Nancy Charest (November 28, 1959 – March 1, 2014) was a

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politician. She represented the electoral district of

Matane Matane is a town on the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, Canada, on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River at the mouth of the Matane River. The town is the seat for the La Matanie Regional County Municipality. In addition to Matane itself, th ...

in the

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from 2003 to 2007 as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. She was defeated by Pascal Bérubé of the

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in the 2007 provincial election. She ran as the Liberal Party of Canada's candidate for the district of

Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia (formerly known as Matapédia—Matane) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 until 2013. It has the lowest percenta ...

in the 2008 federal election. She lost to Bloc Québécois incumbent Jean-Yves Roy, but received the highest vote percentage of any non-winning Liberal candidate in the province outside of the

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area. Charest was found dead on March 1, 2014, along a road in her native Matane, Quebec. The cause of death was

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, caused by exposure while Charest was heavily intoxicated. She was 54 years old.

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