Yves Lévesque

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Career

City Councillor

Lévesque won his first electoral victory in 1994, when he became city councillor in Trois-Rivières-Ouest. He was re-elected in 1998.

Mayor of Trois-Rivières

In the wake of the province-wide municipal merging of 2001, he ran for Mayor of Trois-Rivières and won an upset victory against favourite candidate and Cap-de-la-Madeleine Mayor Alain Croteau. In the 2003 provincial election, he campaigned in favour of the re-election of Parti Québécois incumbent Guy Julien, who lost.

In 2005, Julien ran against Lévesque for mayor, but the incumbent was easily re-elected with 70% of the vote.[1]

Recently,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Lévesque has been trying to get the Trois-Rivières Draveurs, a franchise of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, back in town.[2]

On December 27, 2018, Lévesque announced he was retiring as mayor for medical reasons.[3]

Federal politics

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Lévesque with Andrew Scheer in 2019

Lévesque officially joined the Conservative Party of Canada in May 2018, taking out a party membership and speaking at the party's convention in Saint-Hyacinthe. He stated at the time that he was considering running for the party in the 43rd election.[4] He joined the Conservative Party because of its stated goal of decentralizing power to the provinces.[5]

On May 30, 2019, Lévesque was named the Conservative candidate for the riding of Trois-Rivières.[6] During the race, he was expected to win; however, he lost the race, standing third. Lévesque blamed party leader Andrew Scheer's first French-language debate, wherein Scheer's perceived inability to defend his personal views from the other leaders shifted support from the Conservatives in Quebec, which never recovered.[7]

Lévesque ran in Trois-Rivières again as a Conservative in 2021 and gained 17,027 votes (an increase of 1,787) but came in second.

Electoral record

Federal

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Municipal (mayoral)

2017

Mayoral candidate Vote %
Yves Lévesque (X) 26,503 51.37
Jean-François Aubin 23,252 45.07
André Bertrand 1,837 3.56

2013

Party Mayoral candidate Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |   Independent Yves Lévesque (X) 29,204 49.25
Template:Canadian party colour |   Independent Sylvie Tardif 18,491 31.18
Template:Canadian party colour |   Independent Catherine Dufresne 8,324 14.04
Template:Canadian party colour |   Independent Marcelle Girard 1,609 2.71
  Force 3R Richard St-Germain 1,321 2.23
Template:Canadian party colour |   Independent Pierre Benoit Fortin 352 0.59

2009

Candidate Party Vote %
Yves Lévesque (X) Independent 25,637 54.9
André Carle Force 3R 21,077 45.1

2005

Candidate Vote %
Yves Lévesque (inc.) 34,298 70.3
Guy Julien 13,741 28.2
Serge Simard 754 1.5

Footnotes

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  1. ↑ Yves Lévesque l'emporte facilement, Radio-Canada, November 7, 2005
  2. ↑ Le retour des Draveurs ?, Radio-Canada, May 30, 2007
  3. ↑ Yves Lévesque quitte la mairie de Trois-Rivières, Radio-Canada
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