Harold Thuringer
| Harold Thuringer | |
|---|---|
| MNA for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | |
|
In office 1987–1989 | |
| Preceded by | Reed Scowen |
| Succeeded by | Gordon Atkinson |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 21, 1934 Vibank, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Profession | social worker |
Harold Thuringer (born October 21, 1934) is a Canadian former politician, who represented Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1987 to 1989.
Thuringer was born in Vibank, Saskatchewan. A social worker,[1] Thuringer was elected to the legislature in a by-election in 1987, following the resignation of Reed Scowen. He was defeated in the 1989 election by Gordon Atkinson of the Equality Party.
Electoral record
| Quebec general election, 1989: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| Equality | Gordon Atkinson | 11,638 | 43.03 | – | ||||
| Liberal | Harold Thuringer | 9,548 | 35.30 | −26.74 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Suzanne Morin | 3,017 | 11.15 | +4.52 | ||||
| Green | Nicole Painchaud | 2,024 | 7.48 | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Michel Decoste | 388 | 1.43 | −24.10 | ||||
| Independent | Marc Brunel Belhomme | 234 | 0.87 | – | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Jean-Christophe Coppenrath | 143 | 0.53 | – | ||||
| Marxist–Leninist | Margaret Frain | 55 | 0.20 | – | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal | Harold Thuringer | 8,622 | 62.04 | -15.79 | |
| New Democrat | Hélène Guay | 3,548 | 25.53 | +16.89 | |
| Parti Québécois | Sébastien Richard | 921 | 6.63 | -5.58 | |
| Independent | Jay Laurence Taylor | 335 | 2.41 | - | |
| Parti créditiste | Denis Patenaude | 251 | 1.80 | - | |
| Humanist | Richard Banville | 86 | 0.62 | +0.02 | |
| Parti indépendantiste | Stéphane Duchesne | 86 | 0.62 | - | |
| Workers | Serge Turmel | 49 | 0.35 | - | |
References
- ↑ Garth Stevenson, Community Besieged: The Anglophone Minority and the Politics of Quebec.
External links
- "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
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