Claude-André Lachance
Claude-André Lachance | |
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Member of Parliament for Rosemont (Lafontaine; 1974–1979) | |
In office July 8, 1974 – September 4, 1984 | |
Preceded by | Shirley Martin |
Succeeded by | Georges-C. Lachance |
Personal details | |
Born | Montreal, Quebec | April 5, 1954
Political party | Liberal |
Relations | Georges-C. Lachance, father |
Committees | Chair, Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs (1980-1984) |
Portfolio | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State (Trade) (1980-1981) Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (1978-1979) |
Claude-André Lachance (born April 5, 1954) is a former Canadian politician. At the time of his election, aged 20, Lachance was the youngest person ever to be elected to the House of Commons of Canada, and held this record until the election of 19-year-old Pierre-Luc Dusseault in 2011.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was first elected as a Liberal candidate in the 1974 federal election in the Montreal riding of Rosemont. He was re-elected in the 1979 and 1980 elections. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (1979) and Minister of State (Trade) (1980–1981).
He earned a Civil Law degree from McGill University, followed by a master's degree in Public Law from University of Ottawa. He was admitted to the Québec Bar in 1977.
He is currently Government Affairs Director for Dow Canada.
Electoral record[]
hide1980 Canadian federal election: Rosemont | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Claude-André Lachance | 26,544 | 75.86 | +4.85 | ||||
New Democratic | Marcel Julien | 3,337 | 9.54 | +3.89 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | Léon Vellone | 2,260 | 6.46 | −1.44 | ||||
Rhinoceros | G. Mara Tremblay | 1,310 | 3.74 | +0.59 | ||||
Social Credit | Yvette Gosselin | 912 | 2.61 | −7.29 | ||||
Non-Affiliated | Jocelyne Lachapelle | 199 | 0.57 | |||||
Independent | René Denis | 197 | 0.56 | −0.73 | ||||
Union populaire | Monique Fournier | 139 | 0.40 | −0.02 | ||||
Marxist–Leninist | Francine Tremblay | 91 | 0.26 | −0.03 | ||||
Total valid votes | 34,989 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 543 | |||||||
Turnout | 35,532 | 63.91 | −9.75 | |||||
Electors on the lists | 55,596 | |||||||
Source: Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, Thirty-second General Election, 1980. |
hide1979 Canadian federal election: Rosemont | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Claude-André Lachance | 28,116 | 71.01 | |||||
Social Credit | Emery Whelan | 3,919 | 9.90 | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Léon Vellone | 3,129 | 7.90 | |||||
New Democratic | Marcel Julien | 2,238 | 5.65 | |||||
Rhinoceros | Francine Lévesque | 1,248 | 3.15 | – | ||||
Independent | René Denis | 509 | 1.29 | |||||
Union populaire | André Kishka | 167 | 0.42 | |||||
Communist | Bernadette LeBrun | 156 | 0.39 | |||||
Marxist–Leninist | Francine Tremblay | 115 | 0.29 | |||||
Total valid votes | 39,597 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 708 | |||||||
Turnout | 40,305 | 73.66 | ||||||
Electors on the lists | 54,718 | |||||||
Source: Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, Thirty-first General Election, 1979. |
References[]
- "Carleton University profile". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-02-14.
External links[]
- 1954 births
- Living people
- Liberal Party of Canada MPs
- McGill University Faculty of Law alumni
- Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
- Politicians from Montreal
- University of Ottawa alumni
- Dow Chemical Company employees