# Matane (provincial electoral district)

Matane (French pronunciation: ) is a former provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine regions of Quebec, Canada, that elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec.
It was created for the 1890 election from parts of Rimouski. Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and its successor electoral districts were Matane-Matapédia and Gaspé.

## Geography

It is located at the western end of the Gaspé Peninsula, along the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
It consists of the municipalities of:
* Baie-des-Sables
* Cap-Chat
* Grosses-Roches
* La Martre
* Les Méchins
* Marsoui
* Matane
* Mont-Saint-Pierre
* Rivière-à-Claude
* Saint-Adelme
* Saint-Jean-de-Cherbourg
* Saint-Léandre
* Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis
* Saint-René-de-Matane
* Saint-Ulric
* Sainte-Anne-des-Monts
* Sainte-Félicité
* Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine
* Sainte-Paule
It also consists of the unorganized territories of:
* Coulée-des-Adolphe
* Mont-Albert
* Rivière-Bonjour

## Linguistic demographics

* Francophone: 99.5%
* Anglophone: 0.3%
* Allophone: 0.1%

## Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

| Legislature | Years | Member | Party |
| 7th | 1890–1892 | Louis-Félix Pinault | Liberal |
| 8th | 1892 | Edmund James Flynn | Conservative |
| 8th | 1892–1897 | Louis-Félix Pinault | Liberal |
| 9th | 1897–1898 | Louis-Félix Pinault | Liberal |
| 9th | 1899–1900 | Donat Caron | Liberal |
| 10th | 1900–1904 | Donat Caron | Liberal |
| 11th | 1904–1908 | Donat Caron | Liberal |
| 12th | 1908–1912 | Donat Caron | Liberal |
| 13th | 1912–1916 | Donat Caron | Liberal |
| 14th | 1916–1918 | Donat Caron | Liberal |
| 14th | 1918–1919 | Octave Fortin | Liberal |
| 15th | 1919–1923 | Joseph Dufour | Liberal |
| 16th | 1923–1927 | Joseph-Arthur Bergeron | Liberal |
| 17th | 1927–1931 | Joseph-Arthur Bergeron | Liberal |
| 18th | 1931–1935 | Joseph-Arthur Bergeron | Liberal |
| 19th | 1935–1936 | Joseph-Arthur Bergeron | Liberal |
| 20th | 1936–1939 | Onésime Gagnon | Union nationale |
| 21st | 1936–1939 | Onésime Gagnon | Union nationale |
| 22nd | 1944–1948 | Onésime Gagnon | Union nationale |
| 23rd | 1948–1952 | Onésime Gagnon | Union nationale |
| 24th | 1952–1956 | Onésime Gagnon | Union nationale |
| 25th | 1956–1958 | Onésime Gagnon | Union nationale |
| 25th | 1958–1960 | Benoît Gaboury | Union nationale |
| 26th | 1960–1962 | Philippe Castonguay | Liberal |
| 27th | 1962–1963 | Philippe Castonguay | Liberal |
| 27th | 1964–1966 | Jacques Bernier | Liberal |
| 28th | 1966–1970 | Jean Bienvenue | Liberal |
| 29th | 1970–1973 | Jean Bienvenue | Liberal |
| 30th | 1973–1976 | Marc-Yvan Côté | Liberal |
| 31st | 1976–1981 | Yves Bérubé | Parti Québécois |
| 32nd | 1981–1985 | Yves Bérubé | Parti Québécois |
| 33rd | 1985–1989 | Claire-Hélène Hovington | Liberal |
| 34th | 1989–1994 | Claire-Hélène Hovington | Liberal |
| 35th | 1994–1998 | Matthias Rioux | Parti Québécois |
| 36th | 1998–2003 | Matthias Rioux | Parti Québécois |
| 37th | 2003–2007 | Nancy Charest | Liberal |
| 38th | 2007–2008 | Pascal Bérubé | Parti Québécois |
| 39th | 2008–2012 | Pascal Bérubé | Parti Québécois |

## Electoral results

vte2003 Quebec general election :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Liberal | Nancy Charest | 7,602 | 40.84 |
| Parti Québécois | Pascal Bérubé | 7,569 | 40.67 |
| Action démocratique | Raynald Bernier | 3,005 | 16.14 |
| Independent | Nelson Gauthier | 178 | 0.96 |
| Independent | Nestor Turcotte | 135 | 0.73 |
| Green | David Lejeune | 124 | 0.67 |
vte2007 Quebec general election :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Parti Québécois | Pascal Bérubé | 7,830 | 39.10 |
| Liberal | Nancy Charest | 7,617 | 38.04 |
| Action démocratique | Donald Grenier | 3,980 | 19.88 |
| Québec solidaire | Brigitte Michaud | 358 | 1.79 |
| Green | François Vincent | 240 | 1.20 |
vte2008 Quebec general election :
| Candidate | Votes | % |
| Parti Québécois | Pascal Bérubé | 9,589 | 58.01 |
| Liberal | Eric Plourde | 5,503 | 33.29 |
| Action démocratique | Denis Paquette | 1,117 | 6.76 |
| Québec solidaire | Gilles Arteau | 320 | 1.94 |
1995 Quebec referendum :
| Side | Side | Votes | % |
| | Oui | 15,611 | 62.46 |
| | Non | 9,381 | 37.54 |
1980 Quebec referendum :
| Side | Side | Votes | % |
| | Non | 12,285 | 52,41 |
| | Oui | 11,154 | 47,59 |