Pierre Breton

This article is about the Canadian politician. For the Canadian numismatist, see Pierre-Napoléon Breton.

Pierre Breton (born October 3, 1966) is a Canadian Liberal politician who was elected as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada to represent the federal electoral district of Shefford during the 2015 Canadian federal election.^[1] He was defeated in the 2019 Canadian federal election.

Pierre Breton
Member of Parliament for Shefford
In office October 19, 2015 – September 11, 2019
Preceded by	Réjean Genest
Succeeded by	Andréanne Larouche
Personal details
Born	(1966-10-03) October 3, 1966 (age 58) Granby, Quebec
Political party	Liberal
Alma mater	Université du Québec à Montréal

Breton was born in Granby, Quebec, and attended the Université du Québec à Montréal, earning a degree in business administration. He worked for a number of companies, including Bombardier and Viasystems Canada. From 2003 until his election to Parliament, he was a business partner in the human resources department for the Société des alcools du Québec.^[2]

He began his involvement in politics by volunteering on the campaigns of Jean Lapierre, the Liberal MP for Shefford from 1979 to 1993. In 2005, he was elected as an independent to the city council of Granby, and held that position until his election to the House of Commons.^[3]

Electoral record

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election: Shefford
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Andréanne Larouche	24,997	41.9	+3.3	$31,772.48
	Liberal	Pierre Breton	19,968	33.5	-3.6	$84,958.35
	Conservative	Céline Lalancette	7,234	12.1	-0.2	$6,814.84
	New Democratic	Patrick Jasmin	3,173	5.3	-0.8	$1,243.21
	People's	Gerda Scheider	2,073	3.5	+2.7	$2,379.78
	Green	Mathieu Morin	1,059	1.8	-2.8	$0.00
	Free	Joel Lacroix	599	1.0	N/A	$2,821.90
	Marijuana	Yannick Brisebois	284	0.5	N/A	none listed
	Indépendance du Québec	Jean-Philippe Beaudry-Graham	239	0.4	-0.1	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			59,626	97.7	–	$121,523.31
Total rejected ballots			1,409	2.3
Turnout			61,035	65.2
Eligible voters			93,597
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		+3.5
Source: Elections Canada[4]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election: Shefford
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Andréanne Larouche	23,503	38.58	+16.36	$6,576.43
	Liberal	Pierre Breton	22,605	37.11	-1.85	none listed
	Conservative	Nathalie Clermont	7,495	12.30	-0.47	$32,903.14
	New Democratic	Raymonde Plamondon	3,705	6.08	-17.59	none listed
	Green	Katherine Turgeon	2,814	4.62	+2.25	none listed
	People's	Mariam Sabbagh	497	0.82		$0.00
	Indépendence du Québec	Darlène Daviault	294	0.48		$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			60,913	97.89
Total rejected ballots			1,313	2.11	-0.05
Turnout			62,226	68.28	+0.26
Eligible voters			91,138
	Bloc Québécois gain from Liberal		Swing		+9.11
Source: Elections Canada[5][6]