| René Émard | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament for Vaudreuil | |
| In office 25 June 1968 – 29 October 1972 | |
| Preceded by | Riding created |
| Succeeded by | Hal Herbert |
| Member of Parliament for Vaudreuil—Soulanges | |
| In office 8 April 1963 – 24 June 1968 | |
| Preceded by | Marcel Bourbonnais |
| Succeeded by | Riding abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1914-09-01)1 September 1914 Châteauguay, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | 7 June 1984(1984-06-07) (aged 69) |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Profession | unionist |
René Émard (1 September 1914 – 7 June 1984) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Châteauguay, Quebec and worked as a unionist. He served during the Second World War in the Régiment de Maisonneuve and the Régiment de la Chaudière. He was a member of the Canadian occupation force in the Netherlands.
He was first elected in the riding of Vaudreuil—Soulanges in the 1963 general election and re-elected there in 1965. In the 1968 election, he was elected to a third term in the district of Vaudreuil. Émard retired from Parliament in 1972. He served as mayor of L'Île-Perrot, Quebec from 1977 to 1981.
Electoral record
| 1968 Canadian federal election: Vaudreuil | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | René Émard | 29,830 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative | Harold G. Fairhead | 7,654 | ||||||
| New Democratic | Maurice Daviau | 2,905 | ||||||
| 1963 Canadian federal election: Vaudreuil—Soulanges | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | René Émard | 8,639 | 49.75 | +3.72 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | J.-Marcel Bourbonnais | 6,031 | 34.73 | -12.81 | ||||
| Social Credit | Marcel Lessard | 2,340 | 13.48 | +7.05 | ||||
| Independent | Gérard Raymond | 354 | 2.04 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 17,364 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1962 Canadian federal election: Vaudreuil—Soulanges | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | J.-Marcel Bourbonnais | 8,392 | 47.54 | -5.33 | ||||
| Liberal | Pierre Léger | 8,126 | 46.03 | -1.09 | ||||
| Social Credit | Gabriel Godin | 1,135 | 6.43 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 17,653 | 100.00 | ||||||
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