Sylvie Bérubé
Canadian politician
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Sylvie Bérubé is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou from 2019 to 2025. A member of the Bloc Québécois (BQ), her riding encompassed more than half of Quebec, covering over one hundred ninety million acres (770,000 km2) in the northwest of the province.
Sylvie Bérubé | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou | |
| In office October 21, 2019 – April 28, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Roméo Saganash |
| Succeeded by | Mandy Gull-Masty |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Bloc Québécois |
Political career
Before entering federal politics, Bérubé was president of the local Parti Québécois association in Abitibi-Est for three years.[1] In July 2019, she was selected as the Bloc Québécois candidate for the federal election[1] and won the seat in October, succeeding NDP MP Roméo Saganash.[2] She was re-elected in 2021.[3]
From 2021 to 2025, Bérubé served as the critic of families, children and social development in the Bloc Québécois Shadow Cabinet.[4] In the House of Commons, she served as vice-chair of the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee.[citation needed]
In the 2025 election, she was unseated by Liberal candidate Mandy Gull-Masty.[5]
Electoral history
| 2021 Canadian federal election: Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Sylvie Bérubé | 10,784 | 37.92 | +1.81 | $18,335.60 | |||
| Liberal | Lise Kistabish | 7,384 | 25.97 | –2.34 | $33,563.25 | |||
| Conservative | Steve Corriveau | 4,508 | 15.85 | –0.70 | $17,415.31 | |||
| New Democratic | Pauline Lameboy | 3,323 | 11.69 | –1.27 | $2,453.20 | |||
| People's | Michaël Cloutier | 1,072 | 3.77 | +2.57 | $0.00 | |||
| Free | Cédric Brazeau | 594 | 2.09 | – | $653.98 | |||
| Green | Didier Pilon | 442 | 1.55 | –2.09 | $0.00 | |||
| Marijuana | Jimmy Levesque | 329 | 1.16 | –0.06 | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 28,436 | 100.00 | – | $130,889.29 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 856 | 2.92 | +0.37 | |||||
| Turnout | 29,292 | 44.92 | –5.28 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 65,211 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois hold | Swing | +2.08 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[6] | ||||||||
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Sylvie Bérubé | 11,432 | 36.11 | +17.57 | $21,739.42 | |||
| Liberal | Isabelle Bergeron | 8,963 | 28.31 | -3.83 | $28,187.31 | |||
| Conservative | Martin Ferron | 5,240 | 16.55 | +7.25 | none listed | |||
| New Democratic | Jacline Rouleau | 4,104 | 12.96 | -24.06 | $1,679.03 | |||
| Green | Kiara Cabana-Whiteley | 1,151 | 3.64 | +1.38 | none listed | |||
| Marijuana | Daniel Simon | 387 | 1.22 | – | none listed | |||
| People's | Guillaume Lanouette | 379 | 1.20 | – | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 31,656 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 828 | |||||||
| Turnout | 32,484 | 50.2 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 64,651 | |||||||
| Bloc Québécois gain from New Democratic | Swing | +10.70 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[7][8] | ||||||||