Tarik Brahmi

Tarik Brahmi
Tarik Brahmi
Member of Parliament; for Saint-Jean
	In office; May 2, 2011 – August 4, 2015
Preceded by	Claude Bachand
Succeeded by	Jean Rioux
Personal details
Born	May 19, 1968 (age 55); Lyon, France
Political party	New Democratic Party
Profession	Engineer, consultant, politician

Tarik Brahmi (born May 19, 1968) is a Canadian engineer and politician. He was the Member of Parliament for the riding of Saint-Jean from 2011, when he defeated incumbent Claude Bachand of the Bloc Québécois, until 2015, and sat with New Democratic Party caucus.

Born in Lyon, France, with a father from Toudja, Algeria, he graduated from the Université de Montpellier in 1991 with a degree in Microelectronics and Control Engineering. He became interested in environmental causes in 1995, and worked in software development. He immigrated to Canada in 2002 and became a Canadian citizen in 2006. He was a candidate for the municipal council of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu in 2009.

Prior to being elected to parliament, he worked as a senior interviewer for Statistics Canada. Brahmi did not stand in the 2015 federal election.

Electoral record[edit]

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Tarik Brahmi	24,899	47.4%	-
	Bloc Québécois	Claude Bachand	16,023	30.5%	-
	Conservative	Jean Thouin	5,601	10.7%	-
	Liberal	Robert David	4,643	8.8%	-
	Green	Pierre Tremblay	1,322	2.5%	-
Total valid votes/Expense limit			52,488	100.0%

Source: Elections Canada

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