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Roland Richer | |
|---|---|
| MNA for Argenteuil | |
| In office 11 June 2012 – 2014 | |
| Preceded by | David Whissell |
| Succeeded by | Yves St-Denis |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 June 1941 |
| Party | Parti Québécois |
Roland Richer (born 23 June 1941) is a Canadian politician, who was a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Argenteuil electoral district from 2012 to 2014
Richer was formerly a schoolteacher and school principal. He was elected in a by-election held on 11 June 2012, which was triggered by the resignation of David Whissell on 16 December 2011, in a close race against Quebec Liberal Party candidate Lise Proulx. The result of the by-election was considered a surprise,[1] as Argenteuil had been a safe seat for the Quebec Liberal Party for several decades. Coalition Avenir Québec candidate Mario Laframboise came in third.[citation needed]
Richer was reelected in the 2012 general election, again defeating Proulx and Laframboise.
Electoral record
[edit]| Quebec provincial by-election, 11 June 2012 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Roland Richer | 6,631 | 36.38 | +2.76 | ||||
| Liberal | Lise Proulx | 6,038 | 33.12 | -16.46 | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Mario Laframboise | 3,905 | 21.42 | +10.18* | ||||
| Green | Claude Sabourin | 549 | 3.01 | -0.47 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Yvan Zanetti | 500 | 2.74 | +0.65 | ||||
| Option nationale | Patrick Sabourin | 238 | 1.31 | – | ||||
| Conservative | Jean Lecavalier | 189 | 1.04 | – | ||||
| Independent | Georges Lapointe | 152 | 0.83 | – | ||||
| Autonomist Team | Gérald Nicolas | 26 | 0.14 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 18,228 | 98.78 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 225 | 1.22 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 18,453 | 42.48 | -11.69 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 43,441 | – | – | |||||
* Result compared to Action démocratique
References
[edit]- ↑ Don Macpherson (13 June 2012). "Liberals fail a test in Argenteuil". The Gazette. Montreal. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
the unexpected happened in this rural Laurentian riding - a by-election upset that dashed Jean Charest's hopes for re-election
External links
[edit]- "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
- official website
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