Union des forces progressistes candidates in the 2003 Quebec provincial election

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Union des forces progressistes candidates in the 2003 Quebec provincial election - Wikipedia

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The Union des forces progressistes fielded seventy-four candidates in the 2003 Quebec provincial election, none of whom were elected.^[1] Information about these candidates may be found on this page.

Candidates

(n.c.: no candidate)

Riding

Candidate's name

Gender

Votes

Rank

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

Richard Fecteau

175

0.60

5th

Beauce-Sud

Ginette Lewis

216

0.67

4th

Beauharnois

n.c.

Bellechasse

Mario Ouellette

134

0.52

5th

Berthier

Pierre Gravel

632

1.83

4th

Bertrand

n.c.

Blainville

Thérèse Hamel

394

1.10

4th

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

Rosanne Labelle

418

1.26

5th

Brome-Missisquoi

Simon Gnocchini

509

1.53

4th

Chambly

n.c.

Champlain

Lucie Favreau

103

0.39

5th

Chapleau

Jean Marois

331

1.10

5th

Notes: Jean Marois received 331 votes (1.10%), finishing fifth against Liberal incumbent Benoît Pelletier.^[2]

Charlesbourg

Simon Carreau

329

0.85

5th

Charlevoix

Éric Tremblay

168

0.72

4th

Châteauguay

Guylaine Sirard

222

0.56

5th

Notes: Guylaine Sirard has worked in support of legal abortion rights.^[3] She was a candidate for the Parti de la démocratie socialiste in the 1998 provincial election and for the UFP 2003.

**Electoral record**
Election	Division	Party	Votes	%	Place	Winner
1998 provincial	Mercier	Parti de la démocratie socialiste	873	2.75	5/9	Robert Perreault, Parti Québécois^[4]
2003 provincial	Taschereau	Union des forces progressistes	222	0.56	5/6	Jean-Marc Fournier, Liberal^[5]

Chauveau

Marie-Noëlle Béland

387

1.05

5th

Chicoutimi

Pierre Dostie

670

2.02

4th

Notes: Pierre Dostie was one of the two spokespersons of UFP from 2002 to 2004. He was also a candidate for Québec solidaire in the same riding in the 2012 election.

Chomedey

n.c.

Chutes-de-la-Chaudière

Jean Bernatchez

649

1.71

4th

Crémazie

Jocelyne Desautels

686

1.96

4th

Notes: Jocelyne Desautels was also a candidate for the Parti de la démocratie socialiste in Mille-Îles in the 1998 election.

D'Arcy-McGee

n.c.

Deux-Montagnes

Julien Demers

408

1.28

4th

Drummond

Gilles Martineau

301

0.81

5th

Dubuc

Marie Francine Bienvenue

457

1.82

4th

Duplessis

n.c.

Fabre

n.c.

Frontenac

'Marie-Josée Vachon

125

0.48

5th

Gaspé

n.c.

Gatineau

Julie Mercier

423

1.56

4th

Gouin

Colette Provost

1,397

4.69

4th

Groulx

Denis Letourneux

436

1.25

4th

Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

Lise Alarie

788

3.34

4th

Notes: Lise Alarie received 788 votes (3.34%), finishing fourth against Parti Québécois incumbent Louise Harel.^[6]

Hull

Denise Veilleux

677

2.38

4th

Huntingdon

n.c.

Iberville

Guillaume Tremblay

229

0.74

6th

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

Sacha Alcide Calixte

515

1.52

4th

Johnson

Martin Marois

343

1.14

4th

Joliette

Mathieu Lessard

1,149

346

4th

Jonquière

Michel Perron

330

1.06

5th

Kamouraska-Témiscouata

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

Guillaume Boivin

515

1.30

5th

Notes: Guillaume Boivin was also the candidate for the Parti de la démocratie socialiste in the same riding in the 1998 election.

La Pinière

n.c.

Laporte

Christian Montmarquette

489

1.45

4th

Laprairie

Danielle Maire

229

0.60

5th

L'Assomption

Gilbert Morin

356

0.91

5th

Laurier-Dorion

William Sloan

922

3.05

4th

Laval-des-Rapides

n.c.

Laviolette

Yves Demers

182

0.75

4th

Lévis

Madeleine Provencher

442

1.20

4th

Lotbinière

Étienne Hallé

175

0.69

5th

Louis-Hébert

Jean-Philippe Lessard-Beaupré

402

1.00

5th

Marguerite-Bourgeoys

n.c.

Marguerite-D'Youville

Maxime Babeu

536

1.36

5th

Marie-Victorin

Marc Lambert

452

1.61

5th

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

Christian Poulin

193

0.82

4th

Mercier

Amir Khadir

5,278

17.92

3rd

Mille-Îles

n.c.

Mirabel

n.c.

Montmagny-L'Islet

Fernand Dorval

225

0.97

4th

Montmorency

Magali Paquin

517

1.39

4th

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

Véronique Grenier

498

1.42

4th

Notes: Véronique Grenier was a student at the Cégep de Sherbrooke during the election. The UFP was not well-organized in the region, and she did not run an active campaign.^[7] She received 498 votes (1.42%), finishing fourth against Liberal candidate Pierre Reid.^[8] Grenier later attended the Université de Sherbrooke.^[9]

Outremont

Jill Hanley

1,818

6.86

3rd

Papineau

Dominique Marceau

286

0.93

5th

Pointe-aux-Trembles

n.c.

Pontiac

Serge Tanguay

392

1.68

4th

Portneuf

François Paradis-Caron

413

1.28

4th

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

n.c.

Francis Breton

453

1.49

4th

Rosemont

Omar Aktouf

1,132

3.07

4th

Notes: Omar Aktouf is a professor of management at HEC Montréal. He was born in 1944 near Sétif, in Petite Kabylie, Algeria. His father was exiled from Algeria by the colonial authorities and the family settled in Safi, Morocco. In 1962, after the independence of Algeria, the family resettled in Algiers. In Algiers, Omar Aktouf obtained diplomas in literature, philosophy and economics. He then worked in the Algerian public sector, successively at Sonatrach, at the ministry of hydraulics, at the Société nationale des eaux and at the Société nationale de géophysique.^[10] He immigrated to Montréal. In the 1980s he became professor at HEC Montréal. In the 2003 Quebec election, he was candidate for the Union des forces progressistes in Rosemont. He obtained 1,132 votes (3.07%), placing fourth. In the 2004 federal election, he was candidate for the New democratic Party in Outremont. He obtained 5,382 votes (14,06%), placing third.^[11] At HEC, he is member of Groupe d'études et de recherche sur le management et l'environnement (GERME) and founding member of Centre humanismes, gestions et mondialisation.^[12] He is the author of books, including Le management entre tradition et renouvellement, éd. Gaëtan Morin, 4th edition, 2005; La stratégie de l'autruche; post-mondialisation, management et rationalité économique, Écosociété, 2002; Méthodologie des sciences sociales et approche qualitative des organisations, Presses des H.E.C. et Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1987.^[13]

Rousseau

Alex Boisdequin-Lefort

324

1.10

4th

Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue

Patrick Rancourt

507

1.79

4th

Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques

Gaétan Breton

1,699

6.48

4th

Notes: Gaétan Breton is professor of accounting at Université du Québec à Montréal. He was born in 1952 in Amos. He obtained a doctorate in accounting at the City University London and a master in French studies at Université de Sherbrooke. He is active in environmental and social groups. He was candidate for the Union des forces progressistes in Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in the 2003 Quebec general election and in Gouin in the 2004 by-election, where he obtained 1,195 votes (7,97%), placing third.^[14]

Saint-François

Suzanne Thériault

314

0.99

4th

Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne

Marc-André Payette

595

1.97

4th

Saint-Hyacinthe

François Choquette

401

1.14

4th

Saint-Jean

Alexandre Boulerice

535

1.48

4th

Saint-Laurent

Alain Pérusse

325

1.02

4th

Saint-Maurice

Kevin Trudel

225

0.88

4th

Shefford

Gilles Dumoulin

334

0.94

5th

Sherbrooke

Normand Gilbert

496

1.42

4th

Soulanges

n.c.

Taillon

Gabriel Landry

545

1.42

5th

Taschereau

Alain Marcoux

1,176

3.54

4th

Notes: Alain Marcoux was a candidate for the Parti de la démocratie socialiste in the 1998 provincial election and for the UFP 2003. In April 2003, he highlighted the UFP's role in mobilizing protests against the American-led invasion of Iraq.^[15]

**Electoral record**
Election	Division	Party	Votes	%	Place	Winner
1998 provincial	Taschereau	Parti de la démocratie socialiste	521	2.16	4/7	Agnès Maltais, Parti Québécois^[16]
2003 provincial	Taschereau	Union des forces progressistes	1,176	3.54	4/8	Agnès Maltais, Parti Québécois^[17]

Terrebonne

Marco Legrand

440

1.24

4th

Trois-Rivières

David Lanneville

214

0.79

5th

Ungava

n.c.

Vachon

Richard St-Onge

279

0.87

5th

Vanier

Sébastien Bouchard

573

1.52

4th

Notes: Sébastien Bouchard was also candidate for the Parti de la démocratie socialiste in Jean-Talon in the 1998 general election and candidate for Québec solidaire in Chauveau in the 2012 general election.

Vaudreuil

n.c.

Verchères

Marc-André Morvan

195

0.63

5th

Verdun

Pascal Durand

368

1.27

5th

Viau

Jocelyne Dupuis

384

1.41

5th

Notes: Jocelyne Dupuis was also candidate for the New Democratic Party of Quebec - Parti de la démocratie socialiste in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in 1989, in Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in 1994 and in L'Assomption in the 1996 by-election. She led the NDPQ-PDS in 1994-1996.

Vimont

André Pigeon

269

0.70

5th

Westmount

David Fennario

718

3.14

4th

References

^ General elections - 2003, April 14 - May 20 (Champlain) - Official results for all electoral divisions Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. Accessed 30 November 2012.
^ Official Results (Chapleau, 2003), Le Directeur général des élections du Québec, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec (DGEQ), accessed 9 October 2010.
^ "Parliamentary calendar," Ottawa Citizen, 19 February 1990, A5.
^ Official Results (Mercier, 1998), Le Directeur général des élections du Québec, accessed 19 June 2011.
^ Official Results (Châteauguay, 2003), Le Directeur général des élections du Québec, accessed 19 June 2011.
^ Official Results (Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, 2003), Le Directeur général des élections du Québec, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec (DGEQ), accessed 14 November 2012.
^ "Election notebook," Sherbrooke Record, 11 April 2003, p. 9.
^ Official Results (Orford, 2003), Le Directeur général des élections du Québec, accessed 5 February 2011.
^ "17 win Millennium scholarships," Sherbrooke Record, 12 June 2007, p. 8.
^ Omar Aktouf, le mouton noir des HEC et du néolibéralisme Archived February 7, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, centpapiers. (in French) Accessed 4 December 2012.
^ History of federal ridings since 1867, Candidates, 38th Parliament, Parliament of Canada. Accessed 4 December 2012.
^ Omar Aktouf, Professeur titulaire, Service de l'enseignement du management, HEC Montréal. Accessed 4 November 2012.
^ Omar Aktouf, professeur titulaire, HEC Montréal. Accessed 4 December 2012.
^ Élections partielles, 20 septembre 2004, Résultats officiels par circonscription, Directeur des élections du Québec. Accessed 4 December 2012.
^ Kevin Dougherty, "UFP a left-wing thorn," Montreal Gazette, 9 April 2003, A14.
^ Official Results (Taschereau, 1998), Le Directeur général des élections du Québec, accessed 10 May 2011.
^ Official Results (Taschereau, 2003), Le Directeur général des élections du Québec, accessed 10 May 2011.

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