Roland Richer

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Roland Richer
MNA for Argenteuil
Incumbent
Assumed office June 11, 2012
Preceded by	David Whissell
Personal details
Born	(1941-06-23) June 23, 1941
Political party	Parti Québécois

Roland Richer (born June 23, 1941) is a Canadian politician and is the Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Argenteuil electoral district.

Richer was formerly a schoolteacher and school principal. He was elected in a by-election held on June 11, 2012, which was triggered by the resignation of David Whissell on December 16, 2011, in a close race against Quebec Liberal Party candidate Lise Proulx. The result of the by-election was considered a surprise,^[1] as Argenteuil had been a safe seat for the Quebec Liberal Party for several decades. Coalition Avenir Québec candidate Mario Laframboise came in third.

Richer was reelected in the 2012 general election, again defeating Proulx and Laframboise.

Electoral record

Quebec provincial by-election, June 11, 2012
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Parti Québécois	Roland Richer	6,631	36.38	+2.76
	Liberal	Lise Proulx	6,038	33.12	-16.46
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Mario Laframboise	3,905	21.42	+10.18*
	Green	Claude Sabourin	549	3.01	-0.47
	Québec solidaire	Yvan Zanetti	500	2.74	+0.65
	Option nationale	Patrick Sabourin	238	1.31	–
	Conservative	Jean Lecavalier	189	1.04	–
	Independent	Georges Lapointe	152	0.83	–
	Autonomist Team	Gérald Nicolas	26	0.14	–
Total valid votes			18,228	98.78	–
Total rejected ballots			225	1.22	–
Turnout			18,453	42.48	-11.69
Electors on the lists			43,441	–	–

* Result compared to Action démocratique

References

↑ Don Macpherson (June 13, 2012). "Liberals fail a test in Argenteuil". The Gazette (Montreal). Retrieved June 13, 2012. "the unexpected happened in this rural Laurentian riding - a by-election upset that dashed Jean Charest's hopes for re-election"

External links

"Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
official website

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Parti Québécois	Marois Beaudoin Bédard Bergeron Bérubé Blanchet Bouillé Breton Bureau-Blouin Cardin Champagne Chapadeau Claveau Cloutier Cousineau De Courcy Drainville Duchesne Dufour Ferland S. Gaudreault Gendron Goyer Hamelin Hébert Hivon Kotto Larouche Leclair Léger Lelièvre Lisée Malavoy Maltais Marceau McKay Ouellet Pagé E. Pelletier I. Pelletier Poirier Proulx J. Richard L. Richard Richer Sylvain Roy St-Arnaud Therrien Traversy Trottier L. Trudel Turcotte Villeneuve Zakaïb

Quebec Liberal Party¹	Fournier Arcand Bergman Billette Blais G. Bolduc Y. Bolduc Boulet Carrière Chagnon Charbonneau Charlebois D'Amour de Santis Diamond Drolet Dutil M. Gaudreault Gautrin Hamad Houda-Pepin Iraca James Kelley L'Écuyer Lessard Marcoux Marsan Ménard Moreau Morin Ouellette F. Ouimet G. Ouimet Paradis Poeti Reid Rotiroti Rousselle Sklavounos St-Amand St-Pierre Tanguay Thériault Vallée Vallières Vien Weil

Coalition Avenir Québec	Legault Bonnardel Caire Daneault Deltell Dubé Duchesneau Le Bouyonnec Lévesque Marcotte Martel Picard N. Roy Sylvie Roy Schneeberger Spénard St-Laurent D. Trudel

Québec solidaire	David Khadir

Independent	Ratthé

¹ Party leader Philippe Couillard is not currently a sitting MNA.

Persondata
Name	Richer, Roland
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	June 23, 1941
Place of birth	St-Michel de Wentworth
Date of death
Place of death

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