Summary: NDP MP Raymond Côté defeated 2-term Conservative MP Sylvie Boucher to win this seat in 2011. Boucher is now re-offering in a neighbouring riding. The new Conservative candidate defeated Jean Pelletier to win the nomination here. Pelletier is the former director general of the Quebec City Carnival and was considered a star candidate.
Boundaries: This is one of six Quebec City ridings, on the eastern side of the city. It is geographically smaller than it was in 2011, losing some of it’s northern area to Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d’Orléans—Charlevoix.
Last Election: In 2011, NDP Côté earned 46.0 percent of the vote to defeat Conservative Boucher, who earned 26.2 per cent.
History: This riding was created in 2004. Voters elected a Bloc Québécois MP that first election, then switched to the Conservatives and Boucher in 2006 and 2008.
Candidates
Conservative: Alupa Clarke, Armed Forces Reservist, Political Science master’s student
NDP: Raymond Côté, MP since 2011
Liberal: Antoine Bujold, restaurant owner
Bloc Québécois: Doni Berberi, caterer
Green: Dalila Elhak
Strength in Democracy: Bladimir Laborit, political scientist
Marxist-Leninist: Claude Moreau
Libertarian: Francis Bedard
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