Interactive map of riding boundaries from the2025 federal election | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Liberal | ||
| District created | 1966 | ||
| First contested | 1968 | ||
| Last contested | 2025 | ||
| District webpage | profile,map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2011)[1] | 96,525 | ||
| Electors (2015) | 79,277 | ||
| Area (km²)[1] | 36 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 2,681.3 | ||
| Census division | Quebec City | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Quebec City (part),Notre-Dame-des-Anges | ||
Québec Centre (formerlyQuébec andLangelier) is a federalelectoral district that has been represented in theHouse of Commons of Canada since 1968. It is located inQuebec City in theprovince ofQuebec, Canada.
Since its creation, the riding has been a provincial bellwether in federal elections. No party has ever carried this riding without winning the most seats in Quebec.
This riding was created as "Langelier" riding in 1966 from parts ofQuebec East,Quebec South andQuebec West ridings. It was renamed "Québec" in 1990. Since its inception, this riding has always been represented by the party with the most support in Quebec.
The riding, in the Quebec region ofCapitale-Nationale, consists of the central part ofQuebec City, including the borough ofLa Cité and the southern part of the borough ofLes Rivières, as well as the parish municipality ofNotre-Dame-des-Anges.
The neighbouring ridings areLouis-Hébert,Louis-Saint-Laurent,Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles,Beauport—Limoilou, andBellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis.
The riding gained a small fraction of territory fromLouis-Hébert as a result of the2012 electoral redistribution.
Following the2022 federal electoral redistribution the riding will be renamedQuébec Centre. It will also gain gain the area east of Av. Maguire fromLouis-Hébert.[2]
Ethnic groups: 91.4% White, 3.2% Indigenous, 1.6% Latino, 1.5% Black, 2.3% other
Languages: 92.7% French, 1.9% English, 1.6% Spanish, 3.8% other
Religions: 79.6% Christian, 1.4% Muslim, 0.8% other, 18.2% none
Median income: $28,603 (2010)
Average income: $35,961 (2010)
Riding associations are the local branches of political parties:
| Party | Association name | CEO | HQ City | |
| Conservative | Association du Parti conservateur Québec-Centre | Mario Lapointe | Quebec City | |
| Liberal | Association Libérale Fédérale de Québec Centre | Marc-Etienne Vien | Quebec City | |
| Marijuana | Parti Marijuana de Québec (PMQ) | Danny Légaré | Saint-Félix-de-Valois | |
| New Democratic | Association NPD Québec Centre | Victoria I. Venet | Quebec City | |
| 2025 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Jean-Yves Duclos | 27,879 | 49.50 | +13.78 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Simon Bérubé | 20,199 | 35.87 | +6.84 | ||||
| New Democratic | Tommy Bureau | 4,400 | 7.81 | –4.89 | ||||
| People's | Daniel Brisson | 2,818 | 5.00 | +3.42 | ||||
| Independent | Patrick Kerr | 1,020 | 1.81 | N/A | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | ||||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 56,316 | 68.22 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 82,553 | |||||||
| Liberalnotional hold | Swing | +3.47 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[4][5] | ||||||||
| 2021 federal election redistributed results[6] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Liberal | 19,361 | 35.72 | |
| Bloc Québécois | 15,734 | 29.03 | |
| Conservative | 9,766 | 18.02 | |
| New Democratic | 6,882 | 12.70 | |
| Green | 1,277 | 2.36 | |
| People's | 855 | 1.58 | |
| Others | 320 | 0.59 | |
| 2021 Canadian federal election:Québec | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Jean-Yves Duclos | 18,132 | 35.4 | +2.1 | $92,776.01 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Louis Sansfaçon | 14,824 | 29.0 | -3.7 | $32,198.69 | |||
| Conservative | Bianca Boutin | 9,239 | 18.0 | +3.0 | $29,033.90 | |||
| New Democratic | Tommy Bureau | 6,652 | 13.0 | +1.5 | $3,937.02 | |||
| Green | Patrick Kerr | 1,182 | 2.3 | -3.1 | $1,000.50 | |||
| People's | Daniel Brisson | 855 | 1.7 | +0.5 | $1,276.16 | |||
| Free | Karine Simard | 307 | 0.6 | N/A | $421.51 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 51,191 | 98.0 | – | $109,641.82 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,026 | 2.0 | ||||||
| Turnout | 52,217 | 67.6 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 77,298 | |||||||
| Liberalhold | Swing | +2.9 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[7] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election:Québec | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Jean-Yves Duclos | 18,047 | 33.3 | +4.4 | $80,667.63 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Christiane Gagnon | 17,722 | 32.7 | +13.85 | none listed | |||
| Conservative | Bianca Boutin | 8,118 | 15.0 | -6.79 | $38,447.35 | |||
| New Democratic | Tommy Bureau | 6,220 | 11.5 | -15.54 | $6,381.41 | |||
| Green | Luc Joli-Coeur | 2,949 | 5.4 | +2.49 | $9,773.82 | |||
| People's | Bruno Dabiré | 674 | 1.2 | – | none listed | |||
| Rhinoceros | Sébastien CoRhino | 347 | 0.6 | – | none listed | |||
| Pour l'Indépendance du Québec | Luc Paquin | 119 | 0.2 | – | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 54,198 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,051 | |||||||
| Turnout | 55,249 | 70.0 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 78,950 | |||||||
| Liberalhold | Swing | -1.3 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[8][9] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Jean-Yves Duclos | 15,566 | 28.90 | +19.88 | $45,987.20 | |||
| New Democratic | Annick Papillon | 14,566 | 27.04 | -15.60 | $33,392.85 | |||
| Conservative | Pierre-Thomas Asselin | 11,737 | 21.79 | +4.02 | $17,402.72 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Charles Mordret | 10,153 | 18.85 | -9.11 | $41,425.08 | |||
| Green | Philippe Riboty | 1,570 | 2.91 | +0.74 | $1,006.90 | |||
| Marxist–Leninist | Normand Fournier | 153 | 0.28 | – | – | |||
| Strength in Democracy | Danielle Provost | 122 | 0.23 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 53,867 | 100.00 | $214,308.69 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 820 | 1.50 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 54,687 | 69.09 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 79,157 | |||||||
| Liberalgain fromNew Democratic | Swing | +17.74 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[10][11] | ||||||||
| 2011 federal election redistributed results[12] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| New Democratic | 22,394 | 42.64 | |
| Bloc Québécois | 14,685 | 27.96 | |
| Conservative | 9,331 | 17.77 | |
| Liberal | 4,736 | 9.02 | |
| Green | 1,144 | 2.18 | |
| Others | 228 | 0.43 | |
| 2011 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Annick Papillon | 22,393 | 42.6 | +30.8 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Christiane Gagnon | 14,684 | 28.0 | -13.8 | ||||
| Conservative | Pierre Morasse | 9,330 | 17.8 | -7.9 | ||||
| Liberal | François Payeur | 4,735 | 9.0 | -8.5 | ||||
| Green | Yvan Dutil | 1,144 | 2.2 | -1.1 | ||||
| Christian Heritage | Stefan Jetchick | 228 | 0.4 | - | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 52,514 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 801 | 1.5 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 53,315 | 66.3 | +3.6 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 80,402 | – | – | |||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Christiane Gagnon | 21,064 | 41.8 | +0.2 | $59,021 | |||
| Conservative | Myriam Taschereau | 12,943 | 25.7 | -4.1 | $70,315 | |||
| Liberal | Damien Rousseau | 8,845 | 17.5 | +6.1 | $13,132 | |||
| New Democratic | Catheryn Roy-Goyette | 5,933 | 11.8 | +2.5 | $6,186 | |||
| Green | Yonnel Bonaventure | 1,650 | 3.3 | -1.6 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 50,435 | 100.00 | $85,897 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 632 | 1.2 | ||||||
| Turnout | 51,067 | 62.7 | ||||||
| 2006 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Christiane Gagnon | 20,845 | 41.5 | -9.1 | $52,012 | |||
| Conservative | Frédérik Boisvert | 14,943 | 29.8 | +18.7 | $67,922 | |||
| Liberal | Caroline Drolet | 5,743 | 11.4 | -15.5 | $23,986 | |||
| New Democratic | Michaël Lessard | 4,629 | 9.2 | +3.7 | $5,287 | |||
| Green | Yonnel Bonaventure | 2,372 | 4.7 | +0.5 | ||||
| Independent | Dan Aubut | 813 | 1.6 | – | $100 | |||
| Progressive Canadian | Alexandre Raymond-Labrie | 520 | 1.0 | $77 | ||||
| Libertarian | Francis Bedard | 325 | 0.6 | – | $0 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 50,190 | 100.0 | $80,394 | |||||
| 2004 Canadian federal election:Québec | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Christiane Gagnon | 24,373 | 50.63 | $51,839 | ||||
| Liberal | Jean-Philippe Côté | 12,982 | 26.97 | $72,065 | ||||
| Conservative | Pierre Gaudreault | 5,330 | 11.07 | $13,725 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jean-Marie Fiset | 2,670 | 5.55 | $518 | ||||
| Green | Antonine Yaccarini | 2,046 | 4.25 | $2,723 | ||||
| Marijuana | Pierre-Etienne Paradis | 512 | 1.06 | not listed | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Jean Bédard | 223 | 0.46 | not listed | ||||
| Total valid votes | 48,136 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,040 | |||||||
| Turnout | 49,176 | 60.77 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 80,916 | |||||||
| Percentage change figures are factored for redistribution. Conservative Party percentages are contrasted with the combined Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative percentages from 2000. Sources:Official Results, Elections Canada andFinancial Returns, Elections Canada. | ||||||||
| 2000 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Christiane Gagnon | 22,793 | 43.4 | -1.1 | ||||
| Liberal | Claudette Tessier Couture | 18,619 | 35.5 | +3.1 | ||||
| Alliance | Michel Rivard | 3,980 | 7.6 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Marc Jalbert | 3,171 | 6.0 | -12.5 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jean-Marie Fiset | 1,714 | 3.3 | -1.3 | ||||
| Marijuana | Pierre-E. Paradis | 1,480 | 2.8 | |||||
| Natural Law | Gilles Rochette | 482 | 0.9 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Claude Moreau | 255 | 0.5 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 52,494 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1997 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Christiane Gagnon | 24,817 | 44.5 | -9.2 | ||||
| Liberal | Claudette Tessier-Couture | 18,062 | 32.4 | +5.4 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Marc Jalbert | 10,309 | 18.5 | +4.8 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jean-Marie Fiset | 2,556 | 4.6 | +2.5 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 55,744 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1993 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Christiane Gagnon | 27,788 | 53.7 | |||||
| Liberal | Jean Pelletier | 13,965 | 27.0 | -1.2 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gilles Loiselle | 7,077 | 13.7 | -33.0 | ||||
| New Democratic | Majella Desmeules | 1,067 | 2.1 | -18.0 | ||||
| Natural Law | Danielle Charland | 883 | 1.7 | |||||
| Green | Richard Domm | 786 | 1.5 | -2.1 | ||||
| Abolitionist | Ernst Fernandez | 158 | 0.3 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 51,724 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1988 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gilles Loiselle | 24,555 | 46.7 | +3.6 | ||||
| Liberal | Marielle Guay-Mineault | 14,843 | 28.2 | -7.6 | ||||
| New Democratic | Pauline Gingras | 10,586 | 20.1 | +8.4 | ||||
| Green | Gilles Fontaine | 1,931 | 3.7 | |||||
| Independent | France Tremblay | 402 | 0.8 | |||||
| Independent | Alexandre Roy | 319 | 0.6 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 52,636 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservativehold | Swing | +5.6 | ||||||
| 1984 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Michel Côté | 16,872 | 43.1 | +35.5 | ||||
| Liberal | Florence Ievers | 14,004 | 35.8 | -35.7 | ||||
| New Democratic | Majella Desmeules | 4,597 | 11.7 | +3.6 | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Jean Obélix Lefebvre | 2,576 | 6.6 | -1.6 | ||||
| Parti nationaliste | André Binette | 919 | 2.3 | |||||
| Social Credit | Christian Landry | 189 | 0.5 | -3.0 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 39,157 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservativegain fromLiberal | Swing | +35.6 | ||||||
| 1980 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | J. Gilles Lamontagne | 24,714 | 71.5 | +4.9 | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Jean Obelix Lefebvre | 2,813 | 8.1 | +3.5 | ||||
| New Democratic | Edith Frankel | 2,811 | 8.1 | -1.6 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Pierre Linteau | 2,606 | 7.5 | +1.9 | ||||
| Social Credit | André Bergeron | 1,191 | 3.4 | -8.7 | ||||
| Union populaire | Brigitte Fortier | 252 | 0.7 | +0.2 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Jacques Goulet | 115 | 0.3 | -0.1 | ||||
| Communist | Claude Demers | 68 | 0.2 | -0.2 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 34,570 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1979 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | J. Gilles Lamontagne | 25,931 | 66.6 | 0.0 | ||||
| Social Credit | André Simoneau | 4,748 | 12.2 | +8.8 | ||||
| New Democratic | Raymond Lavoie | 3,773 | 9.7 | +3.7 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Paul Michaud | 2,186 | 5.6 | -16.0 | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Jean Lefebvre | 1,824 | 4.7 | |||||
| Union populaire | Maurice Gagnon | 195 | 0.5 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Jacques Goulet | 156 | 0.4 | |||||
| Communist | Claude Demers | 140 | 0.4 | 0.0 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 38,953 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Canadian federal by-election, 24 May 1977 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| On Mr. Marchand's resignation, 26 October 1976 | ||||||||
| Liberal | Gilles Lamontagne | 12,171 | 66.5 | +3.0 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Maurice Hamel | 3,952 | 21.6 | +9.7 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jean Daoust | 1,104 | 6.0 | +0.8 | ||||
| Social Credit | Sauveur Fradette | 618 | 3.4 | -12.3 | ||||
| Independent | Jean Marie Béland | 213 | 1.2 | |||||
| Communist | Jeannette Walsh | 166 | 0.9 | |||||
| Independent | Gérard Langlois | 67 | 0.4 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 18,291 | 100.0 | ||||||
| 1974 Canadian federal election:Langelier | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Jean Marchand | 13,557 | 63.6 | +6.3 | ||||
| Social Credit | Sauveur Fradette | 3,344 | 15.7 | -8.1 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Normand Robidoux | 2,530 | 11.9 | -0.6 | ||||
| New Democratic | Clément Gilbert | 1,110 | 5.2 | |||||
| Independent | Albert Lemoine | 337 | 1.6 | |||||
| Independent | Micheline Roberge | 184 | 0.9 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Michel Papayre | 161 | 0.8 | -0.6 | ||||
| Independent | Lionel Larocque | 97 | 0.5 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 21,320 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberalhold | Swing | +7.2% | ||||||
| Mr. Papayre's result as a Marxist–Leninist candidate is compared to his result in the 1972 general election as an independent candidate. | ||||||||
| 1972 Canadian federal election:Langelier | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Jean Marchand | 14,725 | 57.3 | +18.3 | ||||
| Social Credit | J. Wilfrid Dufresne | 6,101 | 23.7 | -7.2 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Albert Lemoine | 3,206 | 12.5 | -15.3 | ||||
| Independent | Guy Jean | 1,313 | 5.1 | |||||
| Independent | Michel Parayre | 349 | 1.4 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 25,694 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberalhold | Swing | +12.8% | ||||||
| (Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.) | ||||||||
| 1968 Canadian federal election:Langelier | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Jean Marchand | 11,439 | 39.0 | |||||
| Ralliement créditiste | Guy Jean | 8,770 | 29.9 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Rodrigue Pageau | 8,150 | 27.8 | |||||
| New Democratic | Pierre Pourtier | 658 | 2.2 | |||||
| Ralliement créditiste | Michel Roy | 308 | 1.1 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 29,325 | 100.0 | ||||||