Bloc Québécois · first elected 2025-04-28 · first term
deputy House leader of the Bloc Québécois
Member: Citizenship and Immigration
Member: Fisheries and Oceans
Member: Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure
267 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on Business of Supply — Department of Citizenship and Immigration—Main Estimates, 2026-27.
IDid this riding change?
Yes. 32% of today's Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj came from ridings other than the old Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine.
Share of today's areaFormer riding
68.2%Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine
31.7%Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia 52% 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
Alexis Deschênes
Bloc Québécois
26,091
45.8% of valid votes
Margin
4,274
votes · +7.5 pts
Runner-up
Diane Lebouthillier
Liberal
21,817
38.3% of valid votes
Bloc Québécois 45.8% · Liberal 38.3% · Conservative 12.4% · New Democratic 1.8% · Other 1.0%
Turnout60.4% of 95,760 electors
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
2021
±
Alexis Deschênes
Bloc Québécois
26,091
45.8%
43.4%
+2.4
Diane Lebouthillier
Liberal
21,817
38.3%
38.9%
−0.6
Jean-Pierre Pigeon
Conservative
7,047
12.4%
8.1%
+4.3
Denise Giroux
New Democratic
1,005
1.8%
4.2%
−2.4
Shawn Grenier
Other
572
1.0%
1.3%
−0.3
1 further candidate, under 1% of the vote
Christian Rioux
People's
452
0.8%
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
3.8 pts
Half the margin: the share that would have had to move from first to second.
Third place vs. the margin
7,047 votes
Conservative took more than the 4,274-vote margin. True in 100 of 343 ridings in 2025.
Election-day polls won by others
74 of 279
No poll ended in a tie.
Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Bloc Québécoiss (205) · ■ won by another party (74).
Flip the seatHypothetical
It would have taken 2,138 voters switching from Bloc Québécois to Liberal — 3.8% of the 56,984 valid votes, 3.8 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.
Bloc Québécois26,091
Liberal21,817
Still Bloc Québécois by 4,274 votes. Actual margin: 4,274.
IVElection day versus advance
Only 63.7% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.
Election dayAdvance & specialGap
Bloc Québécois46.5%44.6%−1.9
Liberal35.5%43.2%+7.7
Conservative14.1%9.3%−4.8
New Democratic1.9%1.6%−0.3
Other1.2%0.7%−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 $61,600 — about 73 percent of the median riding's $84,000.
highestlowest21st lowest of 343
Median age is 54.4 — about 1.3 times the median riding's 41.6.
highestlowest3rd highest of 343
Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 14.9% — about 53 percent of the median riding's 28.2%.
highestlowest32nd lowest of 343
Share who are immigrants is 1.3% — about 8 percent of the median riding's 17.3%.
highestlowest7th lowest of 343
Share of households that own their home is 72.0% — about the same as the median riding's 71.4%.
highestlowest160th highest of 343
Share with French as a mother tongue is 91.6% — about 57.2 times the median riding's 1.6%.
highestlowest30th 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 — Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj and its 4 neighbouring ridings.
Oldest median ageSmallest immigrant shareTurnout, 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.
