Matapédia (electoral district)
# Matapédia (electoral district)

Matapédia is a former provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada, which elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It is at the western edge of the Gaspé Peninsula.

It was created for the 1923 election from a portion of the electoral district of Matane. Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election by merging all of its territory with part of Matane, and the successor electoral district was Matane-Matapédia.

## Linguistic demographics

* Francophone: 99.4%
* Anglophone: 0.5%
* Allophone: 0.1%

## Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

* Joseph Dufour, Liberal (1923–1936)
* Fernand Paradis, Union Nationale (1936–1939)
* Joseph Dufour, Liberal (1939–1944)
* Philippe Cossette, Union Nationale (1944–1952)
* Clovis Gagnon, Union Nationale (1953–1960)
* Bona Arsenault, Liberal (1960–1976)
* Léopold Marquis, Parti Québécois (1976–1985)
* Henri Paradis, Liberal (1985–1994)
* Danielle Doyer, Parti Québécois (1994–2012)

## Election results

2008 Quebec general election :

| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Parti Québécois | Danielle Doyer | 8,815 | 51.34 | +7.56 |
| Liberal | Jean-Yves Roy | 5,828 | 33.44 | +8.57 |
| Action démocratique | Cindy Rousseau | 1,982 | 11.54 | -14.59 |
| Québec solidaire | Eve-Lyne Couturier | 544 | 3.17 | +0.5 |

2007 Quebec general election :

| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Parti Québécois | Danielle Doyer | 9,042 | 43.78 | -1.7 |
| Action démocratique | Rémy Villeneuve | 5,436 | 26.13 | +2.96 |
| Liberal | Normand Boulianne | 5,137 | 24.87 | -6.48 |
| Québec solidaire | Dominic Fortin | 551 | 2.67 | |
| Green | Jean-François Guay | 526 | 2.55 | – |

2003 Quebec general election :

| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - |
| Parti Québécois | Danielle Doyer | 9,197 | 45.48 |
| Liberal | Gaston Pelletier | 6,339 | 31.35 |
| Action démocratique | Claude Fortin | 4,686 | 23.17 |

1995 Quebec referendum :

| Side | Side | Votes | % |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Oui | 17,292 | 64.30 |
| | Non | 9,600 | 35.70 |
