Yvon Lafrance (4 August 1944 – 30 September 2022) was a Canadian politician in Quebec, and was the Member of the
National Assembly
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for the electoral district of
Iberville.
Lafrance was born in
Iberville, Quebec on 4 August 1944. First elected in
1989 election
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Africa
* 1989 Beninese parliamentary election
* 1989 Botswana general election
* 1989 Equatorial Guinean presidential election
* 1989 People's Republic of the Congo parliamentary election
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, he served as a
Liberal
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backbencher under
Premier Robert Bourassa for most of the term. On 9 February 1994, he
crossed the floor to sit as an
Independent
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. On 2 March 1994, he joined the newly formed
Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ),
six months before
Mario Dumont was first elected to the National Assembly. Therefore, he became the first ADQ sitting MNA in history.
Lafrance did not run for re-election in the
1994 election.
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1944 births
2022 deaths
French Quebecers
Action démocratique du Québec MNAs
People from Montérégie
Quebec Liberal Party MNAs
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