Edited sentence: </ref>  She lived in the nearby Berthier-Maskinongé riding, but indicated that she did not want to oppose Marie-Claude Godue as the Conservative candidate there.CBC Canada Votes 2006: Bas-Richelieu-Nicolet-Bécancour, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, accessed 7 August 2009.Marie-Ève Hélie-Lambert was 26 years old at the time of the election, and was a Philosophy student at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières.She expressed interest in stopping the exodus of young people from the region.She previously worked at a centre for drug addicts.She received 11,588 votes (23.36%), finishing second against Bloc Québécois incumbent Louis Plamondon