Tatiana Auguste | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament forTerrebonne | |
| Assumed office April 28, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2001 (age 23–24) Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Website | tatianaauguste |
Tatiana AugusteMP is aHaitian-Canadian politician. She was electedMember of Parliament forTerrebonne in the2025 federal election, as a member of theLiberal Party of Canada.
Auguste was born inPort-au-Prince, Haiti in 2001.[1][2] Her family immigrated to Canada in 2008, settling inMontreal. She studied economics atConcordia University, afterward working as anE-commerce consultant for the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec. Auguste also worked as an assistant toEmmanuel Dubourg, the then-Member of Parliament forBourassa.[3]
Standing for election for the first time, Auguste was thought to have defeated incumbentBloc Québécois MPNathalie Sinclair-Desgagné by 35 votes in the initial vote count. However, subsequent validation of the count byElections Canada instead showed that Sinclair-Desgagné had retained her seat by a 44-vote margin.[4] Due to the tight margin, an automatic recount was called.[5] On May 10, 2025, the judicial recount in theSuperior Court of Quebec flipped the seat back to Auguste by the margin a single vote, the narrowest result in the country.[6] She was one of four people born in the 21st century elected to theHouse of Commons in the 2025 election.[7] Auguste called the experience "a rollercoaster. From winning to not winning, and then winning again."[8]
On May 13, a Bloc voter disclosed that her mail-in ballot had been returned to her due to a postal code misprint on the envelope provided by Elections Canada.[9] After Elections Canada said that it did not havelegal standing to change the result, the Bloc announced on May 15 that it would seek a court order for a new by-election. The same day, Elections Canada stated that five other mail ballots with the incorrect returning address printed had been rejected for having arrived at the Elections Canada office in the riding after the deadline; the statement said that they could not determine if the incorrect address was responsible.[10]
| 2025 Canadian federal election:Terrebonne | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Tatiana Auguste | 23,352 | 38.741 | +9.37 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné | 23,351 | 38.739 | −2.66 | ||||
| Conservative | Adrienne Charles | 10,961 | 18.18 | +7.72 | ||||
| New Democratic | Maxime Beaudoin | 1,556 | 2.58 | −4.07 | ||||
| Green | Benjamin Rankin | 630 | 1.05 | −0.38 | ||||
| People's | Maria Cantore | 428 | 0.71 | −1.97 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 60,278 | 98.63 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 840 | 1.37 | ||||||
| Turnout | 61,118 | 68.12 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 89,725 | |||||||
| Liberalnotional gain fromBloc Québécois | Swing | +6.02 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[11][12] | ||||||||
| Notes: This riding's results were subject to an automatic judicial recount on May 7, 2025.[13] Number of eligible voters does not include election day registrations. | ||||||||