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Eric Lefebvre | |
|---|---|
 Lefebvre in 2024 | |
| Member of Parliament for Richmond—Arthabaska | |
| Assumed office April 28, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Alain Rayes |
| Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Arthabaska | |
| In office December 5, 2016 – March 18, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Sylvie Roy |
| Succeeded by | Alex Boissonneault |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 June 1971 |
| Party |
Independent (provincial, since 2024) |
Other political affiliations | CAQ (provincial, until 2024) |
| Spouse | Geneviève Laliberté |
| Children | 2 |
Eric Lefebvre MP is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a by-election on December 5, 2016.[2] He represented the electoral district of Arthabaska as an independent, having been a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) caucus. Lefebvre served as a city councillor for Victoriaville's city council from 2001 to 2009.[3] On Valentine's Day 2018, during question period, Lefebvre gave a tribute to all the spouses that supported MNA members and then proposed to his fiancée.[4]
After being announced as the Conservative candidate for Richmond—Arthabaska in the 45th Canadian federal election, Lefebvre resigned from the CAQ caucus to sit as an independent.[5] The by-election for his provincial seat was held on August 11, 2025.[6]
| 2025 Canadian federal election: Richmond—Arthabaska | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Eric Lefebvre | 22,206 | 35.50 | −14.38 | $82,341.70 | |||
| Liberal | Alain Saint-Pierre | 20,629 | 32.98 | +18.03 | $38,826.84 | |||
| Bloc Québécois | Daniel Lebel | 17,095 | 27.33 | +2.57 | $33,337.29 | |||
| New Democratic | Nataël Bureau | 1,248 | 2.00 | −2.46 | $392.95 | |||
| People's | Philippe D'Arcangeli | 707 | 1.13 | −2.47 | $978.13 | |||
| Rhinoceros | Réal Batrhino Martel | 438 | 0.70 | −0.08 | $0.00 | |||
| Independent | Henri Donascimento | 223 | 0.36 | N/A | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 62,546 | 98.15 | +0.08 | $136,552.00 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,177 | 1.85 | –0.08 | |||||
| Turnout | 63,723 | 70.35 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 90,581 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | −16.21 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[7][8] | ||||||||
| Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations. | ||||||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Bloc Québécois | André Bellavance | 23,913 | 46.0 | -2.5 | $77,254 | |||
| Conservative | Eric Lefebvre | 15,080 | 29.0 | -3.8 | $68,252 | |||
| Liberal | Gwyneth Helen Grant | 6,599 | 12.7 | +2.1 | $13,483 | |||
| New Democratic | Stéphane Ricard | 4,509 | 8.7 | +3.7 | $6,965 | |||
| Green | François Fillion | 1,337 | 2.6 | -2.1 | $129 | |||
| Independent | Jean Landry | 526 | 1.0 | $4,952 | ||||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 51,964 | 100.0 | $85,600 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 728 | 1.4 | ||||||
| Turnout | 52,692 | 65.6 | ||||||
| 2022 Quebec general election: Arthabaska | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Eric Lefebvre | 23,447 | 51.75 | -10.09 | ||||
| Conservative | Tarek Henoud | 11,187 | 24.69 | +22.36 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Mario Beauchesne | 4,538 | 10.02 | +0.62 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Pascale Fortin | 4,179 | 9.22 | -3.35 | ||||
| Liberal | Luciana Arantes | 1,702 | 3.76 | -7.60 | ||||
| Climat Québec | Trystan Martel | 256 | 0.57 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 45,309 | 98.44 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 720 | 1.56 | -0.31 | |||||
| Turnout | 46,029 | 74.10 | +4.61 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 62,120 | – | – | |||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec hold | Swing | -16.22 | ||||||
| 2018 Quebec general election: Arthabaska | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Eric Lefebvre | 25,640 | 61.84 | +17.88 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | William Champigny-Fortier | 5,215 | 12.58 | +8.97 | ||||
| Liberal | Pierre Poirier | 4,707 | 11.35 | -16.21 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Jacques Daigle | 3,897 | 9.40 | -7.37 | ||||
| Conservative | Lisette Guay Gaudreault | 968 | 2.33 | -2.37 | ||||
| Green | Jean-Charles Pelland | 620 | 1.50 | -0.61 | ||||
| Alliance provinciale | Jean Landry | 418 | 1.01 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 41,465 | 98.13 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 791 | 1.87 | +0.85 | |||||
| Turnout | 42,256 | 69.49 | +26.35 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 60,808 | |||||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec hold | Swing | +4.46 | ||||||
| Quebec provincial by-election, 2016 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec | Eric Lefebvre | 11,319 | 43.97 | -1.51 | ||||
| Liberal | Luc Dastous | 7,095 | 27.56 | -2.65 | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Jacques Daigle | 4,312 | 16.75 | -0.32 | ||||
| Conservative | Guy Morin | 1,210 | 4.70 | +3.59 | ||||
| Québec solidaire | Sarah Beaudoin | 926 | 3.60 | -1.61 | ||||
| Green | Alex Tyrrell | 546 | 2.12 | +1.22 | ||||
| Option nationale | Émilie Charbonneau | 160 | 0.62 | |||||
| Parti indépendantiste | Christine Lavoie | 115 | 0.45 | |||||
| Équipe Autonomiste | Suzanne Cantin | 58 | 0.23 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 25,741 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 265 | 1.02 | -0.41 | |||||
| Turnout | 26,006 | 43.14 | -30.13 | |||||
| Electors on the lists | 60,285 | |||||||
| Coalition Avenir Québec hold | Swing | +0.57 | ||||||
Victoriaville - Mayor
| Candidate | Vote | % |
|---|---|---|
| Alain Rayes | 10,807 | 62.8 |
| Eric Lefebvre | 5,722 | 33.2 |
| Martin Talbot | 524 | 3.0 |
| René Martineau | 161 | 0.9 |
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Eric Lefebvre is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a by-election on December 5, 2016. He represented the electoral district of Arthabaska as an independent, having been a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) caucus. Lefebvre served as a city councillor for Victoriaville's city council from 2001 to 2009. On Valentine's Day 2018, during question period, Lefebvre gave a tribute to all the spouses that supported MNA members and then proposed to his fiancée. After being announced as the Conservative candidate for Richmond—Arthabaska in the 45th Canadian federal election, Lefebvre resigned from the CAQ caucus to sit as an independent. The by-election for his provincial seat was held on August 11, 2025.
Arthabaska-L'Érable (formerly Arthabaska; French pronunciation: [aʁtabaska]) is a provincial electoral district in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, Canada, that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes municipalities of Victoriaville, Plessisville, Princeville, and Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska. It was created for the 1890 election from a part of Drummond-Arthabaska electoral district. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, Arthabaska-L'Érable lost Sainte-Hélène-de-Chester and Chesterville to the newly created Drummond–Bois-Francs electoral district, but gained nine municipalities from Lotbinière, which ceased to exist. The seat was represented by Eric Lefebvre (CAQ) until he resigned on 18 March 2025 to run for the partially-overlapping federal riding of Richmond-Arthabaska. A by-election was held on 11 August 2025, which Alex Boissonneault (Parti Québécois) won. In 2025, it lost Saint-Louis-de-Blandford and Saint-Rosaire, while gaining Sainte-Hélène-de-Chester.
The 2025 Arthabaska provincial by-election was held on August 11, 2025. The seat was represented by Eric Lefebvre of the CAQ until he resigned on 18 March 2025 to run for the partially-overlapping federal riding of Richmond—Arthabaska in the 2025 Canadian federal election. In an attempt to win a seat in the National Assembly, Conservative Party of Quebec leader Éric Duhaime ran as a candidate in the by-election; he finished second behind the Parti Québécois' Alex Boissonneault. It was a recent stronghold for the Coalition Avenir Québec before Boissonneault became the first member of the Parti Québécois to be elected in the riding since 1998.
Lefebvre (French: [ləfɛvʁ] ; commonly in English-speaking countries, as well as or ) is a common northern French surname. Alternative forms include Lefebvre, le Febvre, Le Febvre, Lefèbvre, le Fèbvre, Le Fèbvre, as well as the common variant Lefèvre (le Fèvre, Le Fèvre; anglicized Lefevre, le Fevre, Le Fevre, LeFevre, LeFever). Dialectal variants include Lefevere (Belgium), Lefebre, Lefeuvre (western France), and Lefébure (northern France and Normandy). The name derives from faber, the Latin word for "craftsman", "worker"; used in Late Latin in Gaul to mean smith. In the Occitan and Arpitan extension area, the variation is Fabre, Favre, Faure, Favret, Favrette or Dufaure and in Corsica Fabri (cf. Italian Fabbri, Fabri). In Celtic-speaking Brittany, the corresponding name is Le Goff(ic), with the article le to translate Breton ar. Many northern French surnames (especially in Normandy) are used with the definite masculine article as a prefix (Lefebvre, Lefèvre; a more archaic spelling is Le Febvre), with the contracted masculine article as a prefix (Dufaure) in the south of France, or without article/prefix (Favre, Faure) in the south of France, but the meaning is the same. For Anglophone purposes, the name has evolved, especially in the United States and Anglophone regions of Canada—mainly by Acadians, among whom it is also a common surname, yielding not only Lefevre and LeFever, but also Lafevre, Lafever, Lefavre, LeFave, LaFave, as well as other variant spellings. The English surname Feaver is also derived from Lefebvre.
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