Frontenac (provincial electoral district)

Frontenac is a former provincial electoral district in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of the province of Quebec, Canada, which elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec. As of its final election, it included the city of Thetford Mines and the municipality of Disraeli.

For the otherwise unrelated former electoral district of the same name, see Frontenac (1912–1973 provincial electoral district).
Frontenac
Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureNational Assembly of Quebec
District created1972
District abolished2011
First contested1973
Last contested2008
Demographics
Electors (2008)[1]33,242
Area (km²)[2]1,750.21
Census division(s)Les Appalaches (part)
Census subdivision(s)Adstock, Disraeli (city), Disraeli (parish), East Broughton, Irlande, Kinnear's Mills, Sacré-Coeur-de-Jésus, Saint-Adrien-d'Irlande, Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds, Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown, Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf, Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine, Saint-Julien, Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton, Sainte-Praxède, Thetford Mines

It is not to be confused with the pre-1973 Frontenac electoral district located in the Estrie region. Sources differ on whether the pre-1973 and post-1973 Frontenac electoral districts should be considered different or one and the same. The 1966 version of Frontenac and the 1973 version of Frontenac were drastically different but actually had a small overlap of territory around the area of the modern municipality of Adstock.

It was created for the 1973 election, and its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and its successor electoral districts were the newly created Lotbinière-Frontenac and Mégantic.[3]

The riding is named after a former governor of New France, Louis de Buade de Frontenac.

Members of the National Assembly

Election results
2008 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  Liberal Laurent Lessard 11,785 56.71
Parti QuébécoisJuliette Jalbert4,85223.35
Action démocratiquePaul-Andre Proulx3,53917.03
Québec solidaireClaudette Lambert4232.04
Parti indépendantisteMartin Duranleau1830.88

References
  1. "Home page - Le Directeur général des élections du Québec (DGEQ)". Electionsquebec.qc.ca. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  2. "Home page - Le Directeur général des élections du Québec (DGEQ)". Electionsquebec.qc.ca. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  3. Commission de la représentation électorale (January 2012). "The electoral map of Québec 2011: Final Report" (PDF). Retrieved March 21, 2012.
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