Action démocratique du Québec candidates in the 2003 Quebec provincial election
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The Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) party ran a full slate of 125 candidates in the 2003 Quebec provincial election and elected four members to emerge as the third-largest party in the National Assembly.
Candidates (incomplete)
| Riding | Candidate's Name | Notes | Gender | Residence | Occupation | Votes | % | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anjou | Martin Janson | Janson sought election the Commission scolaire de Montréal in 2003 and worked for the municipal Vision Montreal party in the late 2000s.[1] | M | 4,319 | 13.20 | 3rd | ||
| Argenteuil | Sylvain Demers | Demers was a president of a Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) local at a General Motors plant in Boisbriand, Quebec in the late 1990s and early 2000s.[2] | M | 4,372 | 18.44 | 3rd | ||
| Brome—Missisquoi | Pierre Plante | Plante (born 1951) has been a filmmaker since 1980. He made a documentary entitled Le jeu, ça change pas le monde sauf que... in 2000, exploring problem gambling and the practices of Loto-Québec.[3] The work was cited as documentary of the year by the Quebec Cinema Critics Association.[4] He once supported Quebec sovereignty, though he said in 2003 that he no longer considered it to be viable.[5] | M | 6,018 | 18.05 | 3rd | ||
| Chapleau | Berthe Miron | Miron was born in Rouyn-Noranda and was sixty years old during the 2003 election. She was a teacher for thirty years and a municipal councillor in Gatineau from 1983 to 1999. Miron ran for mayor of Gatineau in 1999, without success. In the 2003 election, she endorsed private medical clinics and education vouchers.[6][7] | F | 3,949 | 13.12 | 3rd | ||
| Gaspé | Denis Paradis | Paradis is a lawyer in Gaspé. He supported Belinda Stronach's bid to lead the Conservative Party of Canada in its 2004 leadership election.[8] Paradis is not to be confused with the former Canadian cabinet minister Denis Paradis. | M | 1,743 | 9.15 | 3rd | ||
| Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | Louise Blackburn | Blackburn has been a candidate in two Montreal municipal elections.[9] | F | 2,449 | 10.40 | 3rd | ||
| Jean-Lesage | Aurel Bélanger | Aurel is an agronomist and data processing specialist. He had worked with the United Nations for sixteen years before the 2003 election, focusing the establishment of coffee plantations.[10] He focused on health issues in the 2003 election.[11] | M | 8,912 | 25.35 | 3rd | ||
| Richelieu | Micheline Ulrich | Ulrich is a nurse and administrator. She co-authored a book entitled Soins d'urgence: perspective infirmière in 1994 and was elected as treasurer of the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec in 1996, 1997, and 1998.[12] In 2000, she took part in efforts to recruit nurses to Quebec from France.[13] When the 2003 election was called, she was working for the Ministry of Health and Social Services in the recruitment of infirmary nurses.[14] Considered a prominent ADQ candidate, she represented her party in a high-profile provincial debate on health care.[15] | F | 3,756 | 13.11 | 3rd |