# Joliette (provincial electoral district)

Joliette (French pronunciation: ) is a provincial electoral district in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the cities of Joliette and Saint-Charles-Borromée.
It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada). Its final election was in 1970. It disappeared in the 1973 election and its successor electoral district was Joliette-Montcalm.
However, Joliette-Montcalm disappeared in the 1981 election and Joliette was recreated from parts of Joliette-Montcalm and Berthier electoral districts.
In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare to Berthier electoral district but gained Sainte-Mélanie from that same electoral district.
In the change from the 2011 to the 2017 electoral map, the riding will lose Saint-Jacques, Saint-Liguori and Sainte-Marie-Salomé to the riding of Rousseau.

## Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

| Legislature | Years | Member | Party |
| 1st | 1867–1871 | Vincent-Paul Lavallée | Conservative |
| 2nd | 1871–1875 | Vincent-Paul Lavallée | Conservative |
| 3rd | 1875–1878 | Vincent-Paul Lavallée | Conservative |
| 4th | 1878–1881 | Vincent-Paul Lavallée | Conservative |
| 5th | 1881–1885 | Vincent-Paul Lavallée | Conservative |
| 5th | 1885–1886 | Joseph-Norbert-Alfred McConville | Conservative |
| 6th | 1886–1890 | Louis Basinet | Liberal |
| 7th | 1890–1892 | Louis Basinet | Liberal |
| 8th | 1892–1897 | Joseph-Mathias Tellier | Conservative |
| 9th | 1897–1900 | Joseph-Mathias Tellier | Conservative |
| 10th | 1900–1904 | Joseph-Mathias Tellier | Conservative |
| 11th | 1904–1908 | Joseph-Mathias Tellier | Conservative |
| 12th | 1908–1912 | Joseph-Mathias Tellier | Conservative |
| 13th | 1912–1916 | Joseph-Mathias Tellier | Conservative |
| 14th | 1916–1919 | Ernest Hébert | Liberal |
| 15th | 1919–1923 | Pierre-Joseph Dufresne | Conservative |
| 16th | 1923–1927 | Pierre-Joseph Dufresne | Conservative |
| 17th | 1927–1931 | Lucien Dugas | Liberal |
| 18th | 1931–1935 | Lucien Dugas | Liberal |
| 19th | 1935–1936 | Lucien Dugas | Liberal |
| 20th | 1936–1939 | Antonio Barrette | Union Nationale |
| 21st | 1939–1944 | Antonio Barrette | Union Nationale |
| 22nd | 1944–1948 | Antonio Barrette | Union Nationale |
| 23rd | 1948–1952 | Antonio Barrette | Union Nationale |
| 24th | 1952–1956 | Antonio Barrette | Union Nationale |
| 25th | 1956–1960 | Antonio Barrette | Union Nationale |
| 26th | 1960–1962 | Gaston Lambert | Liberal |
| 27th | 1962–1966 | Maurice Majeau | Union Nationale |
| 28th | 1966–1970 | Pierre Roy | Union Nationale |
| 29th | 1970–1973 | Robert Quenneville | Liberal |
| Riding dissolved into Joliette-Montcalm |||||
| Riding re-created from Joliette-Montcalm and Berthier |||||
| 32nd | 1981–1985 | Guy Chevrette | Parti Québécois |
| 33rd | 1985–1989 | Guy Chevrette | Parti Québécois |
| 34th | 1989–1994 | Guy Chevrette | Parti Québécois |
| 35th | 1994–1998 | Guy Chevrette | Parti Québécois |
| 36th | 1998–2002 | Guy Chevrette | Parti Québécois |
| 36th | 2002–2003 | Sylvie Lespérance | Action démocratique |
| 37th | 2003–2007 | Jonathan Valois | Parti Québécois |
| 38th | 2007–2008 | Pascal Beaupré | Action démocratique |
| 39th | 2008–2012 | Véronique Hivon | Parti Québécois |
| 40th | 2012–2014 | Véronique Hivon | Parti Québécois |
| 41st | 2014–2018 | Véronique Hivon | Parti Québécois |
| 42nd | 2018–2022 | Véronique Hivon | Parti Québécois |
| 43rd | 2022–Present | François St-Louis | Coalition Avenir Québec |

## Election results

vte2022 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec | François St-Louis | 17,925 | 45.58 | +10.93 |
| | Parti Québécois | Véronique Venne | 12,281 | 31.23 | -15.01 |
| | Québec solidaire | Flavie Trudel | 4,476 | 11.38 | +1.23 |
| | Conservative | Pascal Laurin | 3,470 | 8.82 | – |
| | Liberal | Diana Mélissa Crispin | 1,178 | 3.00 | -3.85 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 39,330 | 98.30 | – |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 680 | 1.70 | +0.08 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 40,010 | 69.76 | -2.16 |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | 57,352 | – | – |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois | Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois | Swing | Swing | +12.97 |
vte2018 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Parti Québécois | Véronique Hivon | 17,685 | 46.23 | +1.9 |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec | François St-Louis | 13,254 | 34.65 | +7.58 |
| | Québec solidaire | Judith Sicard | 3,881 | 10.15 | +2.88 |
| | Liberal | Emilie Imbeault | 2,620 | 6.85 | -12.63 |
| | Green | Étienne St-Jean | 528 | 1.38 | |
| | Citoyens au pouvoir | Sébastien Dupuis | 283 | 0.74 | |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 38,251 | 98.38 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 630 | 1.62 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 38,881 | 71.93 |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 54,057 |
| | Parti Québécois hold | Parti Québécois hold | Swing | Swing | -2.84 |
| Source(s) "Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec. |||||||
2014 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Parti Québécois | Véronique Hivon | 17,477 | 44.33 | -2.79 |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec | Denise Larouche | 10,671 | 27.07 | -2.82 |
| | Liberal | Robert Corriveau | 7,681 | 19.48 | +5.46 |
| | Québec solidaire | Flavie Trudel | 2,866 | 7.27 | +1.64 |
| | Option nationale | Sylvain Legault | 510 | 1.29 | -0.20 |
| | Conservative | Mikey Colangelo Lauzon | 220 | 0.56 | +0.09 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 39,425 | 98.00 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 804 | 2.00 | +0.62 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 40,229 | 69.85 | -8.48 |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | 57,591 | – |
| | Parti Québécois hold | Parti Québécois hold | Swing | Swing | +0.02 |
* 2014 source:
2012 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Parti Québécois | Véronique Hivon | 20,509 | 47.12 | +1.03 |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec | Normand Masse | 13,009 | 29.89 | |
| | Liberal | Pascal Beaupré | 6,102 | 14.02 | -14.81 |
| | Québec solidaire | Flavie Trudel | 2,449 | 5.63 | +0.76 |
| | Option nationale | Amélie Dolbec | 649 | 1.49 | |
| | Independent | Jean-Mathieu Desmarais | 513 | 1.18 | |
| | Conservative | Mikey Colangelo Lauzon | 202 | 0.46 | |
| | Quebec Citizens' Union | Michel Thouin | 92 | 0.21 | |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 43,525 | 98.62 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 610 | 1.38 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 44,135 | 78.34 |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | 56,340 | – |
* 2012 source:
2008 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Parti Québécois | Véronique Hivon | 14,666 | 46.09 | +11.02 |
| Liberal | Christian Trudel | 9,175 | 28.83 | +8.61 |
| Action démocratique | Pascal Beaupré | 6,185 | 19.44 | -17.64 |
| Québec solidaire | Flavie Trudel | 1,549 | 4.87 | +0.32 |
| Independent | Pablo Lugo-Herrera | 246 | 0.77 | - |
2007 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Action démocratique | Pascal Beaupré | 13,805 | 37.08 | +15.65 |
| Parti Québécois | Claude Duceppe | 13,055 | 35.07 | -4.41 |
| Liberal | Céline Beaulieu | 7,527 | 20.22 | -13.40 |
| Québec solidaire | Flavie Trudel | 1,693 | 4.55 | +1.09* |
| Green | Johanne Edsell | 1,149 | 3.09 | - |
* Increase is from UFP
2003 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Parti Québécois | Jonathan Valois | 13,104 | 39.48 | +7.58 |
| Liberal | Robert Groulx | 11,161 | 33.62 | +8.89 |
| Action démocratique | Sylvie Lespérance | 7,114 | 21.43 | -16.97 |
| UFP | Mathieu Lessard | 1,149 | 3.46 | -1.51 |
| Bloc Pot | Marco Geoffroy | 667 | 2.01 | - |
Joliette by-election, June 17, 2002 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Action démocratique | Sylvie Lespérance | 10,970 | 38.40 | +23.33 |
| Parti Québécois | Michel Bellehumeur | 9,115 | 31.90 | -24.25 |
| Liberal | Pierre Delangis | 7,064 | 24.73 | -2.62 |
| Independent (UFP) | Mathieu Lessard | 1,421 | 4.97 | - |
1998 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Parti Québécois | Guy Chevrette | 19,784 | 56.15 | -8.56 |
| Liberal | Sylvie Lespérance | 9,636 | 27.35 | +1.61 |
| Action démocratique | Olivier Hamel | 5,310 | 15.07 | +7.24 |
| Socialist Democracy | Alexandre Martel | 504 | 1.43 | - |
1995 Quebec referendum :
| Side | Side | Votes | % |
| | Oui | 25,099 | 63.88 |
| | Non | 14,190 | 36.12 |
1994 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Parti Québécois | Guy Chevrette | 21,903 | 64.71 | +4.03 |
| Liberal | Pierre Delangis | 8,712 | 25.74 | -3.80 |
| Action démocratique | Clément Lévesque | 2,651 | 7.83 | - |
| Natural Law | Gilles Roy | 581 | 1.72 | - |
1992 Charlottetown Accord referendum :
| Side | Side | Votes | % |
| | Non | 23,892 | 70.32 |
| | Oui | 10,086 | 29.68 |
1989 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Parti Québécois | Guy Chevrette | 18,582 | 60.68 | +10.15 |
| Liberal | Sylvie Lespérance | 9,045 | 29.54 | -13.80 |
| Green | Gaétan Riopel-Savignac | 2,854 | 9.32 | +6.25 |
| Marxist–Leninist | Jean-François Desroches | 91 | 0.30 | - |
| Communist | Montserrat Escola | 51 | 0.17 | -0.02 |
1985 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Parti Québécois | Guy Chevrette | 15,288 | 50.53 | -1.42 |
| Liberal | Donatien Corriveau | 13,113 | 43.34 | +7.92 |
| Green | Gaétan Riopel-Savignac | 929 | 3.07 | - |
| Progressive Conservative | Michel Carignan | 659 | 2.18 | - |
| Socialist Movement | Denise Lacombe | 152 | 0.50 | – |
| Communist | Robert Aubin | 59 | 0.19 | - |
| Christian Socialist | Marlène Labelle | 58 | 0.19 | - |
1981 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Parti Québécois | Guy Chevrette | 16,343 | 51.95 | +9.54 |
| Liberal | André Asselin | 11,143 | 35.42 | +7.26 |
| Union Nationale | Michel Carignan | 3,971 | 12.63 | -13.16 |
1970 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Liberal | Robert Quenneville | 10,929 | 40.32 | -0.62 |
| Union Nationale | Pierre Roy | 7,694 | 28.39 | -22.57 |
| Parti Québécois | Bernard Landry | 7,376 | 27.21 | - |
| Ralliement créditiste | Aurélien Neveu | 1,107 | 4.08 | - |
1966 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| Union Nationale | Pierre Roy | 11,372 | 50.96 | -2.00 |
| Liberal | Maurice Desrochers | 9,136 | 40.94 | +14.04 |
| RIN | Laurent Mailhot | 1,423 | 6.38 | - |
| Ralliement national | René Bonin | 386 | 1.73 | - |
1962 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Union Nationale | Maurice Majeau | 10,236 | 52.96 |
| | Liberal | Gaston Lambert | 5,199 | 26.90 |
| } | Independent Lib. | Maurice Desrochers | 3,891 | 20.13 |
Joliette by-election, November 23, 1960 :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Liberal | Gaston Lambert | 10,361 | 62.72 |
| Union Nationale | Claude-Édouard Hétu | 5,148 | 31.16 |
| Independent | J.-Marcel Ostiguy | 1,011 | 6.12 |
1960 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Union Nationale | Antonio Barrette | 12,479 | 64.75 |
| | Liberal | Joseph-Aimé-Conrad Boisvert | 6,794 | 35.25 |
1956 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Union Nationale | Antonio Barrette | 11,500 | 64.88 |
| | Liberal | Joseph-Aimé-Conrad Boisvert | 6,225 | 35.12 |
1952 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Union Nationale | Antonio Barrette | 10,281 | 57.88 |
| | Liberal | Georges-Émile Lapalme | 7,482 | 42.12 |
1948 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Union Nationale | Antonio Barrette | 10,482 | 64.99 |
| Liberal | Maurice Breton | 5,452 | 33.80 |
| Union of Electors | A.-Émile Ducharme | 195 | 1.21 |
1944 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| Union Nationale | Antonio Barrette | 8,652 | 61.83 |
| Liberal | Victor Masse | 4,997 | 35.71 |
| Bloc populaire | Yvon Ricard | 344 | 2.46 |
1939 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Union Nationale | Antonio Barrette | 3,466 | 51.82 |
| | Liberal | Lucien Dugas | 3,223 | 48.18 |
1936 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Union Nationale | Antonio Barrette | 3,595 | 53.97 |
| | Liberal | Lucien Dugas | 3,066 | 46.03 |
1935 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | Lucien Dugas | 3,484 | 53.32 |
| | Conservative | Antonio Barrette | 3,050 | 46.68 |
1931 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | Lucien Dugas | 3,089 | 54.70 |
| | Conservative | Robert Tellier | 2,558 | 45.30 |
1927 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | Lucien Dugas | 3,170 | 59.04 |
| | Conservative | Pierre-Joseph Dufresne | 2,199 | 40.96 |
1923 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Pierre-Joseph Dufresne | 2,857 | 55.80 |
| | Liberal | Lucien Dugas | 2,263 | 44.20 |
1919 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Pierre-Joseph Dufresne | 2,174 | 51.49 |
| | Liberal | Ernest Hébert | 2,048 | 48.51 |
1916 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | Ernest Hébert | 2,484 | 52.67 |
| | Conservative | Joseph-Pierre Laporte | 2,232 | 47.33 |
1912 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Joseph-Mathias Tellier | 2,408 | 50.43 |
| | Liberal | Joseph Gadoury | 2,367 | 49.57 |
1908 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Joseph-Mathias Tellier | 2,065 | 50.33 |
| | Liberal | Joseph Gadoury | 2,038 | 49.67 |
1904 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Joseph-Mathias Tellier | 2,030 | 54.00 |
| | Liberal | Gédéon Desrosiers | 1,729 | 46.00 |
1900 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Joseph-Mathias Tellier | 1,868 | 52.09 |
| | Liberal | Joseph Gadoury | 1,718 | 47.91 |
1897 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Joseph-Mathias Tellier | 1,747 | 50.40 |
| | Liberal | François-Octave Dugas | 1,733 | 49.80 |
1892 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Joseph-Mathias Tellier | 1,678 | 51.02 |
| | Liberal | Louis Basinet | 1,611 | 48.98 |
1890 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | Louis Basinet | acclaimed | acclaimed |
Joliette by-election, October 24, 1889 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | Louis Basinet | 1,496 | 53.54 |
| | Conservative | Onésime Perreault | 1,298 | 46.46 |
1886 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | Louis Basinet | 1,414 | 51.44 |
| | Conservative | Joseph-Norbert-Alfred McConville | 1,335 | 48.56 |
Joliette by-election, September 25, 1885 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Joseph-Norbert-Alfred McConville | 1,304 | 50.27 |
| | Liberal | Louis Basinet | 1,290 | 49.73 |
1881 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Vincent-Paul Lavallée | 797 | 39.40 |
| | Liberal | Auguste Guilbaut | 709 | 35.05 |
| } | Independent Cons. | Édouard Guilbaut | 517 | 25.56 |
1878 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Vincent-Paul Lavallée | 1,156 | 54.94 |
| | Liberal | Auguste Guilbaut | 948 | 45.06 |
1875 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Vincent-Paul Lavallée | acclaimed | acclaimed |
1871 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Vincent-Paul Lavallée | 1,068 | 70.08 |
| | Liberal | François-Benjamin Godin | 456 | 29.92 |
1867 Quebec general election :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Conservative | Vincent-Paul Lavallée | 930 | 52.04 |
| | Liberal | Cornellier dit Grand-Champ, H. | 857 | 47.96 |