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♂ Gaston Desjardins
aliasGaston Desjardins
Record
15605 · 1988

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Québec 1 0 1
Birth 2 October 1932
Age 91 years + 6 months
First mandate 29 October 1973 → 50 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 41 years
 
Mandate ended 47 years + 5 months ago (14 November 1976)
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 3 0 16 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Claude Morin  m 
 
 
Eligible: 43,229 Votes: 36,706 Participation: 84.91% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
30		 Québec
29 October 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 6775(F) — 1 Oct 2022 15:26 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
41
QLP
 1/5 17,583 49.01% +777 Loser:
PQ
 16,806 46.84% Claude Morin

Service: 3 years 16 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 43,984 Votes: 39,937 Participation: 90.80% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
31		 Québec
15 November 1976
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 4663(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
44		 Successor:
PQ
 22,850 58.22% Claude Morin

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
FR Quebec National Assembly
Gaston Desjardins		 30 Sep 2023

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