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Jean-Léo Rochon

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Jean-Léo Rochon
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Deux-Montagnes
In office
1935–1936
Preceded byPaul Sauvé
Succeeded byPaul Sauvé
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Laval
In office
June 1962 – June 1968
Preceded byRodrigue Bourdages
Succeeded byMarcel-Claude Roy
Member of Parliament
for Ahuntsic
In office
June 1968 – September 1972
Succeeded byJeanne Sauvé
Personal details
Born3 July 1902
Saint-Augustin, Mirabel, Quebec, Canada
Died21 June 1988(1988-06-21) (aged 85)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political partyLiberal
Spouse
Cécile Lalande
(m. 1950)
Professionoptometrist

Jean-Léo Rochon (3 July 1902 – 21 June 1988) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Saint-Augustin, now a part of Mirabel and became an optometrist by career.

He was first elected in the 1935 Quebec general election as a Liberal party member of the short-lived 19th Legislative Assembly of Quebec from November 1935 to August 1936, but only served that one term as a provincial politician.

After several provincial and federal election defeats, Rochon won a House of Commons seat at the Laval riding in the 1962 general election. He was re-elected there in the 1963 and 1965 federal elections. For the 1968 federal election, Rochon was re-elected at the Ahuntsic electoral district. He served his final term in the 28th Canadian Parliament then left federal office in 1972 without campaigning for another term in the House of Commons.

1965 Canadian federal election: Laval
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Jean-Léo Rochon 44,533 50.7 -3.3
New Democratic Louis-Philippe Lecours 21,484 24.4 +9.0
Progressive Conservative Rudy Hébert 13,553 15.4 +1.8
Ralliement créditiste Jean-Charles Brouillard 8,349 9.5 -7.5
Total valid votes 87,919 100.0

Note: Ralliement créditiste vote is compared to Social Credit vote in the 1963 election.

1963 Canadian federal election: Laval
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Jean-Léo Rochon 43,452 53.9 +4.4
Social Credit Roland Reeves 13,701 17.0 +11.1
New Democratic Louis-Philippe Lecours 12,478 15.5 +8.2
Progressive Conservative Georges Long 10,963 13.6 -17.6
Total valid votes 80,594 100.0
1962 Canadian federal election: Laval
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Jean-Léo Rochon 36,248 49.5 +3.3
Progressive Conservative J.-Rodrigue Bourdages 22,843 31.2 -16.3
New Democratic Louis-Ph. Lecours 5,302 7.2 +3.3
Independent Liberal Adrien Bonin 4,513 6.2
Social Credit Léopold Mercier 4,294 5.9
Total valid votes 73,200 100.0

Further reading

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  • Jean-Léo Rochon – Parliament of Canada biography
  • "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.