Nathalie Rochefort

Nathalie Rochefort
MNA for Mercier
In office 2001–2003
Preceded by	Robert Perreault
Succeeded by	Daniel Turp
Personal details
Born	1970 Quebec City
Political party	Liberal

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]

Electoral record

Federal

Canadian federal election, 1993: Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Pierrette Venne	34,959	56.90	$35,450
	Liberal	Angéline Fournier	19,615	31.92	$61,363
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Lesage	4,520	7.36	$20,526
	New Democratic	Nathalie Rochefort	903	1.47	$0
	Natural Law	Jean Cerigo	868	1.41	$0
	National	Claude Alain	339	0.55	$1,581
	Commonwealth of Canada	Bruno Lipke	240	0.39	$0
Total valid votes			61,444	100.00
Total rejected ballots			2,495
Turnout			63,939	81.54
Electors on the lists			78,418
Source: Thirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Financial figures taken from official contributions and expenses provided by Elections Canada.

Provincial

Quebec provincial by-election, April 9, 2001: Mercier
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Nathalie Rochefort	5,953	34.66	+6.24
	Parti Québécois	Claudel Toussaint	4,915	28.62	−26.76
	Independent	Paul Cliche	4,163	24.24	-
	Action démocratique	André Larocque	1,077	6.27	−2.62
	Bloc Pot	Pierre Audette	890	5.18	+2.07
	No designation	Man Yee Cheung	67	0.39	-
	Independent	Charles Robidoux	50	0.29	-
	No designation	Michel Prairie	32	0.19	-
	Independent	Régent Millette	27	0.16	-
Total valid votes			17,174	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			352
Turnout			17,526	41.09
Electors on the lists			42,651

Quebec general election, 2003: 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
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

Quebec general election, 2007: 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.

Notes and references

1. "The former Quebec Liberal MNA Nathalie Rochefort is supporting Brian Topp", briantopp.ca, March 5, 2012 (archive)

External links

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