{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{BLP sources|date=May 2025}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Richard Nadeau | image = | parliament = Canadian | term_start = January 23, 2006 | term_end = May 2, 2011 | predecessor = Françoise Boivin | successor = Françoise Boivin | constituency_MP = Gatineau | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|04|05}} | birth_place = Hawkesbury, Ontario | death_date = | death_place = | party = Bloc Québécois <small>(federal)</small><br />Action Gatineau <small>(municipal)</small> | spouse = Edith Gendron | profession = Teacher | alma_mater = University of Ottawa (BA, BEd) | footnotes = }} '''Richard Nadeau''' (born April 5, 1959) is a Canadian teacher and politician who is the former Member of Parliament for the riding of Gatineau.
==Early life and career== Nadeau attended the University of Ottawa where he received degrees in history, political science and education. In addition to being a teacher, Nadeau has worked as an adviser and director of educational programs, and as a researcher and an archivist. He has also been a lobbyist for French education and has been involved in community theatre in Saskatchewan. He taught at the Gisèle Lalonde High School in Orleans, near Ottawa, where he, amongst other things, supervised and acted as speaker for the model UN club.
==Political career== ===Federal politics=== In the 2000 federal election, Nadeau finished second in Gatineau behind Mark Assad of the Liberal Party of Canada by 13,197 votes. In the 2004 federal election, he finished second behind Françoise Boivin of the Liberals by 830 votes—a surprisingly close result, given that this had long been reckoned as one of the more federalist regions of Quebec.
He was elected in the 2006 federal election in a rematch against Boivin, becoming the first Bloc MP elected in the National Capital Region. He was also the third Bloc MP ever elected in the entire Outaouais region, after Maurice Dumas and Mario Laframboise.
In the 2008 Canadian federal election Nadeau received the smallest percentage of votes for a winning candidate, at just 29.13%, meaning that less than 3 out of 10 voters chose him as their candidate, despite him winning a plurality of votes and carrying the district for the Bloc over Boivin, now running for the New Democratic Party.
Boivin heavily defeated Nadeau by over 27,000 votes in the 2011 election as part of the massive NDP surge across Quebec. He tallied barely half of his vote from 2008.
In the 2025 election he again ran as the Bloc candidate in Gatineau, where he came third.
===Municipal politics=== On May 26, 2025, less than a month after losing the 2025 federal election, Nadeau announced that he would be seeking the Action Gatineau nomination in Lac-Beauchamp District for the 2025 municipal election.<ref name="lacbeauchamp">{{cite web |last=Bélanger |first=Mathieu |url=https://www.ledroit.com/actualites/actualites-locales/gatineau/2025/05/26/lex-depute-richard-nadeau-brigue-linvestiture-daction-gatineau-dans-lac-beauchamp-33GUT3PB2BBWJKYNI3RV3DSQQ4/ |title=L'ex-député Richard Nadeau brigue l'investiture d'Action Gatineau dans Lac-Beauchamp |date=May 26, 2025 |access-date=May 26, 2025 |publisher=Le Droit |language=fr-ca}}</ref> He was nominated on June 30, 2025.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bélanger|first=Mathieu|url=https://www.ledroit.com/actualites/actualites-locales/gatineau/2025/07/02/de-nouvelles-candidatures-confirmees-a-gatineau-NBV4GH4CNVBW5JHW4KBZS4CVAU/|title=De nouvelles candidatures confirmées à Gatineau|date=July 2, 2025|access-date=July 7, 2025|publisher=Le Droit|language=fr-ca}}</ref>
==Personal life== Nadeau's wife, Edith Gendron, is the head of a Quebec separatist group called "Le Quebec, Un Pays". She was also the Parti Québécois candidate for the riding of Chapleau in Gatineau, in the 2007 provincial election. Nadeau's daughter, Myriam, was the Action Gatineau city councillor for Pointe-Gatineau District from 2013 to 2021.<ref name="lacbeauchamp" />
== Electoral record == {{2025 Canadian federal election/Gatineau}}
{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2011|Gatineau (federal electoral district)|Gatineau|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}} {{CANelec|CA|NDP|Françoise Boivin |35,262 |61.83|+35.71| }} {{CANelec|CA|BQ|Richard Nadeau|8,619 |15.11|-14.04| }} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Steve MacKinnon|7,975 |13.98|-11.34| }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Jennifer Gearey |4,532 |7.95|-8.86| }} {{CANelec|CA|Green|Jonathan Meijer |639|1.12|-1.45| }} {{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes/Expense limit|57,027|100.00 |}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total rejected ballots|365| 0.64|}} {{Canadian election result/total|Turnout|57,392|64.10 |}} {{CANelec/total|Eligible voters| 89,537}} {{end}}
{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2008|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}} {{CANelec|CA|BQ|Richard Nadeau |15,189 |29.15 |-10.11| $78,498}} {{CANelec|CA|NDP|Françoise Boivin|13,612 |26.12 |+16.11 | $87,035}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Michel Simard |13,193 |25.32 |-5.92 | $40,288}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Denis Tassé |8,762 |16.81 |+0.07 | $52,464 }} {{CANelec|CA|Green|David Inglis|1,342 |2.57 |-0.12| }} {{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes/Expense limit|52,098 |100.00 | $88,989}} |- {{CANelec/hold|CA|BQ| -13.11}} {{end}}
{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2006|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}} {{CANelec|CA|BQ|Richard Nadeau |21,093|39.25|-1.02| $72,093}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Françoise Boivin|16,826|31.31|-10.78|$70,768}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Patrick Robert |9,014|16.77|+9.19| $62,953}} {{CANelec|CA|NDP|Anne Levesque | 5,354|9.96|+4.24| $5,811}} {{CANelec|CA|Green|Gail Walker |1,456|2.71|-0.36| $5}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes/Expense limit|53,743| 100.00| $82,260}} {{CANelec/gain|CA|BQ|}} {{end}}
{{Canadian election result/top|CA|2004|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Françoise Boivin |19,198|42.09|-9.37 | $46,494}} {{CANelec|CA|BQ|Richard Nadeau |18,368|40.27|14.87| $20,574 }} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative|Gérald Nicolas |3,461 |7.59|-9.65{{efn|Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in the 2000 election.}}|}} {{CANelec|CA|NDP|Dominique Vaillancourt |2,610 |5.72|+2.24|}} {{CANelec|CA|Green|Brian Gibb |1,402|3.07| | $144}} {{CANelec|CA|Marijuana|Stéphane Salko |453|0.99|–| }} {{CANelec|CA|Marxist-Leninist|Gabriel Girard-Bernier |125|0.27|0.00 |}} {{Canadian election result/total|Total valid votes/Expense limit|45,617|100.00| $80,437}} {{end}}
==Works== *{{cite book |last1=Nevitte |first1=Neil |last2=Blais |author2-link=André Blais |first2=André |last3=Gidengil |first3=Elisabeth |author3-link=Elisabeth Gidengil |last4=Nadeau |first4=Richard |author4-link=Richard Nadeau |title=Unsteady State: The 1997 Canadian Federal Election |date=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Don Mills, Ontario |isbn=978-0-19-541466-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/unsteadystate1990000unse |url-access=registration}}
==Notes== {{notelist}}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=254}}
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