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♂ Marcel Léger
aliasMarcel Léger
Record
35477 · 1949

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 80%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Québec 4 1 5
Birth 8 June 1930 → 93 years + 11 months ago
Lived 62 years + 7 months
First mandate 29 April 1970 → 54 years + 18 days ago
↳ at age 39 years + 10 months
Death 5 February 1993 → 31 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 7 years + 2 months after 1 December 1985
Special notes
None
 
Marcel Léger (1930–1993)
© Photo 1985 ITHQ — licensed under CC BY 2.0
Family tie with other documented individual
⊕ Nicole Léger (1955–) Daughter  
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 15 7 0 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. CA 32
QNP
 1 Party leader 53 14 Sep 1983 — 17 May 1984 0 8 3

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Jean-Paul Beaudry  m 
 		 ⊕ Jean-Claude Gobé  m 
 
Eligible: 55,486 Votes: 44,718 Participation: 80.55% Candidacies: 8
Provincial
29		 Québec
29 April 1970
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 11128(F) — 18 Dec 2022 18:07 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
39
PQ
 1/8 18,113 40.69% +2,611 Loser:
QLP
 15,502 34.83% Roger Marchand

Service: 3 years 5 months 29 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 36,200 Votes: 30,143 Participation: 83.27% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Québec
29 October 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 6765(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
PQ
 1/4 14,866 50.18% +2,308 Loser:
QLP
 12,558 42.39% Jean-Guy Dépôt

Service: 3 years 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 39,245 Votes: 34,122 Participation: 86.95% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
31		 Québec
15 November 1976
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 4654(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
PQ
 1/6 20,627 61.79% +12,469 Loser:
QLP
 8,158 24.44% Bernard Benoît

Service: 4 years 4 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 38,993 Votes: 32,694 Participation: 83.85% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
32		 Québec
13 April 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 2231(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
PQ
 1/4 20,028 62.08% +8,534 Loser:
QLP
 11,494 35.63% Louis G. Grenier

Service: 4 years 7 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 51,720 Votes: 39,551 Participation: 76.47% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
33		 Québec
2 December 1985
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 1985(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
55
PQ
 2/6 17,722 45.68% -1,855 Winner:
QLP
 19,577 50.46% Jean-Claude Gobé

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
FR Quebec National Assembly
Marcel Léger		 12 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Marcel Léger		 12 Mar 2024
FR Wikipédia
Marcel Léger (homme politique, 1930-1993)		 12 Mar 2024

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