Nathalie Malépart (born c. 1973) is a Canadian politician. She was a

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lor in

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Background

She was born in Montreal about 1973 and was the daughter of politician

Jean-Claude Malépart Jean-Claude Malépart (3 December 1938 – 16 November 1989) was a French Canadian politician. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1973 to 1976 and of the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 until his death. Life and ...

, who was

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Member of the

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from

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to 1989.

City Councillor

She was elected to the

as a

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candidate in 1994 in the district of Maisonneuve. She

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to sit as an

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in 1997 and did not run for re-election in 1998.

Provincial Politics

Malépart ran as the

candidate in a 2006

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in the riding of

Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques () is a provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It comprises part of the borough of Ville-Marie and part of the borough of Le Plat ...

, but was defeated by former colleague

Martin Lemay Martin Lemay (born March 19, 1964, in Amos, Quebec) is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He is the Parti Québécois (PQ) Member of the National Assembly (MNA) for Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in the National Assembly of Quebec. Background He st ...

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Electoral record (partial)

Background

City Councillor

Provincial Politics

Electoral record (partial)

Footnotes

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