| Simon-Pierre Diamond | |
|---|---|
| MNA for Marguerite-D'Youville | |
| In office April 25, 2007 – November 5, 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Pierre Moreau |
| Succeeded by | Monique Richard |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 9, 1985 Boucherville, Quebec |
| Political party | ADQ (2007-2008) Liberal (2010-present) |
Simon-Pierre Diamond (born February 9, 1985 in Boucherville, Quebec) is a politician in Quebec. He represented the Marguerite-D'Youville district in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2007 to 2008 as a member of the Action démocratique du Québec.
From 2004 to 2007, Diamond, a law student at Université de Montréal and a resident of Boucherville, served as President of the Youth Commission of the ADQ. He supports same-sex marriage, but believes that only the federal government has jurisdiction over that issue.[1]
In the 2007 election at age 22, Diamond became the youngest member ever elected to the Quebec legislature.[2] He and Parti Québécois member André Boisclair are the only people to have broken the record established by PQ member Claude Charron in the 1970 election at age 23.[3]
Diamond was elected with 37% of the vote, defeating PQ candidate Sébastien Gagnon (31%) and Liberal incumbent Pierre Moreau (27%). He took office on April 12, 2007.[4] On April 19, 2007, he was selected to be the Official Opposition's Shadow Minister of Environment and Sustaining Development.[5] He lost his seat in the 2008 election along with 33 other ADQ MNAs, coming in third place in his ridding with 18.46% of the vote.
On May 31, 2010, it was announced Diamond had switched to the Liberal Party and would be running for them in the July 5 Vachon by-election.[6] He was defeated in that election by Parti Québécois candidate Martine Ouellet.
His father is a federal Liberal.
| Quebec provincial by-election, July 5, 2010 : Vachon edit | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | +/- | ||
| Parti Québécois | Martine Ouellet | 7,863 | 59.15 | +10.51 | ||
| Liberal | Simon-Pierre Diamond | 3,236 | 24.34 | -7.94 | ||
| Action démocratique | Alain Dépatie | 879 | 6.61 | -7.06 | ||
| Québec solidaire | Sébastien Robert | 727 | 5.47 | +3.23 | ||
| Green | Yvon Rudolphe | 419 | 3.15 | -0.01 | ||
| Independent | Denis Durand | 98 | 0.74 | -2.42 | ||
| Independent | Régent Millette | 71 | 0.53 | - | ||
| Total valid votes | 13,293 | 100.00 | ||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 174 | |||||
| Turnout | 13,467 | 29.25 | -32.23 | |||
| Electors on the lists | 46,046 | |||||
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.
| Quebec general election, 2008 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Parti Québécois | Monique Richard | 14,533 | 39.75 | +8.70 | |
| Liberal | Jean-Robert Grenier | 13,119 | 35.88 | +8.68 | |
| Action démocratique | Simon-Pierre Diamond | 6,750 | 18.46 | -18.61 | |
| Green | Thomas Goyette-Levac | 1,097 | 3.00 | - | |
| Québec solidaire | Hugo Bergeron | 1,064 | 2.91 | -1.76 | |
| Quebec general election, 2007 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Action démocratique | Simon-Pierre Diamond | 15,536 | 37.07 | +20.39 | |
| Parti Québécois | Sébastien Gagnon | 13,015 | 31.05 | -8.14 | |
| Liberal | Pierre Moreau | 11,401 | 27.20 | -14.18 | |
| Québec solidaire | Daniel Michelin | 1,958 | 4.67 | +3.31* | |
* Increase is from UFP
| Party political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Micaël Bérubé |
President of the Youth Commission of the Action démocratique du Québec 2004–2007 |
Succeeded by Catherine Goyer |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by Stéphane Bergeron (PQ) |
Official Opposition's Shadow Minister of Environment 2007–2008 |
Succeeded by Monique Richard (PQ) |