Simon-Pierre Diamond
MNA for Marguerite-D'Youville
In office
April 25, 2007 – November 5, 2008
Preceded byPierre Moreau
Succeeded byMonique Richard
Personal details
Born (1985-02-09) February 9, 1985
Boucherville, Quebec, Canada
Political partyADQ (2007-2008)
Liberal (2010-present)

Simon-Pierre Diamond (born February 9, 1985) is a politician in Quebec, Canada. He represented the Marguerite-D'Youville district in the National Assembly of Quebec from 2007 to 2008 as a member of the Action démocratique du Québec.

From 2004 to 2007, Diamond, a law student at Université de Montréal and a resident of Boucherville, served as President of the Youth Commission of the ADQ. He supports same-sex marriage, but believes that only the federal government has jurisdiction over that issue.[1]

In the 2007 election at age 22, Diamond became the youngest member ever elected to the Quebec legislature,[2] a record he held until the 2012 election of Léo Bureau-Blouin; the previous recordholders had been André Boisclair and Claude Charron.[3]

Diamond was elected with 37% of the vote, defeating PQ candidate Sébastien Gagnon (31%) and Liberal incumbent Pierre Moreau (27%). He took office on April 12, 2007.[4] On April 19, 2007, he was selected to be the Official Opposition's Shadow Minister of Environment and Sustaining Development.[5] He lost his seat in the 2008 election along with 33 other ADQ MNAs, coming in third place in his riding with 18.46% of the vote.[6]

On May 31, 2010, it was announced Diamond had switched to the Liberal Party and would be running for them in the July 5 Vachon by-election.[7] He was defeated in that election by Parti Québécois candidate Martine Ouellet.[8]

Diamond was born in Boucherville, Quebec. His father is a federal Liberal.[2]

Electoral record

Quebec provincial by-election, July 5, 2010: Vachon
Party Candidate Votes%±%
Parti QuébécoisMartine Ouellet7,86359.15+10.51
LiberalSimon-Pierre Diamond3,23624.34−7.94
Action démocratiqueAlain Dépatie8796.61−7.06
Québec solidaireSébastien Robert7275.47+3.23
GreenYvon Rudolphe4193.15−0.01
IndependentDenis Durand980.74−2.42
IndependentRégent Millette710.53-
Total valid votes 13,293 100.00
Rejected and declined votes 174
Turnout 13,467 29.25 −32.23
Electors on the lists 46,046

Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

2008 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Parti QuébécoisMonique Richard14,53339.75+8.70
  Liberal Jean-Robert Grenier 13,119 35.88 +8.68
Action démocratiqueSimon-Pierre Diamond6,75018.46-18.61
GreenThomas Goyette-Levac1,0973.00-
Québec solidaireHugo Bergeron1,0642.91-1.76
2007 Quebec general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Action démocratiqueSimon-Pierre Diamond15,53637.07+20.39
Parti QuébécoisSébastien Gagnon13,01531.05-8.14
  Liberal Pierre Moreau 11,401 27.20 -14.18
Québec solidaireDaniel Michelin1,9584.67+3.31*

* Increase is from UFP

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

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