Michèle Lamquin-Éthier

Michèle Lamquin-Étheir (born December 12, 1946) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician, who was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1997 to 2007. She was a member of the Quebec Liberal Party caucus. She is married, and the mother of three sons.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Lamquin-Étheir was a lawyer in private practice from 1978 to 1986, a member of the complaints examination committee of the Montreal Police Department from 1978 to 1982 and the General Manager of the Provincial Healthcare Users Committee from 1986 to 1997.

First elected to the constituency of Bourassa in a by-election in 1997, Lamquin-Étheir represented the riding until 2003, when it ceased to exist as a result of redistribution. In that year's provincial election, she was re-elected in the constituency of Crémazie, which she represented until 2007. She was defeated by Lisette Lapointe of the Parti Québécois in the 2007 election.

Electoral record (incomplete)

1998 Quebec general election: Bourassa
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Michèle Lamquin-Éthier (incumbent)	13,434	53.92
	Parti Québécois	Claudel Toussaint	8,358	33.55
	Action démocratique	Éric Morasse	2,734	10.97
	Socialist Democracy	Marc Lajeunesse	189	0.76
	Communist	George Manolis	121	0.49
	Innovator	Raymond Robitaille	78	0.31
Total valid votes			24,914	100.00
Total rejected ballots			355
Turnout			25,269	78.46
Electors			32,205
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

External links

• "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.