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♂ Yves Michaud
aliasYves Michaud
Record
43252 · 1866

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Québec 1 2 3
Birth 13 February 1930 → 94 years + 2 months ago
Lived 94 years + 1 month
First mandate 5 June 1966 → 57 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 36 years + 3 months
Death 19 March 2024 → 1 month ago
Exit → Death 53 years + 10 months after 28 April 1970
Special notes
None
 
Yves Michaud (1930–2024)
© Photo 2022 Adil Boukind / Le Devoir — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
From his fierce defense of the French language in Québec to becoming known as the Robin Hood of the banks in the 1990s, Michaud has often drawn controversy. In 2000, he received a motion of censure from the National Assembly of Quebec for comments he made that some construed as xenophobic and anti-semitic but that in hindsight were not. He never received a formal apology, although some MNAs did express their personal regret to him afterwards for having voted for the motion.
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 3 10 23 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Lise Bacon  f 
 		 ⊖ Guy Joron  m 
 
Eligible: 45,115 Votes: 27,860 Participation: 61.75% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
28		 Québec
5 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UN  Majority
ID: 11223(F) — 21 Jul 2023 23:41 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
QLP
 1/5 12,916 47.32% +2,799 Loser:
UN
 10,117 37.07% Gérard Gosselin
After his election:
31 Oct 1969 39
QLP
 →
ILIB
 Changed allegiance (remained in opposition)
Service: 3 years 10 months 23 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 44,761 Votes: 35,305 Participation: 78.87% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
29		 Québec
29 April 1970
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 11112(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
40
QLP
 2/4 14,058 40.84% -12 Winner:
PQ
 14,070 40.87% Guy Joron
Eligible: 36,807 Votes: 29,976 Participation: 81.44% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Québec
29 October 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 6729(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
43
PQ
 2/4 11,933 40.58% -3,889 Winner:
QLP
 15,822 53.81% Lise Bacon

Online biographical references (5)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
Lysiane Gagnon, The Globe and Mail (8 January 2001), Michaud, the mouth that roared		 11 Apr 2024
EN Canadian Encyclopedia
Yves Michaud		 11 Apr 2024
FR Encyclopédie canadienne
Yves Michaud		 11 Apr 2024
FR Quebec National Assembly
Yves Michaud		 11 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Yves Michaud (politician)		 11 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
Yves Michaud (Québec)		 11 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 11 Apr 2024 20:15 (but data presented dynamically)

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