Yves Levesque (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yves Levesque is a Canadian politician and the current Mayor of Trois-Rivieres. He won his first electoral victory in 1994, when he became Councilmember in Trois-Rivieres-Ouest. He was re-elected in 1998. In the wake of the province-wide municipal merging of 2001, he ran for Mayor of Trois-Rivieres and won an upset victory against favorite candidate and Cap-de-la-Madeleine Mayor Alain Croteau. In the 2003 provincial election, he campaigned in favor of the re-election of Parti Quebecois incumbent Guy Julien, who lost. In 2005, Julien ran against Levesque for Mayor, but the incumbent was easily re-elected with 70% of the vote. In the 2007 provincial election, Levesque's preference for ADQ candidate Sebastien Proulx was not formally announced, but was not a secret for most observers. Proulx ended up winning. Recently, Levesque has been trying to get the Trois-Rivieres Draveurs, a franchise of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, back in town.