Beauce (electoral district)
Beauce is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1867. In 2006, it had a population of 103,617 people, of whom 82,123 were eligible voters.
| Quebec electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Beauce in relation to other Quebec federal electoral districts | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Conservative | ||
| District created | 1867 | ||
| First contested | 1867 | ||
| Last contested | 2021 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016) | 108,746 | ||
| Electors (2019) | 86,333 | ||
| Area (km²) | 4,103.54 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 26.5 | ||
| Census division(s) | Beauce-Sartigan RCM, Les Etchemins RCM, Le Granit RCM, La Nouvelle-Beauce RCM, Robert-Cliche RCM | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Saint-Georges, Sainte-Marie, Beauceville, Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, Saint-Prosper, Saint-Isidore, Saint-Côme-Linière, Saint-Martin, Scott, Saint-Bernard | ||
The Beauce riding has the highest percentage of people who answered "Canadian" as their ethnic origin in the 2006 Census (84.0%; multiple responses).
It is also the riding with the highest percentage of Whites of European descent (99.3%).
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