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

Racial groups: 96.4% White, 1.5% Indigenous

Languages: 97.7% French, 1.2% English

Religions: 83.3% Christian, 16.1% None

Median income: $40,800

Average income: $46,120
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. It was also the riding with the highest percentage of White people of European descent.

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

Beauce, 2023 representation order

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

Beauce, 2013 representation order

This riding lost a small portion of its territory to Mégantic—L'Érable prior to the 42nd Canadian federal election:

Beauce, previous elections

Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.
Note: Ralliement créditiste vote is compared to Social Credit vote in the 1963 election.
Note: results compared to results of 1900 general election.