# La Prairie (provincial electoral district)

La Prairie (French pronunciation:) is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably consists of the city of La Prairie and three other smaller cities. Prior to 1988, it was spelled as one word: Laprairie.
It was originally created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada). Its final election was in 1919. It disappeared in the 1923 election and its successor electoral district was Napierville-Laprairie. It was recreated in for the 1973 election from parts of Chambly and Napierville-Laprairie.
In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Saint-Constant and Saint-Mathieu to the newly created Sanguinet electoral district.

## Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

| Legislature | Years | Member | Party |
| Laprairie |||||
| 1st | 1867–1871 | Césaire Thérien | Conservative |
| 2nd | 1871–1875 | Andrew Esinhart | Conservative |
| 3rd | 1875–1878 | Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois | Conservative |
| 4th | 1878–1881 | Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois | Conservative |
| 5th | 1881–1886 | Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois | Conservative |
| 6th | 1886–1887† | Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois | Conservative |
| 6th | 1887–1889 | Odilon Goyette | Parti national |
| 6th | 1889–1890 | Odilon Goyette | Parti national |
| 7th | 1890–1892 | Georges Duhamel | Parti national |
| 8th | 1892–1897 | Cyrille Doyon | Conservative |
| 9th | 1897–1900 | Côme-Séraphin Cherrier | Liberal |
| 10th | 1900–1904 | Côme-Séraphin Cherrier | Liberal |
| 11th | 1904–1908 | Côme-Séraphin Cherrier | Liberal |
| 12th | 1908–1912 | Esioff-Léon Patenaude | Conservative |
| 13th | 1912–1916 | Esioff-Léon Patenaude | Conservative |
| 14th | 1916–1919 | Wilfrid Cédilot | Liberal |
| 15th | 1919–1923 | Wilfrid Cédilot | Liberal |
| Riding dissolved into Napierville-Laprairie |||||
| Riding re-created from Napierville-Laprairie |||||
| 30th | 1973–1976 | Paul Berthiaume | Liberal |
| 31st | 1976–1981 | Gilles Michaud | Parti Québécois |
| 32nd | 1981–1985 | Jean-Pierre Saintonge | Liberal |
| 33rd | 1985–1989 | Jean-Pierre Saintonge | Liberal |
| La Prairie |||||
| 34th | 1989–1994 | Denis Lazure | Parti Québécois |
| 35th | 1994–1996 | Denis Lazure | Parti Québécois |
| 35th | 1996–1998 | Monique Simard | Parti Québécois |
| 36th | 1998–2003 | Serge Geoffrion | Parti Québécois |
| 37th | 2003–2007 | Jean Dubuc | Liberal |
| 38th | 2007–2008 | Monique Roy Verville | Action démocratique |
| 39th | 2008–2012 | François Rebello | Parti Québécois |
| 39th | 2012–2012 | François Rebello | Coalition Avenir Québec |
| 40th | 2012–2014 | Stéphane Le Bouyonnec | Coalition Avenir Québec |
| 41st | 2014–2018 | Richard Merlini | Liberal |
| 42nd | 2018–2022 | Christian Dubé | Coalition Avenir Québec |
| 43rd | 2022–Present | Christian Dubé | Coalition Avenir Québec |

## Election results

vte2022 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec | Christian Dubé | 18,229 | 52.71 | +9.57 |
| | Liberal | Julie Guertin | 4,791 | 13.85 | –10.14 |
| | Québec solidaire | Pierre-Marc Allaire-Daly | 4,531 | 13.10 | +0.03 |
| | Parti Québécois | Sarah Joly-Simard | 3,950 | 11.42 | –4.31 |
| | Conservative | Marie Pelletier | 2,751 | 7.95 | +6.82 |
| | Climat Québec | Barbara Joannette | 281 | 0.81 | – |
| | Marxist–Leninist | Normand Chouinard | 50 | 0.14 | +0.02 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 34,583 | 99.05 | +0.66 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 330 | 0.95 | –0.66 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 34,913 | 72.50 | –2.85 |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | 48,158 | – | – |
vte2018 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec | Christian Dubé | 14,511 | 43.14 | +10.52 |
| | Liberal | Richard Merlini | 8,069 | 23.99 | -9.96 |
| | Parti Québécois | Cathy Lepage | 5,290 | 15.73 | -10.52 |
| | Québec solidaire | Daniel Blouin | 4,362 | 12.97 | +7.05 |
| | Green | Alexandre Caron | 694 | 2.06 | |
| | Conservative | Alain Desmarais | 379 | 1.13 | |
| | New Democratic | Boukare Tall | 222 | 0.66 | |
| | Parti 51 | Liana Minato | 66 | 0.2 | |
| | Marxist–Leninist | Normand Chouinard | 41 | 0.12 | |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 33,634 | 98.39 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 549 | 1.61 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 34,183 | 74.85 |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 45,669 |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Liberal | Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Liberal | Swing | Swing | +10.24 |
| Source(s) "Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec. |||||||
2012 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Coalition Avenir Québec | Stéphane Le Bouyonnec | 11,094 | 32.64 | +19.56 |
| | Parti Québécois | Pierre Langlois | 11,019 | 32.42 | -9.70 |
| | Liberal | Lucie F. Roussel | 9,338 | 27.48 | -13.96 |
| | Québec solidaire | Yohan Perron | 1,195 | 3.52 | +1.46 |
| | Option nationale | Jean-Pierre Gouin | 473 | 1.39 | |
| | Green | Kevin Murphy | 469 | 1.38 | |
| | Coalition pour la constituante | Adrian Ahsly Gutierrez | 179 | 0.53 | |
| | Conservative | Monique Roy-Verville | 172 | 0.51 | |
| | Marxist–Leninist | Normand Chouinard | 48 | 0.14 | -0.21 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 33,987 | 98.78 | – |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 419 | 1.22 | – |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 34,406 | 82.45 | |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | 41,728 | – | – |
| ^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ. |||||||
| | Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois | Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois | Swing | Swing | +14.63 |
vte2008 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Parti Québécois | François Rebello | 16,382 | 44.83 |
| | Liberal | Marc Savard | 13,678 | 37.43 |
| | Action démocratique | Monique Roy Verville | 5,178 | 14.17 |
| | Québec solidaire | Danielle Maire | 760 | 2.08 |
| | Independent | Martin McNeil | 392 | 1.07 |
| | Marxist–Leninist | Normand Chouinard | 150 | 0.41 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 36,540 | 100.00 |
| Rejected and declined votes | Rejected and declined votes | Rejected and declined votes | 584 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 37,124 | 63.62 |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | 58,350 |
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. |||||||
vte2007 Quebec general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Action démocratique | Monique Roy Verville | 14,453 | 33.79 |
| | Parti Québécois | François Rebello | 13,168 | 30.79 |
| | Liberal | Jean Dubuc | 12,251 | 28.64 |
| | Green | Louis Corbeil | 1,605 | 3.75 |
| | Québec solidaire | Antoine Pich | 818 | 1.91 |
| | Bloc Pot | Guy Latour | 238 | 0.56 |
| | Independent | Martin McNeil | 179 | 0.42 |
| | Marxist–Leninist | Normand Chouinard | 60 | 0.14 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 42,772 | 100.00 |
| Rejected and declined votes | Rejected and declined votes | Rejected and declined votes | 442 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 43,214 | 77.50 |
| Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | Electors on the lists | 55,758 |
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. |||||||