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François Desrochers is a politician and teacher from Quebec, Canada. He was an Action démocratique du Québec Member of the National Assembly for the electoral district of Mirabel from 2007 to 2008.
François Desrochers | |
|---|---|
| MNA for Mirabel | |
| In office April 25, 2007 – November 5, 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Denise Beaudoin |
| Succeeded by | Denise Beaudoin |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Action démocratique du Québec |
| Profession | teacher |
Desrochers hold a bachelor's degree in secondary teaching from the Université du Québec à Montréal and is currently doing a master's degree in the same domain at the Université de Sherbrooke Before his election, Desrochers was a public school teacher for nine years in human sciences and was an assistant principal at École secondaire des Patriotes in Saint-Eustache.[1]
Desrochers was first elected for the ADQ (which he was a member since 1995) in the 2007 election with 44% of the vote. Parti Québécois incumbent Denise Beaudoin finished second with 34% of the vote. Desrochers took office on April 12, 2007.[2] On April 19, 2007, he was selected to be the Official Opposition's Shadow Minister of Education.[3]
Electoral record
editFederal
edit| 2019 Canadian federal election: Mirabel | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Simon Marcil | 33,219 | 51.08 | +19.59 | $7,193.50 | |||
| Liberal | Karl Trudel | 16,162 | 24.85 | -1.26 | $36,834.25 | |||
| Conservative | François Desrochers | 5,940 | 9.13 | -1.00 | none listed | |||
| New Democratic | Anne-Marie Saint-Germain | 5,219 | 8.03 | -22.05 | $902.88 | |||
| Green | Julie Tremblay | 3,517 | 5.41 | +3.22 | $10,545.78 | |||
| People's | Christian Montpetit | 641 | 0.99 | none listed | ||||
| Indépendence du Québec | Pietro Biacchi | 332 | 0.51 | $0.00 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 65,030 | 98.06 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,286 | 1.94 | -0.00 | |||||
| Turnout | 66,316 | 68.47 | -0.43 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 96,848 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois hold | Swing | +10.41 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[4][5] | ||||||||
Provincial
edit| 2008 Quebec general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Denise Beaudoin | 13,700 | 47.41 | +13.33 | ||||
| Liberal | Ritha Cossette | 7,207 | 24.94 | +8.85 | ||||
| Action démocratique | François Desrochers | 6,522 | 22.57 | -21.86 | ||||
| Green | Simon Cadieux | 847 | 2.93 | -0.66 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Kim Joly | 621 | 2.15 | +0.34 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 28,897 | 98.16 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 542 | 1.84 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 29,439 | 58.65 | -16.62 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 50,196 | – | – | |||||
| 2007 Quebec general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Action démocratique | François Desrochers | 15,241 | 44.43 | +10.05 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Denise Beaudoin | 11,691 | 34.08 | -4.25 | ||||
| Liberal | Ritha Cossette | 5,520 | 16.09 | -11.20 | ||||
| Green | Sylvain Castonguay | 1,233 | 3.59 | – | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Jocelyn Parent | 620 | 1.81 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 34,305 | 98.84 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 404 | 1.16 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 34,709 | 75.27 | +3.25 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 46,110 | – | – | |||||
Footnotes
edit- ^ Les nouveaux visages de l'ADQ, La Presse, March 27, 2007
- ^ Au tour de l'ADQ, Radio-Canada, April 12, 2007
- ^ Des postes clés pour Gilles Taillon et Sébastien Proulx, Martin Ouellet, La Presse, April 19, 2007
- ^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ^ "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
External links
edit- "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
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