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Jamie Nicholls (born October 15, 1971) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election to represent the electoral district of Vaudreuil-Soulanges in Quebec as a member of the New Democratic Party. He was defeated in the 2015 election by Liberal Peter Schiefke.
Life and career
Raised in Saint-Lazare, Quebec, Nicholls joined the NDP at the age of 18 and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in visual arts in 1995 and his master's degree in landscape architecture in 2007.
After studying and working in Vancouver, South Korea, and Turkey, he returned to Quebec permanently in 2007. Before his election to Parliament, Nicholls worked in a variety of fields: arts and design teacher, environmental researcher, ecological intervention adviser, registered landscape architect (AAPQ) and was a board member of COBAVER (Conseil des bassins versants Vaudreuil-Soulanges).
To win his seat in the House of Commons, Nicholls defeated incumbent Bloc Québécois MP Meili Faille. He and Faille were friends in high school.
Working as a landscape architect while he was enrolled at McGill University's School of Urban Planning, Nicholls was one of five current McGill students, alongside undergraduates Mylène Freeman, Matthew Dubé, Charmaine Borg and Laurin Liu, elected to Parliament in the 2011 election following the NDP's unexpected mid-campaign surge in Quebec.
Electoral History
| Canadian federal election, 2015: Vaudreuil—Soulanges | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Peter Schiefke | 30,550 | 46.62 | +34.23 | – | |||
| New Democratic | Jamie Nicholls | 14,627 | 22.31 | -21.19 | – | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Vincent François | 9,858 | 15.04 | -8.62 | – | |||
| Conservative | Marc Boudreau | 9,048 | 13.81 | -3.8 | – | |||
| Green | Jennifer Kaszel | 1,445 | 2.21 | -0.63 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 65,528 | 100.0 | $231,083.77 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 714 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 66,242 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 89,766 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||
| Canadian federal election, 2011: Vaudreuil—Soulanges | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Jamie Nicholls | 30,177 | 43.61 | +33.98 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Meili Faille | 17,781 | 25.69 | -15.65 | ||||
| Conservative | Marc Boudreau | 11,360 | 16.41 | -7.28 | ||||
| Liberal | Lyne Pelchat | 8,023 | 11.59 | -9.74 | ||||
| Green | Jean-Yves Massenet | 1,864 | 2.69 | -1.32 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 69,205 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 763 | 1.09 | ||||||
| Turnout | 69,968 | 67.23 | ||||||