Paul Lefebvre (Canadian politician)
Canadian politician (born 1974)
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Paul A. Lefebvre (born 1974) is a Canadian politician currently serving as the mayor of Greater Sudbury. He was a member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Sudbury from 2015 to 2021.[2]
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Paul Lefebvre | |
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Lefebvre in 2025 | |
| Mayor of Greater Sudbury | |
| Assumed office November 15, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Brian Bigger |
| Member of Parliament for Sudbury | |
| In office October 19, 2015 – August 15, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Glenn Thibeault |
| Succeeded by | Viviane Lapointe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 24, 1974 Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada |
| Party | Independent |
Other political affiliations | Liberal |
| Spouse | Dr. Lyne Giroux[1] |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | |
| Profession |
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| Website | https://www.paullefebvre.ca/ |
Lefebvre worked as a lawyer, spending some time as counsel to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and teaching international tax law at the University of Ottawa. In his business career, he was the owner of local media firm Le5 Communications, whose holdings included French-language radio and newspapers.[2][3] He won the Liberal Party's nomination contest in Sudbury on March 28, 2015, over former mayor Marianne Matichuk.[4]
Lefebvre served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources from August 31, 2018 until March 18, 2021.[5]
In March 2021, Lefebvre announced that he would not run for a third term in the 2021 Canadian federal election.[6] He won election as mayor of Greater Sudbury in the 2022 Greater Sudbury municipal election on October 24, 2022,[7] and took office on November 15.[8]
Electoral record
Municipal
| 2026 Greater Sudbury municipal election | ||
| Mayoral Candidate | Vote | % |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Lefebvre (X) | ||
| Miranda Rocca-Circelli | ||
| Troy Crowder | ||
| Bob Johnston | ||
| Rodney Newton | ||
| Joseph Boutros | ||
| Michael McIntosh | ||
| Keenan Menard | ||
| Total | ||
| 2022 Greater Sudbury municipal election | ||
| Mayoral Candidate | Vote | % |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Lefebvre | 26,187 | 52.44 |
| Evelyn Dutrisac | 9,094 | 18.21 |
| Miranda Rocca-Circelli | 6,651 | 13.32 |
| Mila Wong | 3,002 | 6.01 |
| Bob Johnston | 1,860 | 3.72 |
| Devin Labranche | 1,367 | 2.74 |
| Don Gravelle | 1,090 | 2.18 |
| Brian Bigger (X) | 607 | 1.22 |
| J. David Popescu | 83 | 0.17 |
| Total | 50,741 | 100.00 |
Federal
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Sudbury | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Paul Lefebvre | 19,643 | 40.94 | -6.48 | $66,620.57 | |||
| New Democratic | Beth Mairs | 13,885 | 28.94 | +1.15 | $25,924.07 | |||
| Conservative | Pierre St-Amant | 9,864 | 20.56 | -0.54 | $20,356.06 | |||
| Green | Bill Crumplin | 3,225 | 6.72 | +3.68 | $13,223.85 | |||
| People's | Sean Paterson | 873 | 1.82 | – | none listed | |||
| Animal Protection | Chanel Lalonde | 282 | 0.59 | – | none listed | |||
| Independent | Charlene Sylvestre | 135 | 0.28 | – | none listed | |||
| Independent | J. David Popescu | 70 | 0.15 | -0.02 | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 47,977 | 99.24 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 317 | 0.66 | +0.24 | |||||
| Turnout | 48,294 | 65.36 | -3.86 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 75,035 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -3.81 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[9][10] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Sudbury | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Paul Lefebvre | 23,534 | 47.41 | +29.43 | $112,165.16 | |||
| New Democratic | Paul Loewenberg | 13,793 | 27.79 | -22.13 | $95,385.84 | |||
| Conservative | Fred Slade | 10,473 | 21.10 | -7.25 | $192,788.16 | |||
| Green | David Robinson | 1,509 | 3.04 | +0.05 | $4,970.15 | |||
| Independent | Jean-Raymond Audet | 134 | 0.27 | – | – | |||
| Communist | Elizabeth Rowley | 102 | 0.20 | – | – | |||
| Independent | J. David Popescu | 84 | 0.17 | -0.09 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 49,629 | 100.0 | $204,934.28 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 209 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 49,838 | 69.61 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 71,594 | |||||||
| Liberal gain from New Democratic | Swing | +34.77 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[11][12] | ||||||||