Rivière-du-Loup () is a former provincial electoral district in the

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region of

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, which elected members to the

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. It was created for the 1931 election from a portion of the electoral district of Témiscouata. It disappeared in the 1939 election and its successor electoral district was Kamouraska–Rivière-du-Loup; however, it was re-created for the 1944 election. Its final general election was in

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; there was a by-election in 2009. It disappeared in the 2012 election and the successor electoral district was Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

# Léon Casgrain, Liberal (1931–1939) # did not exist (1939–1944), see Kamouraska–Rivière-du-Loup #Léon Casgrain, Liberal (1944–1948) # Roméo Gagné, Union Nationale (1948–1956) # Alphonse Couturier, Liberal (1956–1966) # Gérard Lebel, Union Nationale (1966–1970) # Paul Lafrance, Liberal (1970–1976) # Jules Boucher,

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(1976–1985) # Albert Côté, Liberal (1985–1994) #

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, Action démocratique (1994-2009) # Jean D'Amour, Liberal (2009, 2009–2012),

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(2009)

Linguistic demographics

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: 99.5% *

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: 0.4% *

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: 0.2%

Election results

, - ,

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, Evelyne Sévigny , align="right", 136 , align="right", 0.62 , align="right", – , - , Liberal , Emilien Michaud , align="right", 9,242 , align="right", 39.72 , align="right", +8.98 , - , - , Liberal , Paul Lafrance , align="right", 7,511 , align="right", 30.74 , align="right", -19.67 , - , - ,

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, Gérard Roy , align="right", 2,281 , align="right", 9.33 , align="right", -12.78 , - , Parti créditiste , Gérard Roy , align="right", 4,748 , align="right", 22.11 , align="right", +9.77 , - , - , - , - ,

, Robert Bergeron , align="right", 2,558 , align="right", 12.34 , align="right", – , - , - , Liberal , Alphonse Courturier , align="right", 8,880 , align="right", 47.82 , align="right", -3.40 , - , - , - , - , Independent U.N. , Pierre-Hervé Marquis , align="right", 139 , align="right", 0.83 , align="right", – , - , Liberal , Alphonse Courturier , align="right", 8,236 , align="right", 48.48 , align="right", +7.23 , - , Independent U.N. , Jean-Baptiste Lavoie , align="right", 62 , align="right", 0.36 , align="right", – , - , Liberal , Léon Casgrain , align="right", 6,809 , align="right", 41.25 , align="right", -9.12 , - ,

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, Marc Riou , align="right", 305 , align="right", 1.85 , align="right", – , -

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Linguistic demographics

Election results

References

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