Gérard-Raymond Morin
Gérard-Raymond Morin | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Dubuc | |
| In office September 25, 1989 – November 30, 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Hubert Desbiens |
| Succeeded by | Jacques Côté |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 27, 1940 La Baie, Quebec |
| Political party | Parti Québécois |
| Profession | Politician |
Gérard-Raymond Morin (born January 17, 1940) is a Quebec politician. He served as the member for Dubuc in the Quebec National Assembly as a member of the Parti Québécois from 1989 until 1998.
Biography[edit]
Morin graduated in commerce from the Collège Saint-Joseph in La Baie in 1958. He was employed at Consolidated-Bathurst as a paper-maker.
He was the President of the Consolidated-Bathurst Plant National Union from 1976 to 1982.
Political career[edit]
Morin was a municipal councilor from 1980 to 1984 and then became Mayor of La Baie from 1984 to 1988. He ran in Dubuc in 1989 and won, he was re-elected without any difficulty in 1994 as the Parti Québécois formed the government
He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister responsible for the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region in the Bouchard government.
He did not seek re-election in 1998.[1]
Electoral record[edit]
Provincial[edit]
| 1994 Quebec general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Parti Québécois | Gérard-Raymond Morin | 16,759 | 63.50 | |||||
| Liberal | Jeanne Lavoie | 7,142 | 27.06 | |||||
| Action démocratique | Jean-François Simard | 2,162 | 8.19 | |||||
| Natural Law | Daniel Gaudet | 328 | 1.24 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 26,391 | 98.54 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 392 | 1.46 | ||||||
| Turnout | 26,783 | 77.74 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 34.450 | – | ||||||
| 1989 Quebec general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Parti Québécois | Gérard-Raymond Morin | 12,589 | 54.91 | |||||
| Liberal | Antonin Tremblay | 10,337 | 45.09 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 22,926 | 96.49 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 833 | 3.51 | ||||||
| Turnout | 23,759 | 73.07 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 32,517 | – | ||||||