Quick Facts
| Intro | Canadian politician |
| Is | Politician |
| From | Canada |
| Field | Politics |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 26 May 1954, Roberval, Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec |
| Age | 69 years |
| Star sign | Gemini |
| Politics | Conservative Party of Canada |
Biography
Denis Lebel, PC, MP (born May 26, 1954) is a Canadian federal politician and former mayor of Roberval, Quebec and is currently the Deputy Leader of the Federal Opposition. Lebel was born in Roberval, Quebec.
Lebel was elected to the Canadian House of Commons on September 17, 2007, in the Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean by-election, as a member of the Conservative Party.
On October 30, 2008, he was appointed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet as Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec. After the 2011 election, Lebel was promoted to Minister of Transport. He was shuffled out of the post in July 2013, shortly after the Lac-Megantic train disaster.
He was also the Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs and served as the Harper Government's Quebec lieutenant.
In the 2015 election, Lebel was re-elected in the new Lac-Saint-Jean riding.
After the election, he and fellow MP Michelle Rempel proposed to become joint interim leaders of the party but ultimately lost to Rona Ambrose.
On November 18, he was named Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party and thus Deputy Opposition Leader.
Electoral history
| Canadian federal election, 2015: Lac-Saint-Jean | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Denis Lebel | 18,393 | 33.27 | -8.99 | – | |||
| New Democratic | Gisèle Dallaire | 15,735 | 28.46 | -3.68 | – | |||
| Liberal | Sabin Simard | 10,193 | 18.44 | +15.19 | – | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Sabin Gaudreault | 10,152 | 18.37 | -2.63 | – | |||
| Green | Laurence Requilé | 806 | 1.46 | +0.12 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 55,279 | 100.0 | $278,464.25 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 925 | – | – | |||||
| Turnout | 56,204 | – | – | |||||
| Eligible voters | 85,337 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada | ||||||||
| Canadian federal election, 2011: Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Denis Lebel | 18,438 | 45.68 | +2.14 | $99,662 | |||
| New Democratic | Yvon Guay | 11,182 | 27.70 | +22.99 | $1,983 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Claude Pilote | 8,577 | 21.25 | -18.40 | $70,809 | |||
| Liberal | Bernard Garneau | 1,615 | 4.00 | -6.09 | $5,913 | |||
| Green | Steeve Simard | 553 | 1.37 | -0.63 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 40,365 | 100.00 | $102,172 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 494 | 1.21 | +0.04 | |||||
| Turnout | 40,859 | 64.42 | +5.43 | |||||
| Canadian federal election, 2008: Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Denis Lebel | 16,055 | 43.54 | -16.14 | $88,243 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Claude Pilote | 14,619 | 39.65 | +12.89 | $79,101 | |||
| Liberal | Bernard Garneau | 3,721 | 10.09 | +0.54 | $9,041 | |||
| New Democratic | Catherine Forbes | 1,738 | 4.71 | +2.40 | – | |||
| Green | Jocelyn Tremblay | 737 | 2.00 | +0.29 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 36,870 | 100.00 | $98,690 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 437 | 1.17 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 37,307 | 58.99 | – | |||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -14.18 | ||||||
| Canadian federal by-election, 17 September 2007: Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Denis Lebel | 17,463 | 59.68 | +22.50 | $95,449 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Céline Houde | 7,830 | 26.76 | -18.44 | $93,915 | |||
| Liberal | Louise Boulanger | 2,795 | 9.55 | +1.80 | $51,293 | |||
| New Democratic | Éric Dubois | 675 | 2.31 | -3.22 | $3,123 | |||
| Green | Jean-Luc Boily | 499 | 1.71 | -2.63 | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 29,262 | 100.00 | $95,677 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 265 | 0.90 | ||||||
| Turnout | 29,527 | 46.83 | ||||||
| Conservative gain from Bloc Québécois | Swing | +20.23 | ||||||
