Parti citron candidates in the 1989 Quebec provincial election

The Parti citron was a novelty political party that ran eleven candidates in the 1989 Quebec provincial election, none of whom were elected. Information about these candidates may be found on this page.

Candidates

Acadie: Christian Coutu

Christian Coutu has been a candidate in one provincial and two municipal elections.

Electoral record
Election Division Party Votes  % Place Winner
1989 provincial Acadie Parti citron 848 2.92 4/5 Yvan Bordeleau, Liberal[1]
1990 municipal Montreal City Council, Ahuntsic White Elephant Party 107 1.66 5/5 Alain André, Municipal Party[2]
1994 municipal Montreal City Council, Ahuntsic White Elephant Party 128 1.71 6/6 Hasmig Belleli, Vision Montreal[3]

Dorion: Pierre Corbeil

Pierre Corbeil ran for the Rhinoceros Party of Canada as "Pierre dit Lagaffe Corbeil" in the 1984 Canadian federal election. As a Parti citron candidate in 1989, he said that his party would replace the government of Canada's proposed Meech Lake Accord on Canadian constitutional reform with a "Beaver Lake Accord," named after an artificial lake in Quebec. As Corbeil put it, "Beaver Lake's an artificial lake and we'd like an artificial accord." He also proposed that all public-sector employees be required to dress in yellow after the election "to boost their morale."[4]

Corbeil later ran for the Parti éléphant blanc de Montréal in two municipal elections in the 1990s. He was forty-one years old in 1994 and indicated that his campaign budget that year was only one thousand dollars.[5]

Electoral record
Election Division Party Votes  % Place Winner
1984 federal Saint-Jacques Rhinoceros 1,204 4.39 4/7 Jacques Guilbault, Liberal[6]
1989 provincial Dorion Parti citron 297 1.30 5/6 Violette Trépanier, Liberal[7]
1990 municipal Montreal City Council, Peter-McGill White Elephant Party 49 1.50 5/5 Nick Auf der Maur, Municipal Party[8]
1994 municipal Montreal City Council, Peter-McGill White Elephant Party 53 1.17 6/6 Georgine Coutu, Vision Montreal[9]

References
  1. Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.
  2. Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.
  3. Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.
  4. James Mennie, "Lemon Party plans to put zest in Westmount campaign," Montreal Gazette, 15 September 1989, A5.
  5. Taskeen Hamidullah, "Trumpeting its virtues; White Elephant Party aims to shake up voters," Montreal Gazette, 7 August 1994, A3.
  6. Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada on the Thirty-third Canadian federal election.
  7. Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.
  8. Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.
  9. Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.
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