André Plourde (born 12 January 1937 in

Rivière-du-Loup Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city (Quebec), city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the Judicial districts of Quebec ...

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) was a Progressive Conservative member of the

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. He was a businessman and industrialist by career. He represented the Quebec riding of

Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup () was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1997. This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Kamouraska and Rivière-du-Loup—T ...

where he was first elected in the 1984 federal election and re-elected in 1988, therefore becoming a member in the 33rd and

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s. Plourde was defeated by

Paul Crête Paul Crête (; born April 8, 1953) is a Canadians, Canadian politician, who served as a Member of Parliament (Canada), Member of Parliament for the Bloc Québécois in the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 until 2009, when he announced that h ...

of the

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in the 1993 federal election, ending his federal political service. He made another unsuccessful attempt to return to Parliament in the 1997 federal election at the

Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata—Les Basques Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata—Les-Basques (; formerly known as Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 ...

riding.

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* 1937 births Living people Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec People from Rivière-du-Loup Politicians from Bas-Saint-Laurent Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{ProgressiveConservative-Quebec-MP-stub