title: Rapide-Danseur
text: # Rapide-Danseur
  
  Rapide-Danseur is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It covers 173.73 $km^2$ and had a population of 380 as of the 2021 Canadian census.
  
  The municipality was incorporated on January 1, 1981.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  | Year | Pop. | ±% |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1981 | 246 | — |
  | 1986 | 208 | −15.4% |
  | 1991 | 206 | −1.0% |
  | 1996 | 247 | +19.9% |
  | 2001 | 265 | +7.3% |
  | Year | Pop. | ±% |
  | 2006 | 273 | +3.0% |
  | 2011 | 312 | +14.3% |
  | 2016 | 328 | +5.1% |
  | 2021 | 380 | +15.9% |
  
  Source: Statistics Canada :
  
  Private dwellings occupied by usual residents (2021): 161 (total dwellings: 209)
  
  Mother tongue (2021):
  
  * English as first language: 1.3%
  * French as first language: 98.7%
  * English and French as first language: 0%
  * Other as first language: 0%
  
  ## Government
  
  Municipal council (2023):
  
  * Mayor: Sylvain Vachon
  * Councillors: Mathieu Proulx, Lorraine Doucet-Dion, Daniel Aubé, François Cloutier, Christiane Guillemette, Vanessa Gravel
  
  ### Political representation
  
  Rapide-Danseur federal election results :
  
  | Year | Year | Liberal | Liberal | Conservative | Conservative | Bloc Québécois | Bloc Québécois | New Democratic | New Democratic | Green | Green |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 2021 | 19% | 29 | 9% | 14 | 55% | 87 | 4% | 7 | 4% | 6 |
  | | 2019 | 19% | 31 | 16% | 26 | 53% | 87 | 6% | 10 | 5% | 7 |
  
  Rapide-Danseur provincial election results :
  
  | Year | Year | CAQ | CAQ | Liberal | Liberal | QC solidaire | QC solidaire | Parti Québécois | Parti Québécois |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 2018 | 22% | 45 | 9% | 17 | 23% | 47 | 42% | 87 |
  | | 2014 | 18% | 30 | 16% | 27 | 15% | 26 | 50% | 86 |
  
  Provincially it is part of the riding of Abitibi-Ouest. In the 2022 Quebec general election the incumbent MNA Suzanne Blais, of the Coalition Avenir Québec, was re-elected to represent the population of Rapide-Danseur in the National Assembly of Quebec.
  
  Federally, Rapide-Danseur is part of the federal riding of Abitibi—Témiscamingue. In the 2021 Canadian federal election, the incumbent Sébastien Lemire of the Bloc Québécois was re-elected to represent the population Rapide-Danseur in the House of Commons of Canada.
  
  