| 1979 Canadian federal election: Joliette | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Roch Lasalle | 23,960 | 50.72 | -3.84 | ||||
| Liberal | Roger Cabana | 18,466 | 39.09 | +3.93 | ||||
| Social Credit | Alfred Blouin | 2,446 | 5.18 | -2.30 | ||||
| New Democratic | Jacques Trudeau | 1,324 | 2.80 | +0.87 | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Andrée social Hallé | 828 | 1.75 | |||||
| Union populaire | Robert Forget | 140 | 0.30 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | André Pesant | 74 | 0.16 | -0.22 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 47,238 | 100.00 | ||||||
