Michel Morin
Michel Morin was a politician in Quebec, Canada and a three-term Member of the National Assembly of Quebec.[1]
Background
He was born on March 27, 1948 in Saint-Célestin, Centre-du-Québec and made career in education. Before he ran for office, he was a political activist with the Progressive Conservative Party, the Bloc Québécois and the Parti Québécois. He was the protégé of politician Louis Plamondon.
Political career
Morin successfully ran as the Parti Québécois candidate to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 1994 election in the district of Nicolet-Yamaska. He was re-elected in the 1989 and 1994 elections.
In 1999, Morin was appointed parliamentary assistant, a position he held until 2001. He also served as his party's House Whip from 2001 to 2007.
Morin did not run for re-election in the 2007 election.
Electoral record
| Quebec general election, 2003: Nicolet-Yamaska | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Michel Morin | 10,783 | 41.21 | |||||
| Liberal | Jean Rousseau | 8,927 | 34.12 | |||||
| Action démocratique | Lise Blanchette | 5,899 | 22.54 | |||||
| Bloc Pot | Blak D. Blackburn | 417 | 1.59 | |||||
| Independent | Simonne Lizotte | 141 | 0.54 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 26,167 | 98.49 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 401 | 1.51 | ||||||
| Turnout | 26,568 | 77.82 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 34,140 | |||||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||
| Quebec general election, 1998: Nicolet-Yamaska | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Michel Morin | 14,166 | 50.23 | |||||
| Liberal | Daniel McMahon | 10,369 | 36.77 | |||||
| Action démocratique | Frédéric Lajoie | 3,509 | 12.44 | |||||
| Socialist Democracy | Robert Poirier | 157 | 0.56 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 28,201 | 98.70 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 372 | 1.30 | ||||||
| Turnout | 28,573 | 84.59 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 33,777 | |||||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||
| Quebec general election, 1994: Nicolet-Yamaska | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Michel Morin | 13,427 | 50.13 | +14.67 | ||||
| Liberal | Maurice Richard | 12,520 | 46.74 | -13.40 | ||||
| Natural Law | Jacques Houde | 840 | 3.14 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 26,787 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 816 | |||||||
| Turnout | 27,603 | 84.85 | +3.84 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 32,530 | |||||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||
Footnotes
- ↑ "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
| National Assembly of Quebec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Maurice Richard (Liberal) |
MNA for Nicolet-Yamaska 1994–2007 |
Succeeded by Éric Dorion (ADQ) |
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