Quebec Nov. 9 byelection: St-Henri—Ste-Anne

Liberal Marguerite Blais held this seat from 2007 until her resignation in August 2015. The minister responsible for seniors in Jean Charest's cabinet from 2007 until 2012, Blais failed to get a cabinet post in the Philippe Couillard government.  After the death of her husband Jean-Guy Faucher earlier this year, Blais, 64, said she wanted to take time to enjoy her good health.

• Former CAQ president Dominique Anglade will run for provincial Liberals

Blais was re-elected to her seat in 2014 with 52.5% of the vote, by a 11,540 majority over the PQ`s Véronique Fournier.

Riding description

The division of Saint-Henri—Sainte-Anne comprises Montreal's Sud-Ouest borough, as well as part of the borough of Ville-Marie between Saint-Antoine Street West, Square Victoria, McGill Street and de la Commune Street West

It also comprises the part of the Ville de Montréal situated in the borough of Ville-Marie and bounded as follows: Saint-Antoine Street West, Square Victoria Street, McGill Street, de la Commune Street West and the boundary of the borough of Ville-Marie.

Riding history

The riding has voted Liberal since it was created in 1994 when the Sainte-Anne and Saint-Henri ridings were fused. Since then, the riding has gained part of the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Westmount-Saint-Louis electoral districts.

Riding snapshot

Population: 76,460 (2011)

Electors: 55,999 (2014)

Average household income: $33,632 (2011 National Household Survey)

Mother tongue: French (56.4 per cent), English (19 per cent), non-official languages (24.6 per cent; largest linguistic groups are Spanish Chinese, Arabic, and Bengali)

Official list of candidates

• Dominique Anglade (Parti libéral du Québec/Quebec Liberal Party) 

• Louis-Philippe Boulanger (Coalition avenir Québec - L'équipe François Legault) 

• Christian Hébert (Équipe Adrien Pouliot - Parti conservateur du Québec) 

• Luc Lefebvre (Option nationale - Pour l'indépendance du Québec) 

• Gabrielle Lemieux (Parti québécois)

• Marie-Eve Rancourt (Québec solidaire) 

• Jiab Zuo (Parti vert du Québec/Green Party of Québec) 

  2014 Election Results

  Party	Candidate	Total votes	%
  LIB	Marguerite Blais	19,234	51.31
  PQ	Véronique Fournier	8,505	22.69
  CAQ	Louis-Philippe Boulanger	4,343	11.59
  QS	Molly Alexander	4,029	10.75
  GRN	Sharon Sweeney	690	1.84
  PN	Anna Kruzynski	289	0.77
  ON	Étienne Forest	224	0.60
  BP	Jairo Gaston Sanchez	173	0.46