Tarik Brahmi
Member of Parliament
for Saint-Jean
In office
May 2, 2011  August 4, 2015
Preceded byClaude Bachand
Succeeded byJean Rioux
Personal details
Born (1968-05-19) May 19, 1968
Lyon, France
Political partyNew Democratic Party
ProfessionEngineer, 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

2011 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes%±%Expenditures
New DemocraticTarik Brahmi24,89947.4%-
Bloc QuébécoisClaude Bachand16,02330.5%-
ConservativeJean Thouin5,60110.7%-
LiberalRobert David4,6438.8%-
GreenPierre Tremblay1,3222.5%-
Total valid votes/Expense limit 52,488 100.0%

Source: Elections Canada

References

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