Rimouski () is a provincial electoral district in the

Bas-Saint-Laurent The Bas-Saint-Laurent (, 'Lower Saint-Lawrence) is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The river widens at this place, later becoming a bay that discharges into the Atlan ...

region of

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, that elects members to the

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. It notably includes the municipalities of

Rimouski Rimouski ( ; ) is a city in Quebec, Canada. Rimouski is located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, at the mouth of the Rimouski River. It has a population of 48,935 (as of 2021). Rimouski, whose motto is ''Legi patrum fidelis'' (Faithful to ...

and Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard. It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the

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and the

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). In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost

Lac-des-Aigles Lac-des-Aigles () is a city in the Témiscouata Regional County Municipality of the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. The population is 571. Its economy is mainly based on agriculture and forestry. It is located southeast of Rimouski, ...

and Biencourt to the newly created Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata electoral district.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Linguistic demographics

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: 99.3% *

Anglophone The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the early 2000s, between one and two billion people spoke English, making it the largest language ...

: 0.5% *

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: 0.2%

Election results

, - , - , Liberal , Raymond Giguère , align="right", 9,424 , align="right", 35.33 , align="right", , - , - , - , - , Liberal , Hélène Ménard , align="right", 6,988 , align="right", 21.94 , align="right", , - , - , - , - , - , Liberal , Gaston Pelletier , align="right", 10,817 , align="right", 36.40 , align="right", , -

References

Rimouski

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Linguistic demographics

Election results

References

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