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Lise St-Denis (born April 18, 1940) is a Canadian former politician. She was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 2011 election and served a single term. She was elected in the electoral district of Saint-Maurice—Champlain as a member of the New Democratic Party, but crossed the floor to the Liberal Party of Canada on January 10, 2012, saying in French to explain her move: "Voters voted for Jack Layton. Jack Layton is dead."
Prior to being elected, St-Denis was a teacher. She has bachelor's master's degrees in Quebec literature and education. She previously ran as the New Democratic Party's candidate in Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher in the 2008 election, losing to Jean Dorion of the Bloc Québécois.
Shortly after her election, St-Denis was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. St-Denis did not stand for re-election in 2015.
Before joining the Liberals, St-Denis supported Thomas Mulcair to be the next leader of the NDP.
Electoral history
Saint-Maurice—Champlain
| 2011 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Lise St-Denis | 18,628 | 39.1 | +31.3 | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Jean-Yves Laforest | 13,961 | 29.3 | -14.7 | ||||
| Conservative | Jacques Grenier | 8,447 | 17.7 | -6.2 | ||||
| Liberal | Yves Tousignant | 5,670 | 11.9 | -9.1 | ||||
| Green | Pierre Audette | 972 | 2.0 | -1.4 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 47,678 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,193 | 2.4 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 48,871 | 60.8 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 80,315 | – | – | |||||
Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher
| 2008 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Jean Dorion | 23,118 | 46.1 | -9.1 | $49,818 | |||
| Liberal | Ryan Hillier | 10,920 | 21.8 | +9.2 | $10,797 | |||
| Conservative | Jacques Bouchard | 7,210 | 14.4 | -4.4 | $55,552 | |||
| New Democratic | Lise St-Denis | 7,021 | 14.0 | +5.4 | $1,131 | |||
| Green | Danielle Moreau | 1,752 | 3.5 | -0.5 | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Serge Patenaude | 103 | 0.2 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 50,124 | 100.0 | $83,504 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 682 | 1.34 | ||||||
| Turnout | 50,806 | |||||||