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Quebec Provincial By-elections, April 15, 2002
Provincial by-elections were held in Quebec in 2002, on the following dates: April 15 Elections were held in the Provincial electoral district, Quebec provincial electoral districts of Anjou (electoral district), Anjou, Saguenay (provincial electoral district), Saguenay and Viger (provincial electoral district), Viger. They resulted in the election of two Liberal Party of Quebec, Liberals and one Action démocratique du Québec, ADQ Member to the National Assembly of Quebec. The Liberals unsurprisingly won clear victories in two Montreal-based districts: * Lise Thériault in Anjou; * Anna Mancuso in Viger. For the first time ever, an Action démocratique du Québec, ADQ candidate other than Mario Dumont was sent to the National Assembly of Quebec: François Corriveau won the election in the district of Saguenay, one of the Parti Québécois's traditional strongholds. Corriveau's showing temporarily boosted the ADQ's poll numbers and led to another series of ADQ by-election vict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provincial Electoral District
An electoral district in Canada is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based. It is officially known in Canadian French as a ''circonscription'' but frequently called a ''comté'' (county). In Canadian English it is also colloquially, and more commonly known as a riding or ''constituency''. Each federal electoral district returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of Canada; each provincial or territorial electoral district returns one representative—called, depending on the province or territory, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) or Member of the House of Assembly (MHA)—to the provincial or territorial legislature. Beginning with the 2025 federal election, there have been 343 federal electoral districts in Canada. In provincial and territorial legislatures, the provinces and territories each set their own number of electoral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
