Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis

Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis (formerly Lévis—Bellechasse) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. It was created in 2003 from Lévis-et-Chutes-de-la-Chaudière and Bellechasse—Etchemins—Montmagny—L'Islet ridings.

Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis

Quebec electoral district
Lévis—Bellechasse in relation to other Quebec federal electoral districts
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Dominique Vien Conservative
District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)[1]	114,966
Electors (2021)	94,257
Area (km²)[1]	3,202.78
Pop. density (per km²)	35.9
Census division(s)	Bellechasse RCM, Les Etchemins RCM, Lévis
Census subdivision(s)	Lévis (part), Saint-Henri, Saint-Anselme, Lac-Etchemin, Sainte-Claire, Beaumont, Saint-Charles-de-Bellechasse, Saint-Raphaël, Saint-Gervais, Saint-Damien-de-Buckland

Geography

The riding is located south of Quebec City and covers a strip of land between the city's cross-river suburbs and the Canada–US border. It is located in the Quebec region of Chaudière-Appalaches. It consists of the RCM of Bellechasse and most of Les Etchemins, as well as the eastern part of the city of Lévis.

The neighbouring ridings are Beauce, Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, Louis-Hébert, Québec, Beauport—Limoilou, Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, and Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup.

The 2012 federal electoral distribution concluded that this riding will retain its current boundaries, but was renamed Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis.

Profile

The rural regions to the east of the riding are extremely strong areas for the Conservatives. The city of Lévis, however, is more of a battleground region. In the 2011 election, the Tories had to contend with a strong NDP performance in that city. The NDP's support was more concentrated to the west of the Boulevard de la Rive-Sud, closer to the river front.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Lévis—Bellechasse Riding created from Lévis-et-Chutes-de-la-Chaudière and Bellechasse—Etchemins—Montmagny—L'Islet
38th	2004–2006		Réal Lapierre	Bloc Québécois
39th	2006–2008		Steven Blaney	Conservative
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis
42nd	2015–2019		Steven Blaney	Conservative
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present		Dominique Vien

Election results

Graph of election results in Lévis—Bellechasse, Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis, 2023 representation order

2021 federal election redistributed results[2]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	30,341	52.00
	Bloc Québécois	13,280	22.76
	Liberal	9,070	15.55
	New Democratic	2,869	4.92
	Green	840	1.44
	Others	1,945	3.33

Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis, 2013 representation order

Graph of election results in Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Dominique Vien	32,259	51.04	+0.94	$27,017.86
	Bloc Québécois	Marie-Christine Richard	14,670	23.21	+0.32	$15,804.72
	Liberal	Daniel Vaillancourt	10,075	15.94	-0.72	$5,446.69
	New Democratic	Marie-Philippe Gagnon Gauthier	3,183	5.04	-0.02	$0.48
	Free	Raymond Arcand	1,802	2.85	–	$0.00
	Green	Hélène Lefebvre	913	1.44	-1.54	$0.00
	Independent	Chamroeun Khuon	306	0.48	–	$915.04
Total valid votes/expense limit			63,208	–	–	$123,757.24
Total rejected ballots
Turnout				65.62	-3.71
Registered voters			96,317
	Conservative hold		Swing		+0.31
Source: Elections Canada[3]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Steven Blaney	32,283	50.09	-0.83	$56,210.72
	Bloc Québécois	Sébastien Bouchard-Théberge	14,754	22.89	+11.36	$5,276.21
	Liberal	Laurence Harvey	10,734	16.66	-4.05	$12,368.08
	New Democratic	Chamroeun Khuon	3,256	5.05	-8.55	$3,070.83
	Green	André Voyer	1,925	2.99	-0.26	none listed
	People's	Marc Johnston	1,307	2.03	-	$0.00
	Christian Heritage	Yves Gilbert	188	0.29	-	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			64,447	98.30	-1.70	-
Total rejected ballots			1,113	1.70	+0.81
Turnout			65,560	69.33	+0.71
Eligible voters			94,558
	Conservative hold		Swing		-6.10
Source: Elections Canada[4][5]

This renamed riding maintained its boundaries for the 42nd Canadian federal election:

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Steven Blaney	31,872	50.92	+6.97	$74,383.13
	Liberal	Jacques Turgeon	12,961	20.71	+14.89	$20,553.28
	New Democratic	Jean-Luc Daigle	8,516	13.6	-20.21	$11,888.30
	Bloc Québécois	Antoine Dubé	7,217	11.53	-3.36	$17,164.62
	Green	André Bélisle	2,032	3.25	+1.71	$85,188.63
Total valid votes/expense limit			62,598	98.70	+0.06	$235,171.98
Total rejected ballots			824	1.30	-0.06
Turnout			63,422	68.62	+2.74
Eligible voters			92,420
	Conservative hold		Swing		+13.7
Source: Elections Canada[6]

Lévis—Bellechasse, 2003 Representation Order

Graph of election results in Lévis—Bellechasse (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Steven Blaney	25,850	43.95	-1.95	$85,522.71
	New Democratic	Nicole Laliberté	19,890	33.81	+22.97	$336.36
	Bloc Québécois	Danielle-Maude Gosselin	8,757	14.89	-10.57	$44,495.06
	Liberal	Francis Laforesterie	3,421	5.82	-9.24	$16,904.21
	Green	Sacha Dougé	903	1.54	-1.00	-
Total valid votes/expense limit			58,821	98.64	+0.19	$94.740.90
Total rejected ballots			808	1.36	-0.19
Turnout			59,629	65.88	+3.43
Eligible voters			90,515
	Conservative hold		Swing		-12.46
Sources:[7][8]

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Steven Blaney	24,785	45.90	-0.50	$66,280.10
	Bloc Québécois	Guy Bergeron	13,747	25.46	-3.56	$18,536.02
	Liberal	Pauline Côté	8,130	15.06	+6.87	$14,138.27
	New Democratic	Gabriel Biron	5,856	10.84	+6.21	-
	Green	Lynne Champoux-Williams	1,370	2.54	-1.56	-
	Marxist–Leninist	Normand Fournier	113	0.21	-	-
Total valid votes/expense limit			54,001	98.45	-0.57	$90,335
Total rejected ballots			848	1.55	+0.57
Turnout			54,849	62.45	-3.47
Eligible voters			87,830
	Conservative hold		Swing		+1.53

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Steven Blaney	25,940	46.40	+27.35	$59,351.14
	Bloc Québécois	Réal Lapierre	16,223	29.02	-15.31	$61,706.32
	Liberal	Shirley Baril	4,581	8.19	-19.43	$9,831.42
	Independent	Normand Cadrin	4,275	7.65	-	$15,519.63
	New Democratic	Éric Boucher	2,590	4.63	+0.77	$868.27
	Green	Mathieu Castonguay	2,293	4.10	-0.69	$3,066.75
Total valid votes/expense limit			55,902	99.02	+1.24	$83,486
Total rejected ballots			551	0.98	-1.24
Turnout			56,453	65.92	+6.31
Eligible voters			85,635
	Conservative gain from Bloc Québécois		Swing		+21.33

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Réal Lapierre	21,930	44.34	+3.64	$52,753,68
	Liberal	Christian Jobin	13,664	27.62	-11.74	$61,102.89
	Conservative	Gilles Vézina	9,425	19.05	+0.88	$14,913.30
	Green	Sylvain Castonguay	2,372	4.80	-	$936.08
	New Democratic	Louise Foisy	1,910	3.86	+2.49	-
	Communist	Christophe Vaillancourt	163	0.33	-	$680.79
Total valid votes/expense limit			49,464	97.78	-	$81,813
Total rejected ballots			1,124	2.22	-
Turnout			50,588	59.61	-3.51
Eligible voters			84,867
	Bloc Québécois notional hold		Swing		+7.69
Changes from 2000 are based on redistributed results. Change for the Conservatives is based on the totals of the Progressive Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance.

2000 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	Bloc Québécois	20,855	40.70
	Liberal	20,166	39.36
	Alliance	6,480	12.65
	Progressive Conservative	2,828	5.52
	New Democratic	701	1.37
	Others	210	0.41

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

References

• "Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis (Code 24034) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
• 2011 Results from Elections Canada
• Riding history

Notes

1. Statistics Canada: 2016
2. "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
3. "Confirmed candidates — Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
4. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
5. "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
6. "Candidate Campaign Returns : Search for Candidates".
7. Elections Canada – Official voting results, Forty-first general election, 2011
8. Elections Canada – Candidate's electoral campaign return, 41st general election

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