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André Boulerice (born May 8, 1946 in Joliette, Quebec) is a Québécois politician and gay rights activist. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in Montreal.
Born in Joliette, he graduated in specialized education from Cégep du Vieux Montréal. He joined the Parti Québécois in 1970 and later worked for the Chambly school board.
He was elected in the Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques riding in 1989, formerly under Claude Charron. Boulerice was reelected in 1989, 1994, 1998 and 2003. He was also the Deputy Government Leader, President of the Quebec division of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie and Quebec immigration minister. He helped introduce civil union for same-sex couples. Boulerice resigned in September 2005.
Electoral record (partial)
| Quebec general election, 1998: Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Parti Québécois | André Boulerice | 16,530 | 52.94 | −1.79 | ||||
| Liberal | Claude Longpré | 9,722 | 31.14 | −1.79 | ||||
| Action démocratique | Chrystian Carbonneau | 3,171 | 10.16 | +4.63 | ||||
| Bloc Pot | Patrice Caron | 715 | 2.29 | – | ||||
| Socialist Democracy | Ginette Gauthier | 629 | 2.01 | −0.02 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Ginette Boutet | 120 | 0.38 | +0.14 | ||||
| Communist | André Cloutier | 115 | 0.37 | +0.04 | ||||
| Natural Law | Alain Lord | 107 | 0.34 | −0.47 | ||||
| Equality | Peter Romaniuk | 77 | 0.25 | – | ||||
| N/A (Communist League) | Michel Dugré | 38 | 0.12 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 31,224 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 470 | |||||||
| Turnout | 31,694 | 67.51 | −7.56 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 46,950 | |||||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||
| Quebec general election, 1994: Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Parti Québécois | André Boulerice | 16,723 | 54.73 | |||||
| Liberal | Martin Oré | 10,061 | 32.93 | |||||
| Action démocratique | André Belzile | 1,691 | 5.53 | |||||
| New Democratic | Jocelyne Dupuis | 621 | 2.03 | |||||
| Non-Affiliated | Claude Leduc | 479 | 1.57 | |||||
| Natural Law | Christian Lord | 246 | 0.81 | |||||
| Sovereignty | Daniel Brunette | 223 | 0.73 | |||||
| Independent | Martram X.T Marxram | 109 | 0.36 | |||||
| Commonwealth of Canada | François Ludanyi | 108 | 0.35 | |||||
| Communist | André Cloutier | 100 | 0.33 | |||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Normand Chouinard | 74 | 0.24 | |||||
| Development | Charles Thibault | 62 | 0.20 | |||||
| Non-Affiliated | Guy Tremblay | 59 | 0.19 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 30,556 | |||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 561 | |||||||
| Turnout | 31,117 | 75.07 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 41,452 | |||||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||