Beauce (electoral district)
| Quebec electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Interactive map of riding boundaries from the 2015 federal election | |||
| 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, Beauce-Centre 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 | ||
Beauce (French pronunciation: [bos] ⓘ) 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.
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 White people of European descent (99.3%).