Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot, QC — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 Brigitte Sansoucy, the NDP-New Democratic Party candidate, won the riding with 15,578 votes (28.7% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was René Vincelette (Liberal) with 14,980 votes (27.6%), defeated by a margin of 598 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Michel Filion (Bloc Québécois, 24%) and Réjean Léveillé (Conservative, 17%).
Riding information
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Stretching across the fertile St. Lawrence lowlands east of Montreal, Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot encompasses the regional county municipalities of Les Maskoutains and Acton. The Yamaska River cuts through the heart of the riding. The city of Saint-Hyacinthe, with a population near 53,000, anchors the riding alongside the smaller centres of Acton Vale, Saint-Pie, and Sainte-Madeleine.
Candidates
Brigitte Sansoucy (NDP) — Born in 1963, Sansoucy held a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's in public administration from the École nationale d'administration publique. She had run a youth shelter in Saint-Hyacinthe called Auberge du Coeur Le Baluchon from 1996 to 2009, and until 2015 served as an advisor and deputy regional director for agricultural development in Quebec's Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. She had previously been the NDP candidate in a 2007 by-election in the riding.
René Vincelette (Liberal) — Vincelette mounted a strong challenge, finishing within a few hundred votes of Sansoucy in one of the tightest races in Quebec.
Michel Filion (Bloc Québécois) — A public management consultant with international experience, Filion had earlier served as a political attaché to Parti Québécois politicians.
Réjean Léveillé (Conservative) — Léveillé represented the Conservative Party in the riding, finishing fourth in a competitive four-way race.
About the Riding
Saint-Hyacinthe has earned recognition as a leading agri-food technopole thanks to a cluster of agri-food research institutions, including the federal Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research and Development Centre — the only such centre in the country devoted exclusively to food processing research. The Institut de technologie agroalimentaire further anchors the region's agricultural economy. Outside the city, the landscape is dominated by dairy farms, cash crops, and mixed agriculture. The riding's NDP incumbent, Marie-Claude Morin, had chosen not to seek re-election, leaving the seat open in a contest where the NDP, Liberals, and Bloc Québécois each had realistic paths to victory.
