Bloc Québécois · first elected 2019-10-21 · 3 terms
Member of the Board of Internal Economy
whip of the Bloc Québécois
295 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on Spring Economic Update 2026 Implementation Act.
IDid this riding change?
Yes. 1% of today's Berthier—Maskinongé came from ridings other than the old Berthier—Maskinongé.
Share of today's areaFormer riding
98.7%Berthier—Maskinongé
1.2%Repentigny 24% of it kept
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
Yves Perron
Bloc Québécois
21,676
35.0% of valid votes
Margin
6,620
votes · +10.7 pts
Runner-up
Stéphane Bilodeau
Liberal
15,056
24.3% of valid votes
Bloc Québécois 35.0% · Liberal 24.3% · New Democratic 21.7% · Conservative 17.2%
Turnout67.9% of 92,625 electors
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
2021
±
Yves Perron
Bloc Québécois
21,676
35.0%
35.3%
−0.3
Stéphane Bilodeau
Liberal
15,056
24.3%
15.1%
+9.2
Ruth Ellen Brosseau
New Democratic
13,457
21.7%
32.1%
−10.4
Peter Saliba
Conservative
10,641
17.2%
10.7%
+6.5
2 further candidates, each under 1% of the vote
Elia Gomez-Gnali
People's
575
0.9%
Daniel Simon
Green
551
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
5.3 pts
Half the margin: the share that would have had to move from first to second.
Third place vs. the margin
13,457 votes
New Democratic took more than the 6,620-vote margin. True in 100 of 343 ridings in 2025.
Election-day polls won by others
87 of 240
3 polls ended in an exact tie.
Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Bloc Québécoiss (150) · ■ won by another party (87) · ▨ tied (3).
Flip the seatHypothetical
It would have taken 3,311 voters switching from Bloc Québécois to Liberal — 5.3% of the 61,956 valid votes, 5.3 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.
Bloc Québécois21,676
Liberal15,056
Still Bloc Québécois by 6,620 votes. Actual margin: 6,620.
IVElection day versus advance
Only 63.1% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.
Election dayAdvance & specialGap
Bloc Québécois34.5%35.9%+1.4
New Democratic22.5%20.5%−2.0
Liberal21.2%29.6%+8.4
Conservative19.7%12.8%−6.9
People's1.1%0.7%−0.4
Green1.1%0.6%−0.5
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 $66,500 — about 79 percent of the median riding's $84,000.
highestlowest44th lowest of 343
Median age is 48.8 — about 1.2 times the median riding's 41.6.
highestlowest37th highest of 343
Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 13.5% — about 48 percent of the median riding's 28.2%.
highestlowest11th lowest of 343
Share who are immigrants is 1.9% — about 11 percent of the median riding's 17.3%.
highestlowest19th lowest of 343
Share of households that own their home is 74.5% — a little higher than the median riding's 71.4%.
highestlowest123rd highest of 343
Share with French as a mother tongue is 96.8% — about 60.5 times the median riding's 1.6%.
highestlowest8th 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 — Berthier—Maskinongé and its 6 neighbouring ridings.
Most French mother tongueLength of the ballotArea, largest 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.
