Saint-Maurice—Champlain, QC — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
Saint-Maurice—Champlain — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Saint-Maurice—Champlain was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 François-Philippe Champagne, the Liberal candidate, won the riding with 24,475 votes (41.5% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Jean-Yves Tremblay (NDP-New Democratic Party) with 12,245 votes (20.8%), defeated by a margin of 12,230 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Sacki Carignan Deschamps (Bloc Québécois, 19%) and Jacques Grenier (Conservative, 16%).
Riding information
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Spanning the Mauricie region of central Quebec, Saint-Maurice—Champlain extends from the city of Shawinigan northward through the regional county municipalities of Les Chenaux, Mékinac, and Le Haut-Saint-Maurice, reaching deep into the boreal forest along the Saint-Maurice River. The riding gained additional territory from Trois-Rivières during the 2012 redistribution.
Candidates
François-Philippe Champagne (Liberal) — Born on June 25, 1970, in Greenfield Park, Quebec, Champagne moved to Shawinigan at age 15 to live with his father. He studied at a CEGEP in Trois-Rivières, earned a law degree from the Université de Montréal, and completed postgraduate studies at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. He spent two decades working abroad in the private sector — first for Bailey Controls in Ohio, then for Elsag in Italy, and later for ABB Group in Zurich and Amec PLC in London, where he served as director of strategic development. He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Champagne cited fellow Shawinigan native Jean Chrétien as an inspiration for entering politics.
Jean-Yves Tremblay (NDP) — Tremblay served as a municipal councillor for the Hêtres district in Shawinigan.
Sacki Carignan Deschamps (Bloc Québécois) — Carignan Deschamps carried the Bloc standard in a riding where the party's presence had declined since the early 2000s.
Jacques Grenier (Conservative) — Grenier was the Conservative candidate in a contest shaped primarily by the Liberal-NDP rivalry.
About the Riding
Shawinigan, the riding's principal city with a population of approximately 50,000, was historically an industrial powerhouse built on hydroelectric power from the Saint-Maurice River. By 2015, the city's traditional manufacturing base — including pulp and paper and aluminum smelting — had contracted sharply, with the Belgo pulp and paper plant having ceased operations in 2008. The broader Mauricie region faced persistent challenges with unemployment and population decline. La Tuque, farther north, serves as a gateway to the vast boreal forest and the lumber industry. The riding held political resonance as the home base of former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Its outgoing member, Lise St-Denis, had been elected as an NDP member in 2011 but crossed the floor to the Liberals in January 2012, barely eight months after the election — a move that generated significant local controversy.
