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Rivière-du-Nord

Rivière-du-Nord is a federal riding in Quebec. Rhéal Éloi Fortin (Bloc Québécois, first elected to the House in 2015) represents Rivière-du-Nord. Rhéal Fortin (Bloc Québécois) held Rivière-du-Nord for the Bloc Québécois in the 2025 election by 7,093 votes (12.2 points), with 43.8% of the vote. Mary-Helen Walton (Liberal) was second with 31.6%, on a turnout of 63.3% of 93,725 electors. Member as of .

Les Pays-d'en-Haut · LiberalMirabel · Bloc QuébécoisMontcalm · Bloc QuébécoisTerrebonne · LiberalThérèse-De Blainville · LiberalRivière-du-Nord
Fig. 1 — Rivière-du-Nord on the board, 2023 boundaries; the ridings next door as the House holds them on . Open it on the board →

Who represents Rivière-du-Nord

BRhéal Éloi Fortin
Rhéal Éloi Fortin's piece from the board. Illustration after the official portrait © House of Commons.

Rhéal Éloi Fortin

Member of Parliament for Rivière-du-Nord

Bloc Québécois

MP since · 4 terms

  • Justice and Human Rights committee
  • Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure
  • Vice-Chair, Justice and Human Rights committee

220 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on Justice.

Contact and office · House of Commons →

The 2025 result: Bloc Québécois hold

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Rivière-du-Nord, April 28, 2025

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Rivière-du-Nord, April 28, 2025Of the 58,018 valid votes, Rhéal Fortin (Bloc Québécois) took 43.8%, Mary-Helen Walton (Liberal) 31.6%, Patricia Morrissette (Conservative) 21.0% and Christel Marchand (New Democratic) 3.5%.2025Turnout 63.3% of 93,725 electorsRhéal FortinBloc Québécois43.8% · 25,4387,093 votes ahead · 12.2 ptsMary-Helen WaltonLiberal31.6% · 18,345PatriciaMorrissetteConservative21.0% · 12,203Christel MarchandNew Democratic3.5% · 2,032050%100%
Share of the valid votes by candidate, Rivière-du-Nord, April 28, 2025Of the 58,018 valid votes, Rhéal Fortin (Bloc Québécois) took 43.8%, Mary-Helen Walton (Liberal) 31.6%, Patricia Morrissette (Conservative) 21.0% and Christel Marchand (New Democratic) 3.5%.2025Turnout 63.3% of 93,725 electorsRhéal FortinBloc Québécois43.8% · 25,4387,093 votes ahead · 12.2 ptsMary-Helen WaltonLiberal31.6% · 18,345Patricia MorrissetteConservative21.0% · 12,203Christel MarchandNew Democratic3.5% · 2,032050%100%
Shares of the 58,018 valid votes; a candidate under 1% is counted with the others. Source: Elections Canada, official voting results, the 2025 general election.
The figures
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Rhéal FortinBloc Québécois25,43843.8%
Mary-Helen WaltonLiberal18,34531.6%
Patricia MorrissetteConservative12,20321.0%
Christel MarchandNew Democratic2,0323.5%

Rhéal Fortin (Bloc Québécois) won Rivière-du-Nord on with 25,438 votes, 43.8% of the 58,018 valid votes. Mary-Helen Walton (Liberal) was second with 18,345 (31.6%), 7,093 votes and 12.2 points behind.

Of the 58,018 valid votes, Rhéal Fortin (Bloc Québécois) took 43.8%, Mary-Helen Walton (Liberal) 31.6%, Patricia Morrissette (Conservative) 21.0% and Christel Marchand (New Democratic) 3.5%. Turnout was 63.3% of 93,725 electors: 59,367 ballots cast, 58,018 of them valid, for 4 candidates.

Since 2021

Against the 2021 result on these boundaries, the Bloc Québécois are down 6.5 (50.3% to 43.8%), the Liberals up 9.7 (21.9% to 31.6%), the Conservatives up 9.3 (11.7% to 21.0%) and the New Democrats down 3.2 (6.7% to 3.5%), in points of the valid votes.

2021 is Elections Canada's transposition of that election onto the 2023 boundaries, not an election held on these lines.

Since 2004: usually Bloc

The party first in Rivière-du-Nord at each general election, 2004 to 2025, on today's boundaries

  1. 2004Bloc Québécois66.6%by 45.2 points over the Liberals
  2. 2006Bloc Québécois59.1%by 38.4 points over the Conservatives
  3. 2008Bloc Québécois53.4%by 39.0 points over the Conservatives
  4. 2011changed handsNew Democratic54.5%by 26.0 points over the Bloc Québécois
  5. 2015†changed handsBloc Québécois31.9%by 1.8 points over the New Democrats
  6. 2019Bloc Québécois51.9%by 29.3 points over the Liberals
  7. 2021Bloc Québécois50.3%by 28.4 points over the Liberals
  8. 2025Bloc Québécois43.8%by 12.2 points over the Liberals
Each election carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate to 2019, Elections Canada's transposition for 2021, the official result for 2025. Parties are counted as they ran. † The first two are within two points, so which party was first is less certain.
The figures
YearFirstShareSecondMargin (pts)Basis
2004Bloc Québécois66.6%Liberal45.2carried, our estimate
2006Bloc Québécois59.1%Conservative38.4carried, our estimate
2008Bloc Québécois53.4%Conservative39.0carried, our estimate
2011New Democratic54.5%Bloc Québécois26.0carried, our estimate
2015†Bloc Québécois31.9%New Democratic1.8carried, our estimate
2019Bloc Québécois51.9%Liberal29.3carried, our estimate
2021Bloc Québécois50.3%Liberal28.4transposed by Elections Canada
2025Bloc Québécois43.8%Liberal12.2official result

The Bloc Québécois were first here at seven of the eight general elections from 2004 to 2025; the NDP were first in 2011. In 2025 the Bloc Québécois took 43.8% of the vote here, 5.0 points below their average of 48.8% at the seven general elections from 2004 to 2021.

On today's boundaries the Bloc Québécois were first here in 2004 (66.6%), 2006 (59.1%), 2008 (53.4%), 2015 (31.9%), 2019 (51.9%), 2021 (50.3%) and 2025 (43.8%) and the NDP in 2011 (54.5%), each with the share of the valid votes shown.

A stronghold is a party first at every general election since 2004, by an average of 20 points or more over the next party; held, first at every one; usually, first at all but one. By-elections are not counted. By this rule 83 of the 343 ridings are usually one party's. The results before 2021 are carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate, from the older boundaries of Taylor, Lucas, Kirby and Hewitt and the results in Sevi's "Who Runs?". 2021 is Elections Canada's transposition, and 2025 the official result. In 2015 the carried top two are within two points, so which party was first is less certain.

Before 2025
  • 2021 Bloc Québécois · Rhéal Fortin, by 17,176 votes (29.9 pts)
  • 2019 Bloc Québécois · Rhéal Fortin, by 17,879 votes (29.7 pts)
  • 2015 Bloc Québécois · Rhéal Fortin, by 1,080 votes (1.9 pts)

In the old Rivière-du-Nord on the 2013 boundaries, the riding most of the 2025 electors in today's Rivière-du-Nord lived in; Elections Canada's official results.

What kind of place Rivière-du-Nord is

Population
113,5152021 census
Area
306km²
Density
371people per km²
Electors
93,725on the 2025 lists
Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings
  • 9th-fewest university degrees: 13.4% of 25–64s hold a bachelor's or higher, 9th lowest of 343 (Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher, 2021 census)9th
    9th-fewest university degrees
    13.4% of 25–64s hold a bachelor's or higher, 9th lowest of 343 (Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher, 2021 census)
  • Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 13.4% — about 48 percent of the median riding's 28.2%.
    highestlowest9th lowest of 343
  • Share with French as a mother tongue is 92.8% — about 58.0 times the median riding's 1.6%.
    highestlowest22nd highest of 343
  • Median total household income is $67,500 — about 80 percent of the median riding's $84,000.
    highestlowest51st lowest of 343
  • Share who are immigrants is 5.0% — about 29 percent of the median riding's 17.3%.
    highestlowest57th lowest of 343
  • Share of households that own their home is 57.0% — about 80 percent of the median riding's 71.4%.
    highestlowest75th lowest of 343
  • Median age is 42.8 — about the same as the median riding's 41.6.
    highestlowest132nd highest of 343

2021 Census on the 2023 boundaries; each rule places this riding among all 343. Density is the census population over the riding's area.

IDid this riding change?

Yes. 88% of the 2025 electors in today's Rivière-du-Nord lived in the old Rivière-du-Nord; by area, 32% of the riding came from other ridings.

Share of today's electorsFormer riding
87.6%Rivière-du-Nord 68.3% of the area · 55% of it kept
12.4%Mirabel 31.3% of the area · 10% of it kept
0.0%Terrebonne 0.2% of the area · 0.3% of it kept
How this is measured. Electors: the share of the current riding's 2025 ordinary-list electors who lived in each former riding, each 2025 polling division placed in the 2013 riding a point inside it falls in. Area: the share of the current riding's area that came from each former riding, by intersecting the 2013 and 2023 boundary files, and how much of the former riding that part was. Area is land, not population. Elections Canada counts 48 of 343 ridings as entirely unchanged.

IIThe 2025 result

CandidatePartyVotes%2021±
Rhéal FortinBloc Québécois25,43843.8%50.3%−6.5
Mary-Helen WaltonLiberal18,34531.6%21.9%+9.7
Patricia MorrissetteConservative12,20321.0%11.7%+9.3
Christel MarchandNew Democratic2,0323.5%6.7%−3.2
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

Third place vs. the margin
12,203 votes
Conservative took more than the 7,093-vote margin. True in 100 of 343 ridings in 2025.
Election-day polls won by others
22 of 231
No poll ended in a tie.
Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Bloc Québécois (209) · ■ won by another party (22).
Flip the seatHypothetical

It would have taken 3,547 voters switching from Bloc Québécois to Liberal — 6.1% of the 58,018 valid votes, 6.1 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.

Bloc Québécois25,438
Liberal18,345
Still Bloc Québécois by 7,093 votes. Actual margin: 7,093.

IVElection day versus advance

Only 59.2% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.

On election day the Bloc Québécois took 43.3%, the Liberals 28.1%, the Conservatives 24.6% and the New Democrats 4.0%; in advance and special ballots, 44.7%, 36.7%, 15.8% and 2.8%, in that order.

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Rivière-du-Nord, April 28, 2025

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Rivière-du-Nord, April 28, 2025On election day the Bloc Québécois took 43.3%, the Liberals 28.1%, the Conservatives 24.6% and the New Democrats 4.0%; in advance and special ballots, 44.7%, 36.7%, 15.8% and 2.8%, in that order.Election dayAdvance and special± pts, the gapBloc Québécois43.3%44.7%+1.4 ptsLiberal28.1%36.7%+8.6 ptsConservative24.6%15.8%−8.8 ptsNew Democratic4.0%2.8%−1.2 pts050%100%
Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Rivière-du-Nord, April 28, 2025On election day the Bloc Québécois took 43.3%, the Liberals 28.1%, the Conservatives 24.6% and the New Democrats 4.0%; in advance and special ballots, 44.7%, 36.7%, 15.8% and 2.8%, in that order.Election dayAdvance and special± pts, the gapBloc Québécois43.3%44.7%+1.4 ptsLiberal28.1%36.7%+8.6 ptsConservative24.6%15.8%−8.8 ptsNew Democratic4.0%2.8%−1.2 pts050%100%
Shares of the valid votes cast at election-day polls, and of those cast at advance polls, at mobile polls and by special ballot; the gap is the second less the first, in points. Source: Elections Canada, poll-by-poll results, the 2025 general election.
The figures
PartyElection dayAdvance and specialGap
Bloc Québécois43.3%44.7%+1.4
Liberal28.1%36.7%+8.6
Conservative24.6%15.8%−8.8
New Democratic4.0%2.8%−1.2
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.

VWhere it is

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Fig. 3 — Rivière-du-Nord and its 5 neighbouring ridings.

Sources and citation

"Rivière-du-Nord — federal riding profile and 2025 results." The Political Record. https://politicalrecord.ca/riding/riviere-du-nord/ Accessed 2026-11-10.

Results and transposition: Elections Canada. Boundaries: Elections Canada / Statistics Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada. Census: Statistics Canada 2021 Census. Member: House of Commons.

Figures reconcile to the certified national total of 19,641,663 votes. The member is as the House of Commons listed them on 2026-11-01. Page built 2026-11-10.