Alain Giguère (born October 24, 1958) is a
Canadian
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politician who was elected to the
House of Commons of Canada
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in the
2011 election. He represented the electoral district of
Marc-Aurèle-Fortin as a member of the
New Democratic Party
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. In the
2015 election he ran in
Thérèse-De Blainville
Thérèse-De Blainville is a federal electoral district in Quebec.
Thérèse-De Blainville was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upo ...
, but lost to Liberal
Ramez Ayoub.
Before to being elected, Giguère was a tax lawyer. He has a bachelor's degree in political science, a bachelor's degree in legal science, and a certificate in social justice.
Before finally being elected in 2011, Giguère had run unsuccessfully in seven previous federal elections, in
Verdun—Saint-Paul
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in 1984, in
Roberval in 1993, 1997 and 2000, in
Laval
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* Laval (surname)
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in 2004 and 2008, and in
Laval—Les Îles
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Its population in 2001 was 100,137.
Of the population, 15.9% are Christian Orthodox, and 14.0% are of ...
in 2006, as well as provincially once for the
New Democratic Party of Quebec
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in
Saint-Henri in 1985.
General elections – 1985, December 2 – Official results for all electoral divisions
, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec
Electoral record
See also
*Politics of Canada
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*Elections in Canada
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1958 births
Living people
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
New Democratic Party MPs
People from Lachine, Quebec
Politicians from Montreal
Université du Québec à Montréal alumni
21st-century Canadian politicians