Vaudreuil-Soulanges (provincial electoral district)

Vaudreuil-Soulanges was a provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada.

Vaudreuil-Soulanges

Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
District created	1939
District abolished	1988
First contested	1939
Last contested	1985

It was created for the 1939 election from parts of Vaudreuil and Soulanges electoral districts. Its final election was in 1985. It disappeared in the 1989 election and its successor electoral districts were the re-created Vaudreuil and the newly created Salaberry-Soulanges.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Vaudreuil and Soulanges
21st	1939–1944		Alphide Sabourin	Liberal
22nd	1944–1948
23rd	1948–1952		Joseph-Édouard Jeannotte	Union Nationale
24th	1952–1956
25th	1956–1957
	1957–1960		Loyola Schmidt
26th	1960–1962		Paul Gérin-Lajoie	Liberal
27th	1962–1966
28th	1966–1969
	1969–1970		François-Edouard Belliveau	Union Nationale
29th	1970–1973		Paul Phaneuf	Liberal
30th	1973–1976
31st	1976–1981		Louise Sauvé Cuerrier	Parti Québécois
32nd	1981–1985		Daniel Johnson Jr.	Liberal
33rd	1985–1989
Dissolved into Vaudreuil and Salaberry-Soulanges

Election results

1970 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Paul Phaneuf	11,841	50.12	−3.05
	Union Nationale	François-Édouard Belliveau	6,389	27.04	−13.56
	Parti Québécois	A.-Léo Bédard	4,183	17.71	–
	Ralliement créditiste	André Dussault	1,158	4.90	–
	Crédit social uni	Joseph Ranger	53	0.22	–
Total valid votes			23,624	98.61	–
Rejected and declined votes			333	1.39	–
Turnout			23,957	84.88	+2.98
Electors on the lists			28,224	–	–
	Liberal hold		Swing		+5.26
Source: Rapport du président général des élections, Élections 1970.

Quebec provincial by-election, October 8, 1969
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Union Nationale	François-Édouard Belliveau	8,075	68.51	+27.91
	Ralliement créditiste	Marcel Lessard	3,111	26.39
	Crédit social uni	Joseph Ranger	601	5.10
Total valid votes			11,787	93.41	–
Rejected and declined votes			831	6.59	–
Turnout			12,618	46.66	-33.24
Electors on the lists			27,044	–	–
Source: Official Results, Government of Quebec

1966 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Paul Gérin-Lajoie	11,120	53.17
	Union Nationale	Aimé Grandmaison	8,490	40.60
	Independent	Jean-Paul Laflèche	713	3.41
	RIN	Louis Gravel	494	2.36
	Ralliement national	Régent Millette	96	0.46
Total valid votes			20,913	100.00
Rejected and declined ballots			280
Turnout			21,193	81.90
Electors on the lists			25,878

References

• Election results (National Assembly)
• Election results (QuebecPolitique)