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♂ Guy Joron
aliasGuy Joron
Record
30580 · 1943

☆   Gay (openly)
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Québec 2 1 3
Birth 2 May 1940 → 83 years + 11 months ago
Lived 77 years + 7 months
First mandate 29 April 1970 → 53 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 29 years + 11 months
Death 28 December 2017 → 6 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 36 years + 10 months after 26 February 1981
Special notes
Joron was openly gay among his caucus colleagues but not publicly.
 
Guy Joron (1940–2017)
© Photo 1977 Bernard Vallée via BAnQ — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
One of the first seven elected under the Parti Québécois banner in 1970, Joron posthumously bequeathed a sum of $15 million to the Université de Montréal, where he had studied, the largest donation in the history of French-speaking universities in Quebec.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 7 9 11 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Jean-Marie Beauregard  m 
⊖ Yves Michaud  m 
 		 ⊖ Bernard Lachance  m 
 
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
29
PQ
 1/4 14,070 40.87% +12 Loser:
QLP
 14,058 40.84% Yves Michaud

Service: 3 years 5 months 29 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 34,150 Votes: 26,708 Participation: 78.21% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Québec
29 October 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 6750(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
33
PQ
 2/4 11,870 45.63% -636 Winner:
QLP
 12,506 48.07% Jean-Marie Beauregard
Eligible: 52,309 Votes: 47,516 Participation: 90.84% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
31		 Québec
15 November 1976
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 4673(F) — 19 Feb 2022 16:24 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
36
PQ
 1/7 25,134 53.80% +10,070 Loser:
QLP
 15,064 32.24% Bernard Lachance
After his election:
26 Feb 1981 40
PQ
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 4 years 3 months 11 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 35,692 Votes: 31,540 Participation: 88.37% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
32		 Québec
13 April 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 2250(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
40		 Successor:
PQ
 16,825 53.97% Jean-Paul Champagne

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
FR Quebec National Assembly
Guy Joron		 13 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Guy Joron		 13 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
Guy Joron		 13 Feb 2024

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