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Alexandre Boulerice sits as an Independent (2026)

April 27, 2026

CanadaFederalHouse of Commons

What the record says

The House of Commons records Alexandre Boulerice's affiliation changing from NDP to Independent on April 27, 2026. The archive does not infer motive or benefit.

Participants

1 participants named in the record

Alexandre Boulerice
CTF-EP-000274-01
New Democratic PartyToIndependentTo the crossbenchWhere the seat went: The member left a caucus and sat as an independentThe change begins at a party and ends outside every caucus. No party gained the seat. A designation such as “Independent Liberal” or “(Not in Caucus)” is on this side of the line: it describes an alignment, not a caucus membership.What you may rely onWhere the member sat afterwards, and only that. Whether they walked out or were expelled is `voluntary_status`, which is recorded separately and reads unknown on most legs; /coverage has the live share.How it countsCounted as its own figure and never added to the floor-crossing total. They are different acts, and a single number that merged them could not answer either question.
Marked as a label rather than a party: the database has no party row for this side of the transition. Overwhelmingly this means the member sat as an Independent, and there is deliberately no “Independent” party.
Riding
Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie(Quebec)
Effective
April 27, 2026
Kind of transition
Left to sit as an Independent
Voluntary
Not recorded
Direction
Not recorded
Appointment
Not recorded

How rare is this?

8 recorded transitions match leaving New Democratic Party, joining Independent and at the federal level, across 8 events and 8 named people (Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1, consulted September 2, 2026). The most recent is Pierre Nantel, August 16, 2019 — the 8th on record. The earliest on record is Robert Toupin, October 26, 1987.

0 of the 8 meet the database's publication standard; the other 8 are unreviewed leads.
None of the 8 carries any recorded outcome after the transition: no re-election or appointment rate can be quoted from this set.
Withdrawn records are excluded from this set.
No senator appears in this count: we hold Senate events, but none has passed the publication gate.

How the comparable set is defined

Claims and the sources cited for them

Every statement this record makes is stored as a separate claim with its own review state and its own citations. A claim with no citation is shown as such rather than omitted.

Alexandre Boulerice changed House affiliation from NDP to Independent on April 27, 2026.
Supported
Field:
affiliation_change
Confidence:
High
Signed by:
Official-source deterministic verifier
Concerns a living person
- Rôles — Alexandre Boulerice — Actuels et passés
  Chambre des communes du Canada · record Intervalles d’affiliation politique; divergence d’état de page conservée pour suivi · FR
  Official House record supports the literal affiliation and date only; no motive or benefit is inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-HOC-BOULERICE-ROLES-FR · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Roles — Alexandre Boulerice — Current and Past
  House of Commons of Canada · record Political Affiliation intervals; known page-state discrepancy retained for monitoring · EN
  Official House record supports the literal affiliation and date only; no motive or benefit is inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-HOC-BOULERICE-ROLES-EN · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Changements à la députation — 45e législature
  Chambre des communes du Canada · July 7, 2026 · record Boulerice, Alexandre — NPD à Indépendant — 2026-04-27 · FR
  Official House record supports the literal affiliation and date only; no motive or benefit is inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-HOC-45-CHANGES-FR · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Changes in Membership — 45th Parliament
  House of Commons of Canada · July 7, 2026 · record Boulerice, Alexandre — NDP to Independent — 2026-04-27 · EN
  Official House record supports the literal affiliation and date only; no motive or benefit is inferred.
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-HOC-45-CHANGES-EN · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: August 1, 2026
- Changes in Membership — machine-readable export (38th–45th Parliaments)
  House of Commons of Canada · August 31, 2026 · section News citation added 2026-09-01: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/party-standings/changes/xml · EN
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-NWS-FCE2483BD0AA · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026
- Quebec MP Alexandre Boulerice officially quits NDP to run provincially for Québec Solidaire | CBC News
  CBC News · April 27, 2026 · section News citation added 2026-09-01: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/alexandre-boulerice-ndp-quebec-solidaire-9.7178354 · EN
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-NWS-B5F3F55E0F86 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026
- Alexandre Boulerice quits federal NDP to run for sovereigntist Quebec party | Globalnews.ca
  Global News · April 27, 2026 · section News citation added 2026-09-01: https://globalnews.ca/news/11818779/alexandre-boulerice-run-sovereigntist-quebec-party/ · EN
  Archived copy — September 1, 2026
  CTF-S-NWS-0AAA9B6310E0 · Reliability tier: secondary reliable · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

What happened afterwards

Recorded outcomes only. An absence here means nothing has been recorded, not that nothing happened, and no causal link to the affiliation change is asserted unless a source establishes one.

No outcome is recorded for anyone on this event.

Editorial review passes

Which checks have been run against this record, and what each one concluded. A review that has not happened is shown as pending, never as passed.

fact checkapproved · August 1, 2026
frenchapproved · August 1, 2026
legalapproved · August 1, 2026
living personapproved · August 1, 2026
publicationapproved · August 1, 2026

Revision history

Every change to this record is appended here. Nothing is edited away.

r1 created
Created the sourced April 27, 2026 NDP-to-Independent event for Alexandre Boulerice.
August 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier

Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction: Canada
Level: Federal
Legislature: Parliament of Canada
Chamber: House of Commons

Place and party names on this page come from the institutional tables, never from free text on the record.

Record identifier

Record identifier: CTF-E-000274
Revision: 1
Published: August 1, 2026
Last verified: August 1, 2026
Record last changed: August 1, 2026
Evidence on this record: 1 claims, 7 citations
Session: not recordedNo parliamentary session is recorded on this event. The session is never inferred from the date.

Cite this record

Crossing the Floor. “Alexandre Boulerice sits as an Independent (2026)” (CTF-E-000274). The Crossing the Floor Database, release 2026-08-01.1. https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/alexandre-boulerice-2026 (consulted —).

Permanent address: https://crossingthefloor.ca/crossings/alexandre-boulerice-2026
Release: 2026-08-01.1
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalLicence recorded on this release: OGL-Canada-2.0 (project-authored structured data only)

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