	2.5
	Independent	Joseph Richard Miller	338	0.8
	Social Credit	René Martineau	301	0.7	-4.6
Total valid votes			42,136	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Yvon Pinard	26,082	72.8	+15.6
	Progressive Conservative	Gilbert Lapointe	5,265	14.7	+0.4
	New Democratic	André Lefebvre	2,305	6.4	+4.8
	Social Credit	Henri Farley	1,916	5.3	-19.6
	Union populaire	Gaétan Giroux	180	0.5	+0.2
	Marxist–Leninist	J.-P. Ginchereau	97	0.3	+0.1
Total valid votes			35,845	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Yvon Pinard	22,989	57.2	+15.0
	Social Credit	Robert Biron	10,010	24.9	-17.2
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Lavigne	5,746	14.3	+0.2
	Rhinoceros	Normand Blanchette	641	1.6
	New Democratic	Patricia Lamarre	639	1.6	-0.1
	Union populaire	Marc Rochefort	106	0.3
	Marxist–Leninist	J.-P. Ginchereau	67	0.2
Total valid votes			40,198	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Yvon Pinard	15,561	42.1	+0.1
	Social Credit	Jean-Marie Boisvert	15,548	42.1	-0.1
	Progressive Conservative	Armand Cyrenne	5,186	14.0	-0.1
	New Democratic	Gisel Marotte	630	1.7	+0.1
Total valid votes			36,925	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Jean-Marie Boisvert	15,923	42.2	+10.7
	Liberal	Jean-Luc Pépin	15,853	42.0	+3.5
	Progressive Conservative	Roger Rousseau	5,351	14.2	-13.4
	New Democratic	Ann Dewitt	590	1.6	-0.8
Total valid votes			37,717	100.0

Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Jean-Luc Pépin	11,667	38.5
	Ralliement créditiste	Claude Proulx	9,545	31.5
	Progressive Conservative	André Biron	8,342	27.6
	New Democratic	Pierre Gagné	723	2.4
Total valid votes			30,277	100.0

References

"(Code 24018) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-07.
2011 Results from Elections Canada at Archive.is (archived January 15, 2013)
Riding history from the Library of Parliament
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada

Notes

↑ Statistics Canada: 2012
↑ Statistics Canada: 2012
↑ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Drummond, 30 September 2015
↑ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived August 15, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.

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[1] Statistics Canada: 2012

[2] Statistics Canada: 2012

[3] Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Drummond, 30 September 2015

[4] Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates Archived August 15, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.

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Liberal	Brome—Missisquoi Compton—Stanstead Shefford
New Democratic	Drummond Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot Sherbrooke
Conservative	Mégantic—L'Érable Richmond—Arthabaska
Independent	Beauce

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Until 2006	Argenteuil—Mirabel Beauport Charlesbourg Charlevoix—Montmorency Laurier Nunavik—Eeyou Portneuf Richelieu Rivière-du-Loup—Montmagny Roberval
Until 2004	Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik Anjou—Rivière-des-Prairies Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour Beauport—Montmorency—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île-d'Orléans Bellechasse—Etchemins—Montmagny—L'Islet Berthier—Montcalm Bonaventure—Gaspé—Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Pabok Chambly Champlain Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier Charlevoix Châteauguay Frontenac—Mégantic Hochelaga—Maisonneuve Jonquière Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata—Les Basques Lac-Saint-Jean—Saguenay Laurentides Laurier—Sainte-Marie Laval Centre Laval East Laval West Lévis-et-Chutes-de-la-Chaudière Longueuil Lotbinière—L'Érable Matapédia—Matane Mercier Papineau—Saint-Denis Pontiac—Gatineau—Labelle Québec East Rimouski—Neigette-et-la Mitis Rosemont—Petite-Patrie Saint-Maurice Témiscamingue Verdun—Saint-Henri—Saint-Paul—Pointe-Saint-Charles
Until 2000	Abitibi Beauport—Montmorency—Orléans Charlesbourg Chicoutimi Lac-Saint-Jean Lévis Lotbinière Richelieu Rimouski—Mitis Rosemont Saint-Eustache—Sainte-Thérèse Verchères Verdun—Saint-Henri
Until 1997	Argenteuil—Papineau Bellechasse Blainville—Deux-Montagnes Bonaventure—Îles-de-la-Madeleine Frontenac Gaspé Gatineau—La Lièvre Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup Lachine—Lac-Saint-Louis La Prairie Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Papineau—Saint-Michel Richmond—Wolfe Rimouski—Témiscouata Saint-Denis Saint-Henri—Westmount Saint-Hubert Saint-Léonard Terrebonne Vaudreuil Verchères Verdun—Saint-Paul
Until 1993	Duvernay Langelier Laval Laval-des-Rapides Montmorency—Orléans Québec-Est Saint-Laurent
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Until 1984	Argenteuil Berthier—Maskinongé Hull Mercier Missisquoi Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Rimouski Sainte-Marie Saint-Michel
Until 1980	Laprairie Montmorency Richmond Saint-Hyacinthe Verdun
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Until 1974	Lachine Lasalle
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Until 1968	Argenteuil—Deux-Montagnes Beauharnois—Salaberry Berthier—Maskinongé—Delanaudière Brome—Missisquoi Cartier Chambly—Rouville Chapleau Châteauguay—Huntingdon—Laprairie Compton—Frontenac Dorchester Drummond—Arthabaska Îles-de-la-Madeleine Jacques-Cartier—Lasalle Joliette—L'Assomption—Montcalm Matapédia—Matane Maisonneuve—Rosemont Mégantic Montmagny—L'Islet Nicolet—Yamaska Outremont—Saint-Jean Pontiac—Témiscamingue Quebec East Québec—Montmorency Quebec South Quebec West Richelieu—Verchères Richmond—Wolfe Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata Saguenay St. Ann Saint-Antoine—Westmount Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot Saint-Jean—Iberville—Napierville St. Lawrence—St. George Saint-Maurice—Laflèche Stanstead Vaudreuil—Soulanges
Until 1962	Témiscouata
Until 1953	Beauharnois Berthier—Maskinongé Jacques Cartier St. Antoine—Westmount St-Denis St-Henri St. James St. Mary Verdun—La Salle
Until 1949	Argenteuil Beauharnois—Laprairie Charlevoix—Saguenay Châteauguay—Huntingdon Compton Lake St-John—Roberval Laval—Two Mountains Mégantic—Frontenac Outremont Pontiac Quebec West and South St. Denis St. Henry St. Hyacinthe—Bagot St. Johns—Iberville—Napierville St-Maurice—Laflèche Three Rivers Verdun Wright
Until 1935	Bagot Beauharnois Chambly—Verchères Joliette Lake St. John Laprairie—Napierville L'Assomption—Montcalm Laurier—Outremont L'Islet Maisonneuve Matane Mégantic Montmagny Nicolet Quebec West Richelieu St. Antoine St. Henri St. Hyacinthe—Rouville St. Johns—Iberville Three Rivers—St. Maurice Yamaska
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Until 1917	Charlevoix Châteauguay Huntingdon L'Assomption Laval Montcalm Montmorency Quebec-Centre Rouville St. Anne St. Hyacinthe St. Lawrence Soulanges Two Mountains Vaudreuil
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