Mégantic—L'Érable, QC — 2019 Federal Election Results Map
Mégantic—L'Érable — 2019 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Mégantic—L'Érable was contested in the 2019 election.
🏆 Luc Berthold, the Conservative candidate, won the riding with 23,392 votes (49.2% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Priscilla Corbeil (Bloc Québécois) with 12,249 votes (25.8%), defeated by a margin of 11,143 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Isabelle Grégoire (Liberal, 16%).
Riding information
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Sprawling across southeastern Quebec, Mégantic—L'Érable straddles three administrative regions — Chaudière-Appalaches, Centre-du-Québec, and Estrie — and encompasses the regional county municipalities of Les Appalaches, L'Érable, and Le Granit. Thetford Mines, Plessisville, and Lac-Mégantic are the riding's principal communities, connected by winding routes through Appalachian hill country of forests and farmland.
Candidates
Luc Berthold (Conservative) — Born in Sherbrooke, Berthold moved to Thetford Mines in 1986, where he began a career as a radio host and journalist at station CKLD before becoming editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Le Courrier Frontenac. He later served as mayor of Thetford Mines from 2006 to 2013 and was first elected to the House of Commons in 2015.
Priscilla Corbeil (Bloc Québécois) — A resident of Lévis, Corbeil held a bachelor's degree in psychology and was completing a master's degree in psychopedagogy at Université Laval. She was making her first foray into active politics, recruited through her involvement with Mouvement Québec Français and Oui Québec.
Isabelle Grégoire (Liberal) — A resident of Thetford, Grégoire worked as an auxiliary nurse for seventeen years. She had volunteered at the 2018 Quebec Games held in Thetford Mines.
Mathieu Boisvert (NDP), Nicole Charette (Green Party), and Marie Claude Lauzier (People's Party) also ran. Damien Roy stood for the Rhinoceros Party and Jean Paradis ran as an independent.
About the Riding
Mégantic—L'Érable's economy has been in transition since the closure of the last asbestos mine in the Thetford Mines area, ending more than a century of chrysotile production that had defined the city. Manufacturing, agriculture, and forestry now form the economic base, with Plessisville known as the maple capital of the world and the L'Érable region producing a significant share of Quebec's output. Lac-Mégantic was still rebuilding in 2019 following the catastrophic rail disaster of July 2013, when a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in the town centre, killing 47 people. Reconstruction of the downtown core and debates over rerouting the rail line through the town remained active local issues. The riding had voted Conservative since 2006, and the 2019 contest saw the Bloc Québécois mount a stronger challenge than in the previous two elections.
