Serge Cardin
Serge Cardin | |
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Portrait of Serge Cardin | |
MP for Sherbrooke | |
In office September 14, 1998 – May 2, 2011 | |
Preceded by | Jean Charest |
Succeeded by | Pierre-Luc Dusseault |
MNA for Sherbrooke | |
In office September 4, 2012 – April 7, 2014 | |
Preceded by | Jean Charest |
Succeeded by | Luc Fortin |
Personal details | |
Born | (1950-07-02) July 2, 1950 (age 74) Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada |
Political party | Parti Québécois (2012–2014) |
Other political affiliations | Bloc Québécois (Before 2011) |
Spouse | Mariette Cardin |
Residence | Sherbrooke |
Profession | accountant |
Serge Cardin (born July 2, 1950) is a Quebec politician. He was a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the Sherbrooke electoral district from 2012 to 2014, and was formerly a Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament for the federal riding of Sherbrooke from 1998 to 2011.
In the 2011 Canadian federal election, he lost his seat to Pierre-Luc Dusseault, then a 19-year-old university student and the youngest MP ever elected in Canadian history.[1] In the 2012 Quebec election, he unseated the incumbent Premier of Quebec Jean Charest who was also his predecessor for the federal riding.[2] He was defeated by Liberal candidate Luc Fortin in the 2014 Quebec election.[3]
Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Cardin is an accountant. He was a city councillor in Sherbrooke from 1986 to 1998.
Electoral record
2012 Quebec general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Parti Québécois | Serge Cardin | 15,909 | 42.12 | +4.53 | ||||
Liberal | Jean Charest | 13,267 | 35.13 | -10.11 | ||||
Coalition Avenir Québec | Philippe Girard | 4,457 | 11.80 | +4.95* | ||||
Québec solidaire | Christian Bibeau | 2,586 | 6.85 | +0.41 | ||||
Option nationale | Évelyne Beaudin | 1,069 | 2.83 | – | ||||
Green | Suzanne Richer | 407 | 1.08 | -2.28 | ||||
Parti indépendantiste | Christian Clavet | 73 | 0.19 | – | ||||
Total valid votes | 37,748 | 99.10 | – | |||||
Total rejected ballots | 344 | 0.90 | – | |||||
Turnout | 38,112 | 78.10 | +15.49 | |||||
Electors on the lists | 48,799 | – | – |
* Result compared to Action démocratique
2011 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
New Democratic | Pierre-Luc Dusseault | 22,344 | 43.0% | +29.9% | ||||
Bloc Québécois | Serge Cardin | 18,703 | 36.0% | -14.1% | ||||
Liberal | Éric Deslauriers-Joannette | 4,953 | 9.5% | -10.0% | ||||
Conservative | Pierre Harvey | 4,865 | 9.4% | -5.0% | ||||
Green | Jacques Laberge | 890 | 1.7% | – | ||||
Rhinoceros | Crédible Berlingot Landry | 224 | 0.4% | -0.5% | ||||
Total valid votes/Expense limit | – | 100.0% |
Source: Elections Canada
2008 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Bloc Québécois | Serge Cardin | 25,502 | 50.1% | -2.2% | ||||
Liberal | Nathalie Goguen | 9,947 | 19.5% | +6.4% | ||||
Conservative | André Bachand | 8,331 | 16.4% | -4.3% | ||||
New Democratic | Yves Mondoux | 6,676 | 13.1% | +4.2% | ||||
Rhinoceros | Sébastien Côrriveau | 467 | 0.9% | |||||
Total valid votes | 50,923 | 100.0% | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 607 | |||||||
Turnout | 51,530 | % |
2006 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Bloc Québécois | Serge Cardin | 27,185 | 52.2% | -6.5% | ||||
Conservative | Marc Nadeau | 10,772 | 20.7% | +16.4% | ||||
Liberal | Robert Pouliot | 6,860 | 13.2% | -17.8% | ||||
New Democratic | Martin Plaisance | 4,645 | 8.9% | +6.0% | ||||
Green | Michel Quirion | 2,262 | 4.3% | +1.3% | ||||
Independent | Claudia Laroche-Martel | 321 | 0.6% | |||||
Total valid votes | 52,045 | 100.0% |
2004 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Bloc Québécois | Serge Cardin | 29,323 | 58.7% | +12.2% | ||||
Liberal | Bruno-Marie Béchard | 15,482 | 31.0% | -10.8% | ||||
Conservative | Réal Leblanc | 2,142 | 4.3% | -4.1% | ||||
Green | Jeffrey Champagne | 1,509 | 3.0% | |||||
New Democratic | Philippe Dion | 1,463 | 2.9% | 1.6% | ||||
Total valid votes | 49,919 | 100.0% |
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
Bloc Québécois | Serge Cardin | 23,559 | 46.53 | $70,552 | ||||
Liberal | Jean-François Rouleau | 21,182 | 41.84 | $69,566 | ||||
Alliance | Mark Quinlan | 2,284 | 4.51 | $7,089 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Eric L'Heureux | 1,955 | 3.86 | $493 | ||||
New Democratic | Craig Wright | 677 | 1.34 | none listed | ||||
Natural Law | Daniel Jolicoeur | 495 | 0.98 | none listed | ||||
Independent | Serge Bourassa-Lacombe | 294 | 0.58 | $624 | ||||
Marxist–Leninist | Serge Lachapelle | 186 | 0.37 | $10 | ||||
Total valid votes | 50,632 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 1,248 | |||||||
Turnout | 51,880 | 63.58 | ||||||
Electors on the lists | 81,592 | |||||||
Note: Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1998 by-election. Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada. |
Canadian federal by-election, 14 September 1998 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Resignation of Jean J. Charest, 1 May 1998 | ||||||||
Bloc Québécois | Serge Cardin | 16,143 | 44.3% | +14.6% | ||||
Liberal | Robert Pouliot | 15,923 | 43.7% | +35.0% | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Robert Archambault | 2,303 | 6.3% | -53.2% | ||||
Reform | Marcel Bolduc | 934 | 2.6% | |||||
New Democratic | Sébastien Goulet | 720 | 2.0% | +0.8% | ||||
Green | Jacques Bousquet | 254 | 0.7% | |||||
Independent | John Turmel | 97 | 0.3% | |||||
Marxist–Leninist | Serge Lachapelle | 72 | 0.2% | |||||
Total valid votes | 36,446 | 100.0% |
References
External links
- How'd They Vote?: Serge Cardin's voting history and quotes
- Serge Cardin – Parliament of Canada biography
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