Quick Facts
Biography
Paul A. Lefebvre (born 1974) is a Canadian politician currently serving as the mayor of Greater Sudbury. He was a member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Sudbury from 2015 to 2021.
Lefebvre worked as a lawyer, spending some time as counsel to the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and teaching international tax law at the University of Ottawa. In his business career, he was the owner of local media firm Le5 Communications, whose holdings included French-language radio and newspapers. He won the Liberal Party's nomination contest in Sudbury on March 28, 2015, over former mayor Marianne Matichuk.
In March 2021, Lefebvre announced that he would not run for a third term in the 2021 Canadian federal election.
He won election as mayor of Greater Sudbury in the 2022 Greater Sudbury municipal election on October 24, 2022, and took office on November 15.
Electoral record
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Sudbury | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Paul Lefebvre | 19,643 | 40.94 | -6.48 | $66,620.57 | |||
| New Democratic | Beth Mairs | 13,885 | 28.94 | +1.15 | $25,924.07 | |||
| Conservative | Pierre St-Amant | 9,864 | 20.56 | -0.54 | $20,356.06 | |||
| Green | Bill Crumplin | 3,225 | 6.72 | +3.68 | $13,223.85 | |||
| People's | Sean Paterson | 873 | 1.82 | – | ||||
| Animal Protection | Chanel Lalonde | 282 | 0.59 | – | ||||
| Independent | Charlene Sylvestre | 135 | 0.28 | – | ||||
| Independent | J. David Popescu | 70 | 0.15 | -0.02 | ||||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 47,977 | 99.24 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 317 | 0.66 | +0.24 | |||||
| Turnout | 48,294 | 65.36 | -3.86 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 75,035 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -3.81 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election: Sudbury | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Paul Lefebvre | 23,534 | 47.41 | +29.43 | $112,165.16 | |||
| New Democratic | Paul Loewenberg | 13,793 | 27.79 | -22.13 | $95,385.84 | |||
| Conservative | Fred Slade | 10,473 | 21.10 | -7.25 | $192,788.16 | |||
| Green | David Robinson | 1,509 | 3.04 | +0.05 | $4,970.15 | |||
| Independent | Jean-Raymond Audet | 134 | 0.27 | – | – | |||
| Communist | Elizabeth Rowley | 102 | 0.20 | – | – | |||
| Independent | J. David Popescu | 84 | 0.17 | -0.09 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 49,629 | 100.0 | $204,934.28 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 209 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 49,838 | 69.61 | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 71,594 | |||||||
| Liberal gain from New Democratic | Swing | +34.77 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||