MONTREAL – Maxime Bernier has been re-elected in Beauce, the first MP to be granted a fourth term in the riding since 1935 when Liberal Édouard Lacroix claimed the seat.
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Bernier, a former foreign affairs minister, was first elected in 2006.
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Bernier was re-elected in 2011 with 50.7 per cent of the vote; he was then named Minister of State (Small Business and Tourism and Agriculture) under Stephen Harper’s Conservative government.
In the 2011 election, Beauce was one of just five seats won by the Conservatives.
The riding is south of Quebec City and includes Sainte-Marie, Beauceville, Saint-Georges and Saint-Martin.
Beauce was a Liberal seat from 1997 to 2006.
Liberal candidate Adam Veilleux, president of a commercial property and asset management company, tried to claim it back, but came in second.
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NDP candidate Daniel Royer, a teacher, came in third.
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The Bloc Québécois has never won here, but was the second place finisher in every election from 1993 until 2008.
This time, the Bloc’s businessman candidate Stéphane Trudel came in a distant fourth.
The Conservatives were up to nine seats in Quebec Monday evening compared with the five seats in the 2011 election.
All the same, those gains were dwarfed by the surging Liberals, who were up a whopping 45 seats and counting in Quebec an hour after polls closed.
The Liberal wave came largely at the expense of the plummeting NDP (-48 in Quebec).
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