Léo Bureau-Blouin (born December 17, 1991) is a former Quebec politician who in the 2012 provincial election at age 20 became the youngest person ever to be elected as a member of the

National Assembly of Quebec The National Assembly of Quebec (officially in french: link=no, Assemblée nationale du Québec) is the legislative body of the province of Quebec in Canada. Legislators are called MNAs (Members of the National Assembly; french: link=no, déput ...

. He was elected in the district of

Laval-des-Rapides Laval-des-Rapides is a district in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It was a separate city until the municipal mergers on August 6, 1965. Geography The neighbourhood is delimited on the north, north-west and west by Chomedey, on the east and north-eas ...

for the

Parti Québécois The Parti Québécois (; ; PQ) is a sovereignist and social democratic provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. The PQ advocates national sovereignty for Quebec involving independence of the province of Quebec from Canada and establishin ...

. He was previously a student leader, president of the Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec, who played a key role in organizing the

2012 Quebec student protests The 2012 Quebec student protests (movement) were a series of student protests led by student unions such as the Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ), the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec, and the Fédéra ...

. He lost his seat in the 2014 general election on April 7 to the Quebec Liberal Party candidate Saul Polo. Bureau-Blouin was born in Montreal and grew up in

Saint-Hyacinthe Saint-Hyacinthe (; French: ) is a city in southwestern Quebec east of Montreal on the Yamaska River. The population as of the 2021 Canadian census was 57,239. The city is located in Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality of the Montérég ...

. At the time of the 2012 election he was enrolled as a law student at the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte- ...

.Lessard, Denis (July 24, 2012).
Léo Bureau-Blouin candidat du PQ
, '' La Presse''. Retrieved September 5, 2012.

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1991 births Canadian Rhodes Scholars Living people Parti Québécois MNAs Politicians from Laval, Quebec People from Saint-Hyacinthe Politicians from Montreal 21st-century Canadian politicians {{Quebec-MNA-stub

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