Province: | Quebec |
Fed-Status: | active |
Fed-District-Number: | 24047 |
Fed-Created: | 2003 |
Fed-Election-First: | 2004 |
Fed-Election-Last: | 2021 |
Fed-Rep: | Luc Berthold |
Fed-Rep-Party: | Conservative |
Fed-Rep-Party-Link: | Conservative Party of Canada |
Demo-Pop-Ref: | [1] |
Demo-Census-Date: | 2016 |
Demo-Pop: | 87233 |
Demo-Electors: | 70683 |
Demo-Electors-Date: | 2019 |
Demo-Area: | 6278 |
Demo-Cd: | Les Appalaches RCM, L'Érable RCM, Le Granit RCM |
Demo-Csd: | Thetford-Mines, Plessisville, Princeville, Lac-Mégantic, Adstock, Disraeli, East-Broughton, Saint-Ferdinand, Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine, Frontenac |
Mégantic—L'Érable is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004.
The current MP is Conservative Luc Berthold.
The riding was renamed Mégantic—L'Érable—Lotbinière by the 2023 representation order for Quebec, which will come into effect at the next federal election.[2]
Straddling the Quebec regions of Centre-du-Québec, Chaudière-Appalaches and Estrie, it consists of the regional county municipalities of Les Appalaches, L'Érable, Le Granit, as well as the territory of the former municipality of Courcelles. Notable towns include Thetford Mines, Plessisville and Lac-Mégantic.
The neighbouring ridings are Compton—Stanstead, Richmond—Arthabaska, Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour, Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, and Beauce.
Its population is 87,078, including 69,617 voters, and it covers an area of 5,912 km2.
The riding was created in 2003 from parts of Frontenac—Mégantic and Lotbinière—L'Érable ridings.
The 2012 electoral redistribution saw this riding gain territory from Beauce and lose a small fraction of territory to Lévis—Lotbinière.
This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:
2011 federal election redistributed results[3] | |||||
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Party | Vote | % | |||
22,321 | 49.14 | ||||
11,929 | 26.26 | ||||
7,542 | 16.61 | ||||
2,711 | 5.97 | ||||
667 | 1.47 | ||||
Others | 250 | 0.55 |