Christos Sirros

Christos Sirros
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Laurier-Dorion
In office September 12, 1994 – June 17, 2004
Preceded by	Riding created
Succeeded by	Elsie Lefebvre
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Laurier
In office April 13, 1981 – September 12, 1994
Preceded by	André Marchand
Succeeded by	Riding abolished
Personal details
Born	(1948-02-02) 2 February 1948 Athens, Greece
Political party	Liberal

Christos Sirros (Greek: Χρήστος Σύρρος; born 2 February 1948) is a politician in the Province of Quebec, Canada. He was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) for the Laurier-Dorion riding for two decades as a member of the Liberal Party of Quebec.

A graduate from McGill University, he first won the Laurier riding in 1981, defeating Parti Québécois (PQ) candidate Nadia Assimopoulos. The riding of Laurier-Dorion was created for the 1994 election, in which Sirros defeated PQ candidate Benoît Henry by 6,930 votes. He was most notably the Minister of Indian affairs under Robert Bourassa and Minister of Natural Resources under Daniel Johnson, Jr. He was the National Assembly's First Vice-President from June 2003 to June 2004.

Sirros left his seat in June 2004; he was then appointed Quebec Delegate General for Belgium, and served in the position until 2013. In December 2014, he was appointed the Quebec Delegate General for the United Kingdom.

Electoral record

2003 Quebec general election: Laurier-Dorion
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Christos Sirros	16,052	53.14	-3.56
	Parti Québécois	Tomas Arbieto	9,775	32.36	+0.71
	Action démocratique	Mario Spina	1,996	6.61	-0.85
	UFP	William Sloan	922	3.05	–
	Green	Philippe Morlighem	595	1.97	–
	Bloc Pot	Sylvain Mainville	375	1.24	-0.14
	Marxist–Leninist	Peter Macrisopoulos	168	0.56	-0.03
	No designation	Charles Robidoux	131	0.43	–
	No designation	Sylvie Charbin	117	0.38	–
	Equality	Yang Zhang	78	0.26	–
Total valid votes			30,209	98.39	–
Total rejected ballots			495	1.61	–
Turnout			30,704	64.36	-11.85
Electors on the lists			47,705	–	–

1985 Quebec general election: Laurier
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Christos Sirros	16,004	65.80
	Parti Québécois	Ivano Vellano	5,966	24.47
	New Democratic	Ioannis Kourtesis	830	3.41
	Parti indépendantiste	Christian Biron	425	1.74
	Progressive Conservative	Irene Makris	393	1.61
	Humanist	Gustavo Jara	232	0.95
	Independent	Christopher Mcall	174	0.71
	Communist	Samuel Walsh	172	0.71
	Commonwealth of Canada	Benoit Chalifoux	146	0.60
Total valid votes			24,382	97.86
Rejected and declined votes			533	2.14
Turnout			24,915	68.86
Electors on the lists			36,128
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

1981 Quebec general election: Laurier
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Christos Sirros	16,719	57.99
	Parti Québécois	Nadia Assimopoulos	9,871	34.24
	Union Nationale	Michel PontBriand	675	2.34		Workers Communist	Raymonde Lebreux	469	1.63		Independent	Basile Papachristou	263	0.91		Freedom of Choice	Stephen J Smith	252	0.88
	Libertarian	Nicholas Vlahos	202	0.70
	Marxist–Leninist	Panagiotis Macrisopoulos	164	0.57
	Communist	Nikolas Tsois	142	0.49		Independent	Sotirios Athanasiou	73	0.25
Total valid votes			28,830	98.67
Rejected and declined votes			389	1.33
Turnout			29,219	80.21
Electors on the lists			36,428
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

References

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