Gilles Labbé
Gilles Labbé | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Masson | |
| In office December 14, 1998 – April 14, 2003 | |
| Preceded by | Yves Blais |
| Succeeded by | Luc Thériault |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 9, 1948 Montreal, Quebec |
| Political party | Parti Québécois |
| Profession | Aid officer |
Gilles Labbé (born March 9, 1948) is a Quebec politician. He served as the member for Masson as a member of the Parti Québécois from 1998 until 2003.
Biography[]
Labbé was a team leader and socio-economic aid officer for the City of Montreal for almost 30 years.
Political career[]
Labbé served as a Le Gardeur municipal councillor from 1982 until 1994 and then became the mayor from 1994 until his election. He also served concurrently as Prefect of L'Assomption Regional County Municipality from 1996 until 1998.
Labbé was named as a replacement candidate for Yves Blais, who died of a heart attack eight days before the 1998 election, for the district of Masson, and won in an election that was postponed until 12 December of that year. He served as a backbench supporter in the Bouchard government and the Landry government, serving as Parliamentary assistant to the Minister of State for Administration and the Public Service and President of the Treasury board in the latter.
He did not seek re-election in 2003.[1]
Electoral record[]
Provincial[]
| 1998 Quebec general election: Masson | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Gilles Labbé | 17,529 | 64.03 | -0.16 | ||||
| Action démocratique | Éric Parent | 4,914 | 17.95 | +4.84 | ||||
| Liberal | Marc-André Plante | 4,453 | 16.27 | -4.62 | ||||
| Bloc Pot | Philippe Humphreys | 295 | 1.08 | – | ||||
| Socialist Democracy | Marco Legrand | 143 | 0.52 | – | ||||
| Independent | George Butcher | 42 | 0.15 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 27,376 | 99.06 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 261 | 0.94 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 27,637 | 60.15 | -22.56 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 45,949 | – | – | |||||
| Note: The 1998 election was postponed to December 14, 1998 in Masson due to the death of a candidate | ||||||||
| Parti Québécois hold | Swing | +2.39 | ||||||
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