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♂ Claude Charron
aliasClaude Charron
Record
10520 · 1972

Gay (openly) ∞1
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Québec 4 0 4
Birth 22 October 1946
Age 77 years + 6 months
First mandate 29 April 1970 → 53 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 23 years + 6 months
 
Mandate ended 41 years + 5 months ago (9 November 1982)
Special notes
Charron was openly gay among his caucus colleagues but not publicly.
 
Claude Charron (1946– )
© Photo National Assembly, Québec — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Roland Théorêt (1920–2013) Uncle  
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 12 6 8 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Jean Cournoyer  m 
 
 
Eligible: 31,826 Votes: 22,648 Participation: 71.16% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
29		 Québec
29 April 1970
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 11170(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
23
PQ
 1/5 8,554 39.01% +1,490 Loser:
QLP
 7,064 32.22% René Gagnon

Service: 3 years 5 months 29 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 32,667 Votes: 22,488 Participation: 68.84% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
30		 Québec
29 October 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 6808(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
27
PQ
 1/5 11,312 51.58% +2,465 Loser:
QLP
 8,847 40.34% Micheline Lachapelle Brisebois

Service: 3 years 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 29,790 Votes: 22,445 Participation: 75.34% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
31		 Québec
15 November 1976
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 4699(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
30
PQ
 1/7 13,058 60.31% +7,180 Loser:
QLP
 5,878 27.15% Micheline Lachapelle Brisebois

Service: 4 years 4 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 34,687 Votes: 25,131 Participation: 72.45% Candidacies: 8
Provincial
32		 Québec
13 April 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 2276(F) — 19 Feb 2022 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
34
PQ
 1/8 15,727 63.44% +7,585 Loser:
QLP
 8,142 32.84% Marcel Tremblay
After his election:
9 Nov 1982 36
PQ
 →
Vac.
 Amidst controversy
Service: 1 year 6 months 27 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 30,552 Votes: 15,941 Participation: 52.28% Candidacies: 13
Provincial
32		 Québec
20 June 1983
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 11323(F) — 19 Feb 2022 16:41 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
36		 Successor:
QLP
 6,911 44.31% Serge Champagne

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
FR Quebec National Assembly
Claude Charron		 16 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Claude Charron		 16 Mar 2024
FR Wikipédia
Claude Charron		 16 Mar 2024

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