Beauce () is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada. It had a population of 111,035 people as of the 2021 census. During the 2025 federal election, it had a voter roll of 88,888 eligible voters.
Beauce is one of only four electoral districts that has been continually represented in the House of Commons of Canada since Confederation in 1867 with the same electoral district name, the other three being :
Shefford in the Eastern Townships, Quebec Simcoe North in central Ontario Halifax in Nova Scotia, a dual-member district in all elections up to 1965
Demographics According to the 2021 Canadian census, 2023 representation order
Racial groups: 96.4% White, 1.5% Indigenous Languages: 97.7% French, 1.2% English Religions: 83.3% Christian (75.4% Catholic, 7.8% Other), 16.1% None Median income: $40,800 (2020) Average income: $46,120 (2020)
As of the 2006 census, the Beauce riding had the highest percentage of people who answered "Canadian" as their ethnic origin in the 2006 Census (84.0%; multiple responses). It was also the riding with the highest percentage of White people of European descent (99.3%).
Geography
The riding is located in Central Quebec, to the south of Quebec City and covers the centre of Beauce, straddling the Quebec region of Chaudière-Appalaches.
The electoral district has the regional county municipality of Beauce-Sartigan; the Regional County of Beauce-Centre, excepting the area of the former municipality of Courcelles; that part of the Regional County Municipality of Les Etchemins comprises the municipalities of Sainte-Aurélie, Saint-Benjamin, Saint-Prosper and Saint-Zacharie; the Regional County Municipality of La Nouvelle-Beauce, excepting the Parish Municipality of Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon; and that part of the Regional County Municipality of Le Granit comprises the municipalities of Saint-Ludger and Saint-Robert-Bellarmin.
The neighbouring ridings are Mégantic—L'Érable—Lotbinière, Lévis—Lotbinière, and Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis.
History The riding was created by the British North America Act 1867, and still exists today without any name changes, although its boundaries have been redefined numerous times.
Following the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, this riding lost a small territory to Mégantic—L'Érable. It is one of a small minority of Quebecois ridings never to have elected a Bloc Quebecois MP, even in 1993.
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:
Electoral history
Beauce, 2023 representation order This riding had no boundary changes made prior to the 45th Canadian federal election:
Beauce, 2013 representation order
This riding lost a small portion of its territory to Mégantic—L'Érable prior to the 42nd Canadian federal election:
2011 federal election redistributed resultsPundits' Guide to Canadian Elections Party Vote % Conservative 26,400 50.72 New Democratic 15,613 30.0 Liberal 5,722 10.99 Bloc Québécois 3,472 6.67 Green 840 1.61
Beauce, 2003 representation order
2000 federal election redistributed results Party Vote % Liberal 25,861 55.96 Bloc Québécois 12,261 26.53 Alliance 5,416 11.72 Progressive Conservative 1,631 3.53 Others 612 1.32 New Democratic 435 0.94
Beauce, previous elections
Note: Social Credit vote is compared to Ralliement créditiste vote in the 1968 election.
Note: Ralliement créditiste vote is compared to Social Credit vote in the 1963 election.
Note: results compared to results of 1900 general election.
See also List of Canadian electoral districts Historical federal electoral districts of Canada
Notes
References
External links
Campaign expense data from Elections Canada 2011 Results from Elections Canada Parliamentary website, History of Federal Ridings since 1867