Yves Lévesque

Yves Lévesque
Mayor of Trois-Rivières, Quebec
Assumed office
2002
Preceded by Guy Leblanc

Yves Lévesque (born 1957) is a Canadian politician and the current Mayor of Trois-Rivières.

City Councillor

He 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 favor 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]

In the 2007 provincial election, Lévesque's preference for ADQ candidate Sébastien Proulx was not formally announced, but was not a secret for most observers.[2] Proulx ended up winning.

Recently, Lévesque has been trying to get the Trois-Rivières Draveurs, a franchise of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, back in town.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Yves Lévesque l'emporte facilement, Radio-Canada, November 7, 2005
  2. ↑ Protest Party Seen as Big Winner in Quebec Vote, The Epoch Times, March 27, 2007 Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Le retour des Draveurs ?, Radio-Canada, May 30, 2007


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