Riding profile

Chicoutimi--Le Fjord

Federal riding — QC · Mixed · fed qc

The question

Chicoutimi--Le Fjord: a safe seat for the Conservative Party?

Editorial read

Chicoutimi--Le Fjord, a mixed riding in Quebec, elected a member with the Conservative Party in the previous cycle, with a 3-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Conservative Party ahead at 37% vote share, against 31% for the Bloc Québécois, and the riding remains competitive. Linguistic profile: 99% francophone, 1% anglophone.

Sitting member

Richard Martel

Sits with Conservative

Since
2025-04-28
Parliament
45th

Current forecast

Conservative

Competitive

Probability
99%
Mean margin (pts)
5.8
P(close race)
35%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Conservative 37.3%
  • Bloc 31.1%
  • Liberal 28.8%
  • NDP 4.9%
  • Green 1.5%
  • PPC 0.8%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Conservative Bloc Liberal NDP
HereChicoutimi--Le Fjord 37.3%31.1%28.8%4.9%
Provincial averageQuebec 26.9% +10.4 27.3% +3.9 40.7% −11.9 7.0% −2.1
National averageCanada 34.8% +2.5 6.1% +25.0 41.9% −13.1 14.2% −9.3

Provincial averages computed across the 343 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Previous election · FED 2025

Won by
Conservative
Margin
2.9 pts
Turnout
68.5%
Margin shift vs current projection
+2.9 pts

Detailed result · FED 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Richard Martel Elected Conservative 17,356 34.1 Parliamentarian
Marc St-Hilaire Bloc 15,857 31.2 General Manager
Stéphane Proulx Liberal 15,820 31.1 Manager
Raphaël Émond NDP 991 1.9 Student
Yves Laporte Green 476 0.9 Musician
François Sabourin PPC 339 0.7 Maintenance Man

Demographics

Who lives here

Linguistic profile

  • Francophone 98.7%
  • Anglophone 0.7%
  • Non-francophone (other) 0.6%

Data source : Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

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Last model run
Cycle
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