# Groulx

Groulx is a provincial electoral district in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the city of Boisbriand as well as a few other small cities.
It was created for the 1981 election from a part of the Terrebonne electoral district.
In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it gained a small part of the city of Blainville from the Blainville electoral district; it did not previously include any part of that city.
In the change from the 2011 to 2017 electoral map, the riding will lose the Saint-Rédempteur neighbourhood of Blainville to the riding of Blainville.
From its creation in 1981 until 2007, Groulx was a bellwether riding always sending a member from the governing party to the National Assembly. Since the ADQ breakthrough in the suburbs of Montreal in 2007, the riding has been targeted by all major parties and is part of a collection of ridings that determine Quebec elections. The riding is overwhelmingly francophone and white, and has a strong nationalist undercurrent, making it a battleground riding between the Parti Québécois, ADQ/CAQ, and the Quebec Liberals.
In 2014, the PQ nominated Martine Desjardins, former leader of the FEUQ during the 2012 student strike. She was seen as a star candidate. While the PQ began the campaign with a strong lead among francophones and heavily targeted CAQ-held ridings such as Groulx, the fall of the PQ and rise of the CAQ during the last two weeks of the campaign kept this riding in the hands of the CAQ, albeit in a tight 3-way split with no candidate receiving more than 31% of the vote.

## Members of the National Assembly

| Legislature | Years | Member | Party |
| Riding created from Terrebonne |||||
| 32nd | 1981–1985 | Élie Fallu | Parti Québécois |
| 33rd | 1985–1989 | Madeleine Bleau | Liberal |
| 34th | 1989–1994 | Madeleine Bleau | Liberal |
| 35th | 1994–1998 | Robert Kieffer | Parti Québécois |
| 36th | 1998–2003 | Robert Kieffer | Parti Québécois |
| 37th | 2003–2007 | Pierre Descoteaux | Liberal |
| 38th | 2007–2008 | Linda Lapointe | Action démocratique |
| 39th | 2008–2011 | René Gauvreau | Parti Québécois |
| 39th | 2011–2012 | René Gauvreau | Independent |
| 39th | 2012–2012 | René Gauvreau | Parti Québécois |
| 40th | 2012–2014 | Hélène Daneault | Coalition Avenir Québec |
| 41st | 2014–2017 | Claude Surprenant | Coalition Avenir Québec |
| 41st | 2017–2018 | Claude Surprenant | Independent |
| 42nd | 2018–2022 | Eric Girard | Coalition Avenir Québec |
| 43rd | 2022–Present | Eric Girard | Coalition Avenir Québec |

## Election results

vte2022 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec | Eric Girard | 17,431 | 47.75% | +7.14% |
| | Québec solidaire | Marie-Noëlle Aubertin | 5,919 | 16.21% | -1.02% |
| | Parti Québécois | Jeanne Craig-Larouche | 5,588 | 15.31% | -0.49% |
| | Liberal | Audrey Medaino-Tardif | 4,024 | 11.02% | -9.24% |
| | Conservative | Valerie Messore | 3,177 | 8.70% | +7.69% |
| | Green | Victoria Shahsavar-Arshad | 368 | 1.01% | -1.20% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 36,507 | – |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | | – |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | | – | – |
vte2018 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec | Eric Girard | 14,771 | 40.61 | +9.76 |
| | Liberal | Sabrina Chartrand | 7,369 | 20.26 | -9.98 |
| | Québec solidaire | Fabien Torres | 6,268 | 17.23 | +10.44 |
| | Parti Québécois | Jean-Philippe Meloche | 5,745 | 15.8 | -14.2 |
| | Independent | Claude Surprenant | 812 | 2.23 | |
| | Green | Robin Dick | 802 | 2.21 | |
| | Conservative | Vincent Aubé | 368 | 1.01 | |
| | Citoyens au pouvoir | Chantal Lavoie | 235 | 0.65 | |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 36,370 | 98.37 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 604 | 1.63 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 36,974 | 70.25 |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 52,633 |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec hold | Coalition Avenir Québec hold | Swing | Swing | +9.87 |
| Source(s) "Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec. |||||||
2014 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec | Claude Surprenant | 12,776 | 30.85 | -7.17 |
| | Liberal | Vicki Emard | 12,520 | 30.24 | +10.27 |
| | Parti Québécois | Martine Desjardins | 12,424 | 30.00 | -4.00 |
| | Québec solidaire | Sylvie Giguère | 2,810 | 6.79 | +2.49 |
| | Parti nul | Jonathan Davis | 493 | 1.19 | – |
| | Option nationale | Alain Marginean | 384 | 0.93 | -1.11 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 41,407 | 98.49 | – |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 635 | 1.51 | +0.36 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 42,042 | 73.48 | -5.60 |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | 57,216 | – | – |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec hold | Coalition Avenir Québec hold | Swing | Swing | -8.72 |
2012 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec | Hélène Daneault | 16,711 | 38.02 | +17.57 |
| | Parti Québécois | Raymond Archambault | 14,948 | 34.01 | -4.05 |
| | Liberal | Linda Lapointe | 8,776 | 19.97 | -15.70 |
| | Québec solidaire | Sylvie Giguère | 1,892 | 4.30 | +1.92 |
| | Option nationale | Alain Marginean | 895 | 2.04 | – |
| | Green | Alec Ware | 591 | 1.34 | -1.80 |
| | Independent | Alex Munteanu | 140 | 0.32 | – |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 43,953 | 98.85 | – |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 511 | 1.15 | – |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 44,464 | 79.08 | |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | 56,228 | – | – |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois | Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois | Swing | Swing | +10.81 |
^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ.
2008 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Parti Québécois | René Gauvreau | 11,226 | 37.62 | +8.73 |
| | Liberal | Monique Laurin | 10,823 | 36.27 | +9.07 |
| | Action démocratique | Linda Lapointe | 6,036 | 20.23 | -17.22 |
| | Green | Carmen Brisebois | 955 | 3.20 | -0.93 |
| | Québec solidaire | Adam Veilleux | 701 | 2.35 | +0.01 |
| | Parti indépendantiste | Sébastien Hotte | 102 | 0.34 | – |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 29,843 | 98.41 | – |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 481 | 1.59 | – |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 30,324 | 61.33 | -14.02 |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | 49,441 | – | – |
2007 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Action démocratique | Linda Lapointe | 13,630 | 37.45 | +18.07 |
| | Parti Québécois | Rachel Gagnon | 10,513 | 28.89 | -9.78 |
| | Liberal | Pierre Descoteaux | 9,898 | 27.20 | -12.34 |
| | Green | Robert Harenclak | 1,503 | 4.13 | – |
| | Québec solidaire | Adam Veilleux | 850 | 2.34 | +1.09* |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 36,394 | 99.15 | – |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 311 | 0.85 | – |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 36,705 | 75.35 | +1.83 |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | 48,715 | – | – |
* Result compared to UFP