Kateri Champagne Jourdain

Canadian politician

Kateri Champagne Jourdain MNA

Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Duplessis
Incumbent
Assumed office October 3, 2022
Preceded by	Lorraine Richard
Quebec Minister of Employment
Incumbent
Assumed office October 20,2022
Preceded by	Jean Boulet

Personal details
Born	Uashat-Maliotenam, Quebec^[1]
Political party	Coalition Avenir Quebec

Kateri Champagne Jourdain is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2022 Quebec general election. She represents the riding of Duplessis as a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec. She is the first indigenous woman elected to the National Assembly and the first Indigenous woman in a Quebec cabinet position.^[2] She is minister of employment in the Executive Council of Quebec.^[3]

Electoral record

v t e 2022 Quebec general election: Duplessis
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Kateri Champagne Jourdain	8,785	45.14	+11.44
	Parti Québécois	Marilou Vanier	4,825	24.79	–9.53
	Conservative	Roberto Stéa	3,059	15.72	+14.04
	Québec solidaire	Uapukun Mestokosho	1,821	9.36	–3.03
	Liberal	Chamroeun Khuon	783	4.02	–13.90
	Climat Québec	Jacques Gélineau	190	0.98	New
Total valid votes			19,463	98.57
Total rejected ballots			282	1.43	–0.39
Turnout			19,745	53.21	–2.60
Electors on the lists			37,108
	Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Parti Québécois		Swing		+10.48
Source: Élections Québec^[4]

References

^ "Kateri Champagne Jourdain de la CAQ, première Innue élue, remporte Duplessis | Élections Québec 2022". Radio-Canada.ca (in Canadian French). No. Zone Politique-ICI.Radio-Canada.ca. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
^ "La caquiste Kateri Champagne Jourdain devient la première femme autochtone élue". TVA Nouvelles. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
^ Richardson, Lindsay (October 21, 2022). "First Indigenous woman to win seat in Quebec now in cabinet". National News.
^ "Résultats des élections générales du 3 octobre 2022". Élections Québec. Retrieved 20 October 2022.

v t e Current members of the National Assembly of Quebec
Coalition Avenir Québec	Legault Abou-Khalil Allaire Asselin Bachand G. Bélanger S. Bélanger Bernard Biron Blais Blanchette Vézina Blouin Bogemans Boivin Roy Bonnardel Boulet Bourassa Bussière Caire Carmant Caron Champagne Jourdain Charest Charette Chassin D'Amours Déry Dionne Dorismond Drainville Dubé Dufour Duranceau Émond Fitzgibbon Fréchette Gagnon Gendron Girard (Groulx) Girard (Lac-Saint-Jean) Grondin Guilbault Guillemette Haytayan Hébert Jacques Jeannotte Jolin-Barrette Julien Lachance Lacombe Laforest Laframboise Lafrenière Lamontagne Lamothe LeBel I. Lecours L. Lecours Lefebvre Lemay Lemieux M. Lévesque S. Lévesque Mallette Martel Montigny Picard Poulet Poulin Proulx Provençal Reid Rivest Roberge Rouleau N. Roy S. Roy Sainte-Croix St-Louis Schmaltz Schneeberger Simard Skeete Soucy Tardif Thouin F. Tremblay S. Tremblay
Quebec Liberal Party	Tanguay Beauchemin Benjamin Cadet Caron Ciccone Derraji Dufour Fortin Garceau Kelley Lakhoyan Olivier Maccarone McGraw Morin Prass Rizqy Rotiroti Setlakwe
Québec solidaire	Massé Nadeau-Dubois Bouazzi Cliche-Rivard Fontecilla Ghazal Grandmont Labrie Leduc Marissal Zaga Mendez Zanetti
Parti Québécois†	St-Pierre Plamondon Arseneau Bérubé Paradis
Independent	Nichols
Party leaders listed first (in bold italics). Government members in bold denotes cabinet. † Party does not have official party status in the National Assembly.