David Côté

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David Côté (February 10, 1915 – March 8, 1969) was a Canadian politician active in the provincial politics of Quebec. Côté was the only member of the Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif (the Quebec section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) ever elected to the Quebec legislature.

Côté was a trade union organizer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations working amongst miners in Rouyn. He was elected to the legislative assembly as the CCF member for Rouyn-Noranda in the 1944 provincial election with 21% of the vote. He was able to win due to a five-way split between the CCF, the Liberals, the Bloc Populaire, the Union Nationale and the Union des Electeurs (social credit). He sat as an independent from July 22, 1945 until the end of his term and did not seek re-election in the 1948 election.