Beauce (electoral district)

Beauce () is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada. It is one of only three electoral districts that has been continually represented in the House of Commons of Canada since confederation in 1867, the other two being Shefford in the Eastern Townships and Halifax in Nova Scotia. In 2006, it had a population of 103,617 people, of whom 82,123 were eligible voters.

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census, 2023 representation order

Racial groups: 96.4% White, 1.5% Indigenous
Languages: 97.7% French, 1.2% English
Religions: 83.3% Christian (75.4% Catholic, 7.8% Other), 16.1% None
Median income: $40,800 (2020)
Average income: $46,120 (2020)

As of the 2006 census, the Beauce riding had the highest percentage of people who answered "Canadian" as their ethnic origin in the 2006 Census (84.0%; multiple responses). It was also the riding with the highest percentage of White people of European descent (99.3%).

Geography

The riding is located in Central Quebec, to the south of Quebec City and covers the centre of Beauce, straddling the Quebec region of Chaudière-Appalaches.

The electoral district has the regional county municipality of Beauce-Sartigan; the Regional County of Beauce-Centre, excepting the area of the former municipality of Courcelles; that part of the Regional County Municipality of Les Etchemins comprises the municipalities of Sainte-Aurélie, Saint-Benjamin, Saint-Prosper and Saint-Zacharie; the Regional County Municipality of La Nouvelle-Beauce, excepting the Parish Municipality of Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon; and that part of the Regional County Municipality of Le Granit comprises the municipalities of Saint-Ludger and Saint-Robert-Bellarmin.

The neighbouring ridings are Mégantic—L'Érable, Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, and Lévis—Bellechasse.

History

The riding was created by the British North America Act 1867, and still exists today without any name changes, although its boundaries have been redefined numerous times.

Following the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, this riding lost a small territory to Mégantic—L'Érable. It is one of a small minority of Quebecois ridings never to have elected a Bloc Quebecois MP, even in 1993.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Electoral history

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Election results in Beauce since 1867(minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

Beauce, 2023 representation order

This riding had no boundary changes made prior to the 45th Canadian federal election: Template:2025 Canadian federal election/Beauce

Beauce, 2013 representation order

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2011 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
Template:Canadian party colour |	Conservative	26,400	50.72
Template:Canadian party colour |	New Democratic	15,613	30.0
Template:Canadian party colour |	Liberal	5,722	10.99
Template:Canadian party colour |	Bloc Québécois	3,472	6.67
Template:Canadian party colour |	Green	840	1.61

Beauce, 2003 representation order

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2000 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
Template:Canadian party colour |	Liberal	25,861	55.96
Template:Canadian party colour |	Bloc Québécois	12,261	26.53
Template:Canadian party colour |	Alliance	5,416	11.72
Template:Canadian party colour |	Progressive Conservative	1,631	3.53
Template:Canadian party colour |	Others	612	1.32
Template:Canadian party colour |	New Democratic	435	0.94

Beauce, previous elections

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By-election on Template:Trim Béland accepted a government position
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By-election on Template:Trim Godbout appointed to the Senate
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See also

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

External links

• Template:SCref
• Campaign expense data from Elections Canada
• 2011 Results from Elections Canada
• Parliamentary website, History of Federal Ridings since 1867