 It was created for the 1948 election under the name Saguenay from part of the former Charlevoix-Saguenay electoral district.The predecessor to Charlevoix-Saguenay (before 1912) was Chicoutimi-Saguenay.Despite its former name, the district has not included the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region since at least the 1994 election.