Richelieu is a provincial electoral riding in the

Montérégie Montérégie () is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion. ...

region of

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, which elects members to the

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. It notably includes the municipalities of

Sorel-Tracy Sorel-Tracy (; ) is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada and the geographical end point of the Champlain Valley. It is located at the confluence of the Richelieu River and the St. Lawrence River, on the western edge of Lac Saint-Pierre, downstre ...

Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel is a municipality in the Pierre-De Saurel Regional County Municipality, in the Montérégie region of Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official nam ...

, Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu and Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel. It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and the

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). Its final election was in 1936. It disappeared in the 1939 election and its successor electoral district was

Richelieu-Verchères Richelieu-Verchères was a former provincial electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada. It was created for the 1939 election from all of Verchères and part of Richelieu electoral districts. It existed for only that one general ele ...

. However, Richelieu-Verchères disappeared in the 1944 election and its successor electoral district was the re-created Richelieu. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it gained territory from Nicolet-Yamaska and from

Verchères Verchères is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in Montérégie, Quebec, located on the south bank of the Saint Lawrence River. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 5,692. History In the 17th century, the settlement at Verchères w ...

electoral districts. It is named after former French Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Election results

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Election results

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