Sébastien Schneeberger

Sébastien Schneeberger
MNA
Sébastien Schneeberger MNA
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Drummond–Bois-Francs
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; September 4, 2012
Preceded by	Yves-François Blanchet
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Drummond
	In office; April 25, 2007 – November 5, 2008
Preceded by	Normand Jutras
Succeeded by	Yves-François Blanchet
Personal details
Born	August 3, 1973 (age 51); Moutier, Switzerland
Political party	Coalition Avenir Québec
Other political; affiliations	Action démocratique du Québec

Sébastien Schneeberger (born August 3, 1973) is a Canadian politician and was elected the Coalition Avenir Québec member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Drummond–Bois-Francs in the 2012 Quebec election. Earlier, he served as the Action démocratique du Québec MNA in Drummond from 2007 to 2008.

Personal life

Schneeberger was born in Moutier, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, and moved to Canada at the age of 10; his father is a Swiss immigrant.^[2]

Schneeberger obtained a college diploma in agricultural exploitation and management in 1994. He worked at a local farm in the Bois-Francs region for over 10 years and later worked as a trucker, technical adviser, sales adviser and manufacturing agent for various businesses in Drummondville. He also a founder for the young businesspeople association in the Centre-du-Quebec region.

Political career

Schneeberger was first elected in the 2007 election with 39% of the vote. Parti Québécois incumbent Normand Jutras, who was running for a fourth term, finished second with 33% of the vote. Schneeberger took office on April 12, 2007 and was named the critic for aboriginal affairs until a Shadow Cabinet shuffle in May 2008.^[3] He was defeated by Yves-François Blanchet of the Parti Québécois in the 2008 election; following the electoral redistribution that preceded the 2012 election, Schneeberger won election in the new Drummond–Bois-Francs riding, while Blanchet was simultaneously reelected in the neighbouring riding of Johnson.

Electoral record

v t e 2022 Quebec general election: Drummond-Bois-Francs
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Sébastien Schneeberger
	Conservative	Myriam Cournoyer
	Parti Québécois	Emrick Couture-Picard
	Québec solidaire	Tony Martel
	Liberal	Pierre Poirier
	Green	Marco Beauchesne			–
	Équipe Autonomiste	Steve Therion
Total valid votes				–
Total rejected ballots				–
Turnout
Electors on the lists				–	–

v t e 2018 Quebec general election: Drummond-Bois-Francs
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Sébastien Schneeberger	19,577	56.3	+16.38
	Québec solidaire	Lannïck Dinard	5,221	15.01	+8.8
	Liberal	Kevin Deland	4,527	13.02	-12.21
	Parti Québécois	Diane Roy	4,360	12.54	-13.75
	Conservative	Francois Picard	733	2.11	+1.27
	Independent	Sylvain Marcoux	250	0.72
	Équipe Autonomiste	Steve Therion	106	0.3
Total valid votes			34,774	97.76
Total rejected ballots			798	2.24
Turnout			35,572	68.82
Eligible voters			51,691
	Coalition Avenir Québec hold		Swing		+3.79
Source(s) "Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.

2014 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Sébastien Schneeberger	13,600	39.92
	Parti Québécois	Daniel Lebel	8,958	26.29
	Liberal	Isabelle Chabot	8,595	25.23
	Québec solidaire	Francis Soulard	2,116	6.21
	Parti nul	Frédéric Bélanger	361	1.06
	Conservative	François Picard	285	0.84
	Option nationale	Alexandre Phénix	155	0.45
Total valid votes			34,070	98.34
Total rejected ballots			575	1.66
Turnout			34,645	69.23
Electors on the lists			50,041	–

2012 Quebec general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Sébastien Schneeberger	13,879	37.59	+12.78
	Parti Québécois	Annie Jean	11,374	30.80	-1.28
	Liberal	Marie Désilets	8,230	22.29	-17.25
	Québec solidaire	Francis Soulard	1,607	4.35	+0.86
	Option nationale	Martin Allard	950	2.57
	Conservative	François Picard	421	1.14
	Independents	Pierre Hébert	355	0.96
	Unité Nationale	Robert Dufour	107	0.29
	Coalition Avenir Québec gain from Liberal		Swing		+14.53

^ Change is from redistributed results; CAQ change is from ADQ

2008 Quebec general election
	Candidate	Votes	%
Parti Québécois	Yves-Francois Blanchet	11,480	34.40
Liberal	Jacques Sigouin	10,860	32.54
Action démocratique	Sébastien Schneeberger	9,757	29.23
Québec solidaire	Luce Daneau	1,279	3.83

Footnotes

External links

"Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.

[1] Drummond

[2] Les nouveaux visages de l'ADQ, La Presse, March 27, 2007

[3] Au tour de l'ADQ, Radio-Canada, April 12, 2007

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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 D'Amours Déry Dionne Dorismond Drainville Dubé Dufour Duranceau Émond 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	Chassin 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.