The riding, north of the city of Sherbrooke, straddles the Quebec regions of Centre-du-Québec and Estrie.
It consists of the Regional County Municipalities (RCM) of Les Sources and Arthabaska and the centre of the RCM of Le Val-Saint-François.
The neighbouring ridings are Drummond, Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour, Mégantic—L'Érable, Compton—Stanstead, Sherbrooke, Brome—Missisquoi, and Shefford.
There were no territory changes to this riding from the 2012 electoral redistribution.
Conservative Party change is based on the total of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party votes.