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Yves Lévesque
Yves Lévesque
Mayor of Trois-Rivières, Quebec
	In office; November 4, 2001 – December 27, 2018
Preceded by	Guy Leblanc
Succeeded by	Jean Lamarche
Personal details
Born	1957
Political party	Conservative (federal); Conservative (provincial; 2021-present)
Other political; affiliations	CAQ (provincial; after 2003, before 2021); Parti Quebecois (provincial; before 2003)

Yves Lévesque (born 1957) is a Canadian politician, who served as Mayor of Trois-Rivières between 2001 and 2018.

Career

City Councillor

Lévesque won his first electoral victory in 1994, when he became city councillor in Trois-Rivières-Ouest. He was re-elected in 1998.

Mayor of Trois-Rivières

In the wake of the province-wide municipal merging of 2001, he ran for Mayor of Trois-Rivières and won an upset victory against favourite candidate and Cap-de-la-Madeleine Mayor Alain Croteau. In the 2003 provincial election, he campaigned in favour of the re-election of Parti Québécois incumbent Guy Julien, who lost.

In 2005, Julien ran against Lévesque for mayor, but the incumbent was easily re-elected with 70% of the vote.^[1]

Recently,^[when?] Lévesque has been trying to get the Trois-Rivières Draveurs, a franchise of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, back in town.^[2]

On December 27, 2018, Lévesque announced he was retiring as mayor for medical reasons.^[3]

Federal politics

Lévesque officially joined the Conservative Party of Canada in May 2018, taking out a party membership and speaking at the party's convention in Saint-Hyacinthe. He stated at the time that he was considering running for the party in the 43rd election.^[4] He joined the Conservative Party because of its stated goal of decentralizing power to the provinces.^[5]

On May 30, 2019, Lévesque was named the Conservative candidate for the riding of Trois-Rivières.^[6] During the race, he was expected to win; however, he lost the race, standing third. Lévesque blamed party leader Andrew Scheer's first French-language debate, wherein Scheer's perceived inability to defend his personal views from the other leaders shifted support from the Conservatives in Quebec, which never recovered.^[7]

Lévesque ran in Trois-Rivières again as a Conservative in 2021 and gained 17,027 votes (an increase of 1,787) but came in second.

Electoral record

Federal

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election: Trois-Rivières
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	René Villemure	17,136	29.49	+1.01	$16,854.26
	Conservative	Yves Lévesque	17,053	29.35	+4.17	$40,285.49
	Liberal	Martin Francoeur	16,637	28.63	+2.57	$80,504.68
	New Democratic	Adis Simidzija	4,680	8.05	-8.61	$4,281.85
	People's	Jean Landry	1,115	1.92	+0.99	$0.00
	Green	Andrew Holman	754	1.30	-1.17	$0.00
	Free	Gilles Brodeur	735	1.26	–	$1,244.68
Total valid votes/expense limit			58,110	97.95	–	$120,485.08
Total rejected ballots			1,214	2.05	–
Turnout			59,324	64.19	-2.53
Eligible voters			92,413
	Bloc Québécois hold		Swing		-1.58
Source: Elections Canada^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election: Trois-Rivières
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Louise Charbonneau	17,240	28.48	+11.48	$19,118.47
	Liberal	Valérie Renaud-Martin	15,774	26.06	-4.16	$59,713.01
	Conservative	Yves Lévesque	15,240	25.17	+6.54	none listed
	New Democratic	Robert Aubin	10,090	16.67	-15.16	none listed
	Green	Marie Duplessis	1,492	2.46	+0.75	none listed
	People's	Marc-André Gingras	565	0.93	–	$5,574.25
	Independent	Ronald St-Onge Lynch	137	0.23	–	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			60,538	100.0
Total rejected ballots			1,092	1.77
Turnout			61,630	66.73
Eligible voters			92,362
	Bloc Québécois gain from New Democratic		Swing		+7.82
Source: Elections Canada^[12]^[13]

Municipal (mayoral)

2017

Mayoral candidate	Vote	%
Yves Lévesque (X)	26,503	51.37
Jean-François Aubin	23,252	45.07
André Bertrand	1,837	3.56

2013

	Mayoral candidate	Vote	%
Independent	Yves Lévesque (X)	29,204	49.25
Independent	Sylvie Tardif	18,491	31.18
Independent	Catherine Dufresne	8,324	14.04
Independent	Marcelle Girard	1,609	2.71
Force 3R	Richard St-Germain	1,321	2.23
Independent	Pierre Benoit Fortin	352	0.59