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♂ René Serge Larouche
aliasRené Serge Larouche
Record
34272 · 2049

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Québec 2 0 2
Birth 27 February 1944 → 80 years + 2 months ago
Lived 79 years + 7 months
First mandate 20 June 1988 → 35 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 44 years + 3 months
Death 14 October 2023 → 6 months ago
Exit → Death 32 years + 3 months after 29 June 1991
Special notes
None
 
René Serge Larouche (1944–2023)
© Photo National Assembly, Québec — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
On the wrong side of history? Larouche left the Québec Liberal Party caucus in August 1990 on the grounds that he was opposed to the government negotiating with "terrorists" during the Oka Crisis. He resigned as an independent MNA a year later.
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 3 0 7 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
3 documented challengers
⊕ Pauline Marois  f 
⊖ Gilles Rhéaume  m 
 		 ⊖ Roland Morin  m 
 
Eligible: 42,202 Votes: 21,782 Participation: 51.61% Candidacies: 9
Provincial
33		 Québec
20 June 1988
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 11336(F) — 20 Apr 2024 10:08 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
44
QLP
 1/9 10,806 50.09% +1,143 Loser:
PQ
 9,663 44.79% Pauline Marois

Service: 1 year 3 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 32,211 Votes: 24,910 Participation: 77.33% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
34		 Québec
25 September 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 2056(F) — 22 Jul 2023 11:26 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
45
QLP
 1/5 12,554 51.89% +2,109 Loser:
PQ
 10,445 43.17% Louise Laurin
After his election:
29 Aug 1990 46
QLP
 →
IND
 Changed allegiance (joined opposition)
29 Jun 1991 47
IND
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 1 year 9 months 4 days (Gov't & Oppo.)
Eligible: 29,043 Votes: 16,744 Participation: 57.65% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
34		 Québec
20 January 1992
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 11341(F) — 20 Apr 2024 10:10 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
47		 Successor:
PQ
 8,619 52.14% Pierre Bélanger

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
FR Quebec National Assembly
René Serge Larouche		 04 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
René Serge Larouche		 04 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
René Serge Larouche		 04 Feb 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  4 Feb 2024 20:25 (but data presented dynamically)

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