Simon-Pierre Diamond (born February 9, 1985) is a politician in

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, Canada. He represented the

Marguerite-D'Youville Marguerite-D'Youville is a former provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada that elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec. As of its final election, it consisted of the cities of Boucherville and Sain ...

district in the

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from 2007 to 2008 as a member of the

Action démocratique du Québec Action may refer to: * Action (narrative), a literary mode * Action fiction, a type of genre fiction * Action game, a genre of video game Film * Action film, a genre of film * ''Action'' (1921 film), a film by John Ford * ''Action'' (1980 fil ...

. From 2004 to 2007, Diamond, a law student at Université de Montréal and a resident of Boucherville, served as President of the Youth Commission of the ADQ. He supports

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, but believes that only the

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has jurisdiction over that issue. In the 2007 election at age 22, Diamond became the youngest member ever elected to the Quebec legislature, a record he held until the

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election of

Léo Bureau-Blouin Léo Bureau-Blouin (born December 17, 1991) is a former Quebec politician who in the 2012 provincial election at age 20 became the youngest person ever to be elected as a member of the National Assembly of Quebec. He was elected in the district ...

; the previous recordholders had been

André Boisclair André Boisclair (; born April 14, 1966) is a former Canadian politician and convicted sex offender in Quebec, Canada. He was the leader of the Parti Québécois, a social democratic and sovereigntist party in Quebec. Between January 1996 and M ...

and

Claude Charron Claude Charron (born October 22, 1946 in L'Île-Bizard, Quebec) is a former CEGEP teacher, provincial politician, writer and broadcaster. He became Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and the youngest Member of the National Assembly of Quebec. ...

. Diamond was elected with 37% of the vote, defeating PQ candidate Sébastien Gagnon (31%) and

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incumbent

Pierre Moreau Pierre Moreau (born December 12, 1957 in Vercheres, Quebec) is a lawyer and a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. Pierre Moreau was the Liberal MNA for the riding of Marguerite-D'Youville in the National Assembly of Quebec from 20 ...

(27%). He took office on April 12, 2007. On April 19, 2007, he was selected to be the Official Opposition's Shadow Minister of Environment and Sustaining Development. He lost his seat in the

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along with 33 other ADQ MNAs, coming in third place in his riding with 18.46% of the vote. On May 31, 2010, it was announced Diamond had switched to the Liberal Party and would be running for them in the July 5 Vachon by-election. He was defeated in that election by

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candidate

Martine Ouellet Martine Ouellet (born April 8, 1969) is a Canadian politician who served as leader of the Bloc Québécois from 2017 to 2018. She was the Minister of Natural Resources in the Quebec government from 2012 to 2014. Ouellet was first elected to the ...

. Diamond was born in

Boucherville Boucherville is a city in the Montérégie region in Quebec, Canada. It is a suburb of Montreal on the South Shore (Montreal), South shore of the Saint Lawrence River. Boucherville is part of both the urban agglomeration of Longueuil and Greate ...

. His father is a federal

Electoral record

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Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec
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, Jean-Robert Grenier , align="right", 13,119 , align="right", 35.88 , align="right", +8.68 , - , - , - ,

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External links

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Political rookie makes history in Quebec

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Diamond, Simon-Pierre 1985 births Action démocratique du Québec MNAs Living people People from Boucherville Place of birth missing (living people) Quebec Liberal Party candidates in Quebec provincial elections 21st-century Canadian politicians French Quebecers