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♀ Monique Bégin
aliasMonique Bégin
Record
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☆   Italian-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 4 0 4
Birth 1 March 1936 → 88 years + 1 month ago
Lived 87 years + 6 months
First mandate 30 October 1972 → 51 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 36 years + 7 months
Death 8 September 2023 → 7 months ago
Exit → Death 39 years + 5 days after 3 September 1984
Special notes
None
 
Monique Bégin (1936–2023)
© Photo 1980 House of Commons (Canada) — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
When Bégin won the riding of Saint-Michel for the Liberal Party in the 1972 general election, she was one of the first three women from Québec to be elected to the Canadian Parliament
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 11 10 1

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. CA 30
LIB
 1 Minister 40–41 14 Sep 1976 — 15 Sep 1977 1 0 1
2. CA 30
LIB
 1 Minister 41–43 16 Sep 1977 — 03 Jun 1979 1 8 18
3. CA 32
LIB
 2 Minister 44–48 03 Mar 1980 — 16 Sep 1984 4 6 13
4. CA 32
LIB
 1 Minister of State/responsible 46–48 01 Oct 1982 — 16 Sep 1984 1 11 15
 1. National Revenue
 2. National Health and Welfare
 3. National Health and Welfare
 4. Fitness and Amateur Sport [National Health and Welfare]

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 74,583 Votes: 48,908 Participation: 65.58% Candidacies: 5
Federal
29		 Québec
30 October 1972
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 10366(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
36
LIB
 1/5 23,850 48.77% +15,259 Loser:
SC
 8,591 17.57% Charles-Eugène Landry

Service: 1 year 8 months 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 81,426 Votes: 49,012 Participation: 60.19% Candidacies: 6
Federal
30		 Québec
8 July 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 10631(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
38
LIB
 1/6 29,822 65.44% +23,006 Loser:
PC
 6,816 14.96% Pierre Noël

Service: 4 years 10 months 13 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 79,266 Votes: 59,080 Participation: 74.53% Candidacies: 7
Federal
31		 Québec
22 May 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 4575(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
LIB
 1/7 45,582 77.15% +40,480 Loser:
SC
 5,102 8.64% Réal Ménard

Service: 8 months 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 79,266 Votes: 52,662 Participation: 66.44% Candidacies: 7
Federal
32		 Québec
18 February 1980
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 4293(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
LIB
 1/7 42,228 81.12% +38,487 Loser:
NDP
 3,741 7.19% Filippo Salvatore

Service: 4 years 6 months 16 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 81,646 Votes: 60,395 Participation: 73.97% Candidacies: 6
Federal
33		 Québec
4 September 1984
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 4012(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
48		 Successor:
LIB
 24,520 41.40% Alfonso Gagliano

Online biographical references (6)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
John Geddes, Macleans (7 November 2017), Monique Bégin: The feminist trailblazer		 28 Nov 2023
EN Non-standard link
CBC Radio, The Current (19 February 2019), Her first day in Parliament, security didn't believe Monique Bégin was really an MP		 28 Nov 2023
EN Canadian Encyclopedia
Monique Bégin		 28 Nov 2023
FR Encyclopédie canadienne
Monique Bégin		 28 Nov 2023
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
The Hon. Monique Bégin, P.C., O.C., F.R.S.C., M.P.		 28 Nov 2023
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
L'hon. Monique Bégin, C.P., O.C., M.S.R.C., députée		 28 Nov 2023
EN Wikipedia
Monique Bégin		 28 Nov 2023
FR Wikipédia
Monique Bégin		 28 Nov 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 28 Nov 2023 05:30 (but data presented dynamically)

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