Yves Ducharme

Career

He was defeated in an election in 2005 by Marc Bureau and decided to quit municipal politics. He became president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. He first entered municipal politics in 1986 and was elected mayor of Hull in 1992.

He was re-elected a number of times until 2002 Hull was forced to merge with the surrounding cities of Gatineau, Aylmer, Buckingham and Masson-Angers.

The bigger city was named Gatineau and Ducharme became its first mayor in 2002 after beating Gatineau"s former mayor Robert Labine in the election.

Achievements

• In 2005 his reign came to end when he lost to first-time candidate, fellow councilor Marc Bureau, who won 68% of the vote, in an election in which the participation rate was 47,3%.