Politics
The riding had long been safe for the Liberals save for a lone Progressive Conservative victory in their 1984 nationwide landslide. However, in the 2006 election the Bloc Québécois won the seat. The Bloc managed to hold the seat with just over 29% of the vote in 2008, by far the lowest percentage for a winning candidate nationwide, due to a near-three-way split between themselves, the New Democratic Party and the Liberals. The riding then went to the NDP in the 2011 election.
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