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♀ Pauline Marois
aliasPauline Marois
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 73%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Québec 8 3 11
Birth 29 March 1949
Age 75 years
First mandate 13 April 1981 → 43 years + 14 days ago
↳ at age 32 years
 
Mandate ended 10 years + 21 days ago (6 April 2014)
Special notes
None
 
Pauline Marois (1949– )
© Photo 2013 Benoît Levac — licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Marois is, of course, the first woman to become premier of Québec. However, it would be easier to list the ministerial portfolios that she did NOT hold whenever the Parti Québécois was in power. No matter one's position on Québec sovereignty, no one can deny that this woman knows the ins and outs of how government works!
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 27 7 19 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. QC 38–40
PQ
 1 Party leader 58–65 26 Jun 2007 — 10 Apr 2014 6 9 15
2. QC 39
PQ
 1 Opposition Leader 59–63 08 Dec 2008 — 03 Sep 2012 3 8 26
3. QC 40
PQ
 1 Premier 63–65 04 Sep 2012 — 06 Apr 2014 1 7 2

Electoral history

Races 11  
Path points 12  
7 documented challengers
⊖ Paul Biron  m 
⊕ Jean-Guy Carignan  m 
⊖ Roland Morin  m 
⊕ Caroline Simard  f 
 		 ⊕ Lawrence Cannon  m 
⊖ René Serge Larouche  m 
⊖ Gilles Rhéaume  m 
 
Eligible: 36,522 Votes: 31,695 Participation: 86.78% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
32		 Québec
13 April 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 2228(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
32
PQ
 1/3 17,975 57.31% +5,337 Loser:
QLP
 12,638 40.30% Jean-Guy Carignan

Service: 4 years 7 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 43,410 Votes: 35,958 Participation: 82.83% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
33		 Québec
2 December 1985
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 1980(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
36
PQ
 2/4 13,462 37.99% -6,357 Winner:
QLP
 19,819 55.93% Lawrence Cannon
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
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
39
PQ
 2/9 9,663 44.79% -1,143 Winner:
QLP
 10,806 50.09% René Serge Larouche
Eligible: 46,515 Votes: 34,841 Participation: 74.90% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
34		 Québec
25 September 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 2164(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
40
PQ
 1/6 18,983 55.92% +6,421 Loser:
QLP
 12,562 37.00% Rodrigue Dubé

Service: 4 years 11 months 17 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 48,478 Votes: 39,650 Participation: 81.79% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
35		 Québec
12 September 1994
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 1914(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
45
PQ
 1/4 23,315 60.99% +9,994 Loser:
QLP
 13,321 34.85% Philippe Angers

Service: 4 years 2 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 51,831 Votes: 40,404 Participation: 77.95% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
36		 Québec
30 November 1998
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 473(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
49
PQ
 1/5 21,154 53.02% +8,782 Loser:
QLP
 12,372 31.01% Nicole Bourget Laramée

Service: 4 years 4 months 14 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 54,874 Votes: 38,973 Participation: 71.02% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
37		 Québec
14 April 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 348(F) — 20 Feb 2022 18:39 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
PQ
 1/6 17,603 45.85% +4,483 Loser:
QLP
 13,120 34.17% Annie Evrard
After her election:
20 Mar 2006 56
PQ
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 2 years 11 months 6 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 55,303 Votes: 19,265 Participation: 34.84% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
37		 Québec
14 August 2006
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 11378(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
57		 Successor:
PQ
 8,309 43.58% Marie Malavoy
Eligible: 33,174 Votes: 19,419 Participation: 58.54% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
38		 Québec
24 September 2007
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Minority
ID: 11379(F) — 19 Feb 2022 16:12 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus (Party leader)
Age
58
PQ
 1/7 11,400 59.20% +4,275 Loser:
ADQ
 7,125 37.00% Conrad Harvey

Service: 1 year 2 months 13 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 33,305 Votes: 20,319 Participation: 61.01% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
39		 Québec
8 December 2008
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 6018(F) — 9 Sep 2021 00:03 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
59
PQ
 1/6 10,510 52.21% +4,269 Loser:
QLP
 6,241 31.01% Jean Luc Simard

Service: 3 years 8 months 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 50,717 Votes: 38,521 Participation: 75.95% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
40		 Québec
4 September 2012
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Minority
ID: 6951(F) — 9 Sep 2021 00:06 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
63
PQ
 1/6 15,472 40.65% +5,171 Loser:
QLP
 10,301 27.06% Claire Rémillard

Service: 1 year 7 months 2 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 51,165 Votes: 37,596 Participation: 73.48% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
41		 Québec
7 April 2014
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 7076(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent → (Party leader)
Age
65
PQ
 2/6 12,201 32.87% -882 Winner:
QLP
 13,083 35.24% Caroline Simard

Online biographical references (5)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
FR Non-standard link
Pierre Journet, La Presse+ (7 septembre 2019), Sortie de Pauline Marois sur le français : un « beau-père » utile		 29 Mar 2024
EN Canadian Encyclopedia
Pauline Marois		 29 Mar 2024
FR Encyclopédie canadienne
Pauline Marois		 29 Mar 2024
FR Quebec National Assembly
Pauline Marois		 29 Mar 2024
FR Wikipédia
Pauline Marois		 29 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Pauline Marois		 29 Mar 2024

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