David Côté was a Canadian

Canada

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 politician active in the provincial

Provinces and territories of Canada

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 politics of Quebec

Quebec

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. Côté was the only member of the Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif (the Quebec section of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation was a Canadian political party founded in 1932 in Calgary, Alberta, by a number of socialist, farm, co-operative and labour groups, and the League for Social Reconstruction...

) ever elected to the Quebec legislature.

Côté was a trade union

Trade union

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 organizer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations

Congress of Industrial Organizations

The Congress of Industrial Organizations, or CIO, proposed by John L. Lewis in 1932, was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955. The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 required union leaders to swear that they were not...

 working amongst miners

Mining

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 in Rouyn

Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec

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. He was elected to the legislative assembly as the CCF member for Rouyn-Noranda in the 1944 provincial election

Quebec general election, 1944

The Quebec general election of 1944 was held on August 8, 1944 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The Union Nationale, led by former premier Maurice Duplessis, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Adélard Godbout...

 with 21% of the vote. He was able to win due to a five-way split between the CCF, the Liberals, the Bloc Populaire, the Union Nationale

Union Nationale

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and the Union des Electeurs (social credit). He sat as an independent from July 22, 1945 until the end of his term and did not seek re-election in the 1948 election

Quebec general election, 1948

The Quebec general election of 1948 was held on July 28, 1948 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Union Nationale, led by Maurice Duplessis, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Adélard Godbout.This was the third time ...

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