Quebec provincial by-elections, 2008

Provincial by-elections were held in Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

on 12 May 2008 to fill three vacancies in the National Assembly

National Assembly of Quebec

The National Assembly of Quebec is the legislative body of the Province of Quebec. The Lieutenant Governor and the National Assembly compose the Parliament of Quebec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other British-style parliamentary systems.The National Assembly was formerly the...

. The by-elections were called on 9 April 2008.

All three seats were held by their incumbent parties.

Bourget

The district of Bourget

Bourget (electoral district)

Bourget is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located in Montreal. The riding was created in 1960 from a part of Laval...

was vacated by Parti Québécois

Parti Québécois

The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...

MNA Diane Lemieux

Diane Lemieux

Diane Lemieux is a politician in Quebec, Canada. She was the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Bourget as a member of the Parti Québécois from 1998 to 2007....

on 17 October 2007. Federal Bloc Québécois

Bloc Québécois

The Bloc Québécois is a federal political party in Canada devoted to the protection of Quebec's interests in the House of Commons of Canada, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty. The Bloc was originally a party made of Quebec nationalists who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative...

MP Maka Kotto

Maka Kotto

Maka Kotto , is a provincial level politician from Quebec, Canada and a former member of the Canadian House of Commons. He is the husband of Longueuil mayor Caroline St-Hilaire. He is also a published author and has appeared in film...

resigned from the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

to contest the by-election, which in turn resulted in the federal Saint-Lambert by-election of September 8, 2008.
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|Parti québécois

Parti Québécois

|Maka Kotto

Maka Kotto

|align="right"|6575
|align="right"|40.66
|align="right"|-0.60
|-

|Liberal Party
|Lyn Thériault
|align="right"|5161
|align="right"|31.92
|align="right"|+9.07
|-

|Green Party

Green Party of Quebec

The Parti vert du Québec/Green Party of Quebec or PVQ is a Quebec political party whose platform is the promotion of green values. It has not elected any members to the National Assembly of Quebec...

|Scott McKay
|align="right"|1839
|align="right"|11.37
|align="right"|+3.28
|-

|Action démocratique

Action démocratique du Québec

The Action démocratique du Québec, commonly referred to as the ADQ is a centre-right political party in Quebec, Canada. On the sovereignty question, it defines itself as autonomist, and has support from both soft nationalists and federalists....

|Denis Mondor
|align="right"|1520
|align="right"|9.40
|align="right"|-13.61
|-

|Québec solidaire

Québec Solidaire

Québec solidaire is a democratic socialist and sovereigntist political party in Quebec, Canada, that was created on 4 February 2006 in Montreal. It was formed by the merger of the left-wing party Union des forces progressistes and the alter-globalization political movement Option Citoyenne, led...

|Gaétan Legault
|align="right"|700
|align="right"|4.33
|align="right"|+0.14
|-

|Parti indépendantiste

Parti indépendantiste

The Parti indépendantiste was a provincial party which advocated Quebec sovereignty in Québec, Canada in the second half of the 1980s.-Denis Monière:...

|Richard Gervais
|align="right"|376
|align="right"|2.33
|align="right"|
|}

Hull

The riding of Hull

Hull (provincial electoral district)

Hull is provincial electoral riding located in the province of Quebec, Canada. Located in the Outaouais region, the district includes the entire Hull sector of the city of Gatineau. It was created in 1919 and was previously part of the riding of Ottawa from 1887 to 1919 and Ottawa from 1867 to 1887...

was vacated by Liberal MNA Roch Cholette

Roch Cholette

Roch Cholette is an accountant and a former municipal and provincial politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the provincial riding of Hull from 1998 until 2008, as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party caucus.Cholette studied at the Université...

on 9 April 2008.
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|Liberal Party
|Maryse Gaudreault

Maryse Gaudreault

Maryse Gaudreault is a Quebec provincial politician. She is the newly-elected Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Hull....

|align="right"|7403
|align="right"|45.21
|align="right"|+2.68
|-

|Parti québécois

Parti Québécois

|Gilles Aubé
|align="right"|5559
|align="right"|33.95
|align="right"|+10.02
|-

|Québec solidaire

Québec Solidaire

|Bill Clennett
|align="right"|1589
|align="right"|9.70
|align="right"|+1.77
|-

|Green Party

Green Party of Quebec

|Brian Gibb
|align="right"|1185
|align="right"|7.24
|align="right"|-1.09
|-

|Action démocratique

Action démocratique du Québec

|Jean-Philip Ruel
|align="right"|529
|align="right"|3.23
|align="right"|-13.83
|-

|Parti indépendantiste

Parti indépendantiste

The Parti indépendantiste was a provincial party which advocated Quebec sovereignty in Québec, Canada in the second half of the 1980s.-Denis Monière:...

|Jean-Roch Villemaire
|align="right"|111
|align="right"|0.68
|align="right"|
|}

Pointe-aux-Trembles

Pointe-aux-Trembles (electoral district)

Pointe-aux-Trembles is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located at the north-east point of the Island of Montreal and includes the communities of Pointe-aux-Trembles and Montreal East. In the 1995 Quebec...

was vacated by PQ MNA André Boisclair

André Boisclair

André Boisclair is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He was the leader of the Parti Québécois, a social democratic and separatist party in Quebec....

on 15 November 2007. The by-election was won by Nicole Léger

Nicole Léger

Nicole Léger is a politician and the Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Pointe-aux-Trembles from 1996 to 2006 and recently elected back as member of the Parti Québécois in a by-election on May 12, 2008.-Background:She was born on March 12, 1955 in Montreal, Quebec and is...

, Boisclair's predecessor as MNA for the riding.
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|Parti québécois

Parti Québécois

|Nicole Léger

Nicole Léger

|align="right"|7657
|align="right"|55.99
|align="right"|+8.69
|-

|Liberal Party
|Mélissa Dumais
|align="right"|2987
|align="right"|21.84
|align="right"|+3.60
|-

|Action démocratique

Action démocratique du Québec

|Diane Bellemare

Diane Bellemare

-Background:From 1972 to 1994, she was a Professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal. In 1994, she was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Société québécoise de développement de la main-d'oeuvre by the Parti Québécois government of Jacques Parizeau.-2003 election:Bellemare ran as one of...

|align="right"|1882
|align="right"|13.76
|align="right"|-12.69
|-

|Green Party

Green Party of Quebec

|Xavier Daxhelet
|align="right"|661
|align="right"|4.83
|align="right"|+0.52
|-

|Québec solidaire

Québec Solidaire

|Marie Josèphe Pigeon
|align="right"|226
|align="right"|1.65
|align="right"|-0.97
|-

|Parti indépendantiste

Parti indépendantiste

The Parti indépendantiste was a provincial party which advocated Quebec sovereignty in Québec, Canada in the second half of the 1980s.-Denis Monière:...

Independent (politician)

In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...

Independent (politician)

|Régent Millette
|align="right"|31
|align="right"|0.23
|align="right"|
|}

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