Vincent Marissal

Canadian politician

Vincent Marissal MNA


Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Rosemont
Incumbent
Assumed office October 18, 2018
Preceded by	Jean-François Lisée

Personal details
Born	(1966-11-07) November 7, 1966 (age 57) Granby, Quebec
Political party	Québec solidaire
Alma mater	Université du Québec à Montréal Cégep de Granby
Profession	Journalist

Vincent Marissal is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election.^[1] He represents the electoral district of Rosemont as a member of Québec solidaire.

Background

Prior to being elected, Marissal was a journalist. His journalistic career began with La Voix de l'Est, a newspaper in Granby. Marissal later wrote for Le Soleil in Quebec City, covering the affairs of the National Assembly. He later worked for La Presse in Montreal, where he continued to cover politics while also authoring the newspaper's weekly wine column.^[2]

Electoral record

v t e 2022 Quebec general election: Rosemont
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Québec solidaire	Vincent Marissal	13,311	37.62	+2.37
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Sandra O'Connor	8,157	23.06	+7.50
	Parti Québécois	Pierre-Luc Brillant	7,527	21.27	-7.16
	Liberal	Sherlyne Duverneau	4,170	11.79	-4.98
	Conservative	Marie-France Lemay	1,605	4.54	+3.95
	Green	Jamie D’Souza	452	1.28	-0.14
	Climat Québec	Jean-François Racine	158	0.45	–
Total valid votes			35,380	98.87	–
Total rejected ballots			405	1.13	-0.33
Turnout			35,785	68.22	-1.18
Electors on the lists			52,457	–	–

v t e 2018 Quebec general election: Rosemont
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Québec solidaire	Vincent Marissal	12,920	35.25	+16.57
	Parti Québécois	Jean-François Lisée	10,420	28.43	-5.84
	Liberal	Agata La Rosa	6,148	16.77	-13.19
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Sonya Cormier	5703	15.56	+1.40
	Green	Karl Dubois	521	1.42	+0.10
	New Democratic	Paulina Ayala	314	0.86
	Parti nul	Catherine Raymond-Poirier	225	0.61
	Conservative	Alexandra Liendo	217	0.59
	Bloc Pot	Coralie Laperrière	130	0.35	-0.19
	Marxist–Leninist	Stéphane Chénier	55	0.15	-0.06
Total valid votes			36,653	98.54
Total rejected ballots			542	1.46
Turnout			37,195	69.40
Eligible voters			53,596
	Québec solidaire gain from Parti Québécois		Swing		+11.21
Source(s) "Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.

References

^ "Quebec election: PQ leader loses Rosemont to Québec Solidaire’s Vincent Marissal". Global News, October 1, 2018.
^ "Vincent Marissal". National Assembly of Quebec. October 3, 2022. Retrieved October 13, 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 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	Labrie Nadeau-Dubois Bouazzi Cliche-Rivard Fontecilla Ghazal Grandmont Leduc Marissal Massé Zaga Mendez Zanetti
Parti Québécois†	St-Pierre Plamondon Arseneau Bérubé Paradis
Independent	Lefebvre 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.