Taillon () is a provincial electoral district in the

Montérégie Montérégie () is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion. ...

region of

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that elects members to the

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. It comprises part of the borough of Le Vieux-Longueuil of the city of

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. It was created for the 1966 election from Verchères and Chambly electoral districts. It was named after former

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Louis-Olivier Taillon who was in power for four days in 1886 and from 1892 to 1896. It is best known as the riding of

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founder

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, who served as premier from 1976 to 1985. For the better part of four decades after the PQ seized it in

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, Taillon was a stronghold for both the PQ and the sovereigntist cause. In the

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it voted 61% for Quebec to separate. However, in

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, the

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narrowly won it amid its near-sweep of Montérégie.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

This riding has elected the following members of the National Assembly:

Election results

, Liberal , Marie-Ève Pelletier , align="right", 7,470 , align="right", 19.37 , align="right", -13.6 , Liberal , Richard Bélisle , align="right", 10,691 , align="right", 32.97 , align="right", +9.97 , - , Liberal , Anne Pâquet , align="right", 9,104 , align="right", 23.00 , align="right", -8.29 , - , - , - , Liberal , Véronique Mercier , align="right", 5,966 , align="right", 31.29 , align="right", -2.88 , - , - , - ,

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, Tristan Dénommée Pigeon , align="right", 143 , align="right", 0.75 , align="right", - , - * Increase is from UFP , - , Liberal , Nicole Bourget Laramée , align="right", 12,372 , align="right", 31.01 , align="right", -3.84 , - , Socialist Democracy , Pascal Durand , align="right", 345 , align="right", 0.86 , align="right", - , - ,

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, Monique Murray , align="right", 147 , align="right", 0.37 , align="right", - , - , Liberal , Philippe Angers , align="right", 13,321 , align="right", 34.85 , align="right", -2.15 , - ,

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, René-William Roy , align="right", 844 , align="right", 2.21 , align="right", - , - ,

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, Réal Pineault , align="right", 746 , align="right", 1.95 , align="right", - , - , Liberal , Rodrigue Dubé , align="right", 12,562 , align="right", 37.00 , align="right", -6.94 , - , - , New Democrat , Marc Vachon , align="right", 508 , align="right", 1.50 , align="right", -1.14 , - , Workers , Marie-Claire Ferland , align="right", 302 , align="right", 0.89 , align="right", - , - , Parti indépendantiste , Erich Laforest , align="right", 232 , align="right", 0.68 , align="right", -0.71 , - , Liberal , Ginette Desjardins Olivier , align="right", 13,191 , align="right", 43.94 , align="right", +14.12 , - , New Democrat , Jean-Serge Baribeau , align="right", 791 , align="right", 2.64 , align="right", - , - , Parti indépendantiste , Michel Milette , align="right", 418 , align="right", 1.39 , align="right", - , - , - , Christian Socialist , François Séguin , align="right", 91 , align="right", 0.30 , align="right", - , - , United Social Credit , Michel Bilodeau , align="right", 91 , align="right", 0.30 , align="right", +0.19 , - , Liberal , Lawrence R. Wilson , align="right", 9,500 , align="right", 29.82 , align="right", +8.22 , - , - ,

, Pierre Arnault , align="right", 69 , align="right", 0.22 , align="right", - , - , Workers Communist , Suzanne Ouellet , align="right", 68 , align="right", 0.21 , align="right", - , - , United Social Credit , Gaétan Bernard , align="right", 36 , align="right", 0.11 , align="right", -3.80 , - , - , Liberal , Fernand Blanchard , align="right", 11,753 , align="right", 21.60 , align="right", -25.06 , - , - , - , New Democrat , Jacques Beaudoin , align="right", 256 , align="right", 0.47 , align="right", - , - , Liberal , Guy Leduc , align="right", 18,346 , align="right", 46.66 , align="right", +4.03 , - , Parti créditiste , Bernard-E. Laplante , align="right", 2,546 , align="right", 6.48 , align="right", -0.82 , - , - ,

, Jean-Paul Paré , align="right", 103 , align="right", 0.26 , align="right", - , - , Liberal , Guy Leduc , align="right", 16,501 , align="right", 42.63 , align="right", +4.02 , - , - ,

, Serge Mongeau , align="right", 2,998 , align="right", 7.75 , align="right", - , - , - ,

, Gaston Gobeil , align="right", 134 , align="right", 0.35 , align="right", - , - ,

, Robert Meunier , align="right", 113 , align="right", 0.29 , align="right", - , - , Liberal , Guy Leduc , align="right", 8,627 , align="right", 38.61 , - , - , RIN , Jacques Ferron , align="right", 4,097 , align="right", 18.34 , - , Ralliement national , Robert Tremblay , align="right", 685 , align="right", 3.07 , - ,

, Gaston Prévost , align="right", 517 , align="right", 2.31

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

Election results

References

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