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♂ Yves Blais
aliasYves Blais
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Québec 4 0 4
Birth 5 June 1931 → 92 years + 10 months ago
Lived 67 years + 5 months
First mandate 13 April 1981 → 43 years + 15 days ago
↳ at age 49 years + 10 months
Death 22 November 1998 → 25 years + 5 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 
Yves Blais (1931–1998)
© Photo National Assembly, Québec — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Parti Québécois MNA since 1981, Blais died during the 1998 election campaign — one week before the election. It was postponed to two weeks later in his riding of Masson, and the new PQ candidate won it handily.
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 17 7 6 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Gabriel Desjardins  m 
 
 
Eligible: 36,794 Votes: 30,907 Participation: 84.00% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
32		 Québec
13 April 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 2288(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
49
PQ
 1/3 19,344 63.25% +8,981 Loser:
QLP
 10,363 33.88% Jean-Yves Chartrand

Service: 4 years 7 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 44,308 Votes: 33,393 Participation: 75.37% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
33		 Québec
2 December 1985
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 2041(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
PQ
 1/5 18,555 56.67% +5,678 Loser:
QLP
 12,877 39.33% Jocelyn Poirier

Service: 3 years 9 months 22 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 45,904 Votes: 33,873 Participation: 73.79% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
34		 Québec
25 September 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 2124(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
PQ
 1/4 19,615 59.42% +7,967 Loser:
QLP
 11,648 35.29% Micheline Croteau-René

Service: 4 years 11 months 17 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 41,397 Votes: 34,239 Participation: 82.71% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
35		 Québec
12 September 1994
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 1874(F) — 20 Feb 2022 15:30 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
63
PQ
 1/5 21,481 64.19% +14,490 Loser:
QLP
 6,991 20.89% Alain Leclerc
After his election:
22 Nov 1998 67
PQ
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 4 years 2 months 10 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 45,949 Votes: 27,637 Participation: 60.15% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
36		 Québec
14 December 1998
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 433(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
67		 Successor:
PQ
 17,529 64.03% Gilles Labbé

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
FR Quebec National Assembly
Yves Blais		 03 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Yves Blais		 03 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
Yves Blais		 03 Feb 2024

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