Quebec Nov. 9 byelection: Beauce-Sud

The Liberal's Robert Dutil has a long history in this riding – elected for the PLQ from 1985 until 1994, he then left politics for 14 years, before returning in 2008, when he beat Action democratique incumbent Claude Morin.

Dutil stepped down once again in September to take a position as senior vice-president of Canam-Ponts, a division of the multinational construction company Groupe Canam.

Riding description

The riding, which was created for the 1973 election, has had unchanged boundaries since 1988.

Beauce-Sud is a rural riding south of Quebec City that borders the United States. It includes the following municipalities: Courcelles, Lac-Poulin, La Guadeloupe, Notre-Dame-des-Pins, Sainte-Aurélie, Saint-Benjamin, Saint-Benoît-Labre, Sainte-Clotilde-de-Beauce, Saint-Côme–Linière, Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce, Saint-Évariste-de-Forsyth, Saint-Gédéon-de-Beauce, Saint-Georges, Saint-Hilaire-de-Dorset, Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley, Saint-Ludger, Saint-Martin, Saint-Philibert, Saint-Prosper, Saint-René, Saint-Robert-Bellarmin, Saint-Simon-les-Mines, Saint-Théophile and Saint-Zacharie.

Riding history

In 2014, Liberal Robert Dutil won by a 50.50% majority over the CAQ`s Samuel Poulin, by a margin of 4,146 votes.

Dutil was first elected into the National Assembly for Beauce-Sud in 1985 and held the position until 1994, when he chose not run for re-election. He ran again and was elected in 2008 when he beat ADQ incumbent Claude Morin.

The Liberal MNA was narrowly re-elected in 2012 and 2014.

With the exception of the 2007 provincial election when the ADQ's Morin was elected in the riding, Beauce-Sud has voted Liberal in every other election since 1979.

Riding snapshot

Population: 61,685 (2011)

Registered Electors: 48,193 (2014)

Average household income: $30,576 (2011 National Household Survey)

Mother tongue: French (98.9 per cent), English (0.8 per cent), non-official languages (0.4 per cent)

Official list of candidates

• Paul Busque (Parti libéral du Québec/Quebec Liberal Party) 

• Renaud Fortier (Parti québécois) 

• Robert Genesse (Independent)

• Milan Jovanovic (Équipe Adrien Pouliot - Parti conservateur du Québec)

• Tom Redmond (Coalition avenir Québec - L'équipe François Legault) 

• Vanessa Roy (Option nationale - Pour l'indépendance du Québec) 

• Diane Vincent (Québec solidaire) 

2014 Election Results