Joël Arseneau | |
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 Arseneau in 2023 | |
| Member of theNational Assembly of Quebec forÎles-de-la-Madeleine | |
| Assumed office October 1, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Germain Chevarie |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Parti Québecois |
Joël Arseneau is aCanadian politician, who was elected to theNational Assembly of Quebec in the2018 provincial election.[1] He represents the electoral district ofÎles-de-la-Madeleine as a member of theParti Québécois.
As of September 8, 2024, he serves as the parliamentary leader of the Parti Québécois and the party's spokesperson on Health, Transport, International Relations and Francophonie, Mental Health, Loneliness, Fisheries and Mariculture, and for the Maritime Strategy.
Arseneau previously served as mayor ofLes Îles-de-la-Madeleine from 2005 to 2013.[2] He was removed from office on fraud charges resulting from delayed expense claim payments.[3] Although he was acquitted of the charges on the grounds that the issue was a personal accounting error rather than a deliberate attempt to defraud the municipality, he was barred in 2015 from running for municipal office for five years,[4] leading to some controversy when his selection as a Parti Québécois candidate for the provincial legislature was announced.[5]
| 2022 Quebec general election:Îles-de-la-Madeleine | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Joël Arseneau | 3,877 | 46.35 | +7.70 | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Jonathan Lapierre | 3,338 | 39.91 | +30.57 | ||||
| Liberal | Gil Thériault | 606 | 7.25 | –31.21 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Jean-Philippe Déraspe | 450 | 5.38 | –8.17 | ||||
| Conservative | Evan Leblanc | 93 | 1.11 | New | ||||
| Total valid votes | 8,364 | 98.96 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 88 | 1.04 | –0.90 | |||||
| Turnout | 8,452 | 75.74 | +3.08 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 11,159 | |||||||
| Parti Québécoishold | Swing | –11.44 | ||||||
| Source:Élections Québec[6] | ||||||||
| 2018 Quebec general election:Îles-de-la-Madeleine | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Joël Arseneau | 2,955 | 38.65 | -1.48 | ||||
| Liberal | Maryse Lapierre | 2,940 | 38.46 | -11.66 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Robert Boudreau-Welsh | 1,036 | 13.55 | +7.52 | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Yves Renaud | 714 | 9.34 | +6.17 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 7,645 | 98.06 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 151 | 1.94 | ||||||
| Turnout | 7,796 | 72.66 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 10,729 | |||||||
| Parti Québécoisgain fromLiberal | Swing | +5.09 | ||||||
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