| Intro | Canadian politician | ||
| Is | Politician | ||
| From | Canada | ||
| Type | Politics | ||
| Gender | female | ||
| Birth | 7 April 1992, Sainte-Julie, Marguerite-D’Youville Regional County Municipality, Montérégie, Canada | ||
| Age: | 28 years | ||
| Star sign | Aries | ||
| Politics | Parti Québécois | ||
| Education |
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Catherine Fournier (born 7 April 1992) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a by-election on December 5, 2016. She represents the electoral district of Marie-Victorin. Fournier is the youngest member of the National Assembly, and the youngest woman ever elected to that body.
Originally elected as a member of the Parti Québécois, Fournier won a full term in 2018 even amid the PQ’s meltdown in Greater Montreal; she was the only surviving PQ member from the metro area. However, she quit the PQ on March 11, 2019 to sit as an independent MNA. She believed the party had lost its way ideologically, though she still considers herself a committed sovereigntist.
Before her election to the National Assembly, Fournier ran for the Bloc Québécois in the 2015 federal election in the riding of Montarville, finishing second. She also briefly served as the party’s vice-president.
Early life
Fournier was born in Sainte-Julie, Quebec on 7 April 1992. She holds an economics major and political science minor from the Université de Montréal. She was a political blogger and columnist for 103.3 FM.
Electoral record
Federal
Montarville
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Michel Picard | 18,848 | 32.54 | +20.03 | – | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Catherine Fournier | 16,460 | 28.42 | -0.66 | – | |||
| New Democratic | Djaouida Sellah | 14,296 | 24.68 | -19.85 | – | |||
| Conservative | Stéphane Duranleau | 6,284 | 10.85 | +1.25 | – | |||
| Green | Olivier Adam | 1,388 | 2.40 | -0.05 | – | |||
| Libertarian | Claude Leclair | 641 | 1.11 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 57,917 | 100.00 | $207,758.92 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 881 | 1.50 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 58,798 | 77.86 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 75,521 | |||||||
| Liberal gain from New Democratic | Swing | +19.94 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||
Provincial
Marie-Victorin
| Quebec provincial by-election, 2016 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Catherine Fournier | 6,302 | 52.49 | +14.33 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Carl Lévesque | 1,703 | 14.19 | +2.62 | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Julie Chapdelaine | 1,699 | 14.15 | -6.45 | ||||
| Liberal | Normand Parisien | 1,613 | 13.44 | -12.61 | ||||
| Green | Vincent Charbonneau | 315 | 2.62 | +0.30 | ||||
| Option nationale | Fabien Villemaire | 109 | 0.91 | +0.11 | ||||
| Parti travailliste du Québec | Roch Dumont | 101 | 0.84 | |||||
| Conservative | Hoang Nam Nguyen | 90 | 0.75 | |||||
| Changement intégrité pour notre Québec | Shirley Cedent | 30 | 0.25 | |||||
| Équipe autonomiste | Florent Portron | 22 | 0.18 | +0.04 | ||||
| Parti indépendantiste | Étienne Turgeon Pelletier | 21 | 0.17 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 12,005 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 147 | 1.21 | -0.70 | |||||
| Turnout | 12,152 | 25.71 | -40.62 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 47,267 | |||||||
| Parti Québécois hold | Swing | +5.85 | ||||||