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Simon-Pierre Diamond
Canadian politician (born 1985) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Simon-Pierre Diamond (born February 9, 1985) is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He represented the Marguerite-D'Youville district in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2007 to 2008 as a member of the Action démocratique du Québec.
From 2004 to 2007, Diamond, a law student at Université de Montréal and a resident of Boucherville, served as President of the Youth Commission of the ADQ. He supports same-sex marriage, but believes that only the federal government has jurisdiction over that issue.[1]
In the 2007 election at age 22, Diamond became the youngest member ever elected to the Quebec legislature,[2] a record he held until the 2012 election of Léo Bureau-Blouin; the previous recordholders had been André Boisclair and Claude Charron.[3]
Diamond was elected with 37% of the vote, defeating PQ candidate Sébastien Gagnon (31%) and Liberal incumbent Pierre Moreau (27%). He took office on April 12, 2007.[4] On April 19, 2007, he was selected to be the Official Opposition's Shadow Minister of Environment and Sustaining Development.[5] He lost his seat in the 2008 election along with 33 other ADQ MNAs, coming in third place in his riding with 18.46% of the vote.[6]
On May 31, 2010, it was announced Diamond had switched to the Liberal Party and would be running for them in the July 5 Vachon by-election.[7] He was defeated in that election by Parti Québécois candidate Martine Ouellet.[8]
Diamond was born in Boucherville, Quebec. His father is a federal Liberal.[2]
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Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.
* Increase is from UFP
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External links
- "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
- Political rookie makes history in Quebec
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