Viviane Lapointe | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament forSudbury | |
| Assumed office September 20, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Lefebvre |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Residence(s) | Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |
Viviane Lapointe is a Canadian politician, who was elected to theCanadian House of Commons in the2021 Canadian federal election. She represents the electoral district ofSudbury as a member of theLiberal Party of Canada.[1]
Lapointe was born inElliot Lake, Ontario, where her father was a miner. She later moved to theNew Sudbury neighbourhood, where she grew up, graduating fromÉcole secondaire Macdonald-Cartier.[2]
She worked for the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines before later becoming executive director of Community Living Greater Sudbury.
In June 2021, she announced her intention to seek theLiberal Party of Canada nomination for the2021 Canadian federal election, seeking to replace outgoing Liberal MPPaul Lefebvre.[3] After successfully winning the nomination overCinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival directorTammy Frick,[4] she went on to win her riding in the 2021 election with 34 per cent of the vote.[5]
| 2025 Canadian federal election:Sudbury | ||||||||
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| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Viviane Lapointe | 31,329 | 51.79 | +16.81 | ||||
| Conservative | Ian Symington | 23,748 | 39.25 | +11.43 | ||||
| New Democratic | Nadia Verrelli | 4,650 | 7.69 | –21.21 | ||||
| People's | Nicholas Bonderoff | 770 | 1.27 | –4.85 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | ||||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | 60,497 | 68.17 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 88,742 | |||||||
| Liberalnotional hold | Swing | +2.69 | ||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[6][7] | ||||||||
| 2021 Canadian federal election:Sudbury | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Viviane Lapointe | 15,871 | 34.5 | -6.4 | $81,822.79 | |||
| New Democratic | Nadia Verrelli | 13,569 | 29.5 | +0.6 | $82,941.50 | |||
| Conservative | Ian Symington | 12,747 | 27.7 | +7.1 | $89,028.04 | |||
| People's | Colette Andréa Methé | 2,735 | 5.9 | +4.1 | $3,349.70 | |||
| Green | David Robert Robinson | 940 | 2.0 | -4.7 | $0.00 | |||
| Independent | J. David Popescu | 111 | 0.2 | +0.05 | $180.22 | |||
| Total valid votes | 45,973 | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 313 | |||||||
| Turnout | 46,286 | 62.18 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 74,386 | |||||||
| Source:Elections Canada[8] | ||||||||
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