Pierrette Venne
Pierrette Venne (born 8 August 1945 in Beauharnois, Quebec) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 2003. By career, she is a lawyer.
Venne was elected in the Saint-Hubert electoral district as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party in the 1988 general election. The riding had been created from a restructuring of two ridings. She was re-elected in Saint-Hubert in the 1993 general election, and was also re-elected in 1997 and 2000 when the riding was renamed Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert. Her term of office would cover the 34th, 35th, 36th and 37th Canadian Parliaments.
She left the Conservatives to join the Bloc Québécois party on 12 August 1991. On 7 February 2003 she was ejected from the Bloc after she made critical comments about party leader Gilles Duceppe. Venne remained in Parliament until the end of her term after which she left politics.
Electoral record
| 2000 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Pierrette Venne | 22,217 | 44.0% | -1.1% | ||||
| Liberal | Claude Leblanc | 19,743 | 39.1% | +6.3% | ||||
| Alliance | Jean Vézina | 3,305 | 6.5% | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Otmane Brixi | 2,673 | 5.3% | -14.8% | ||||
| Marijuana | Maryève Daigle | 1,546 | 3.1% | |||||
| New Democratic | Marie Henretta | 1,029 | 2.0% | +0.1% | ||||
| Total valid votes | 50,513 | 100.0% | ||||||
| 1997 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Pierrette Venne | 23,759 | 45.1% | -11.5% | ||||
| Liberal | Claude Leblanc | 17,279 | 32.8% | +0.7% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Camille Bolté | 10,579 | 20.1% | +12.7% | ||||
| New Democratic | Marie Henretta | 1,032 | 2.0% | +0.5% | ||||
| Total valid votes | 52,649 | 100.0% | ||||||
| 1993 Canadian federal election: Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| Bloc Québécois | Pierrette Venne | 34,959 | 56.90 | $35,450 | ||||
| Liberal | Angéline Fournier | 19,615 | 31.92 | $61,363 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jean Lesage | 4,520 | 7.36 | $20,526 | ||||
| New Democratic | Nathalie Rochefort | 903 | 1.47 | $0 | ||||
| Natural Law | Jean Cerigo | 868 | 1.41 | $0 | ||||
| National | Claude Alain | 339 | 0.55 | $1,581 | ||||
| Commonwealth of Canada | Bruno Lipke | 240 | 0.39 | $0 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 61,444 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 2,495 | |||||||
| Turnout | 63,939 | 81.54 | ||||||
| Electors on the lists | 78,418 | |||||||
| Source: Thirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Financial figures taken from official contributions and expenses provided by Elections Canada. | ||||||||
| 1988 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Pierrette Venne | 25,573 | 48.9% | |||||
| Liberal | Raymond Dupont | 15,209 | 29.1% | |||||
| New Democratic | Nicole Desranleau | 9,435 | 18.0% | |||||
| Rhinoceros | Jean Nonobstant Thibault | 1,222 | 2.3% | |||||
| Green | Patricia Métivier | 718 | 1.4% | |||||
| Commonwealth of Canada | Jean-Sébastien Tremblay | 132 | 0.3% | |||||
| Total valid votes | 52,289 | 100.0% | ||||||
External links
- Pierrette Venne – Parliament of Canada biography
- CBC News: "BQ expels Venne for criticizing Duceppe", 6 February 2003, accessed 13 July 2006
| Parliament of Canada | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Chambly and La Prairie electoral districts |
Member of Parliament from Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert 1988–2004 |
Succeeded by Carole Lavallée, Bloc Québécois |