| 1979 Canadian federal election: Trois-Rivières | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Claude Lajoie | 23,311 | 61.0 | -0.2 | ||||
| Social Credit | Léopold Alarie | 7,950 | 20.8 | +1.8 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Roland Julien | 4,099 | 10.7 | -4.2 | ||||
| New Democratic | Roland Auger | 1,682 | 4.4 | 0.0 | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Alain Beaupré | 947 | 2.5 | |||||
| Independent | Gilles Gervais | 77 | 0.2 | |||||
| Union populaire | Gilles Marier | 66 | 0.2 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Lise Éthier | 63 | 0.2 | -0.4 | ||||
| Communist | Jeannette Walsh | 36 | 0.1 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 38,231 | 100.0 | ||||||
