Thierry St-Cyr

Canadian politician

Thierry St-Cyr


Member of the Canadian Parliament for Jeanne-Le Ber
In office 2006–2011
Preceded by	Liza Frulla
Succeeded by	Tyrone Benskin

Personal details
Born	(1977-11-07) November 7, 1977 (age 46) La Plaine, Quebec
Political party	Bloc Québécois Parti Québécois
Residence	Montreal
Profession	engineer

Thierry St-Cyr (born November 7, 1977) is an engineer and former Bloc Québécois politician in Quebec, Canada. He served as the Member of Parliament for Jeanne-Le Ber from 2006 to 2011.

Education and career background

Born in La Plaine, Quebec, he has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke and Université de technologie de Compiègne in France as well as an International Bachelor's in science and nature in Geneva.

In 1998 and 1999, worked as a management consultant with CGI in Quebec. He has also been a president and shareholder of an information technology company until 2000, when he started working for TETRA Technologies, Inc., an international oil and gas services company. In 2001, he was an associate professor of engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke. He was actively involved with the Université de Sherbrooke, serving as president, administrator and honorary member of its engineering student association, president of Le Collectif, the school's campus newspaper, and board member of the school's faculty of engineering in 2000 and 2001. He has worked as a quality and metric control at Motorola in Montreal from 2001 until 2006 when he entered politics.

Political history

St-Cyr ran for the Bloc in the 2004 election in Jeanne-Le Ber, where he lost to Liza Frulla of the Liberal Party of Canada by 72 votes. He won the 2006 election.

He served as vice-chair of the standing committee on citizenship and immigration, and its subcommittee on agenda and procedure. Served as a member of the standing committee on finance and its subcommittee on Bill C-28. Served as an associate member of the standing committees on liaison, foreign affairs and international development, and human resources, social development and the status of persons with disabilities.

Thierry St-Cyr was re-elected for his second term in the 2008 Canadian election. However, in the 2011 election, he was defeated by the NDP candidate Tyrone Benskin.

He ran in the 2012 Quebec provincial election for the Parti Québécois in Verdun, losing to incumbent Henri-François Gautrin of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Electoral record (incomplete)

2012 Quebec general election: Verdun
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Henri-François Gautrin	11,920	35.42	-12.28
	Parti Québécois	Thierry St-Cyr	11,373	33.80	-1.54
	Coalition Avenir Québec	André Besner	6,373	18.94	+12.94*
	Québec solidaire	Chantale Michaud	2,449	7.28	+2.12
	Green	Jeffrey Mackie	825	2.45	-2.17
	Option nationale	Marc-Antoine Daneau	525	1.56	–
	Quebec Citizens' Union	Philippe Refghi	127	0.38	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Eileen Studd	58	0.17	–
Total valid votes			33,650	98.86	–
Total rejected ballots			389	1.14	–
Turnout			34,039	71.37	+20.75
Electors on the lists			47,694	–	–

* Result compared to Action démocratique.

2011 Canadian federal election: Jeanne-Le Ber
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Tyrone Benskin	23,293	44.66	+28.96
	Bloc Québécois	Thierry St-Cyr	12,635	24.22	-10.69
	Liberal	Mark Bruneau	10,054	19.28	-12.98
	Conservative	Pierre Lafontaine	4,678	8.97	-2.22
	Green	Richard Noël	1,377	2.64	-2.14
	Marxist–Leninist	Eileen Studd	121	0.23	–
Total valid votes			52,158	100.00
Total rejected ballots			637	1.21	+0.01
Turnout			52,795	59.61	+1.95

v t e 2008 Canadian federal election: Jeanne-Le Ber
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Thierry St-Cyr	17,144	34.91		$88,605
	Liberal	Christian P. Feuillette	15,841	32.26	–	$58,773
	New Democratic	Daniel Breton	7,708	15.70		$28,413
	Conservative	Daniel Beaudin	5,494	11.19		$25,712
	Green	Véronik Sansoucy	2,345	4.78	–	$353
	Independent	Darryl Gray	577	1.17
Total valid votes			49,109	100.00
Total rejected ballots			595
Turnout			49,704	57.66
Electors on the lists			86,201
Sources: Official Results, Elections Canada and Financial Returns, Elections Canada.

2006 Canadian federal election: Jeanne-Le Ber
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Bloc Québécois	Thierry St-Cyr	20,213	40.22	-0.71	$60,248
	Liberal	Liza Frulla	17,118	34.06	-7.03	$81,394
	Conservative	Pierre-Olivier Brunelle	5,951	11.84	+6.31	$21,417
	New Democratic	Matthew McLauchlin	4,621	9.19	+2.28	$9,536
	Green	Claude William Genest	2,357	4.69	+0.61	$30
Total valid votes			50,260	100.00	–	–