Sol Zanetti
Sol Zanetti | |
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Leader of Option nationale | |
Assumed office October 26, 2013 | |
Preceded by | Jean-Martin Aussant |
Personal details | |
Born |
1982 Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada |
Political party | Option nationale (2012–present) |
Sol Zanetti (born 1982) is a Canadian politician, who has been the leader of Option nationale, a Quebec sovereigntist political party, since 2013.[1]
A candidate for the party in the 2012 provincial election, Zanetti won the party's leadership on October 26, 2013, winning 67 per cent of the leadership vote against musician and activist Nic Payne.[1] He led the party into the 2014 provincial election.[2]
In September 2014, Zanetti published a video on YouTube encouraging voters in the Scottish independence referendum to vote yes.[3]
He is of Italian and Québécois descent.
Electoral record
Quebec provincial by-election, June 8, 2015: Jean-Talon | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
Liberal | Sébastien Proulx | 8,214 | 41.76 | -2.74 | ||||
Parti Québécois | Clément Laberge | 5,894 | 29.97 | +7.49 | ||||
Coalition Avenir Québec | Alain Fecteau | 2,717 | 13.81 | -6.75 | ||||
Québec solidaire | Amélie Boisvert | 1,503 | 7.64 | -1.41 | ||||
Option nationale | Sol Zanetti | 474 | 2.41 | +0.90 | ||||
Green | Elodie Boisjoly-Dubreuil | 472 | 2.4 | – | ||||
Conservative | Sylvain Rancourt | 237 | 1.20 | +0.61 | ||||
Parti des sans Parti | Sylvain Drolet | 76 | 0.39 | – | ||||
Autonomist Team | Stéphane Pouleur | 55 | 0.28 | +0.09 | ||||
Parti indépendantiste | Grégoire Bonneau-Fortier | 27 | 0.14 | – | ||||
Total valid votes | 19,668 | 99.18 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 162 | 0.82 | ||||||
Turnout | 19,830 | 43.61 | -34.39 | |||||
Electors on the lists | 45,475 | – | ||||||
Liberal hold | Swing | -5.12 |
Quebec provincial by-election, March 9, 2015: Richelieu | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
Parti Québécois | Sylvain Rochon | 7,294 | 35.98 | -3.04 | ||||
Coalition Avenir Québec | Jean-Bernard Émond | 6,584 | 32.48 | +5.66 | ||||
Liberal | Benoît Théroux | 5,054 | 24.93 | -0.72 | ||||
Québec solidaire | Marie-Ève Mathieu | 541 | 2.67 | -2.63 | ||||
Option nationale | Sol Zanetti | 316 | 1.56 | +0.21 | ||||
Green | Vincent Pouliot | 352 | 1.74 | +0.58 | ||||
Conservative | Daniel Gaudreau | 103 | 0.51 | -0.21 | ||||
Autonomist Team | Louis Chandonnet | 30 | 0.15 | |||||
Total valid votes | 20,274 | 98.45 | +1.00 | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 319 | 1.55 | -1.00 | |||||
Turnout | 20,593 | 46.43 | -23.57 | |||||
Electors on the lists | 44,356 | – | – | |||||
Parti Québécois hold | Swing | -4.35 |
Quebec general election, 2014: Jean-Lesage | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Liberal | André Drolet | 11,645 | 37.27 | |||||
Coalition Avenir Québec | Émilie Foster | 7,431 | 23.78 | |||||
Parti Québécois | Pierre Châteauvert | 6,998 | 22.40 | |||||
Québec solidaire | Sébastien Bouchard | 3,626 | 11.60 | |||||
Option nationale | Sol Zanetti | 782 | 2.50 | |||||
Parti nul | Sébastien Dumais | 384 | 1.23 | |||||
Conservative | Andréas Garcia | 77 | 0.24 | |||||
Independent | José Breton | 93 | 0.30 | |||||
Marxist–Leninist | Claude Moreau | 43 | 0.14 | |||||
Total valid votes | 31,248 | 98.65 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 427 | 1.35 | ||||||
Turnout | 31,675 | 68.00 | ||||||
Electors on the lists | 46,643 | – |
Quebec general election, 2012: Louis-Hébert | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
Liberal | Sam Hamad | 14,602 | 38.42 | -10.43 | ||||
Coalition Avenir Québec | Michel Hamel | 12,510 | 32.92 | +16.67* | ||||
Parti Québécois | Rosette Côté | 8,127 | 21.38 | -7.71 | ||||
Québec solidaire | Guillaume Boivin | 1,359 | 3.58 | +0.73 | ||||
Option nationale | Sol Zanetti | 706 | 1.86 | – | ||||
Parti nul | Julie Lachance | 226 | 0.59 | – | ||||
Coalition pour la constituante | Guillaume Dion | 209 | 0.55 | – | ||||
Conservative | Véronique Durand | 146 | 0.38 | – | ||||
Autonomist Team | Hugues Fortin | 70 | 0.18 | – | ||||
Quebec Citizens' Union | Maxime Guérin | 49 | 0.13 | – | ||||
Total valid votes | 38,004 | 99.18 | – | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 316 | 0.82 | – | |||||
Turnout | 38,320 | 86.57 | +16.22 | |||||
Electors on the lists | 44,263 | – | – |
References
- 1 2 "Sol Zanetti est le nouveau chef d'Option nationale". Le Devoir, October 27, 2013.
- ↑ "Sol Zanetti: L’indépendance avant tout". Métro Montréal, April 4, 2014.
- ↑ "Quebec independence party leader sends message to Scots". Global News, September 11, 2014.
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