Bloc Québécois · first elected 2019-10-21 · 3 terms
Member: Agriculture and Agri-Food
Member: Public Accounts
Member: Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure
Member: Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure
211 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on Commissioner for Modern Treaty Implementation Act.
IDid this riding change?
Essentially no. Today's Abitibi—Témiscamingue covers almost exactly the same ground as the Abitibi—Témiscamingue riding it replaced.
How this is measured. Share of the current riding's area that came from each former riding, by intersecting the 2013 and 2023 boundary files. It is area, not population. Elections Canada counts 48 of 343 ridings as entirely unchanged.
IIThe 2025 result
Bloc Québécois hold
Elected
Sébastien Lemire
Bloc Québécois
24,774
49.4% of valid votes
Margin
11,223
votes · +22.4 pts
Runner-up
Jonathan Andresen
Liberal
13,551
27.0% of valid votes
Bloc Québécois 49.4% · Liberal 27.0% · Conservative 19.7% · New Democratic 3.0%
Turnout62.0% of 82,144 electors
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
2021
±
Sébastien Lemire
Bloc Québécois
24,774
49.4%
49.6%
−0.2
Jonathan Andresen
Liberal
13,551
27.0%
23.6%
+3.4
Steve Tardif
Conservative
9,861
19.7%
11.5%
+8.2
Jérémie Juneau
New Democratic
1,480
3.0%
6.0%
−3.0
1 further candidate, under 1% of the vote
Vincent Palin-Bussières
Other
449
0.9%
The 2021 column is Elections Canada's official transposition of the 2021 result onto these 2023 boundaries. ± is the change in each party's share. It is not "swing": with four or more competitive parties there is no single pair to swing between.
IIIHow close was it, really
Swing needed to flip
11.2 pts
Half the margin: the share that would have had to move from first to second.
Third place vs. the margin
9,861 votes
Conservative took fewer than the 11,223-vote margin.
Election-day polls won by others
23 of 241
No poll ended in a tie.
Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Bloc Québécoiss (218) · ■ won by another party (23).
Flip the seatHypothetical
It would have taken 5,612 voters switching from Bloc Québécois to Liberal — 11.2% of the 50,115 valid votes, 11.2 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.
Bloc Québécois24,774
Liberal13,551
Still Bloc Québécois by 11,223 votes. Actual margin: 11,223.
IVElection day versus advance
Only 72.8% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.
Election dayAdvance & specialGap
Bloc Québécois50.0%47.9%−2.1
Liberal24.2%34.6%+10.4
Conservative21.6%14.6%−7.0
New Democratic3.2%2.3%−0.9
An association, not a cause. Voters who cast ballots before election day differed from those who turned out on the day. It does not say why. There is no poll-level turnout figure on this page: the elector count on a polling division includes people who voted in advance and were counted elsewhere.
VWhat kind of place this is
Median total household income is $72,500 — a little lower than the median riding's $84,000.
highestlowest76th lowest of 343
Median age is 44.4 — a little higher than the median riding's 41.6.
highestlowest87th highest of 343
Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 16.2% — about 57 percent of the median riding's 28.2%.
highestlowest50th lowest of 343
Share who are immigrants is 1.5% — about 9 percent of the median riding's 17.3%.
highestlowest15th lowest of 343
Share of households that own their home is 68.8% — a little lower than the median riding's 71.4%.
highestlowest142nd lowest of 343
Share with French as a mother tongue is 94.0% — about 58.8 times the median riding's 1.6%.
highestlowest16th highest of 343
2021 Census, keyed to the 2023 representation order. Comparisons are against the median riding, not Canada as a whole. Each rule places this riding among all 343.
VIWhere it is
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Fig. 3 — Abitibi—Témiscamingue and its 5 neighbouring ridings.
Boundaries unchanged in 2023Area, largest firstTurnout, lowest first
One of 343The Political Record
A card exists for every one of the 343 ridings.
Every figure on it is the figure on this page: the 2025 result and margin, turnout, the 2021 census population, the area, and the distinctions ranked against all 343 ridings. The portrait is an illustration after the official House of Commons photograph.
