Mario Simard
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Canadian politician
Preceded byKarine Trudel
Mario Simard | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Jonquière | |
| Assumed office October 21, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Karine Trudel |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Bloc Québécois |
Mario Simard MP is a Canadian political science lecturer, press secretary and politician.[1] He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 election from Jonquière in Quebec as a member of the Bloc Québécois.[2] He defeated the incumbent NDP MP Karine Trudel.
He served as the critic of intergovernmental affairs, natural resources and energy in the Bloc Québécois Shadow Cabinet of the 44th Parliament of Canada.[3]
He was elected the vice chair of the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources in the 45th Canadian Parliament in 2025.
Electoral record
| 2025 Canadian federal election: Jonquière | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Mario Simard | 20,247 | 39.99 | -3.12 | ||||
| Conservative | Fanny Boulanger | 15,314 | 30.25 | +1.94 | ||||
| Liberal | William Van Tassel | 13,172 | 26.02 | +5.22 | ||||
| New Democratic | Lise Garon | 932 | 1.84 | -3.53 | ||||
| People's | Patrick Gaudreault | 516 | 1.02 | N/A | ||||
| Green | Marie-Josée Yelle | 448 | 0.88 | -0.81 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 50,629 | 98.41 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 817 | 1.59 | -0.95 | |||||
| Turnout | 51,446 | 67.98 | +4.86 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 75,676 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois notional hold | Swing | -2.53 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[4][5] | ||||||||
| Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations. | ||||||||
| 2021 Canadian federal election: Jonquière | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Mario Simard | 19,036 | 41.9 | +6.3 | $21,445.47 | |||
| Conservative | Louise Gravel | 13,223 | 29.1 | +8.2 | $28,273.75 | |||
| Liberal | Stéphane Bégin | 9,546 | 21.0 | +5.1 | $15,443.09 | |||
| New Democratic | Marieve Ruel | 2,559 | 5.6 | -19.0 | $1,358.35 | |||
| Green | Marie-Josée Yelle | 738 | 1.6 | -0.4 | $0.00 | |||
| Rhinoceros | Line Bélanger | 372 | 0.8 | N/A | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 45,474 | 97.5 | – | $127,988.39 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,188 | 2.5 | ||||||
| Turnout | 46,662 | 63.2 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 73,830 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois hold | Swing | -1.9 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[6] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Jonquière | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Mario Simard | 17,577 | 35.6 | +12.31 | $11,695.16 | |||
| New Democratic | Karine Trudel | 12,141 | 24.6 | -4.59 | $58,005.08 | |||
| Conservative | Philippe Gagnon | 10,338 | 20.9 | +4.01 | $52,967.51 | |||
| Liberal | Vincent Garneau | 7,849 | 15.9 | -12.58 | $42,992.12 | |||
| Green | Lyne Bourdages | 1,009 | 2.0 | +0.64 | $0.00 | |||
| People's | Sylvie Théodore | 453 | 0.9 | $1,360.01 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 49,367 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 999 | |||||||
| Turnout | 50,366 | 69.3 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 72,713 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois gain from New Democratic | Swing | +8.45 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[7][8] | ||||||||
References
- ↑ "C'est officiel : Mario Simard se présentera pour le Bloc Québécois dans Jonquière". Radio Canada (in French). July 13, 2019. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
- ↑ "Canada election results: Jonquière". Globalnews. 22 October 2019. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
- ↑ Lévesque, Catherine (October 5, 2021). "Bloc Québécois announces shadow cabinet". Montreal Gazette.
- ↑ "Voter information service". Elections Canada. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
- ↑ "Election Night Results - Electoral Districts". Elections Canada. Retrieved June 4, 2025.
- ↑ "Confirmed candidates — Jonquière". Elections Canada. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ↑ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
- ↑ "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 12, 2019.
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