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Yves Ducharme
Yves Ducharme
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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
66th President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities
	In office; January 1, 2003 – December 31, 2003
Preceded by	John Schmal
Succeeded by	Ann MacLean
Hull City Councillor
	In office; 1986 – October 1992
Preceded by	Pierre Cholette
Succeeded by	Roch Cholette
Constituency	Mont-Bleu District
Personal details
Born	May 29, 1958 (age 66); Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political party	Independent (municipal); Liberal (federal)
Alma mater	University of Ottawa (LL.L)
Occupation	Politician; lawyer; consultant; businessman;

Yves Ducharme (born May 29, 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, 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]

Political career

Ducharme entered municipal politics in 1986 when he was elected as the city councillor for the Mont-Bleu District of the then-City of Hull until being elected mayor in 1992. He served as mayor until 2001, when 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

2024 Gatineau mayoral by-election
Resignation of France Bélisle
Party		Candidate	Popular vote			Expenditures
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Action Gatineau	Maude Marquis-Bissonnette	27,833	41.70	+4.02	$85,881.58
	Independent	Yves Ducharme	20,600	30.87	–	$77,670.15
	Independent	Olive Kamanyana	7,253	10.87	–	$71,819.69
	Independent	Daniel Feeny	6,539	9.80	–	$26,187.70
	Independent	Stéphane Bisson	3,580	5.36	–	$27,090.54
	Independent	Rémi Bergeron	499	0.75	-0.26	$0.00
	Independent	Mathieu Saint-Jean	435	0.65	–	$463.31
Total valid votes			66,739	99.44
Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes			379	0.56	-0.19
Turnout			67,118	33.06	-2.05
Eligible voters			203,032
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]^[5]

2001 Gatineau municipal election: Mayor
Party		Candidate	Popular vote			Expenditures
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Independent	Yves Ducharme	47,975	54.39	–	none listed
	Independent	Robert Labine	40,227	45.61	-2.71^[a]	none listed
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^[6]

1999 Hull mayoral election
Candidate ^[7]	Votes	%
Yves Ducharme (X)	13,272	82.12
Denis Gagnon	1,372	8.49
Nicolas Martineau	778	4.81
Gheorge Irmia	740	4.58

Honours

Ribbon	Description	Notes
	Order of the Aztec Eagle (Venera)	August 10, 2006: Ducharme was awarded the honour in recognition of his efforts to strengthen Canada–Mexico relations and his assistance in the founding UNAM Gatineau.^[8]