Riding profile

Rivière-du-Nord

Federal riding — QC · Mixed · fed qc

The question

Rivière-du-Nord: a safe seat for the Bloc Québécois?

Editorial read

Rivière-du-Nord, a mixed riding in Quebec, elected a member with the Bloc Québécois in the previous cycle, with a 12-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Bloc Québécois ahead at 43% vote share, against 29% for the Liberal Party, and the probability of a close race is negligible. Linguistic profile: 97% francophone, 2% anglophone.

Sitting member

Rhéal Éloi Fortin

Sits with Bloc

Since
2025-04-28
Parliament
45th

Current forecast

Bloc

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
14.2
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Bloc 43.3%
  • Liberal 29.0%
  • Conservative 24.2%
  • NDP 7.8%
  • Green 0.6%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Bloc Liberal Conservative NDP
HereRivière-du-Nord 43.3%29.0%24.2%7.8%
Provincial averageQuebec 27.3% +16.0 40.7% −11.7 26.9% −2.7 7.0% +0.8
National averageCanada 6.1% +37.2 41.9% −12.9 34.8% −10.6 14.2% −6.4

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

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Previous election · FED 2025

Won by
Bloc
Margin
11.9 pts
Turnout
63.3%
Margin shift vs current projection
+2.3 pts

Detailed result · FED 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Rhéal Fortin Elected Bloc 25,438 43.8 Parliamentarian
Mary-Helen Walton Liberal 18,345 31.6 Marketing Agency CEO
Patricia Morrissette Conservative 12,203 21.0 Administrative Agent
Christel Marchand NDP 2,032 3.5 Manager

Demographics

Who lives here

Linguistic profile

  • Francophone 96.6%
  • Anglophone 1.6%
  • Non-francophone (other) 1.8%

Data source : Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

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Last model run
Cycle
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