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Pierre Dufour

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Biography

Pierre Dufour represents Abitibi-Est in the National Assembly of Quebec. He was expelled from the Coalition Avenir Québec caucus on September 5, 2025, and began sitting as an Independent.

Affiliation changes on record

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Pierre Dufour is expelled from the Coalition Avenir Québec caucus (2025)
Official and independentVerifiedEvidence: Official and independentAn official record — a chamber’s membership record, a members’ profile, a journal or an election authority — and at least one independent account agree on the literal facts.What you may rely onThe highest level the project awards. Usable as a factual statement without attribution to this site, though a citation is appreciated. Still says nothing about why the person moved.Editorial status: VerifiedCitable. Check the date precision before writing a day into a sentence, and check the verification level to know which of the two evidentiary standards was met.
September 5, 2025
Coalition Avenir QuébecToIndependentTo 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.Read from the two affiliation labels this record carries, by the same rule the database applies. It states the direction of the move, not the editorial ruling on how the leg counts.
Abitibi-Est (Quebec)

Where they sat

Compiled affiliation spans — “sat as X from then to then”.

Coalition Avenir Québecdate unknown – September 4, 2025National AssemblyAbitibi-Est
independentSeptember 5, 2025 – no recorded endNational AssemblyAbitibi-Est

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Affiliation changes on record

Every event this person is recorded as taking part in, oldest first. Each links to the full record with its sources.

Pierre Dufour is expelled from the Coalition Avenir Québec caucus (2025)

Official and independentVerified

September 5, 2025

Coalition Avenir QuébecToIndependentTo 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.Read from the two affiliation labels this record carries, by the same rule the database applies. It states the direction of the move, not the editorial ruling on how the leg counts.

Abitibi-Est (Quebec)