Madawaska-les-Lacs

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Madawaska-les-Lacs is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. Its MLA is Jeannot Volpé, a Progressive Conservative.

The district was established in 1973 when New Brunswick moved from a system of bloc voting to the first past the post electoral system. It had previously been a part of the Madawaska county electoral district which returned three members.

It the 1994 electoral redistribution, it added parts of the old district of Madawaska Centre and it under went only very minor boundary changes in 2006.

It is one of, if not the, safest francophone seats in New Brunswick for the Progressive Conservatives. It has been held by the PCs in every election since it was created except for the 1987 election (in which the Liberals won every seat) and the 1991 election (in which the PCs won only 3 seats and the main opposition was the conservative Confederation of Regions Party which opposed official status for the French language).

1 Results
- 1.1 1974
- 1.2 1978
- 1.3 1982
- 1.4 1987
- 1.5 1991
- 1.6 1995
- 1.7 1999
- 1.8 2003
- 1.9 2006
2 External links

[edit] Results

[edit] 1974

1974 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Pierre Ouellet	1976	49.9%	*
	Liberal	Laurier Lévesque	1881	47.5%	*
	Parti acadien	Jean-Marie Nadeau	99	2.5%	*

	P.C. gain*.	Majority	95	2.4%

* The riding was first used for the 1974 election, it was created from the Madawaska district which had returned three Liberals in the previous election.

[edit] 1978

1978 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Pierre Ouellet	2876	57.1%	+7.2%
	Liberal	Nelson Bellefleur	2071	41.1%	-6.4%
	Parti acadien	Yves C. LeClerc	90	1.8%	-0.7%

	P.C. hold.	Majority	805	16.0%

[edit] 1982

1982 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Pierre Ouellet	3071	53.0%	-4.1%
	Liberal	Luc Daigle	2545	43.9%	+2.8%
	New Democratic	Rino Pelletier	176	3.0%	*

	P.C. hold.	Majority	526	9.1%

*The NDP did not contest the seat in the previous election.

[edit] 1987

1987 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Georges Corriveau	3839	62.5%	+18.6%
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Pierre Ouellet	1933	31.5%	-21.5%
	New Democratic	Maurice Clavette	368	6.0%	+3.0%

	Liberal gain.	Majority	1906	31.0%

[edit] 1991

1991 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Georges Corriveau	2906	50.8%	-11.7%
	Progressive Conservative	Raoul Cyr	2211	38.7%	+7.2%
	New Democratic	Gérard Caron	601	10.5%	+4.5%

	Liberal hold.	Majority	695	12.2%

[edit] 1995

1995 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jeannot Volpé	4060	56.0%	+17.3%
	Liberal	Georges Corriveau	3085	42.6%	-8.2%
	New Democratic	John Nowlan	103	1.4%	-9.1%

	P.C. gain.	Majority	975	13.5%

[edit] 1999

1999 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jeannot Volpé	4289	65.2%	+9.2%
	Liberal	Georges Corriveau	2138	32.5%	-10.1%
	New Democratic	Marie-Pierre Valay-Nadeau	154	2.3%	+0.9%

	P.C. hold.	Majority	2151	32.7%

[edit] 2003

2003 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jeannot Volpé	3965	60.6%	-4.6%
	Liberal	Louis Labrie	2391	36.5%	+4.0%
	New Democratic	Jason Carney	187	2.9%	+0.6%

	P.C. hold.	Majority	1574	24.1%

[edit] 2006

2006 New Brunswick election: Madawaska-les-Lacs
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jeannot Volpé	4268	63.3%	+2.7%
	Liberal	Elaine Albert	2297	34.0%	-2.5%
	New Democratic	Jeff Thibodeau	183	2.7%	-0.2%

	P.C. hold.	Majority	1971	29.2%