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♂ François Aquin
aliasFrançois Aquin
Record
1226 · 1857

☆   Roman Catholic   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Québec 1 0 1
Birth 6 March 1929 → 95 years + 1 month ago
Lived 88 years + 8 months
First mandate 5 June 1966 → 57 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 37 years + 2 months
Death 23 November 2017 → 6 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 49 years + 3 days after 20 November 1968
Special notes
None
 
François Aquin (1929–2017)
© Photo Télé-Québec via Radio-Canada — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
When Aquin left the Québec Liberal Party on August 3, 1967, to sit as an independant, he became the first openly sovereignist MNA. He resigned on November 20, 1968. Although he participated in its founding, he did not join the Parti Québécois.
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 2 5 16 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Maurice-Tréflé Custeau  m 
 
 
Eligible: 37,740 Votes: 22,862 Participation: 60.58% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
28		 Québec
5 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UN  Majority
ID: 11214(F) — 20 Apr 2024 10:31 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
37
QLP
 1/6 9,855 43.99% +1,275 Loser:
UN
 8,580 38.30% Maurice-Tréflé Custeau
After his election:
3 Aug 1967 38
QLP
 →
IND
 Changed allegiance (remained in opposition)
20 Nov 1968 39
IND
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 2 years 5 months 15 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 35,720 Votes: 14,662 Participation: 41.05% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
28		 Québec
3 March 1969
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UN  Majority
ID: 11300(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
39		 Successor:
UN
 8,147 57.56% Mario Beaulieu

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
FR Quebec National Assembly
François Aquin		 03 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
François Aquin		 03 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
François Aquin		 03 Feb 2024

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