Nathalie Rochefort

Nathalie Rochefort is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Mercier in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2001 to 2003.

A member of the Quebec Liberal Party, she was elected in a by-election on April 9, 2001, following the resignation of Robert Perreault. She was defeated by Daniel Turp of the Parti Québécois in the 2003 election. She ran again in the 2007 election, but was not re-elected.

Rochefort is also a long-time member of the federal New Democratic Party (the Quebec Liberal Party is not affiliated with the Liberal Party of Canada). She endorsed Brian Topp for the leader of the party in 2012.^[1] Rochefort subsequently joined the federal Liberal Party ahead of the 2019 election, and is running as the party's candidate in Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel.^[2]

Electoral record

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election: Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Louis Plamondon	29,653	56.66	+16.68
	Liberal	Nathalie Rochefort	9,332	17.83	-6.43
	Conservative	Pierre-André Émond	8,434	16.11	+4.7
	New Democratic	Carole Lennard	2,732	5.22	-16.87
	Green	David Turcotte	1,697	3.24	+0.98
	People's	Richard Synnott	489	0.93	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			52,337	100.0
Total rejected ballots			1,042	1.95	+0.15
Turnout			53,379	67.43	-0.20
Eligible voters			79,165
Source: Elections Canada^[3]^[4]

v t e 2003 Quebec general election: Mercier
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Daniel Turp	13,334	45.26	+16.64
	Liberal	Nathalie Rochefort	8,414	28.56	−6.10
	UFP	Amir Khadir	5,278	17.92	-
	Action démocratique	Vivian Goulder	1,855	6.30	+0.03
	Bloc Pot	Lyne Rivard	579	1.97	−3.21
Total valid votes			29,460	100,00
	Parti Québécois gain from Liberal		Swing		+11.37
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

v t e 2007 Quebec general election: Mercier
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Daniel Turp	9,426	33.35	−11.91
	Québec solidaire	Amir Khadir	8,303	29.38	+11.46
	Liberal	Nathalie Rochefort	5,601	19.82	−8.74
	Green	Sylvain Valiquette	2,398	8.48	–
	Action démocratique	Gabriel Tupula Yamba	2,381	8.42	+2.12
	Bloc Pot	Nicky Tanguay	156	0.55	−1.42
Total valid votes			28,265	99.17
Total rejected ballots			237	0.83
Turnout			28,502	69.32
Electors on the lists			41,115
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

"Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

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