{"id":985,"date":"2012-09-05T01:58:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T05:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/?p=985"},"modified":"2012-09-09T13:57:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T17:57:25","slug":"liberals-take-marquette-riding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/liberals-take-marquette-riding\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals take Marquette Riding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marquette Results in 2012 Quebec Election<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In 35 days of campaigning, Fran\u00e7ois Ouimet spoke clearly about all the work he\u2019s done for citizens since becoming the local MNA in 1994. That history led voters to give him a strong mandate for the Liberals yesterday. He got 15,343 votes, which was 34% of those eligible to vote in the riding (44,812 people).<\/p>\n

The expansion and renovation of the Saul-Bellow Library, the new Coll\u00e8ge St-Louis building, a New Sports Complex in Dorval and the renovations to the Lachine Hospital all resonated with electors who gave him the seat.<\/p>\n

Victor Tan running for The Coalition Avenir de Qu\u00e9bec received 15% of the vote, while \u00c9tienne Gougoux for the Parti Qu\u00e9becois received 14%.<\/p>\n

Claudelle Cyr, with Quebec Solidaire reached 4%, while John Symon with the Green Party achieved near 3% for their parties, while Patrick Valois for Option Nationale came in at 2%. A total of 363 ballots were rejected.<\/p>\n

The riding of Marquette has existed since 1980. Despite several changes, it now contains 44,812 eligible electors. Some 15% of eligible voters in the riding voted in the advance polls, which is slightly lower than the 17% average in Quebec.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  In 35 days of campaigning, Fran\u00e7ois Ouimet spoke clearly about all the work he\u2019s done for citizens since becoming the local MNA in 1994. That history led voters to give him a strong mandate for the Liberals yesterday. He got 15,343 votes, which was 34% of those eligible to vote in the riding (44,812 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-that-matter","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2buQs-fT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":857,"url":"https:\/\/traceyarial.com\/blog\/en\/week-one-2012election\/","url_meta":{"origin":985,"position":0},"title":"Provincial Election 2012, Week One","author":"Tracey Arial","date":"August 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Marquette, Marguerite-Bourgeoys and Verdun Ridings Potential voters in the Marguerite-Bourgeoys (LaSalle), Marquette (Dorval and Lachine) and Verdun ridings began seeing campaign posters from four parties before the election was called. 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