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Harold LeBel
MNA
Harold LeBel MNA
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Rimouski
	In office; April 7, 2014 – August 28, 2022
Preceded by	Irvin Pelletier
Succeeded by	Maïté Blanchette Vézina
Personal details
Born	June 22, 1962 (age 62); Squatec, Quebec, Canada
Political party	Independent
Other political; affiliations	Parti Québécois (2014-2020)
Residence(s)	Rimouski, Quebec

Harold LeBel (French pronunciation: [a.ʁɔld lə.bɛl]; born June 22, 1962) is a former Canadian politician and convicted sex offender in Quebec, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2014 election.^[1] He represented the electoral district of Rimouski as a member of the Parti Québécois.

He was a candidate for the party three times previously, running in Rivière-du-Loup in the 1989 election and the 1994 election, and in Kamouraska-Témiscouata in the 2003 election.^[2]

On December 15, 2020, he was arrested following allegations of sexual assault against Catherine Fournier, a former member of the National Assembly and current mayor of Longueuil, dating back to 2017. He was released later that day, and subsequently expelled from the PQ caucus, pending further investigations.^[3]

LeBel was found guilty on November 23, 2022 of sexually assaulting Fournier at his residence in 2017.^[4]

On January 26, 2023, at the courthouse of Rimouski, he was sentenced to eight months of imprisonment.^[5]

On March 21, 2023, after expressing remorse for his crime during therapies in prison, LeBel was granted parole.^[6]

Electoral record

v t e 2018 Quebec general election: Rimouski
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Harold LeBel	13,940	43.92	+3.34
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Nancy Levesque	7,903	24.90	+14.15
	Québec solidaire	Carol-Ann Kack	5,531	17.43	+1.06
	Liberal	Claude Laroche	3,914	12.33	-17.66
	Green	Alexie Plourde	220	0.69	–
	Independent	Denis Bélanger	123	0.39	–
	Bloc Pot	Dany Levesque	106	0.33	-0.14
Total valid votes			31,737	99.12
Total rejected ballots			282	0.88
Turnout			32,019	70.25	+2.98
Eligible voters			45,580
	Parti Québécois hold		Swing		-5.41
Source(s) "Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.

2014 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Parti Québécois	Harold LeBel	12,028	40.58	-7.77
	Liberal	Pierre Huot	8,888	29.99	+8.03
	Québec solidaire	Marie-Neige Besner	4,851	16.37	+9.08
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Steven Fleurent	3,186	10.75	-6.45
	Option nationale	Pierre Beaudoin	327	1.10	-1.65
	Parti nul	Pier-Luc Gagnon	219	0.74	+0.19
	Bloc Pot	Tom-Henri Cyr	138	0.47	–
Total valid votes			29,637	98.58	–
Total rejected ballots			426	1.42	–
Turnout			30,063	67.27	-8.29
Electors on the lists			44,687	–	–

v t e 2003 Quebec general election: Kamouraska-Témiscouata
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Claude Béchard	11,266	45.75	+2.26
	Action démocratique	Pierre Lévesque	6,504	26.41	+14.25
	Parti Québécois	Harold LeBel	6,326	25.69	-17.37
	Green	Guy Duguay	293	1.19	-
	Independent	Raymond Robert	238	0.97	-

v t e 1994 Quebec general election: Rivière-du-Loup
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Action démocratique	Mario Dumont	13,307	54.77	–
	Parti Québécois	Harold LeBel	6,608	27.20	-14.85
	Liberal	Jean D'Amour	4,226	17.39	-37.09
	Independent	L. Richard Cimon	99	0.41	–
	Natural Law	Armand Pouliot	55	0.23	–

v t e 1989 Quebec general election: Rivière-du-Loup
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Albert Côté	11,317	54.48	+1.16
	Parti Québécois	Harold LeBel	8,736	42.05	-0.77
	Marxist–Leninist	Pierre-Paul Malenfant	720	3.47	–