{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Benoit Charette | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|MNA|size=100%}} | image = Benoit Charrette.jpg | caption = Charrette in 2015 | birth_date = {{birth date and age |1976|07|19}} | birth_place = Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, Canada | death_date = | death_place = | profession = | party = CAQ (2011-present) | other_party = {{plainlist| * Independent (2011-2011) * Parti Québécois (2008-2011) }} | office1 = Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Deux-Montagnes | term_start1 = April 7, 2014 | term_end1 = | predecessor1 = Daniel Goyer | successor1 = | term_start2 = December 8, 2008 | term_end2 = September 4, 2012 | predecessor2 = Lucie Leblanc | successor2 = Daniel Goyer | office = Quebec Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility | predecessor = Jonatan Julien | term_start = April 21, 2026 | premier = Christine Fréchette | spouse = }}
'''Benoit Charette''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|MNA}} (born July 19, 1976) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2008 provincial election for Deux-Montagnes.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Benoit Charette - National Assembly of Québec|url=http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/deputes/charette-benoit-195/biographie.html|access-date=2022-01-27|website=www.assnat.qc.ca|language=en}}</ref> He was a member of the Parti Québécois, but left the party on June 21, 2011 to protest the party's focus on sovereignty.<ref>{{cite news |title=Fifth PQ member quits over sovereignty debate |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/06/21/fifth_pq_member_quits_over_sovereignty_debate.html |access-date=28 February 2021 |agency=thestar.com}}</ref> On December 19, 2011 he joined the Coalition Avenir Québec and is the current Minister of Sustainable Development and Environment. In 2021 he was assigned a new provincial role in combating racism.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nerestant |first1=Antoni |title=Premier appoints Benoit Charette, environment minister, to lead fight against racism |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/anti-racism-commissioner-quebec-1.5925915 |access-date=28 February 2021 |agency=cbc.ca}}</ref>
A graduate of Université du Québec à Montréal with a bachelor's degree in history, he also studied municipal development at the École nationale d'administration publique. He worked as program manager at the Ministry of International Relations. He was also responsible for the documentation center at the Quebec General Delegation Délégation générale du Québec in Mexico.
Charette defeated the ADQ's Lucie Leblanc in Deux-Montagnes in the 2008 elections.
==Electoral record== {{2022 Quebec general election/Deux-Montagnes}} {{2018 Quebec general election/Deux-Montagnes}}
{{Canadian election result/top|QC|2014|percent=yes|change=yes}} {{CANelec|QC|CAQ|Benoit Charette | 11,868 | 34.16 | -1.09 }} {{CANelec|QC|PQ|Daniel Goyer | 11,107 | 31.97 | -6.83 }} {{CANelec|QC|Liberal|Luc Leclerc | 8,913 | 25.65 | +7.66 }} {{CANelec|QC|Québec solidaire|Duncan Hart Cameron | 2,326 | 6.69 | +2.6 }} {{CANelec|QC|Parti équitable| Alec Ware | 297 | 0.85 | }} {{CANelec|QC|Option nationale| Louis-Félix Cauchon | 233 | 0.67 | -1.25 }} {{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes| 34,744 | 98.01 |–}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots| 705 | 1.99 |–}} {{Canadian election result/total|Turnout| 35,449 | 74 | }} {{Canadian election result/total|Electors on the lists| 47,612 |–|–}} |}
{{Canadian election result/top|QC|2012|percent=yes|change=yes}} {{CANelec|QC|PQ|Daniel Goyer | 14,423 | 38.80 | -4.33 }} {{CANelec|QC|CAQ|Benoit Charette | 13,102 | 35.25 | +17.25 }} {{CANelec|QC|Liberal |Stéphanie Ménard | 6,689 | 17.99 | -14.38 }} {{CANelec|QC|Québec solidaire|Normand Godon | 1,522 | 4.09 | +1.81 }} {{CANelec|QC|Green| Princess Brooks | 724 | 1.95 | -2.27}} {{CANelec|QC|Option nationale | Wilson Ortiz | 712 | 1.92 | }} {{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes| 37,172 | 98.56 |–}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots| 545 | 1.44 |–}} {{Canadian election result/total|Turnout| 37,717 | 79.99 | }} {{Canadian election result/total|Electors on the lists| 47,154 |–|–}} {{CANelec/hold|QC|PQ|-10.79}} |}
^ Change is from redistributed results. CAQ change is from ADQ.
{{Election box begin | title=2008 Quebec general election}} {{CANelec|QC|PQ|Benoit Charette|11,961|43.14|+10.13}} |- {{Canadian party colour|QC|Liberal|row}} |Liberal |Marie-France D'Aoust |align="right"|8,980 |align="right"|32.39 |align="right"|+8.45 {{CANelec|QC|ADQ|Lucie Leblanc|4,986|17.98|-18.34}} |- {{CANelec |QC |Green |Guy Rainville |1,168 |4.21 |-0.03}} {{CANelec|QC|QS|Julien Demers|632|2.28|+0.12}} |- {{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes| 27,727 | 98.11 |–}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots| 535 | 1.89 |–}} |- |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Quebec MNA biography|charette-benoit-195}}
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