Donald Martel is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2012 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Nicolet-Bécancour as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec.
Donald Martel | |
|---|---|
| Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Nicolet-Bécancour | |
| Assumed office 4 September 2012 | |
| Preceded by | Jean-Martin Aussant[1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 August 1964 Grand-Mère, Quebec |
| Political party | Coalition Avenir Québec Parti Quebecois (-2008) |
Martel has a bachelor's degree in administration. He was selected as both secretary-treasurer and director general of the Nicolet-Yamaska Regional County Municipality (MRC) in 1994, and continues to hold the first position as of 2009. He has also been the responsable administratif for the Centre local de développement (CLD) in Nicolet-Yamaska since 1998.[2] Between 1999 and 2003, he was president of l’Association des directeurs généraux des MRC du Québec.[3] He has also taken part in a local campaign against cannabis.[4]
Martel ran as a Parti Québécois candidate in Nicolet-Yamaska in the 2007 election, finishing second with 7,455 votes (28.32%) against Action démocratique du Québec candidate Éric Dorion. He resigned as president of the local Parti Québécois association in April 2008, arguing that his civic duties were inconsistent with partisan political activity.[5]
Electoral record
edit| 2022 Quebec general election: Nicolet-Bécancour | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Donald Martel | |||||||
| Conservative | Mario Lyonnais | |||||||
| Parti Québécois | Philippe Dumas | |||||||
| Québec solidaire | Jacques Thériault Watso | |||||||
| Liberal | Marie-Josée Jacques | |||||||
| Total valid votes | – | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | – | |||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Electors on the lists | – | – | ||||||
| 2018 Quebec general election: Nicolet-Bécancour | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Donald Martel | 15,562 | 55.29 | +16.65 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Lucie Allard | 4,423 | 15.71 | -6.55 | ||||
| Liberal | Marie-Claude Durand | 3,539 | 12.57 | -15.24 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | François Poisson | 3,474 | 12.34 | +4.42 | ||||
| Conservative | Jessie Mc Nicoll | 576 | 2.05 | +0.54 | ||||
| Green | Vincent Marcotte | 403 | 1.43 | – | ||||
| Bloc Pot | Blak D. Blackburn | 170 | 0.6 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 28,147 | 98.06 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 556 | 1.94 | ||||||
| Turnout | 28,703 | 71.77 | -2.43 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 39,995 | |||||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec hold | Swing | +11.6 | ||||||
| 2014 Quebec general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Donald Martel | 11,168 | 38.64 | +6.63 | ||||
| Liberal | Denis Vallée | 8,038 | 27.81 | +5.34 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Jean-René Dubois | 6,433 | 22.26 | +3.72 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Marc Dion | 2,290 | 7.92 | – | ||||
| Option nationale | Marjolaine Lachapelle | 638 | 2.21 | -23.64 | ||||
| Conservative | Guillaume Laquerre | 333 | 1.15 | +0.01 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 28,900 | 98.27 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 510 | 1.73 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 29,410 | 74.20 | -4.41 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 39,638 | – | – | |||||
| 2012 Quebec general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Donald Martel | 9,745 | 32.01 | +4.65 | ||||
| Option nationale | Jean-Martin Aussant | 7,869 | 25.85 | – | ||||
| Liberal | Marc Descôteaux | 6,840 | 22.47 | -11.51 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Gilles Mayrand | 5,644 | 18.54 | -16.24 | ||||
| Conservative | Mathieu Benoit | 348 | 1.14 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 30,446 | 98.54 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 450 | 1.46 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 30,896 | 78.61 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 39,304 | – | – | |||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec notional gain from Parti Québécois | Swing | +10.44 | ||||||
| 2007 Quebec general election: Nicolet-Yamaska | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Action démocratique | Éric Dorion | 10,839 | 41.18 | +18.64 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Donald Martel | 7,455 | 28.32 | -12.89 | ||||
| Liberal | Yves Baril | 6,770 | 25.72 | -8.40 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Jean Proulx | 1,121 | 4.26 | |||||
| Independent | Simonne Lizotte | 138 | 0.52 | -0.02 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 26,323 | 98.73 | ||||||
| Rejected and declined votes | 339 | 1.27 | ||||||
| Turnout | 26,662 | 77.73 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 34,301 | |||||||
| Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec. | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ Nicolet-Yamaska
- ^ Mission-Palée Archived 1 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, CLD Nicolet-Yamaska, retrieved 19 November 2009.
- ^ Donald Martel candidat du Parti Québécois dans Nicolet-Yamaska Archived 4 August 2012 at archive.today, Le Courrier Sud, 12 February 2007, retrieved 19 November 2009.
- ^ Lutte au cannabis: Nicolet-Yamaska fournira des informations à la SQ Archived 3 September 2012 at archive.today, Le Courrier Sud, 7 May 2008, retrieved 19 November 2009; Mark Aubry, Six autres organismes joignent Stop Cannabis, Cyberpress.ca, 30 September 2009, retrieved 19 November 2009.
- ^ PQ: Donald Martel démissionne Archived 6 September 2012 at archive.today, La Nouvelle/L'Union, 7 April 2008, retrieved 19 November 2009.
External links
edit- "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.