Yves Ducharme (born c. 1958) is a Canadian politician who was the Mayor of Gatineau from 2002 to 2005 after the city had been merged with its neighbours, part of the supra-organization known as the Communauté urbaine de l'Outaouais, and was mayor of Hull, Quebec, in the Outaouais region, from 1992 to 2002. He was defeated in an election in 2005 by Marc Bureau[1] and decided to quit municipal politics. He became president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.[2][3]
Yves Ducharme | |
|---|---|
| 19th Mayor of Gatineau | |
| In office January 1, 2002 – November 5, 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Robert Labine |
| Succeeded by | Marc Bureau |
| 49th Mayor of Hull | |
| In office December 6, 1992 – December 31, 2001 | |
| Preceded by | Marcel Beaudry |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Hull City Councillor | |
| In office 1986 – October 1992 | |
| Preceded by | Pierre Cholette |
| Succeeded by | Roch Cholette |
| Constituency | Mont-Bleu District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c. 1958 (age 65–66) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Independent |
He first entered municipal politics in 1986 and was elected mayor of Hull in 1992. He was re-elected a number of times until 2002 Hull was forced to merge with the surrounding cities of Gatineau, Aylmer, Buckingham and Masson-Angers. The bigger city was named Gatineau, and Ducharme became its first mayor in 2002 after beating Gatineau's former mayor Robert Labine in the election. In 2005, he lost re-election to first-time candidate, city councillor Marc Bureau, who won 68% of the vote in an election in which the participation rate was 47,3%.
Electoral record edit
| Party | Candidate | Popular vote | Expenditures | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | ||||||||||
| Independent | Yves Ducharme | 47,975 | 54.39 | – | – | |||||||
| Independent | Robert Labine | 40,227 | 45.61 | -2.71[a] | – | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 88,202 | 98.65 | ||||||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | 1,203 | 1.35 | -0.07[a] | |||||||||
| Turnout | 89,405 | 53.76 | +7.11[a] | |||||||||
| Eligible voters | 166,292 | |||||||||||
| Note: Candidate campaign colours, unless a member of a party, are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.) or colours used in polling graphs and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates. | ||||||||||||
| Sources: Office of the City Clerk of Gatineau[4] | ||||||||||||
Honours edit
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Order of the Aztec Eagle (Venera) |
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Notes edit
References edit
- ^ Dugas, Clermont; Simard, Majella (December 7, 2005). "Une évolution économique différenciée". In Venne, Michel (ed.). L'annuaire du Québec 2006 (in French). Les Editions Fides. p. 587. ISBN 978-2-7621-2646-4. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
- ^ "Yves Ducharme". Couchiching Summer Conference 2002. 2002. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
- ^ "PM to promise gas tax revenue for cities: report". CTV. Canadian Press. May 27, 2004. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
- ^ "Ville de Gatineau (2002- ) – Élection du 4 novembre 2001" (PDF) (in Canadian French). City of Gatineau. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
- ^ "Diario Oficial de la Federación - ACUERDO por el que se otorga al señor Yves Ducharme, la Condecoración de la Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca en el grado de Venera" (PDF) (in Mexican Spanish). Orden Jurídico Nacional. August 10, 2006. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
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