André Plourde was a Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

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 member of the Canadian House of Commons

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. He was a businessman and industrialist by career.

He represented the Quebec riding of Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup

Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup

Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1997.This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Kamouraska and Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata ridings...

 where he was first elected in the 1984 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1984

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 and re-elected in 1988

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, therefore becoming a member in the 33rd

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 and 34th Canadian Parliament

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Plourde was defeated by Paul Crête

Paul Crête

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 of the Bloc Québécois

Bloc Québécois

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 in the 1993 federal election

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, ending his federal political service. He made another unsuccessful attempt to return to Parliament in the 1997 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1997

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 at the Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata—Les Basques

Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup—Temiscouata—Les Basques

Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup—Temiscouata—Les-Basques was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004....

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