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Biography
Yves Lévesque (born 1957) is a Canadian politician and the current Mayor of Trois-Rivières.
City Councillor
He won his first electoral victory in 1994, when he became city councillor 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 favor 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.
In the 2007 provincial election, Lévesque's preference for ADQ candidate Sébastien Proulx was not formally announced, but was not a secret for most observers. Proulx ended up winning.
Recently, Lévesque has been trying to get the Trois-Rivières Draveurs, a franchise of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, back in town.