Henri-François Gautrin

Henri-François Gautrin
MNA for Verdun
In office September 25, 1989 – April 23, 2014
Preceded by	Paul Gobeil
Succeeded by	Jacques Daoust
Personal details
Born	July 30, 1943 Béthune, France
Political party	Quebec Liberal Party
Profession	Professor, Physicist
Cabinet	Deputy House Leader of the Government

Henri-François Gautrin (born July 30, 1943 in Béthune, France) is a Quebec politician, professor and physicist. He was the Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Verdun in the Montreal region. He represented the Quebec Liberal Party and was the former Minister of Governmental Services from February 2006 to February 2007.

Gautrin went to Collège Stanislas before going to the Université de Montréal where he obtained a bachelor's degree in sciences. He later obtained a master's degree in sciences at McGill University before heading to the Université de Dijon in France in 1971 where he received a State doctor's degree. He also studied economics and public finance in Paris.

He was a professor in the mathematics department at the Université de Montréal since 1969. In addition to his teaching duties at that university, he was also an administration staff member and a member of the executive committee.

He was also active in politics as the leader of the New Democratic Party of Quebec from 1973 to 1979 and was the president of the NO committee in the Taillon riding in the 1980 referendum. He was then a candidate for the Liberals in the 1981 elections in the riding of Dorion, where he was defeated.

Gautrin was elected in Verdun in the 1989 elections where he was named the Caucus chair of the MNAs in Western Montreal and was briefly the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Education before the Liberals were defeated by the Parti Québécois. He was re-elected for two other terms as an MNA for the opposition party in 1994 and 1998.

When the Liberals returned to power in 2003, Gautrin was named the Parliamentary secretary to Premier Jean Charest from 2003 to 2005. In 2005, he was named the Online Government Minister and in 2006 the Minister of Governmental Services. After being re-elected in 2007, he was named the Assistant House Leader of the Government and parliamentary assistant to the Premier. He was re-elected in the 2008 Quebec general election.

Electoral record (partial)

Quebec general election, 2003: Verdun
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Henri-François Gautrin	15,185	52.52
	Parti Québécois	Denis Martel	8,782	30.38
	Action démocratique	Sébastien Guérin	3,269	11.31
	Green	Claude Genest	658	2.28
	UFP	Pascal Durand	368	1.27
	Bloc Pot	Vincent Aubry	357	1.23
	Christian Democracy	Gilles Noël	104	0.36
	Marxist–Leninist	Normand Chouinard	71	0.25
	Equality	Bernard King	63	0.22
	Independent	Robert Lindbald	54	0.19
Total valid votes			28,911	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			391
Turnout			29,302	63.01
Electors on the lists			46,502
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

Quebec general election, 1989: Verdun
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Henri-François Gautrin	8,295	38.58	−25.69
	Parti Québécois	Maurice Roch	6,928	32.22	+2.35
	Equality	Roger Mercure	4,857	22.59	–
	Green	Andrew Ferguson	664	3.09	–
	New Democratic	Jean-François Moisan	387	1.80	−1.05
	Workers	Raymond Lemay	266	1.24	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Claude Brunelle	106	0.49	–
Total valid votes			21,503	96.97	–
Rejected and declined votes			673	3.03	–
Turnout			22,176	75.27	+1.46
Electors on the lists			29,461	–	–
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

Quebec general election, 1981: Dorion
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Parti Québécois	Huguette Lachapelle	14,551	51.54
	Liberal	Henri-François Gautrin	12,657	44.83
	Union Nationale	François Lefebvre	524	1.86	–
	Workers Communist	Suzanne Barbeau Foisy	161	0.57
	Workers	Gilles Frenière	114	0.40
	Marxist–Leninist	Ginette Boutet	88	0.31
	Non-affiliated	Raymond Beaudoin	74	0.26
	United Social Credit	Fernand Bélisle	66	0.23
Total valid votes			28,235	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			666
Turnout			28,901	82.58
Electors on the lists			34,997
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

External links

• "Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.