The Political RecordFederal electoral districtsNo. 24072Quebec

Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke is a federal riding in Quebec. Élisabeth Brière (Liberal, first elected to the House in 2019) represents Sherbrooke. Élisabeth Brière (Liberal) held Sherbrooke for the Liberals in the 2025 election by 15,025 votes (24.7 points), with 51.3% of the vote. Pierre-Étienne Rouillard (Bloc Québécois) was second with 26.6%, on a turnout of 67.7% of 91,260 electors. Member as of 2026-11-01.

Fig. 1 — Sherbrooke on the board, 2023 boundaries; the ridings next door as the House holds them on 2026-11-01. Open it on the board →

Who represents Sherbrooke

Élisabeth Brière's piece from the board. Illustration after the official portrait © House of Commons.

Élisabeth Brière

Member of Parliament for Sherbrooke

Liberal

MP since 2019-10-21 · 3 terms

deputy government whip
Chair, Subcommittee on Private Members' Business
Procedure and House Affairs committee
Subcommittee on Private Members' Business

48 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on Resumption of Debate on Address in Reply.

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The 2025 result: Liberal hold

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Sherbrooke, April 28, 2025

Shares of the 60,931 valid votes; a candidate under 1% is counted with the others. Source: Elections Canada, official voting results, the 2025 general election.

The figures

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Élisabeth Brière	Liberal	31,249	51.3%
Pierre-Étienne Rouillard	Bloc Québécois	16,224	26.6%
Esteban Méndez-Hord	Conservative	7,983	13.1%
Jean-Pierre Fortier	New Democratic	3,516	5.8%
Kevin McKenna	Green	1,383	2.3%
Other (1)		576	0.9%

Élisabeth Brière (Liberal) won Sherbrooke on April 28, 2025 with 31,249 votes, 51.3% of the 60,931 valid votes. Pierre-Étienne Rouillard (Bloc Québécois) was second with 16,224 (26.6%), 15,025 votes and 24.7 points behind.

Of the 60,931 valid votes, Élisabeth Brière (Liberal) took 51.3%, Pierre-Étienne Rouillard (Bloc Québécois) 26.6%, Esteban Méndez-Hord (Conservative) 13.1%, Jean-Pierre Fortier (New Democratic) 5.8% and Kevin McKenna (Green) 2.3%; one other candidate took 0.9%. Turnout was 67.7% of 91,260 electors: 61,776 ballots cast, 60,931 of them valid, for 6 candidates.

Since 2021

Against the 2021 result on these boundaries, the Liberals are up 14.6 (36.7% to 51.3%), the Bloc Québécois down 1.8 (28.4% to 26.6%), the Conservatives up 0.6 (12.5% to 13.1%), the New Democrats down 7.8 (13.6% to 5.8%) and the Greens down 0.5 (2.8% to 2.3%), 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: no party has held it

The party first in Sherbrooke at each general election, 2004 to 2025, on today's boundaries

2004Bloc Québécois57.6%by 26.1 points over the Liberals
2006Bloc Québécois51.3%by 30.2 points over the Conservatives
2008Bloc Québécois49.3%by 29.5 points over the Liberals
2011changed handsNew Democratic43.5%by 8.6 points over the Bloc Québécois
2015New Democratic37.4%by 7.6 points over the Liberals
2019†changed handsLiberal29.3%by 1.0 point over the New Democrats
2021Liberal36.7%by 8.3 points over the Bloc Québécois
2025Liberal51.3%by 24.7 points over the Bloc Québécois

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

Year	First	Share	Second	Margin (pts)	Basis
2004	Bloc Québécois	57.6%	Liberal	26.1	carried, our estimate
2006	Bloc Québécois	51.3%	Conservative	30.2	carried, our estimate
2008	Bloc Québécois	49.3%	Liberal	29.5	carried, our estimate
2011	New Democratic	43.5%	Bloc Québécois	8.6	carried, our estimate
2015	New Democratic	37.4%	Liberal	7.6	carried, our estimate
2019†	Liberal	29.3%	New Democratic	1.0	carried, our estimate
2021	Liberal	36.7%	Bloc Québécois	8.3	transposed by Elections Canada
2025	Liberal	51.3%	Bloc Québécois	24.7	official result

The Bloc Québécois were first at three of the eight general elections from 2004 to 2025, the Liberals at three and the NDP at two; it changed hands twice. In 2025 the Liberals took 51.3% of the vote here, 26.9 points above their average of 24.4% at the seven general elections from 2004 to 2021.

On today's boundaries the Bloc Québécois were first here in 2004 (57.6%), 2006 (51.3%) and 2008 (49.3%), the NDP in 2011 (43.5%) and 2015 (37.4%) and the Liberals in 2019 (29.3%), 2021 (36.7%) and 2025 (51.3%), 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 160 of the 343 ridings have no degree. 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 2019 the carried top two are within two points, so which party was first is less certain.

Before 2025

2021 Liberal · Élisabeth Brière, by 4,982 votes (8.5 pts)
2019 Liberal · Élisabeth Brière, by 609 votes (1.0 pts)
2015 New Democratic · Pierre-Luc Dusseault, by 4,339 votes (7.6 pts)

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

What kind of place Sherbrooke is

Population: 116,8452021 census
Area: 102km²
Density: 1,148people per km²
Electors: 91,260on the 2025 lists

Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings

Lowest household income
Median household income $55,200, the lowest of 343 (Median total household income, 2021 census)
3rd-most populous in Quebec
116,845 people, 2021 census · 3rd of 78 in Quebec · 103rd of 343 in Canada

Median total household income is $55,200 — about 66 percent of the median riding's $84,000.
highestlowest1st lowest of 343
Share of households that own their home is 40.2% — about 56 percent of the median riding's 71.4%.
highestlowest22nd lowest of 343
Share with French as a mother tongue is 85.5% — about 53.4 times the median riding's 1.6%.
highestlowest39th highest of 343
Share who are immigrants is 10.4% — about 60 percent of the median riding's 17.3%.
highestlowest121st lowest of 343
Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32.4% — a little higher than the median riding's 28.2%.
highestlowest141st highest of 343
Median age is 41.6 — about the same as the median riding's 41.6.
highestlowest163rd 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. 100% of the 2025 electors in today's Sherbrooke lived in the old Sherbrooke; by area, 1% of the riding came from other ridings.

Share of today's electorsFormer riding

100.0%Sherbrooke 99.2% of the area · 97% of it kept

0.0%Compton—Stanstead 0.8% of the area · under 0.1% 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

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	2021	±
Élisabeth Brière	Liberal	31,249	51.3%	36.7%	+14.6
Pierre-Étienne Rouillard	Bloc Québécois	16,224	26.6%	28.4%	−1.8
Esteban Méndez-Hord	Conservative	7,983	13.1%	12.5%	+0.6
Jean-Pierre Fortier	New Democratic	3,516	5.8%	13.6%	−7.8
Kevin McKenna	Green	1,383	2.3%	2.8%	−0.5

1 further candidate, under 1% of the vote

Alexandre Lépine

People's

576

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

Third place vs. the margin

7,983 votes

Conservative took fewer than the 15,025-vote margin.

Election-day polls won by others

12 of 212

5 polls ended in an exact tie.

Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Liberals (195) · ■ won by another party (12) · ▨ tied (5).

Flip the seatHypothetical

It would have taken 7,513 voters switching from Liberal to Bloc Québécois — 12.3% of the 60,931 valid votes, 12.3 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.

Voters who switch: 0015,026

Liberal31,249

Bloc Québécois16,224

Still Liberal by 15,025 votes. Actual margin: 15,025.

IVElection day versus advance

Only 56.0% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.

On election day the Liberals took 46.7%, the Bloc Québécois 27.1%, the Conservatives 15.5%, the New Democrats 6.6%, the Greens 2.8% and the People's Party 1.1%; in advance and special ballots, 57.1%, 26.0%, 10.0%, 4.7%, 1.6% and 0.7%, in that order.

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

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

Party	Election day	Advance and special	Gap
Liberal	46.7%	57.1%	+10.4
Bloc Québécois	27.1%	26.0%	−1.1
Conservative	15.5%	10.0%	−5.5
New Democratic	6.6%	4.7%	−1.9
Green	2.8%	1.6%	−1.2
People's Party	1.1%	0.7%	−0.4

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 — Sherbrooke and its 1 neighbouring ridings.

Sources and citation

"Sherbrooke — federal riding profile and 2025 results."
The Political Record. https://politicalrecord.ca/riding/sherbrooke/
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.