# Parti de la Democratie Socialiste candidates in the 1998 Quebec provincial election

The Parti de la démocratie socialiste (PDS) ran ninety-seven candidates in the 1998 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 | Jake Rouleau | M | 144 | 0.60 | 5th |
| Abitibi-Ouest | n.c. | | | | |
| Acadie | Julien Lapan | M | 136 | 0.39 | 5th |
| Anjou | Bernard Beaulieu | M | 192 | 0.71 | 4th |
| Argenteuil | Michel Lecompte | M | 128 | 0.33 | 7th |
| Arthabaska | n.c. | | | | |
| Beauce-Nord | Serge Foisy | M | 127 | 0.49 | 4th |
| Beauce-Sud | Berthier Guay | M | 233 | 0.72 | 4th |
| Beauharnois-Huntingdon | Eric Thibodeau | M | 147 | 0.45 | 5th |
| Bellechasse | Lise Rose | F | 184 | 0.77 | 4th |
| Berthier | François Rivest | M | 297 | 0.79 | 4th |
| Bertrand | Jacques Rose | M | 125 | 0.37 | 4th |
| Blainville | Denise Gagnon | F | 182 | 0.52 | 4th |
| Bonaventure | n.c. | | | | |
| Borduas | Sylvie Laperle | F | 274 | 0.90 | 4th |
| Bourassa | Marc Lajeunesse | M | 189 | 0.76 | 4th |
| Bourget | Sylvain Desjardins | M | 185 | 0.68 | 4th |
| Brome-Missisquoi | n.c. | | | | |
| Chambly | Maryse-Laurence Lewis | F | 117 | 0.27 | 6th |
| Champlain | Claude Mercier | M | 137 | 0.38 | 5th |
| Chapleau | Julie Lavoie | F | 281 | 0.69 | 4th |
| Notes: Julie Lavoie was twenty-eight years old at the time of the election. A report in the Ottawa Citizen described her as a Quebec sovereigntist. She received 281 votes (0.69%), finishing fourth against Liberal candidate Benoît Pelletier. ||||||
| Charlesbourg | Jean-Pierre Duchesneau | M | 273 | 0.70 | 5th |
| Charlevoix | Guillaume Tremblay | M | 183 | 0.76 | 4th |
| Châteauguay | Victorien Pilote | M | 114 | 0.32 | 5th |
| Chauveau | Josée Larouche | F | 519 | 1.12 | 4th |
| Chicoutimi | Jean-Guy Tremblay | M | 177 | 0.51 | 4th |
| Chomedey | Jean-Pierre Roy | M | 195 | 0.48 | 5th |
| Chutes-de-la-Chaudière | Mario Trépanier | M | 358 | 0.79 | 4th |
| Crémazie | Martine Lauzon | F | 218 | 0.71 | 4th |
| D'Arcy-McGee | Abraham Weizfeld | M | 135 | 0.42 | 5th |
| Deux-Montagnes | Luc Charlebois | M | 141 | 0.30 | 5th |
| Drummond | n.c. | | | | |
| Dubuc | n.c. | | | | |
| Duplessis | n.c. | | | | |
| Fabre | Jean Célestin Pichon | M | 156 | 0.36 | 4th |
| Notes: Jean Célestin Pichon received 156 votes (0.36%), finishing fourth against incumbent Parti Québécois cabinet minister Joseph Facal. ||||||
| Frontenac | n.c. | | | | |
| Gaspé | n.c. | | | | |
| Gatineau | Benoît Giguère | M | 202 | 0.67 | 5th |
| Gouin | Geneviève Ricard | F | 624 | 2.04 | 4th |
| Groulx | Mathieu Perron | M | 171 | 0.49 | 5th |
| Hochelaga-Maisonneuve | Félix Lapan | M | 292 | 1.37 | 4th |
| Hull | Marc Bonhomme | M | 291 | 0.91 | 4th |
| Iberville | n.c. | | | | |
| Îles-de-la-Madeleine | n.c. | | | | |
| Jacques-Cartier | Eugène Busque | M | 217 | 0.55 | 5th |
| Jeanne-Mance | Stéphane Simard | M | 78 | 0.27 | 5th |
| Jean-Talon | Sébastien Bouchard | M | 326 | 1.15 | 4th |
| Notes: Sébastien Bouchard was also Union des forces progressistes candidate in Vanier in the 2003 general election and Québec solidaire candidate in Chauveau in the 2012 general election. ||||||
| Johnson | Patrice Côté | M | 290 | 0.98 | 4th |
| Joliette | Alexandre Martel | M | 504 | 1.43 | 4th |
| Jonquière | n.c. | | | | |
| Kamouraska-Témiscouata | Jérôme Frédéric Bouchard | M | 334 | 1.29 | 4th |
| Labelle | Nicole Vallée | F | 218 | 0.75 | 4th |
| Notes: Nicole Vallée received 218 votes (0.75%), finishing fourth against incumbent Parti Québécois cabinet minister Jacques Léonard. ||||||
| Lac-Saint-Jean | n.c. | | | | |
| LaFontaine | Pierre-Yves Legault | M | 161 | 0.40 | 5th |
| La Peltrie | Guillaume Boivin | M | 492 | 1.09 | 4th |
| La Pinière | Gabriel Ste-Marie | M | 125 | 0.33 | 4th |
| Laporte | Lise Fournier | F | 317 | 0.86 | 4th |
| Laprairie | Louis Préfontaine | M | 242 | 0.52 | 4th |
| L'Assomption | Richard-Olivier Mayer | M | 214 | 0.52 | 5th |
| Laurier-Dorion | Milan Mirich | M | 490 | 1.43 | 4th |
| Notes: See the 2000 federal election for biographical notes for Milan Mirich. ||||||
| Laval-des-Rapides | Nathalie Toussaint | F | 117 | 0.38 | 5th |
| Laviolette | n.c. | | | | |
| Lévis | Paul Biron | M | 196 | 0.62 | 4th |
| Limoilou | Denis Cusson | M | 345 | 1.05 | 4th |
| Lotbinière | n.c. | | | | |
| Louis-Hébert | Claude Pelletier | M | 169 | 0.53 | 4th |
| Marguerite-Bourgeoys | Robert Aillaud | M | 161 | 0.47 | 6th |
| Marguerite-D'Youville | Jonathan Bérubé | M | 240 | 0.61 | 5th |
| Marie-Victorin | Pierre Klépock | M | 245 | 0.81 | 5th |
| Marquette | n.c. | | | | |
| Maskinongé | n.c. | | | | |
| Masson | Marco Legrand | M | 143 | 0.52 | 5th |
| Matane | n.c. | | | | |
| Matapédia | Réjean Lamarre | M | 238 | 1.04 | 4th |
| Mégantic-Compton | Yves Couturier | M | 174 | 0.69 | 4th |
| Mercier | Guylaine Sirard | F | 873 | 2.75 | 5th |
| Mille-Îles | Jocelyne Desautels | F | 156 | 0.39 | 5th |
| Montmagny-L'Islet | n.c. | | | | |
| Montmorency | Linda Fick | F | 267 | 0.60 | 5th |
| Mont-Royal | Robbie Mahood | | 167 | 0.55 | 6th |
| Nelligan | Érik Cossette | M | 156 | 0.33 | 5th |
| Nicolet-Yamaska | Robert Poirier | M | 157 | 0.56 | 4th |
| Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | Marie Bertrand | F | 256 | 0.88 | 5th |
| Orford | Josué Côté | M | 352 | 0.85 | 4th |
| Outremont | Armand Vaillancourt | M | 545 | 1.76 | 4th |
| Papineau | Patrick Aubé | M | 126 | 0.43 | 5th |
| Pointe-aux-Trembles | Hugues Tremblay | M | 205 | 0.69 | 4th |
| Pontiac | Mohamed-Ali Khreis | M | 108 | 0.37 | 6th |
| Portneuf | Jérôme Larouche | M | 298 | 0.92 | 4th |
| Prévost | Brigitte Lippens | F | 229 | 0.62 | 4th |
| Richelieu | Isabelle Latour | F | 246 | 0.78 | 5th |
| Notes: Isabelle Latour received 246 votes (0.78%), finishing fifth against incumbent Parti Québécois cabinet minister Sylvain Simard. ||||||
| Richmond | n.c. | | | | |
| Rimouski | Manon Côté | F | 192 | 0.65 | 5th |
| Notes: Manon Côté was also the NPDQ candidate in Rimouski in the 1994 election and the Québec solidaire candidate in the 2008 election in Kamouraska-Témiscouata. ||||||
| Rivière-du-Loup | Louis Leroux | M | 61 | 0.26 | 6th |
| Robert-Baldwin | n.c. | | | | |
| Roberval | Pieter Wentholt | M | 294 | 0.91 | 4th |
| Rosemont | Roy Semak | M | 263 | 0.89 | 5th |
| Rousseau | Francis Martin | M | 243 | 0.74 | 4th |
| Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue | Luc Legault | M | 360 | 1.11 | 4th |
| Saguenay | Hélène Lévesque | F | 159 | 0.65 | 4th |
| Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques | Ginette Gauthier | F | 629 | 2.01 | 5th |
| Notes: Ginette Gauthier was a Communist Party of Canada candidate in the 1988 federal election, led the Communist Party of Quebec from 1991 to 1994, and may have been its leader during the 1994 provincial election. She later left the Communist Party to join the PDS. Electoral record Election Division Party Votes  % Place Winner 1988 federal LaSalle—Émard Communist 212 0.41 5/6 Paul Martin, Liberal 1994 provincial Mercier Communist 129 0.42 8/9 Robert Perreault, Parti Québécois 1998 provincial Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques Socialist Democracy 629 2.01 5/10 André Boulerice, Parti Québécois ||||||
| Saint-François | Patrick Jasmin | M | 296 | 0.89 | 4th |
| Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne | Sonia Marcoux | F | 205 | 0.70 | 4th |
| Saint-Hyacinthe | Jacques Bousquet | M | 295 | 0.69 | 4th |
| Saint-Jean | n.c. | | | | |
| Saint-Laurent | Richard Lahaie | M | 129 | 0.36 | 6th |
| Saint-Maurice | n.c. | | | | |
| Salaberry-Soulanges | Francis Ruel | M | 253 | 0.61 | 4th |
| Sauvé | Eric Fontaine | M | 172 | 0.71 | 5th |
| Shefford | n.c. | | | | |
| Sherbrooke | n.c. | | | | |
| Taillon | Pascal Durand | M | 345 | 0.86 | 4th |
| Taschereau | Alain Marcoux | M | 521 | 2.16 | 4th |
| Terrebonne | Richard Chartier | M | 210 | 0.59 | 4th |
| Trois-Rivières | n.c. | | | | |
| Ungava | n.c. | | | | |
| Vachon | n.c. | | | | |
| Vanier | Michèle Dionne | F | 429 | 1.11 | 4th |
| Vaudreuil | Yves Marie Christin | M | 218 | 0.49 | 5th |
| Verchères | Germain Dallaire | M | 335 | 1.07 | 4th |
| Verdun | Daniel Pharand | M | 151 | 0.46 | 7th |
| Viau | Caroline Perron | F | 426 | 1.59 | 4th |
| Viger | Alain Bernatchez | M | 168 | 0.58 | 4th |
| Vimont | Martin Duplantis | M | 215 | 0.47 | 5th |
| Westmount | Sorem Kvist | M | 224 | 0.68 | 5th |