Jean-Léo Rochon
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.
Jean-Léo Rochon | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Deux-Montagnes | |
| In office 1935–1936 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Sauvé |
| Succeeded by | Paul Sauvé |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Laval | |
| In office June 1962 – June 1968 | |
| Preceded by | Rodrigue Bourdages |
| Succeeded by | Marcel-Claude Roy |
| Member of Parliament for Ahuntsic | |
| In office June 1968 – September 1972 | |
| Succeeded by | Jeanne Sauvé |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 3 July 1902 Saint-Augustin, Mirabel, Quebec, Canada |
| Died | 21 June 1988 (aged 85) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse |
Cécile Lalande (m. 1950) |
| Profession | optometrist |
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
- Jean-Léo Rochon – Parliament of Canada biography
- "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.