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Gaston Tremblay

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Gaston Tremblay
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Montmorency
In office
1966–1970
Preceded byAlbert Gervais
Succeeded byLouis Vézina
Personal details
Born(1924-04-16)April 16, 1924
Quebec City, Quebec
DiedJuly 11, 1998(1998-07-11) (aged 74)
Quebec City, Quebec
Political partyUnion Nationale

Gaston Tremblay (April 16, 1924 – July 11, 1998) was a politician in Quebec, Canada and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (MLA).[1]

Background

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He was born in Quebec City on April 16, 1924 and became a physician.[citation needed]

Mayor

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Tremblay served as Mayor of Beauport, Quebec from 1961 to 1970.[citation needed]

Member of the legislature

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He unsuccessfully ran as a Union Nationale candidate in the 1962 election in the provincial district of Quebec County. Tremblay was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in the 1966 election and represented the district of Montmorency.[citation needed]

He crossed the floor on October 30, 1968 to sit as an Independent. He then joined the Parti nationaliste chrétien,[1][2] and then in 1969, he joined the Ralliement créditiste and became its first sitting member in the provincial legislature.[citation needed]

Tremblay ran as a Ralliement créditiste candidate and was defeated in the 1970 and 1973 elections.[citation needed]

Electoral history

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In Montmorency (provincial electoral district)

1973 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Marcel Bédard 15,248 51.89
Parti Québécois Clément Richard 9,275 31.56
Parti créditiste Gaston Tremblay 3,863 13.15
Union Nationale Pierre Linteau 999 3.40
Total valid votes 29,385 97.63
Total rejected ballots 714 2.37
Turnout 30,099 84.52
Electors on the lists 35,610
1970 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Louis Vézina 9,714 32.65
Ralliement créditiste Gaston Tremblay 9,674 32.51
Union Nationale J.-Eugène Houde 6,337 21.30
Parti Québécois Gérard Langlois 3,729 12.53
Independent Jean-Guy Bolduc 300 1.01
Total valid votes 29,753 97.84
Total rejected ballots 657 2.16
Turnout 30,410 87.35
Electors on the lists 34,812
1966 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Union Nationale Gaston Tremblay 14,151 54.25
Liberal Réal Therrien 9,627 36.90
RIN Guy Pouliot 1,423 5.46
Ralliement national Maurice Talbot 885 3.39
Total valid votes 26,086 98.01
Total rejected ballots 529 1.99
Turnout 26,615 82.94
Electors on the lists 32,091

References

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  1. ^ a b "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
  2. ^ "Annonce du départ de Gaston Tremblay de l'Union nationale". Bilan du siècle. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

See also

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