Richard Lehoux
Richard Lehoux | |
|---|---|
 Lehoux in 2025 | |
| Member of Parliament for Beauce | |
| In office October 21, 2019 – March 23, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Maxime Bernier |
| Succeeded by | Jason Groleau |
| Mayor of Saint-Elzéar | |
| In office November 1, 1998 – November 4, 2017 | |
| Succeeded by | Carl Marcoux |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1956 (age 69–70) |
| Party | Conservative |
| Spouse | Ginette Lessard |
Richard Lehoux (born 1956) is a Canadian politician who served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Beauce from 2019 until 2025, as a member of the Conservative Party. Prior to his election to the House of Commons, Lehoux was the mayor of Saint-Elzear from 1998 to 2017 and the reeve of Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality from 2000 to 2017.
Personal and professional life
[edit]Lehoux was born in 1956.[1] His family has been in Beauce for eight generations. His great-grandfather served as mayor of Saint-Elzear from 1898 to 1902, and he is a fourth-generation dairy farmer.[2]
Political career
[edit]Municipal politics
[edit]Mayor of Saint-Elzéar and Reeve of Nouvelle-Beauce RCM
[edit]Lehoux was the mayor of Saint-Elzéar, Quebec in the Chaudière-Appalaches region from 1998 to 2017,[3] and the reeve of Nouvelle-Beauce RCM from 2000 to 2017.[1]
Fédération québécoise des municipalités
[edit]Lehoux was a member of the Fédération québécoise des municipalités (FQM) from 2001 to 2017. He was the vice president from 2010 to 2014 and briefly served as interim president in 2012. He was elected as the FQM's president in 2014 and held the role until 2017.[1][4]
When the FQM founded the Mutuelle des municipalités du Québec (MMQ) in 2003, Lehoux served as vice president. He would also serve as MMQ president from 2017 to 2018.[1]
Federal politics
[edit]Lehoux retired from municipal politics in 2017 to return to his dairy farm, but returned to politics in November 2018 as the Conservative candidate for the 2019 Canadian federal election in the Beauce riding, with the support (amongst others) of party leader Andrew Scheer.[3]
Lehoux was elected to Parliament following the 2019 election, unseating incumbent Maxime Bernier, who formerly held the seat for the Conservatives, but resigned to form the libertarian-right People's Party of Canada (PPC).[5] He was re-elected in the 2021 election.[6]
On March 21, 2025, Lehoux announced that he would not run for re-election in the 2025 Canadian federal election.[7]
Electoral record
[edit]| 2021 Canadian federal election: Beauce | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Richard Lehoux | 27,514 | 48.29 | +9.70 | $54,511.58 | |||
| People's | Maxime Bernier | 10,362 | 18.19 | -10.18 | $65,399.38 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Solange Thibodeau | 8,644 | 15.17 | +1.04 | $4,385.30 | |||
| Liberal | Philippe-Alexandre Langlois | 7,018 | 12.32 | +0.66 | $5,569.50 | |||
| New Democratic | François Jacques-Côté | 1,654 | 2.90 | -0.14 | $24.86 | |||
| Free | Chantale Giguère | 1,096 | 1.92 | – | $1,476.73 | |||
| Green | Andrzej Wisniowski | 486 | 0.85 | -1.54 | $0.00 | |||
| Marijuana | Sébastien Tanguay | 206 | 0.36 | – | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 56,980 | 98.45 | – | $115,918.81 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 895 | 1.55 | ||||||
| Turnout | 57,875 | 66.63 | -3.02 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 86,857 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +9.94 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[8] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Beauce | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Richard Lehoux | 22,817 | 38.59 | -20.39 | $88,659.51 | |||
| People's | Maxime Bernier | 16,772 | 28.37 | – | $92,268.96 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Guillaume Rodrigue | 8,355 | 14.13 | +6.68 | $2,029.97 | |||
| Liberal | Adam Veilleux | 6,895 | 11.66 | -10.56 | $42,675.69 | |||
| New Democratic | François Jacques-Côté | 1,799 | 3.04 | -6.64 | $96.82 | |||
| Green | Josiane Fortin | 1,415 | 2.39 | +0.7 | none listed | |||
| Rhinoceros | Maxime Bernier | 1,072 | 1.81 | – | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 59,125 | 100.00 | $112,590 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,147 | 1.89 | +0.64 | |||||
| Turnout | 59,125 | 68.48 | +2.33 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 86,333 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | – | ||||||
| Maxime Bernier was the incumbent MP. After being elected as a Conservative in 2015, he founded the People's Party on September 14, 2018 and sat as their lone MP until dissolution. | ||||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[9][10] | ||||||||
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Richard Lehoux". Conservative Party of Canada. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
- ↑ "The battle for Maxime Bernier's riding". Global News. August 24, 2019.
- 1 2 "Bernier will face Conservative farmer, ex-FQM leader Lehoux in 2019". Montreal Gazette. Postmedia Network Inc. November 4, 2018.
- ↑ "La Fédération québécoise des municipalités a un nouveau président". La Presse. February 1, 2018.
- ↑ "Maxime Bernier loses his riding in Beauce". Global News. Retrieved September 24, 2021.
- ↑ "Maxime Bernier, PPC leader, defeated in Quebec riding of Beauce". Global News. Retrieved September 24, 2021.
- ↑ Bergeron-Courteau, Mariane (March 21, 2025). "Le député de Beauce Richard Lehoux quitte la vie politique" [Member for Beauce, Richard Lehoux, is leaving political life]. Radio-Canada (in French). Retrieved March 21, 2025.
- ↑ "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved August 26, 2025.
- ↑ "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
- ↑ "Final Election Expenses Limits for Candidates 43rd General Election – October 21, 2019". Elections Canada. May 12, 2020. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
External links
[edit]- Living people
- Conservative Party of Canada MPs
- Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
- 1956 births
- People from Beauce, Quebec
- Politicians from Chaudière-Appalaches
- 20th-century mayors of places in Quebec
- 21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada
- 21st-century mayors of places in Quebec