François Gourd

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François Gourd is a Canadian political figure and entertainer, who has been involved in the Rhinoceros Party of Canada and the entartistes, two satirical political movements. He was also the Rhinoceros Party candidate in Saint-Michel in the 1979 federal election.

In 2006 he founded neorhino.ca, the successor to the Rhinoceros Party. As the party's candidate in the September 17, 2007 federal by-election in Outremont, he gave his profession as poet^[1] on his nomination papers. He received 145 votes (0.61%).^[1]

[edit] Electoral record

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	KILLENS, Thérèse	29,046
	Social Credit	MITCHELL, John	4,299
	New Democrat	SALVATORE, Filippo	2,616
	Progressive Conservative	POZZA, Jean-Louis	2,602
	Rhino	GOURD, François	1,453
	Union Populaire	LONGPRÉ, Bernard L.	432
	Communist	BRONZATI, Vittoria	177
	Marxist-Leninist	TREMBLAY, Serge	147

By-election on 17 September 2007 resignation of Jean Lapierre, 28 January 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democrat	Thomas Mulcair	11,374	47.51	+30.38
	Liberal	Jocelyn Coulon	6,933	28.96	-6.17
	Bloc Québécois	Jean-Paul Gilson	2,610	10.90	-17.91
	Conservative	Gilles Duguay	2,052	8.57	-4.27
	Green	François Pilon	529	2.20	-2.59
	Neorhino.ca	François Yo Gourd	145	0.61	-
	Independent	Mahmood Raza Baig	78	0.33	-
	Independent	Jocelyne Leduc	67	0.28	-
	Canadian Action	Alexandre Amirizian	45	0.19	-
	Independent	Romain Angeles	43	0.18	-
	Independent	Régent Millette	32	0.13	+0.07
	Independent	John C. Turmel	30	0.13	-

[edit] References

[edit] External links

NeoRhino.ca official party site Les Entartistes