The Parti Québécois (PQ) fielded a full slate of 125 candidates in the 2008 Quebec provincial election and elected fifty-one members to emerge as the Official Opposition party in the national assembly.
Candidates (incomplete) RidingCandidate's NameNotesGenderOccupationVotes%RankArgenteuilSaywell is the son of Canadian historian John Saywell. He also ran as a PQ candidate in Argenteuil in 2007. He was elected mayor of Grenville-sur-la-Rouge in a December 2010 by-election,"Élection partielle à Grenville-sur-la-Rouge: John Saywell élu maire", Radio-Canada, 13 December 2010, accessed 21 January 2011. resigned in 2012,Démission du maire de Grenville-sur-la-Rouge , lachute.planeteradio.ca, 14 September 2012, accessed 23 March 2017. and was re-elected mayor in 2013.Élections municipales 2013 - Résultats des élections pour les postes de maire et de conseiller : Candidatures et résultats pour Grenville-sur-la-Rouge , Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Occupation du territoire du Québec, accessed 23 March 2017.MLawyer and urban plannerJustin Bromberg, "Words exchanged in lead-up to Grenville-sur-la-Rouge election" , The Review, 30 November 2010, accessed 21 January 2011.7,35333.622ndBourassa-SauvéCarrier also ran for the PQ in Bourassa-Sauvé in 2007 and sought election to the Montreal city council in 1998 (as a Montreal Citizens' Movement candidate) and in 2005 and 2009 (for Vision Montreal).MLawyer"Louise Harel and Benoit labonte announce Vision Montreal's team of candidates for the borough of Montreal-North," Canada NewsWire, 6 July 2009.6,11126.872ndBrome—MissisquoiA veteran member of the Quebec sovereigntist movement,Maurice Crossfield, "Aims to unseat Liberal," Sherbrooke Record, 1 March 2007, p. 7; Maurice Crossfield, "PQ's Leclerc to take on Paradis," Sherbrooke Record, 6 October 2006, p. 7. Leclerc also ran for the PQ in Brome—Missisquoi in 2007 and 2012.MPublicistMaurice Crossfield, "Candidates battle to change old habits," Sherbrooke Record, 22 March 2007, p. 4.8,32527.322ndJean-LesageGuillemette was a political attaché to Parti Québécois MNA François Gendron from 2003 to 2005. She sought the PQ nomination for Jean-Lesage in 2007, but lost to Christian Simard.Rhéal Séguin, "Former Bloc MPs to enter PQ fold," Globe and Mail, 8 February 2007, A4; Jean-François Néron, "Christian Simard représentera le PQ dans Jean-Lesage," Le Soleil, 21 February 2007, p. 11. She is married to former Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament (MP) Pascal-Pierre Paillé., Québec Hebdo, 12 November 2008.FDevelopment agent, Québec Hebdo, 10 June 2008.7,47126.682ndOrfordBreton was a constituency assistant to Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament (MP) Christian Ouellet from 2006 to 2011.Rita Legault, "Regional PQ president hopes to run in Orford," Sherbrooke Record, 13 September 2006, p. 4; Vincent Cliche, "La clé d'une victoire péquiste dans Orford réside dans Magog" , Le reflect du lac, 4 January 2011, accessed 6 February 2011. He was also the PQ candidate for Orford in 2007,He defeated Étienne Vézina for the nomination in 2007. See "Breton wins Orford nod," Sherbrooke Record, 23 February 2007, p. 4. 2012, and 2014.MParliamentary assistant12,51636.932ndVerdunLanglais was also the PQ candidate for Verdun in 2007 and in a December 2016 by-election. He ran for borough mayor of Verdun as a Vision Montreal candidate in 2009 and for Montreal city council in 2013 as an Option Verdun/Montréal candidate.MEntrepreneurMarchand de rêves: Richard Langlais, Le messager verdun, 7 May 2014, accessed 23 March 2017.8,31435.342nd
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