# Union des forces progressistes candidates in the 2003 Quebec provincial election

The Union des forces progressistes fielded seventy-four candidates in the 2003 Quebec provincial election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found on this page.

## Candidates

(n.c.: no candidate)
Electoral record :
| Riding | Candidate's name | Gender | Votes | % | Rank |
| Abitibi-Est | n.c. | | | | |
| Abitibi-Ouest | n.c. | | | | |
| Acadie | n.c. | | | | |
| Anjou | n.c. | | | | |
| Argenteuil | n.c. | | | | |
| Arthabaska | n.c. | | | | |
| Beauce-Nord | Richard Fecteau | M | 175 | 0.60 | 5th |
| Beauce-Sud | Ginette Lewis | F | 216 | 0.67 | 4th |
| Beauharnois | n.c. | | | | |
| Bellechasse | Mario Ouellette | M | 134 | 0.52 | 5th |
| Berthier | Pierre Gravel | M | 632 | 1.83 | 4th |
| Bertrand | n.c. | | | | |
| Blainville | Thérèse Hamel | F | 394 | 1.10 | 4th |
| Bonaventure | n.c. | | | | |
| Borduas | n.c. | | | | |
| Bourassa-Sauvé | n.c. | | | | |
| Bourget | Rosanne Labelle | F | 418 | 1.26 | 5th |
| Brome-Missisquoi | Simon Gnocchini | M | 509 | 1.53 | 4th |
| Chambly | n.c. | | | | |
| Champlain | Lucie Favreau | F | 103 | 0.39 | 5th |
| Chapleau | Jean Marois | M | 331 | 1.10 | 5th |
| Notes: Jean Marois received 331 votes (1.10%), finishing fifth against Liberal incumbent Benoît Pelletier. ||||||
| Charlesbourg | Simon Carreau | M | 329 | 0.85 | 5th |
| Charlevoix | Éric Tremblay | M | 168 | 0.72 | 4th |
| Châteauguay | Guylaine Sirard | F | 222 | 0.56 | 5th |
| Notes: Guylaine Sirard has worked in support of legal abortion rights. She was a candidate for the Parti de la démocratie socialiste in the 1998 provincial election and for the UFP 2003. Electoral record Election Division Party Votes  % Place Winner 1998 provincial Mercier Parti de la démocratie socialiste 873 2.75 5/9 Robert Perreault, Parti Québécois 2003 provincial Taschereau Union des forces progressistes 222 0.56 5/6 Jean-Marc Fournier, Liberal ||||||
| Chauveau | Marie-Noëlle Béland | F | 387 | 1.05 | 5th |
| Chicoutimi | Pierre Dostie | M | 670 | 2.02 | 4th |
| Notes: Pierre Dostie was one of the two spokespersons of UFP from 2002 to 2004. He was also a candidate for Québec solidaire in the same riding in the 2012 election. ||||||
| Chomedey | n.c. | | | | |
| Chutes-de-la-Chaudière | Jean Bernatchez | M | 649 | 1.71 | 4th |
| Crémazie | Jocelyne Desautels | F | 686 | 1.96 | 4th |
| Notes: Jocelyne Desautels was also a candidate for the Parti de la démocratie socialiste in Mille-Îles in the 1998 election. ||||||
| D'Arcy-McGee | n.c. | | | | |
| Deux-Montagnes | Julien Demers | M | 408 | 1.28 | 4th |
| Drummond | Gilles Martineau | M | 301 | 0.81 | 5th |
| Dubuc | Marie Francine Bienvenue | F | 457 | 1.82 | 4th |
| Duplessis | n.c. | | | | |
| Fabre | n.c. | | | | |
| Frontenac | 'Marie-Josée Vachon | F | 125 | 0.48 | 5th |
| Gaspé | n.c. | | | | |
| Gatineau | Julie Mercier | F | 423 | 1.56 | 4th |
| Gouin | Colette Provost | F | 1,397 | 4.69 | 4th |
| Groulx | Denis Letourneux | M | 436 | 1.25 | 4th |
| Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | Lise Alarie | F | 788 | 3.34 | 4th |
| Notes: Lise Alarie received 788 votes (3.34%), finishing fourth against Parti Québécois incumbent Louise Harel. ||||||
| Hull | Denise Veilleux | F | 677 | 2.38 | 4th |
| Huntingdon | n.c. | | | | |
| Iberville | Guillaume Tremblay | M | 229 | 0.74 | 6th |
| Îles-de-la-Madeleine | n.c. | | | | |
| Jacques-Cartier | n.c. | | | | |
| Jean-Lesage | n.c. | | | | |
| Jeanne-Mance–Viger | n.c. | | | | |
| Jean-Talon | Sacha Alcide Calixte | M | 515 | 1.52 | 4th |
| Johnson | Martin Marois | M | 343 | 1.14 | 4th |
| Joliette | Mathieu Lessard | M | 1,149 | 346 | 4th |
| Jonquière | Michel Perron | M | 330 | 1.06 | 5th |
| Kamouraska-Témiscouata | n.c. | | | | |
| Labelle | n.c. | | | | |
| Lac-Saint-Jean | n.c. | | | | |
| LaFontaine | n.c. | | | | |
| La Peltrie | Guillaume Boivin | M | 515 | 1.30 | 5th |
| Notes: Guillaume Boivin was also the candidate for the Parti de la démocratie socialiste in the same riding in the 1998 election. ||||||
| La Pinière | n.c. | | | | |
| Laporte | Christian Montmarquette | M | 489 | 1.45 | 4th |
| Laprairie | Danielle Maire | F | 229 | 0.60 | 5th |
| L'Assomption | Gilbert Morin | M | 356 | 0.91 | 5th |
| Laurier-Dorion | William Sloan | M | 922 | 3.05 | 4th |
| Laval-des-Rapides | n.c. | | | | |
| Laviolette | Yves Demers | M | 182 | 0.75 | 4th |
| Lévis | Madeleine Provencher | F | 442 | 1.20 | 4th |
| Lotbinière | Étienne Hallé | M | 175 | 0.69 | 5th |
| Louis-Hébert | Jean-Philippe Lessard-Beaupré | M | 402 | 1.00 | 5th |
| Marguerite-Bourgeoys | n.c. | | | | |
| Marguerite-D'Youville | Maxime Babeu | M | 536 | 1.36 | 5th |
| Marie-Victorin | Marc Lambert | M | 452 | 1.61 | 5th |
| Marquette | n.c. | | | | |
| Maskinongé | n.c. | | | | |
| Masson | n.c. | | | | |
| Matane | n.c. | | | | |
| Matapédia | n.c. | | | | |
| Mégantic-Compton | Christian Poulin | M | 193 | 0.82 | 4th |
| Mercier | Amir Khadir | M | 5,278 | 17.92 | 3rd |
| Mille-Îles | n.c. | | | | |
| Mirabel | n.c. | | | | |
| Montmagny-L'Islet | Fernand Dorval | M | 225 | 0.97 | 4th |
| Montmorency | Magali Paquin | F | 517 | 1.39 | 4th |
| Mont-Royal | n.c. | | | | |
| Nelligan | n.c. | | | | |
| Nicolet-Yamaska | n.c. | | | | |
| Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | n.c. | | | | |
| Orford | Véronique Grenier | F | 498 | 1.42 | 4th |
| Notes: Véronique Grenier was a student at the Cégep de Sherbrooke during the election. The UFP was not well-organized in the region, and she did not run an active campaign. She received 498 votes (1.42%), finishing fourth against Liberal candidate Pierre Reid. Grenier later attended the Université de Sherbrooke. ||||||
| Outremont | Jill Hanley | | 1,818 | 6.86 | 3rd |
| Papineau | Dominique Marceau | | 286 | 0.93 | 5th |
| Pointe-aux-Trembles | n.c. | | | | |
| Pontiac | Serge Tanguay | M | 392 | 1.68 | 4th |
| Portneuf | François Paradis-Caron | M | 413 | 1.28 | 4th |
| Prévost | n.c. | | | | |
| René-Lévesque | n.c. | | | | |
| Richelieu | n.c. | | | | |
| Richmond | n.c. | | | | |
| Rimouski | n.c. | | | | |
| Rivière-du-Loup | n.c. | | | | |
| Robert-Baldwin | n.c. | | | | |
| Roberval | Francis Breton | M | 453 | 1.49 | 4th |
| Rosemont | Omar Aktouf | M | 1,132 | 3.07 | 4th |
| Notes: Omar Aktouf is a professor of management at HEC Montréal. He was born in 1944 near Sétif, in Petite Kabylie, Algeria. His father was exiled from Algeria by the colonial authorities and the family settled in Safi, Morocco. In 1962, after the independence of Algeria, the family resettled in Algiers. In Algiers, Omar Aktouf obtained diplomas in literature, philosophy and economics. He then worked in the Algerian public sector, successively at Sonatrach, at the ministry of hydraulics, at the Société nationale des eaux and at the Société nationale de géophysique. He immigrated to Montréal. In the 1980s he became professor at HEC Montréal. In the 2003 Quebec election, he was candidate for the Union des forces progressistes in Rosemont. He obtained 1,132 votes (3.07%), placing fourth. In the 2004 federal election, he was candidate for the New democratic Party in Outremont. He obtained 5,382 votes (14,06%), placing third. At HEC, he is member of Groupe d'études et de recherche sur le management et l'environnement (GERME) and founding member of Centre humanismes, gestions et mondialisation. He is the author of books, including Le management entre tradition et renouvellement, éd. Gaëtan Morin, 4th edition, 2005; La stratégie de l'autruche; post-mondialisation, management et rationalité économique, Écosociété, 2002; Méthodologie des sciences sociales et approche qualitative des organisations, Presses des H.E.C. et Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1987. ||||||
| Rousseau | Alex Boisdequin-Lefort | M | 324 | 1.10 | 4th |
| Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue | Patrick Rancourt | M | 507 | 1.79 | 4th |
| Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques | Gaétan Breton | M | 1,699 | 6.48 | 4th |
| Notes: Gaétan Breton is professor of accounting at Université du Québec à Montréal. He was born in 1952 in Amos. He obtained a doctorate in accounting at the City University London and a master in French studies at Université de Sherbrooke. He is active in environmental and social groups. He was candidate for the Union des forces progressistes in Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in the 2003 Quebec general election and in Gouin in the 2004 by-election, where he obtained 1,195 votes (7,97%), placing third. ||||||
| Saint-François | Suzanne Thériault | F | 314 | 0.99 | 4th |
| Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne | Marc-André Payette | M | 595 | 1.97 | 4th |
| Saint-Hyacinthe | François Choquette | M | 401 | 1.14 | 4th |
| Saint-Jean | Alexandre Boulerice | M | 535 | 1.48 | 4th |
| Saint-Laurent | Alain Pérusse | M | 325 | 1.02 | 4th |
| Saint-Maurice | Kevin Trudel | M | 225 | 0.88 | 4th |
| Shefford | Gilles Dumoulin | M | 334 | 0.94 | 5th |
| Sherbrooke | Normand Gilbert | M | 496 | 1.42 | 4th |
| Soulanges | n.c. | | | | |
| Taillon | Gabriel Landry | M | 545 | 1.42 | 5th |
| Taschereau | Alain Marcoux | M | 1,176 | 3.54 | 4th |
| Notes: Alain Marcoux was a candidate for the Parti de la démocratie socialiste in the 1998 provincial election and for the UFP 2003. In April 2003, he highlighted the UFP's role in mobilizing protests against the American-led invasion of Iraq. Electoral record Election Division Party Votes  % Place Winner 1998 provincial Taschereau Parti de la démocratie socialiste 521 2.16 4/7 Agnès Maltais, Parti Québécois 2003 provincial Taschereau Union des forces progressistes 1,176 3.54 4/8 Agnès Maltais, Parti Québécois ||||||
| Terrebonne | Marco Legrand | M | 440 | 1.24 | 4th |
| Trois-Rivières | David Lanneville | M | 214 | 0.79 | 5th |
| Ungava | n.c. | | | | |
| Vachon | Richard St-Onge | M | 279 | 0.87 | 5th |
| Vanier | Sébastien Bouchard | M | 573 | 1.52 | 4th |
| Notes: Sébastien Bouchard was also candidate for the Parti de la démocratie socialiste in Jean-Talon in the 1998 general election and candidate for Québec solidaire in Chauveau in the 2012 general election. ||||||
| Vaudreuil | n.c. | | | | |
| Verchères | Marc-André Morvan | M | 195 | 0.63 | 5th |
| Verdun | Pascal Durand | M | 368 | 1.27 | 5th |
| Viau | Jocelyne Dupuis | F | 384 | 1.41 | 5th |
| Notes: Jocelyne Dupuis was also candidate for the New Democratic Party of Quebec - Parti de la démocratie socialiste in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in 1989, in Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques in 1994 and in L'Assomption in the 1996 by-election. She led the NDPQ-PDS in 1994-1996. ||||||
| Vimont | André Pigeon | M | 269 | 0.70 | 5th |
| Westmount | David Fennario | M | 718 | 3.14 | 4th |