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♂ Pierre Descoteaux
aliasPierre Descoteaux
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Québec 1 1 2
Birth 16 February 1952 → 72 years + 2 months ago
Lived 66 years + 1 month
First mandate 14 April 2003 → 21 years + 14 days ago
↳ at age 51 years + 1 month
Death 9 April 2018 → 6 years ago
Exit → Death 11 years + 15 days after 25 March 2007
Special notes
None
 
Pierre Descoteaux (1952–2018)
© Photo National Assembly, Québec — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Elected for one term in 2003 as a Québec Liberal, Descoteaux admitted having voted Yes in the 1995 Québec referendum on sovereignty.
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 3 11 10 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Robert Kieffer  m 
 		 ⊕ Linda Lapointe  f 
 
Eligible: 47,976 Votes: 35,272 Participation: 73.52% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
37		 Québec
14 April 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 275(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
51
QLP
 1/5 13,763 39.54% +303 Loser:
PQ
 13,460 38.67% Robert Kieffer

Service: 3 years 11 months 11 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 48,715 Votes: 36,705 Participation: 75.35% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
38		 Québec
26 March 2007
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Minority
ID: 40(F) — 22 May 2022 10:26 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
55
QLP
 3/5 9,898 27.20% -3,732 Winner:
ADQ
 13,630 37.45% Linda Lapointe

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
FR Quebec National Assembly
Pierre Descoteaux		 11 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Pierre Descoteaux		 11 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
Pierre Descoteaux		 11 Feb 2024

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