Michel Charbonneau (born September 23, 1948) is a

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politician, who represented the electoral district of Saint-Jean in the

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from 1989 to 1994. Born and raised in

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, Charbonneau served as a municipal councillor and mayor of Napierville before being elected to the legislature in the 1989 election. In the legislature, he served as chair of a task force on reform of

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regulations in the province. In the 1994 election, he was initially declared to have been narrowly defeated by

Roger Paquin Roger Paquin (born July 24, 1947) is a Quebec politician. He served as the member for Saint-Jean in the Quebec National Assembly as a member of the Parti Québécois from 1994 until 2003. Biography Paquin was born in Montreal, He earned a Bach ...

of the

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. After a

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, however, the two were found to have finished in an exact tie, necessitating a new

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to determine the winner. Paquin won the by-election."Parti Quebecois wins first test in run-off election". ''

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'', October 25, 1994.

Electoral record

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Charbonneau, Michel 1948 births Living people Quebec Liberal Party MNAs 20th-century Canadian legislators People from Montérégie Mayors of places in Quebec