Matane (provincial electoral district)
 Quebec electoral district
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| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | National Assembly of Quebec |
| District created | 1890 |
| District abolished | 2011 |
| First contested | 1890 |
| Last contested | 2008 |
| Demographics | |
| Electors (2008) | 27,977 |
| Area (km²) | 8,415.6 |
| Census divisions | La Haute-Gaspésie (all), Matane (all) |
| Census subdivisions | Baie-des-Sables, Cap-Chat, Grosses-Roches, La Martre, Les Méchins, Marsoui, Matane, Mont-Saint-Pierre, Rivière-à-Claude, Saint-Adelme, Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Sainte-Félicité, Saint-Jean-de-Cherbourg, Saint-Léandre, Sainte-Madeleine-de-la-Rivière-Madeleine, Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis, Sainte-Paule, Saint-René-de-Matane, Saint-Ulric; Coulée-des-Adolphe, Mont-Albert, Rivière-Bonjour |
Matane is a former provincial electoral district in the Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine regions of Quebec, Canada, that elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec.
It was created for the 1890 election from parts of Rimouski. Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and its successor electoral districts were Matane-Matapédia and Gaspé.
It is located at the western end of the Gaspé Peninsula, along the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River.
It consists of the municipalities of:
It also consists of the unorganized territories of:
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