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♂ Claude-Gilles Gosselin
aliasClaude-Gilles Gosselin
Record
23774 · 1854

Roman Catholic   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Québec 4 1 5
Total 4 2 6
Birth 12 March 1924 → 100 years + 2 months ago
Lived 92 years + 5 months
First mandate 18 September 1957 → 66 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 33 years + 6 months
Death 18 August 2016 → 7 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 46 years + 3 months after 28 April 1970
Special notes
None
 
Claude-Gilles Gosselin (1924–2016)
© Photo 2017 Cercle des ex-parlementaires de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 12 7 6 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 6  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph-Omer Dionne  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Claude Tessier  m 
 		 ⊖ Henry P. Latulippe  m 
 
Eligible: 12,659 Votes: 9,778 Participation: 77.24% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
25		 Québec
18 September 1957
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UN  Majority
ID: 26422(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
33
UN
 1/2 6,651 68.02% +3,524 Loser:
QLP
 3,127 31.98% Paul Paquin

Service: 2 years 9 months 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 12,659 Votes: 10,648 Participation: 84.11% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
26		 Québec
22 June 1960
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 16850(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
36
UN
 1/2 5,725 53.77% +802 Loser:
QLP
 4,923 46.23% Joseph-Omer Dionne

Service: 2 years 4 months 22 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 11,775 Votes: 10,279 Participation: 87.30% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Québec
14 November 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 16947(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
38
UN
 1/3 5,568 54.45% +1,014 Loser:
QLP
 4,554 44.53% Roland Brousseau

Service: 3 years 6 months 21 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,743 Votes: 10,610 Participation: 83.26% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
28		 Québec
5 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UN  Majority
ID: 11210(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
UN
 1/3 5,973 56.89% +1,696 Loser:
QLP
 4,277 40.74% André Gagnon

Service: 3 years 10 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 13,114 Votes: 11,401 Participation: 86.94% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
29		 Québec
29 April 1970
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 11101(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
46
UN
 3/4 3,274 29.08% -339 Winner:
QLP
 3,613 32.09% Joseph-Omer Dionne
Eligible: 51,752 Votes: 37,416 Participation: 72.30% Candidacies: 5
Federal
31		 Québec
22 May 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 4554(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
55
PC
 3/5 7,463 19.95% -11,846 Winner:
LIB
 19,309 51.61% Claude Tessier

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
FR Quebec National Assembly
Claude-Gilles Gosselin		 10 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Claude-Gilles Gosselin		 10 May 2024
FR Wikipédia
Claude-Gilles Gosselin		 10 May 2024

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