Terrebonne (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the provincial electoral district, see Terrebonne (provincial electoral district). For the pre-Confederation electoral district, see Terrebonne (Province of Canada electoral district).

Terrebonne is a federal electoral district in the Canadian province of Quebec. It was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1997, when it was dissolved in an electoral redistribution. It was reconstituted as an electoral district again beginning with the 2015 election.

Terrebonne

Quebec electoral district
Terrebonne in relation to other electoral districts in Montreal and Laval
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné Bloc Québécois
District created	1867
First contested	1867
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	106,322
Electors (2015)	83,775
Area (km²)[1]	159
Pop. density (per km²)	668.7
Census division(s)	Les Moulins
Census subdivision(s)	Terrebonne

History

The riding was originally created by the British North America Act of 1867 which preserved existing electoral districts in Lower Canada. It was abolished in 1996 into Repentigny and Terrebonne—Blainville.

It was recreated during the 2012 federal electoral redistribution from parts of Terrebonne—Blainville (51%) and Montcalm (49%), and consists solely of the city of Terrebonne.

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census^[2]

Ethnic groups: 81.2% White, 11.0% Black, 2.5% Arab, 2.2% Latin American, 1.3% Indigenous

Languages: 83.8% French, 2.6% English, 2.2% Spanish, 2.1% Haitian Creole, 1.5% Arabic, 1.0% Italian

Religions: 68.9% Christian (57.5% Catholic, 1.0% Baptist, 10.4% Other), 4.3% Muslim. 26.0% None

Median income: $45,600 (2020)

Average income: $53,800 (2020)

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Terrebonne
1st	1867–1872		Louis-Rodrigue Masson	Conservative
2nd	1872–1874
3rd	1874–1878
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1882		Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel
	1882–1887		Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
6th	1887–1891
7th	1891–1893
	1893–1896		Pierre-Julien Leclair
8th	1896–1900		Léon Adolphe Chauvin
9th	1900–1903		Raymond Préfontaine	Liberal
	1903–1904		Samuel Desjardins
10th	1904–1908
11th	1908–1911		Wilfrid Bruno Nantel	Conservative
12th	1911–1915
	1915–1917		Gédéon Rochon
13th	1917–1921		Jules-Édouard Prévost	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
14th	1921–1925			Liberal
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935		Louis-Étienne Parent
18th	1935–1940
19th	1940–1945		Lionel Bertrand	Independent Liberal
20th	1945–1949			Liberal
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958		Raymond Raymond
24th	1958–1962		Marcel Deschambault	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963		Léo Cadieux	Liberal
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1972		Joseph-Roland Comtois
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1986		Robert Toupin	Progressive Conservative
	1986–1986			Independent
	1986–1987			New Democratic
	1987–1988			Independent
34th	1988–1993		Jean-Marc Robitaille	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997		Benoît Sauvageau	Bloc Québécois
Riding dissolved into Repentigny and Terrebonne—Blainville
Riding re-created from Terrebonne—Blainville and Montcalm
42nd	2015–2018		Michel Boudrias	Bloc Québécois
	2018–2018			Groupe parlementaire québécois
	2018–2019			Bloc Québécois
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present		Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné

Election results

Terrebonne, 2015–present

Graph of election results in Terrebonne (since 2011, 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
	Bloc Québécois	Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné	24,270	41.2	-9.4	$28,625.35
	Liberal	Eric Forget	17,475	29.6	+0.3	$6,336.80
	Conservative	Frédérick Desjardins	6,183	10.5	+2.9	$8,029.08
	New Democratic	Luke Mayba	3,913	6.6	-0.9	$7,745.37
	Independent	Michel Boudrias	3,864	6.6	N/A	$16,574.97
	People's	Louis Stinziani	1,594	2.7	+2.0	$0.00
	Green	Dave Hamelin-Schuilenburg	847	2.4	-2.3	$103.94
	Free	Nathan Fortin-Dubé	803	1.4	N/A	$25.71
Total valid votes/expense limit			58,949	97.8	–	$119,339.41
Total rejected ballots			1,355	2.2
Turnout			60,304	66.4
Eligible voters			90,835
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		-4.9
Source: Elections Canada[3]

2021 federal election redistributed results[4]
Party		Vote	%
	Bloc Québécois	23,298	41.40
	Liberal	16,528	29.37
	Conservative	5,886	10.46
	New Democratic	3,742	6.65
	People's	1,506	2.68
	Green	802	1.43
	Others	4,518	8.03

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Michel Boudrias	31,029	50.59	+17.58	$20,129.32
	Liberal	Frédéric Beauchemin	17,944	29.26	+1.26	none listed
	Conservative	France Gagnon	4,640	7.57	-3.78	$1,869.33
	New Democratic	Maxime Beaudoin	4,627	7.54	-18.07	$0.33
	Green	Réjean Monette	2,277	3.71	+1.97	none listed
	People's	Jeffrey Barnes	399	0.65		none listed
	Rhinoceros	Paul Vézina	260	0.42		$0.00
	Independent	Jade Hébert	159	0.26		$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			61,335	97.95
Total rejected ballots			1,282	2.05	-0.06
Turnout			62,617	70.31	-0.15
Eligible voters			89,062
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		+8.16
Source: Elections Canada[5][6]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Michel Boudrias	19,238	33.01	+2.23	$17,316.45
	Liberal	Michèle Audette	16,316	27.99	+21.07	$28,471.60
	New Democratic	Charmaine Borg	14,928	25.61	-25.93	$66,226.31
	Conservative	Michel Surprenant	6,615	11.35	+3.28	$4,734.68
	Green	Susan Moen	1,016	1.74	-0.95	–
	Strength in Democracy	Louis Clément Sénat	171	0.29	–	$1,208.41
Total valid votes/expense limit			58,284	97.89		$222,232.39
Total rejected ballots			1,256	2.11	–
Turnout			59,540	70.46	–
Eligible voters			84,502
	Bloc Québécois gain from New Democratic		Swing		+14.08
Source: Elections Canada[7][8]

2011 federal election redistributed results[9]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	25,625	51.54
	Bloc Québécois	15,304	30.78
	Conservative	4,011	8.07
	Liberal	3,440	6.92
	Green	1,339	2.69

Terrebonne, 1867–1997

Graph of election results in Terrebonne (1957-1993, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Benoît Sauvageau	56,235	68.9
	Liberal	Claire Brouillet	14,623	17.9	-0.6
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Marc Robitaille	9,496	11.6	-41.1
	New Democratic	Renée-Claude Lorimier	873	1.1	-9.7
	Commonwealth of Canada	Christian Chouery	445	0.5
Total valid votes			81,672	100.0

v t e 1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Marc Robitaille	35,345	52.8	-7.5
	Liberal	Claire Brouillet	12,422	18.5	-7.7
	Independent	Robert Toupin	10,390	15.5
	New Democratic	Lauraine Vaillancourt	7,194	10.7	+1.9
	Rhinoceros	Alain Cowboy De Lagrave	1,647	2.5
Total valid votes			66,998	100.0

v t e 1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Toupin	43,822	60.30
	Liberal	Joseph-Roland Comtois (incumbent)	19,040	26.20
	New Democratic	Brian Umansky	6,454	8.88
	Parti nationaliste	Jean-A. Bonin	3,060	4.21
	Commonwealth of Canada	Claude Brosseau	292	0.40
Total valid votes			72,668	100.00
Total rejected ballots			1,634
Turnout			74,302	74.93
Electors on the lists			99,162
Source: Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, Thirty-third General Election, 1984.

v t e 1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph-Roland Comtois	36,089	68.3	+6.0
	New Democratic	Gilles Bertrand	6,917	13.1	+7.5
	Progressive Conservative	Jacques Dupuis	4,807	+9.1	-1.4
	Social Credit	Georgette Grenier	2,839	5.4	-12.9
	Rhinoceros	Pédro Gervais G.D. Drapeau	1,844	3.5	+1.2
	Union populaire	Réal Godin	233	0.4	-0.1
	Marxist–Leninist	Jacques Coderre	131	0.2	0.0
Total valid votes			52,860	100.0
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v t e 1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph-Roland Comtois	34,839	62.3	+7.2
	Social Credit	Georgette Grenier	10,239	18.3	+14.0
	Progressive Conservative	Louis-Rhéal Tremblay	5,845	10.5	-23.8
	New Democratic	Roland Francis	3,114	5.6	+2.7
	Rhinoceros	Jean-Marie Da Silva	1,306	2.3
	Union populaire	Réal Godin	298	0.5
	Marxist–Leninist	André Cousineau	164	0.3
	Communist	Gaétan Trudel	122	0.2
Total valid votes			55,927	100.0

Canadian federal by-election, 24 May 1977
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
On Mr. Comtois' resignation, 25 October 1976
	Liberal	Joseph-Roland Comtois	25,006	55.1	-1.1
	Progressive Conservative	Roger Delorme	15,539	34.2	+14.8
	Social Credit	Jean Léveillé	1,949	4.3	-11.7
	New Democratic	Pierre Demers	1,299	2.9	-4.6
	Independent	Gilles Mélançon	1,151	2.5
	Communist	Claude Demers	290	0.6	+0.1
	Independent	J. Noël St-Michel	167	0.4
Total valid votes			45,401	100.0

v t e 1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph-Roland Comtois	28,652	56.1	+9.1
	Progressive Conservative	Gilles Mélançon	9,897	19.4	-5.4
	Social Credit	Guy Meunier	8,138	15.9	-4.6
	New Democratic	Pierre Demers	3,812	7.5	-0.1
	Marxist–Leninist	Françoise Daoust	272	0.5
	Communist	Nicole Ledoux	265	0.5
Total valid votes			51,036	100.0
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v t e 1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph-Roland Comtois	24,928	47.1	-15.0
	Social Credit	Guy Meunier	13,136	24.8	+20.8
	Progressive Conservative	Michel Coté	10,885	20.5	+0.3
	New Democratic	Pierre Demers	4,022	7.6	-3.7
Total valid votes			52,971	100.0
Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.
Source: lop.parl.ca

v t e 1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Joseph-Roland Comtois	21,191	62.0	+17.8
	Progressive Conservative	Jacques Vachon	6,934	20.3	-7.1
	New Democratic	Jean-Maurice Sénécal	3,860	11.3	-2.9
	Ralliement créditiste	Rosario Therrien	1,363	4.0	-10.2
	Démocratisation Économique	Pierre Therrien	824	2.4
Total valid votes			34,172	100.0

v t e 1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Léo Cadieux	16,806	44.2	-1.8
	Progressive Conservative	André Fauteux	10,417	27.4	+15.8
	Ralliement créditiste	Jean-Marc Fontaine	5,412	14.2	-18.7
	New Democratic	Jean-Maurice Sénécal	5,384	14.2	+4.7
Total valid votes			38,019	100.0

Note: Ralliement créditiste vote is compared to Social Credit vote in the 1963 election.

v t e 1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Léo Cadieux	19,015	46.0	+6.8
	Social Credit	Hubert Murray	13,618	33.0	+9.6
	Progressive Conservative	Bert Walker	4,798	11.6	-16.5
	New Democratic	Gérard Gagnon	3,895	9.4	+0.1
Total valid votes			41,326	100.0

v t e 1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Léo Cadieux	15,547	39.2	-9.4
	Progressive Conservative	Marcel Deschambault	11,155	28.1	-23.3
	Social Credit	Lucien Bachand	9,269	23.4
	New Democratic	Jean Philip	3,680	9.3
Total valid votes			39,651	100.0

v t e 1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Marcel Deschambault	19,319	51.4	+11.5
	Liberal	Raymond Raymond	18,241	48.6	-11.5
Total valid votes			37,560	100.0

v t e 1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Raymond Raymond	19,515	60.1
	Progressive Conservative	Marcel Deschambault	12,973	39.9
Total valid votes			32,488	100.0

v t e 1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lionel Bertrand	acclaimed

v t e 1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lionel Bertrand	18,304	66.9	+0.2
	Progressive Conservative	Lucien Thinel	8,107	29.6
	Union des électeurs	Jean-Paul Houle	953	3.5
Total valid votes			27,364	100.0

v t e 1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lionel Bertrand	15,383	66.6	+26.9
	Bloc populaire	Henri Dionne	6,726	29.1
	Independent	Charles Aubry	691	3.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Louis-Philippe Lebel	281	1.2
Total valid votes			23,081	100.0

v t e 1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent Liberal	Lionel Bertrand	7,839	44.9
	Liberal	Louis-Étienne Parent	6,938	39.8	-25.3
	National Government	Léopold Lachapelle	2,668	15.3	-11.9
Total valid votes			17,445	100.0

Note: "National Government" vote is compared to Conservative vote in 1935 election.

v t e 1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Louis-Étienne Parent	9,900	65.1	+8.9
	Conservative	Léopold Nantel	4,141	27.2	-16.6
	Liberal	Eugène Léveillé	1,172	7.7
Total valid votes			15,213	100.0

v t e 1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Louis-Étienne Parent	8,609	56.1	-19.5
	Conservative	Guillaume-André Fauteux	6,727	43.9	+19.5
Total valid votes			15,336	100.0

v t e 1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jules-Édouard Prévost	7,060	75.7	+3.4
	Conservative	Léopold Nantel	2,270	24.3	-3.4
Total valid votes			9,330	100.0

v t e 1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Jules-Édouard Prévost	6,789	72.2	+1.3
	Conservative	Léopold Nantel	2,609	27.8	-1.3
Total valid votes			9,398	100.0

v t e 1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Jules-Édouard Prévost	8,882	71.0
	Conservative	Guillaume-André Fauteux	3,636	29.0
Total valid votes			12,518	100.0

v t e 1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Jules-Édouard Prévost	acclaimed

Canadian federal by-election, 8 February 1915
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Gédéon Rochon	2,193	53.6
	Unknown	Joseph-Alphonse Beaulieu	1,895	46.4
Total valid votes			4,088	100.0
Called upon Mr. Nantel being appointed Railway Commissioner, 20 October 1914.

By-election on 27 October 1911 On Mr. Nantel being appointed Minister of Inland Revenue, 10 October 1911
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Wilfrid-Bruno Nantel	acclaimed

v t e 1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Wilfrid Bruno Nantel	2,727	56.5	+5.7
	Liberal	Samuel Desjardins	2,101	43.5	-5.7
Total valid votes			4,828	100.0

v t e 1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Wilfrid Bruno Nantel	2,592	50.8	+2.7
	Liberal	Thibaudeau Rinfret	2,513	49.2	-2.7
Total valid votes			5,105	100.0

v t e 1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Samuel Desjardins	2,481	51.9	-1.5
	Conservative	W. Bruno Nantel	2,297	48.1	+1.5
Total valid votes			4,778	100.0

Canadian federal by-election, 24 February 1903
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
Préfontaine was appointed Minister of Marine and Fisheries, 11 November 1902
	Liberal	Samuel Desjardins	2,325	53.4	+0.3
	Conservative	A.H. Masson	2,029	46.6	-0.3
Total valid votes			4,354	100.0

v t e 1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Raymond Préfontaine	2,277	53.1	+4.9
	Conservative	Léon-Adolphe Chauvin	2,010	46.9	-4.9
Total valid votes			4,287	100.0

v t e 1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Léon-Adolphe Chauvin	1,862	51.8	-10.1
	Liberal	P.F.C. Petit	1,734	48.2	+10.1
Total valid votes			3,596	100.0

Note: popular vote is compared to vote in 1891 general election.

By-election on 10 January 1893 Chapleau was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, 7 December 1892
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Pierre Leclaire	acclaimed

v t e 1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau	1,830	61.9	-1.8
	Liberal	M.D. Limoges	1,126	38.1	+1.8
Total valid votes			2,956	100.0

v t e 1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau	1,819	63.8	-1.8
	Liberal	M.J. Therrien	1,034	36.2
Total valid votes			2,853	100.0

By-election on 16 August 1882 To allow Mr. Chapleau to run for office.
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau	acclaimed

Note: popular vote is compared to vote in 1882 general election.

v t e 1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel	1,593	65.6	-21.3
	Unknown	A.E. Poirier	836	34.4
Total valid votes			2,429	100.0

Note: popular vote is compared to vote in 1878 general election.

By-election on 6 November 1878 Masson was appointed Minister of Militia and Defence, 19 October 1878
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Louis-Rodrigue Masson	acclaimed

v t e 1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Louis-Rodrigue Masson	1,194	86.8
	Unknown	B. Longpré A	181	13.2
Total valid votes			1,375	100.0

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Louis-Rodrigue Masson	acclaimed
Source: lop.parl.ca

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Louis-Rodrigue Masson	acclaimed
Source: Canadian Elections Database[10]

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Louis-Rodrigue Masson	acclaimed
Source: Canadian Elections Database[11]

References

1. Statistics Canada: 2012
2. Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (February 9, 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Terrebonne [Federal electoral district (2013 Representation Order)], Quebec". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved October 12, 2023.
3. "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
4. "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
5. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
6. "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
7. Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Terrebonne, 30 September 2015
8. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
9. Pundits' Guide To Canadian Elections
10. Sayers, Anthony M. "1872 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on February 3, 2024.
11. Sayers, Anthony M. "1867 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on January 22, 2024.

• Riding history 1867-1996 from the Library of Parliament