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Yves Lévesque
Mayor of Trois-Rivières, Quebec
In office
November 4, 2001 – December 27, 2018
Preceded byGuy Leblanc
Succeeded byJean Lamarche
Personal details
Born1957
Political partyConservative (federal)
Conservative (provincial; 2021-present)
Other political
affiliations		CAQ (provincial; after 2003, before 2021)
Parti Quebecois (provincial; before 2003)

Yves Lévesque (born 1957) is a Canadian politician, who served as Mayor of Trois-Rivières between 2001 and 2018.

Career

City Councillor

Lévesque won his first electoral victory in 1994, when he became city councilor in Trois-Rivières-Ouest. He was re-elected in 1998.

Mayor of Trois-Rivières

In the wake of the province-wide municipal merging of 2001, he ran for Mayor of Trois-Rivières and won an upset victory against favourite candidate and Cap-de-la-Madeleine Mayor Alain Croteau. In the 2003 provincial election, he campaigned in favour of the re-election of Parti Québécois incumbent Guy Julien, who lost.

In 2005, Julien ran against Lévesque for mayor, but the incumbent was easily re-elected with 70% of the vote.

Recently, Lévesque has been trying to get the Trois-Rivières Draveurs, a franchise of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, back in town.

On December 27, 2018, Lévesque announced he was retiring as mayor for medical reasons.

Federal politics

Lévesque with Andrew Scheer in 2019

Lévesque officially joined the Conservative Party of Canada in May 2018, taking out a party membership and speaking at the party's convention in Saint-Hyacinthe. He stated at the time that he was considering running for the party in the 43rd election. He joined the Conservative Party because of its stated goal of decentralizing power to the provinces.

On May 30, 2019, Lévesque was named the Conservative candidate for the riding of Trois-Rivières. During the race, he was expected to win; however, he lost the race, standing third. Lévesque blamed party leader Andrew Scheer's first French-language debate, wherein Scheer's perceived inability to defend his personal views from the other leaders shifted support from the Conservatives in Quebec, which never recovered.

Lévesque ran in Trois-Rivières again as a Conservative in 2021 and gained 17,027 votes (an increase of 1,787) but came in second.

Electoral record

Federal

2021 Canadian federal election: Trois-Rivières
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Bloc Québécois René Villemure 17,136 29.49 +1.01 $16,854.26
Conservative Yves Lévesque 17,053 29.35 +4.17 $40,285.49
Liberal Martin Francoeur 16,637 28.63 +2.57 $80,504.68
New Democratic Adis Simidzija 4,680 8.05 -8.61 $4,281.85
People's Jean Landry 1,115 1.92 +0.99 $0.00
Green Andrew Holman 754 1.30 -1.17 $0.00
Free Gilles Brodeur 735 1.26 – $1,244.68
Total valid votes/expense limit 58,110 97.95 – $120,485.08
Total rejected ballots 1,214 2.05 –
Turnout 59,324 64.19 -2.53
Eligible voters 92,413
Bloc Québécois hold Swing -1.58
Source: Elections Canada
2019 Canadian federal election: Trois-Rivières
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Bloc Québécois Louise Charbonneau 17,240 28.48 +11.48 $19,118.47
Liberal Valérie Renaud-Martin 15,774 26.06 -4.16 $59,713.01
Conservative Yves Lévesque 15,240 25.17 +6.54 none listed
New Democratic Robert Aubin 10,090 16.67 -15.16 none listed
Green Marie Duplessis 1,492 2.46 +0.75 none listed
People's Marc-André Gingras 565 0.93 – $5,574.25
Independent Ronald St-Onge Lynch 137 0.23 – $0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit 60,538 100.0  
Total rejected ballots 1,092 1.77
Turnout 61,630 66.73
Eligible voters 92,362
Bloc Québécois gain from New Democratic Swing +7.82
Source: Elections Canada

Municipal (mayoral)

2017

Mayoral candidate Vote %
Yves Lévesque (X) 26,503 51.37
Jean-François Aubin 23,252 45.07
André Bertrand 1,837 3.56

2013

Party Mayoral candidate Vote %
  Independent Yves Lévesque (X) 29,204 49.25
  Independent Sylvie Tardif 18,491 31.18
  Independent Catherine Dufresne 8,324 14.04
  Independent Marcelle Girard 1,609 2.71
  Force 3R Richard St-Germain 1,321 2.23
  Independent Pierre Benoit Fortin 352 0.59

2009

Candidate Party Vote %
Yves Lévesque (X) Independent 25,637 54.9
André Carle Force 3R 21,077 45.1

2005

Candidate Vote %
Yves Lévesque (inc.) 34,298 70.3
Guy Julien 13,741 28.2
Serge Simard 754 1.5

Footnotes

  1. Yves Lévesque l'emporte facilement, Radio-Canada, November 7, 2005
  2. Le retour des Draveurs ?, Radio-Canada, May 30, 2007
  3. Yves Lévesque quitte la mairie de Trois-Rivières, Radio-Canada
  4. Marquis, Melanie (12 May 2018). "Ex Bloc Quebecois leader Michel Gauthier joining Conservatives". iPolitics. Retrieved 14 July 2019. One of those being courted by the party is the well-known mayor of Trois-Rivieres, Yves Levesque, who said Saturday that he was seriously considering whether to make the leap to federal politics.
  5. Lepage, Caroline. "Yves Lévesque digère déjà bien sa "défaite"". Le Journal de Montréal. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  6. "Yves Lévesque devient candidat du Parti conservateur". Le Nouvelliste Trois-Rivières. La Presse. 30 May 2019. Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  7. Stephanie Levitz. "Bittersweet Conservative post-election gathering set for Ottawa Wednesday". The Chronicle-Journal. The Canadian Press. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  8. "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  9. "Election Night Results - Electoral Districts".
  10. "Election 2021 Results Map | CTV News | Canada Election Coverage".
  11. "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
  12. "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  13. "Election Night Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
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