Yves Lévesque | |
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| Mayor of Trois-Rivières, Quebec | |
| In office November 4, 2001 – December 27, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Guy Leblanc |
| Succeeded by | Jean Lamarche |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1957 |
| Political party | Conservative (federal) CAQ (provincial) |
| Other political affiliations | Parti Quebecois (before 2003) |
Yves Lévesque (born 1957) is a Canadian politician, who served as Mayor of Trois-Rivières between 2001 and 2018.
Career
City Councillor
Lévesque won his first electoral victory in 1994, when he became city councillor in Trois-Rivières-Ouest. He was re-elected in 1998.
Mayor of Trois-Rivières
In the wake of the province-wide municipal merging of 2001, he ran for Mayor of Trois-Rivières and won an upset victory against favourite candidate and Cap-de-la-Madeleine Mayor Alain Croteau. In the 2003 provincial election, he campaigned in favour of the re-election of Parti Québécois incumbent Guy Julien, who lost.
In 2005, Julien ran against Lévesque for mayor, but the incumbent was easily re-elected with 70% of the vote.[1]
In the 2007 provincial election, Lévesque's preference for ADQ candidate Sébastien Proulx was not formally announced, but was not a secret for most observers.[2] Proulx ended up winning.
Recently, Lévesque has been trying to get the Trois-Rivières Draveurs, a franchise of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, back in town.[3]
On December 27, 2018, Lévesque announced he was retiring as mayor for medical reasons.[4]
Federal politics
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Levesque officially joined the Conservative Party of Canada in May 2018, taking out a party membership and speaking at the party's convention in Saint-Hyacinthe. He stated at the time that he was considering running for the party in the next election.[5]He only joined the Conservative Party because of their desire to decentralize to the provinces.[6]
On May 30, 2019, Levesque was named the Conservative candidate for the riding of Trois-Rivières.[7] During the race, he was expected to win, however he lost the race. Levesque blamed the Scheer's first french debate where Scheer inability to defend his personal view from all side shifted support from the Conservatives in Quebec; which never recovered.[8]
Electoral record
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Trois-Rivières | ||||||||
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| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Louise Charbonneau | 17,240 | 28.48 | +11.48 | ||||
| Liberal | Valérie Renaud-Martin | 15,774 | 26.06 | -4.16 | ||||
| Conservative | Yves Lévesque | 15,240 | 25.17 | +6.54 | ||||
| New Democratic | Robert Aubin | 10,090 | 16.67 | -15.16 | ||||
| Green | Marie Duplessis | 1,492 | 2.46 | +0.75 | ||||
| People's | Marc-André Gingras | 565 | 0.93 | – | ||||
| Independent | Ronald St-Onge Lynch | 137 | 0.23 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 60,538 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,092 | 1.77 | ||||||
| Turnout | 61,630 | 66.73 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 92,362 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[9][10] | ||||||||
Municipal (mayoral)
2017
| Mayoral candidate | Vote | % |
|---|---|---|
| Yves Lévesque (X) | 26,503 | 51.37 |
| Jean-François Aubin | 23,252 | 45.07 |
| André Bertrand | 1,837 | 3.56 |
2013
| Party | Mayoral candidate | Vote | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Yves Lévesque (X) | 29,204 | 49.25 | |
| Independent | Sylvie Tardif | 18,491 | 31.18 | |
| Independent | Catherine Dufresne | 8,324 | 14.04 | |
| Independent | Marcelle Girard | 1,609 | 2.71 | |
| Force 3R | Richard St-Germain | 1,321 | 2.23 | |
| Independent | Pierre Benoit Fortin | 352 | 0.59 | |
2009
| Candidate | Party | Vote | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yves Lévesque (X) | Independent | 25,637 | 54.9 |
| André Carle | Force 3R | 21,077 | 45.1 |
2005
| Candidate | Vote | % |
|---|---|---|
| Yves Lévesque (inc.) | 34,298 | 70.3 |
| Guy Julien | 13,741 | 28.2 |
| Serge Simard | 754 | 1.5 |
Footnotes
- ^ Yves Lévesque l'emporte facilement, Radio-Canada, November 7, 2005
- ^ Protest Party Seen as Big Winner in Quebec Vote, The Epoch Times, March 27, 2007 Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Le retour des Draveurs ?, Radio-Canada, May 30, 2007
- ^ Yves Lévesque quitte la mairie de Trois-Rivières, Radio-Canada
- ^ Marquis, Melanie (12 May 2018). "Ex Bloc Quebecois leader Michel Gauthier joining Conservatives". iPolitics. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
One of those being courted by the party is the well-known mayor of Trois-Rivieres, Yves Levesque, who said Saturday that he was seriously considering whether to make the leap to federal politics.
- ^ Lepage, Caroline. "Yves Lévesque digère déjà bien sa "défaite"". Le Journal de Montréal. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ "Yves Lévesque devient candidat du Parti conservateur". Le Nouvelliste Trois-Rivières. La Presse. 30 May 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
- ^ Press, Stephanie Levitz The Canadian. "Bittersweet Conservative post-election gathering set for Ottawa Wednesday". The Chronicle-Journal. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
- ^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ^ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 9, 2019.