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Quebec Provincial By-elections, June 17, 2002
Provincial by-elections were held in Quebec in 2002, on the following dates: April 15 Elections were held in the Quebec provincial electoral districts of Anjou, Saguenay and Viger. They resulted in the election of two Liberals and one ADQ Member to the National Assembly of Quebec. The Liberals unsurprisingly won clear victories in two Montreal-based districts: * Lise Thériault in Anjou; * Anna Mancuso in Viger. For the first time ever, an ADQ candidate other than Mario Dumont was sent to the National Assembly of Quebec: François Corriveau won the election in the district of Saguenay, one of the Parti Québécois's traditional strongholds. Corriveau's showing temporarily boosted the ADQ's poll numbers and led to another series of ADQ by-election victories two months later, on June 17, 2002. June 17 Elections were held in the Quebec provincial electoral districts of Berthier, Joliette, Lac-Saint-Jean and Vimont. They resulted in the election of three ADQ and one PQ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Provincial Electoral District
An electoral district in Canada is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based. It is officially known in Canadian French as a ''circonscription'' but frequently called a ''comté'' (county). In Canadian English it is also colloquially, and more commonly known as a riding or ''constituency''. Each federal electoral district returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of Canada; each provincial or territorial electoral district returns one representative—called, depending on the province or territory, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) or Member of the House of Assembly (MHA)—to the provincial or territorial legislature. Beginning with the 2025 federal election, there have been 343 federal electoral districts in Canada. In provincial and territorial legislatures, the provinces and territories each set their own number of electoral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lac-Saint-Jean (provincial Electoral District)
Lac-Saint-Jean (, ) is a provincial electoral district in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the municipalities of Alma, Métabetchouan–Lac-à-la-Croix and Saint-Bruno. It was created for the 1890 election. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Saint-André-du-Lac-Saint-Jean and part of the unorganized territory of Passes-Dangereuses to Roberval electoral district. It is named for Lac Saint-Jean. Linguistic demographics *Francophone: 99.4% *Anglophone: 0.4% *Allophone In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek , , 'other' and , , 'voice, sound') is one of multiple possible spoken soundsor '' phones''used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, in English, the voiceless plos ...: 0.2% per cent mother tongue – single answers Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elections In Quebec
This article provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec's unicameral Legislature, legislative body, the National Assembly of Quebec (and its predecessor, the Legislative Assembly of Quebec). The number of seats has generally increased over time, from 65 for the first six elections, to the current high of 125. The chart on the upper right shows the information graphically, with the most recent elections towards the right. The Conservative Party of Quebec (historical), Conservative party (blue) in 1936 merged into the Union Nationale (Quebec), Union Nationale (now defunct). The 1970s saw the arrival of the sovereignist Parti Québécois, to be followed by Québec Solidaire and the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) in 2006 and 2011, respectively. This article only covers elections since the Canadian confederation in 1867, when Quebec was created as one of Canadian provinces, Canada's provinces. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Quebec General Election
The 2003 Quebec general election was held on April 14, 2003, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec (Canada). The Parti libéral du Québec (PLQ), led by Jean Charest, defeated the incumbent Parti Québécois, led by Premier Bernard Landry, in a landslide. In Champlain there was a tie between PQ candidate Noëlla Champagne and Liberal candidate Pierre-A. Brouillette; although the initial tally was 11,867 to 11,859, a judicial recount produced a tally of 11,852 each. A new election was held on May 20 and was won by Champagne by a margin of 642 votes. Unfolding In January 2001, Lucien Bouchard announced that he would resign from public life, citing that the results of his work were not very convincing. In March 2001, the Parti Québécois selected Bernard Landry as leader by acclamation, thus becoming premier of Quebec. In 2002, the Parti Québécois (PQ) government had been in power for two mandates. It was seen as worn-out by some, and its poll numbers fell sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the List of French possessions and colonies, French colony of ''Canada (New France), Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, ''Canada'' became a Territorial evolution of the British Empire#List of territories that were once a part of the British Empire, British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was Canadian Confederation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
By-elections
A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, or a bypoll in India, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections. A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumbent’s death or resignation, or when the incumbent becomes ineligible to continue in office (because of a recall, a prohibited dual mandate, criminal conviction, or failure to maintain a minimum attendance), or when an election is invalidated by voting irregularities. In some cases a vacancy may be filled by a method other than a by-election (such as the outgoing member's party nominating a replacement) or the office may be left vacant. These elections can be held anytime in the country. An election to fill a vacancy created when a general election cannot take place in a particular constituency (such as if a candidate dies shortly before election day) may be called a by-election in some jurisdictions, or may have a distinct name (''e.g.'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Belhumeur
Michel Raymond Joseph Belhumeur (born September 2, 1949) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played 65 games in the National Hockey League for the Philadelphia Flyers and Washington Capitals from 1972 to 1975. Playing career Drafted by the Flyers in 1969, Belhumeur spent most of his time in the minors, but managed to win nine games for Philadelphia before they exposed him to the 1974 NHL Expansion Draft The 1974 NHL expansion draft was held on June 12, 1974. The draft took place to fill the rosters of the league's two expansion teams for the 1974–75 season, the Kansas City Scouts and the Washington Capitals. Rules Draft results See also ..., where he was claimed by the Capitals. Belhumeur played two seasons with the Capitals, and did not win a single game (zero wins, 29 losses, and 4 ties). He played three more years in the minors before retiring in 1979. Belhumeur has the NHL record for most games played in one season (35 games in the 1974– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphan Tremblay
Stéphan Tremblay (born November 4, 1973) is a former politician in Quebec, Canada. Tremblay was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1996 to 2002, and a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 2002 to 2006. He was born in Alma, Quebec. Member of Parliament He won a by-election in 1996 and succeeded Lucien Bouchard as Member of Parliament for the Lac-Saint-Jean electoral district. Tremblay was affiliated with the Bloc Québécois. He was re-elected in the 1997 and 2000 elections. Provincial politics In 2002, he left federal politics and won a provincial by-election on June 17, 2002 as a Parti Québécois candidate. He represented the riding of Lac Saint-Jean Lac Saint-Jean (, ) is a large, relatively shallow lake in south-central Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian Highlands. It is situated north of the Saint Lawrence River, into which it drains via the Saguenay River. It covers an area of , and is ... in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region. Trembl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloc Québécois
The Bloc Québécois (, , BQ) is a centre-left politics, centre-left and list of federal political parties in Canada, federal political party in Canada devoted to Quebec nationalism, Quebecois nationalism, social democracy, and the promotion of Quebec sovereignty movement, Quebecois sovereignty. The Bloc was formed in the early 1990s by Member of Parliament (Canada), Members of Parliament (MPs) who defected from the federal Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative Party and Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party during the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord. Founder Lucien Bouchard had been a cabinet minister in the federal Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney. The Bloc seeks to create the conditions necessary for the political secession of Quebec from Canada and campaigns exclusively within the province during federal elections. The party has been described as social democratic and Quebec sovereignty movement, separatist (or "sovereign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvie Lespérance
Sylvie Lespérance (December 21, 1954 – September 22, 2006) was a politician in Quebec who served as the Action démocratique du Québec member of the National Assembly of Quebec, National Assembly for the electoral district of Joliette (provincial electoral district), Joliette from 2002 to 2003 Quebec general election, 2003. Lespérance, who was born in Jonquière, had been a lifelong Liberal Party of Quebec, Liberal supporter months before she first was elected to the National Assembly. She ran unsuccessfully against Parti Québécois cabinet member Guy Chevrette in the 1989 Quebec general election, 1989 and 1998 Quebec general election, 1998 elections. She was elected to the National Assembly in a by-election held on Quebec provincial by-elections, June 17, 2002, June 17, 2002 with 38% of the vote. Parti Québécois star candidate and Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament Michel Bellehumeur finished second with 32% of the vote. In 2003 Quebec general election, 2003 elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Grégoire
Marie Grégoire (born August 15, 1965) was the Action démocratique du Québec Member of the National Assembly of Quebec, National Assembly of Quebec, Canada, for the electoral district of Berthier (provincial electoral district), Berthier from 2002 to 2003 Quebec general election, 2003. Grégoire was first elected to the National Assembly in a by-election held on Quebec provincial by-elections, June 17, 2002, June 17, 2002 with 51% of the vote. Parti Québécois (PQ) star candidate David Levine finished second with 28% of the vote. In the 2003 Quebec general election, 2003 election, Grégoire finished second with 32% of the vote, behind PQ candidate Alexandre Bourdeau (35%). During the 2007 Quebec general election, 2007 campaign and since then, Grégoire has been a regular panelist on the Réseau de l'Information's news program Le Club des Ex, along with former political opponents Liza Frulla of the Quebec Liberal Party, Liberal Party and Jean-Pierre Charbonneau of the Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
