On Monday April 7, Global News will have up-to-the-minute live Quebec election results, with a live blog starting at 6 p.m. and a live-streaming election special beginning at 8 p.m. after the polls close.
READ MORE: Live coverage of the 2014 Quebec election
Global Montreal’s senior news anchor Jamie Orchard will be hosting a four-hour election special, which starts online at 8 p.m. and will be broadcast on Global Montreal from 9 p.m. to midnight.
Meet the candidates in Roberval’s election race
There are six candidates running in the riding:
Quebec Liberal Party: Philippe Couillard
Parti Quebecois: Denis Trottier
Coalition Avenir Quebec: François Truchon
Quebec Solidaire: Guillaume Néron
Option Nationale: Luc-Antoine Cauchon
Parti des sans parti: Julie Boucher
To find out who else is running in other electoral districts, check out our interactive map of Quebec provincial election ridings.
Find out more about the riding
Roberval is the riding of Quebec Liberal Party leader Philippe Couillard. Roberval has flipped between the Quebec Liberal Party, the Parti Quebecois and Union Nationale since its creation in 1931. It is the western, most rural riding of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and is considered extremely “pure laine” – or pure Quebecois.
Population: 57,080
Electors: 45,012
2012 voter turnout: 72.59%
1995 referendum vote: Yes: 65.2%, No: 34.8%
Voting day
On April 7, 2014, polling stations will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. To find your local polling station, click here.
You must be entered on the Quebec list of electors in order to vote. When heading to the poll station, remember to bring either your driver’s licence, health insurance card, Canadian passport, Treaty status card or Canadian Forces ID.
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