Groulx

For the surname, see Groulx (surname).

Groulx

Quebec electoral district
Location in Thérèse-De Blainville
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
MNA	Eric Girard Coalition Avenir Québec
District created	1980
First contested	1981
Last contested	2018
Demographics
Population (2011)	74,165
Electors (2012)	56,154
Area (km²)	53.9
Pop. density (per km²)	1,376
Census division(s)	Thérèse-De Blainville (part)
Census subdivision(s)	Boisbriand, Rosemère, Sainte-Thérèse

Groulx is a provincial electoral district in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the city of Boisbriand as well as a few other small cities.

It was created for the 1981 election from a part of the Terrebonne electoral district.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it gained a small part of the city of Blainville from the Blainville electoral district; it did not previously include any part of that city.

In the change from the 2011 to 2017 electoral map, the riding will lose the Saint-Rédempteur neighbourhood of Blainville to the riding of Blainville.

From its creation in 1981 until 2007, Groulx was a bellwether riding always sending a member from the governing party to the National Assembly. Since the ADQ breakthrough in the suburbs of Montreal in 2007, the riding has been targeted by all major parties and is part of a collection of ridings that determine Quebec elections. The riding is overwhelmingly francophone and white, and has a strong nationalist undercurrent, making it a battleground riding between the Parti Québécois, ADQ/CAQ, and the Quebec Liberals.

In 2014, the PQ nominated Martine Desjardins, former leader of the FEUQ during the 2012 student strike. She was seen as a star candidate. While the PQ began the campaign with a strong lead among francophones and heavily targeted CAQ-held ridings such as Groulx, the fall of the PQ and rise of the CAQ during the last two weeks of the campaign kept this riding in the hands of the CAQ, albeit in a tight 3-way split with no candidate receiving more than 31% of the vote.

Members of the National Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Terrebonne
32nd	1981–1985		Élie Fallu	Parti Québécois
33rd	1985–1989		Madeleine Bleau	Liberal
34th	1989–1994
35th	1994–1998		Robert Kieffer	Parti Québécois
36th	1998–2003
37th	2003–2007		Pierre Descoteaux	Liberal
38th	2007–2008		Linda Lapointe	Action démocratique
39th	2008–2011		René Gauvreau	Parti Québécois
	2011–2012			Independent
	2012–2012			Parti Québécois
40th	2012–2014		Hélène Daneault	Coalition Avenir Québec
41st	2014–2017		Claude Surprenant
	2017–2018			Independent
42nd	2018–2022		Eric Girard	Coalition Avenir Québec
43rd	2022–Present

Election results

2022 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Eric Girard	17,431	47.75%	+7.14%
	Québec solidaire	Marie-Noëlle Aubertin	5,919	16.21%	-1.02%
	Parti Québécois	Jeanne Craig-Larouche	5,588	15.31%	-0.49%
	Liberal	Audrey Medaino-Tardif	4,024	11.02%	-9.24%
	Conservative	Valerie Messore	3,177	8.70%	+7.69%
	Green	Victoria Shahsavar-Arshad	368	1.01%	-1.20%
Total valid votes			36,507	–
Total rejected ballots				–
Turnout
Electors on the lists				–	–

2018 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Eric Girard	14,771	40.61	+9.76
	Liberal	Sabrina Chartrand	7,369	20.26	-9.98
	Québec solidaire	Fabien Torres	6,268	17.23	+10.44
	Parti Québécois	Jean-Philippe Meloche	5,745	15.8	-14.2
	Independent	Claude Surprenant	812	2.23
	Green	Robin Dick	802	2.21
	Conservative	Vincent Aubé	368	1.01
	Citoyens au pouvoir	Chantal Lavoie	235	0.65
Total valid votes			36,370	98.37
Total rejected ballots			604	1.63
Turnout			36,974	70.25
Eligible voters			52,633
	Coalition Avenir Québec hold		Swing		+9.87
Source(s) "Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.

2014 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Claude Surprenant	12,776	30.85	-7.17
	Liberal	Vicki Emard	12,520	30.24	+10.27
	Parti Québécois	Martine Desjardins	12,424	30.00	-4.00
	Québec solidaire	Sylvie Giguère	2,810	6.79	+2.49
	Parti nul	Jonathan Davis	493	1.19	–
	Option nationale	Alain Marginean	384	0.93	-1.11
Total valid votes			41,407	98.49	–
Total rejected ballots			635	1.51	+0.36
Turnout			42,042	73.48	-5.60
Electors on the lists			57,216	–	–
	Coalition Avenir Québec hold		Swing		-8.72

2012 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Hélène Daneault	16,711	38.02	+17.57
	Parti Québécois	Raymond Archambault	14,948	34.01	-4.05
	Liberal	Linda Lapointe	8,776	19.97	-15.70
	Québec solidaire	Sylvie Giguère	1,892	4.30	+1.92
	Option nationale	Alain Marginean	895	2.04	–
	Green	Alec Ware	591	1.34	-1.80
	Independent	Alex Munteanu	140	0.32	–
Total valid votes			43,953	98.85	–
Total rejected ballots			511	1.15	–
Turnout			44,464	79.08
Electors on the lists			56,228	–	–
	Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois		Swing		+10.81

^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ.

2008 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	René Gauvreau	11,226	37.62	+8.73
	Liberal	Monique Laurin	10,823	36.27	+9.07
	Action démocratique	Linda Lapointe	6,036	20.23	-17.22
	Green	Carmen Brisebois	955	3.20	-0.93
	Québec solidaire	Adam Veilleux	701	2.35	+0.01
	Parti indépendantiste	Sébastien Hotte	102	0.34	–
Total valid votes			29,843	98.41	–
Total rejected ballots			481	1.59	–
Turnout			30,324	61.33	-14.02
Electors on the lists			49,441	–	–

2007 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Action démocratique	Linda Lapointe	13,630	37.45	+18.07
	Parti Québécois	Rachel Gagnon	10,513	28.89	-9.78
	Liberal	Pierre Descoteaux	9,898	27.20	-12.34
	Green	Robert Harenclak	1,503	4.13	–
	Québec solidaire	Adam Veilleux	850	2.34	+1.09*
Total valid votes			36,394	99.15	–
Total rejected ballots			311	0.85	–
Turnout			36,705	75.35	+1.83
Electors on the lists			48,715	–	–

* Result compared to UFP

External links

Information

• Elections Quebec

Election results

• Election results (National Assembly)
• Election results (QuébecPolitique)

Maps

• 2011 map (PDF)
• 2001 map (Flash)

  2001–2011 changes (Flash)

  1992–2001 changes Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (Flash)

• Electoral map of Laurentides region
• Quebec electoral map, 2011