Quebec Nov. 9 byelection: Fabre

In 2014, Liberal Gilles Ouimet won this riding in western Laval with 55% of the vote, by a 12,816 majority over the PQ`s François-Gycelain Rocque. 

Ouimet was first elected in 2012, again beating Rocque – as well as Dominique Anglade, then with the CAQ and now a Liberal candidate in the Saint-Henri—Sainte-Anne by-election. Ouimet, who has had two more children since becoming MNA, stepped down to spend more time with his family.  

Riding description

Fabre covers the west end of Laval bounded by the Mille Îles River, Highways 13 and Laval West (Highway 440) and a small portion bounded by 100th Avenue, Saint-Martin Boulevard West, Notre-Dame Boulevard and HIghway 13 to Rivière des Prairies.

Riding history 

Fabre has been a bellwether riding since 1970, almost always voting for the winning party.

It was former premier Bernard Landry's seat in the Quebec National Assembly when he was first elected for the PQ in 1976 and the riding of Parti Québécois cabinet minister Joseph Facal from 1994 to 2003.

PQ support has been declining in the electoral district ever since Facal's 2003 defeat.

Riding snapshot

Population: 67,100 (2011)

Registered Electors: 48,972 (2014)

Average household income: $43,002 (2011 National Household Survey)

Mother tongue: French (61.1 per cent), English (9.5 per cent), non-official languages (29.4 per cent; largest linguistic groups are Arabic and Greek)

Official list of candidates

• Jibril Akaaboune Le-François (Parti Québécois) 

• Jeremy Dohan (Équipe Adrien Pouliot - Parti conservateur du Québec) 

• Valérie Doucet (Option nationale - Pour l'indépendance du Québec) 

• Carla El-Ghandour (Coalition avenir Québec - L'équipe François Legault) 

• Charles Lemieux (Québec solidaire) 

• Kim Raymond (Parti vert du Québec/Green Party of Québec) 

• Monique Sauvé (Parti libéral du Québec/Quebec Liberal Party) 

2014 Election Results