Marwah Rizqy

Marwah Rizqy MNA
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Saint-Laurent
Incumbent
Assumed office October 1, 2018
Preceded by	Jean-Marc Fournier
Personal details
Born	(1985-05-17) May 17, 1985 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political party	Quebec Liberal Party
Spouse	Greg Kelley ​ (m. 2021)​

Marwah Rizqy is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2018 provincial election. She represents the electoral district of Saint-Laurent as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Prior to her election, she was a professor of tax law at the University of Sherbrooke.

Rizqy previously ran for the Liberal Party of Canada in the 2015 Canadian federal election in the riding of Hochelaga, finishing behind New Democratic Party incumbent Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet by 500 votes. In 2017, Rizqy sought the Liberal nomination for the Saint-Laurent by-election caused by the resignation of Stéphane Dion. Rizqy was defeated for the nomination by eventual winner Emmanuella Lambropoulos.

Personal life

In June 2021, Riqzy announced her upcoming wedding to fellow Assembly member Greg Kelley; this is the first marriage between two sitting members of the Assembly. She gave birth to their first child, Gabriel, on October 6, 2022.

Electoral record

Provincial

2022 Quebec general election: Saint-Laurent
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Marwah Rizqy	14,304	49.97	-12.00
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Mélanie Gauthier	4,091	14.29	-0.87
	Conservative	Catherine St-Clair	3,973	13.88	+10.85
	Québec solidaire	Gérard Briand	2,840	9.92	+1.30
	Parti Québécois	Karl Dugal	1,696	5.92	-0.55
	Bloc Montreal	Rizwan Muhammad Rajput	752	2.63	–
	Canadian	Myrtis-Eirene Fossey	533	1.86	–
	Green	Othmane Benzekri	439	1.53	-1.45
Total valid votes			28,628	98.68	–
Total rejected ballots			383	1.32	–
Turnout			29,011	50.96
Electors on the lists			56,925

2018 Quebec general election: Saint-Laurent
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Marwah Rizqy	17,669	61.97	-20.31
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Marc Baaklini	4,322	15.16
	Québec solidaire	Marie Josèphe Pigeon	2,458	8.62	+3.13
	Parti Québécois	Elias Dib Nicolas	1,846	6.47	-1.66
	Conservative	Guy Morissette	863	3.03	+1.93
	Green	Halimatou Bah	849	2.98	+0.94
	New Democratic	Jacques Dago	432	1.52
	Marxist–Leninist	Fernand Deschamps	75	0.26	-0.04
Total valid votes			28,514	98.60
Total rejected ballots			406	1.40
Turnout			28,920	50.96
Eligible voters			56,749
	Liberal hold		Swing		-10.16
Source(s) "Rapport des résultats officiels du scrutin". Élections Québec.

Federal

2015 Canadian federal election: Hochelaga
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet	16,034	30.89	-16.59	$64,664.42
	Liberal	Marwah Rizqy	15,534	29.93	+18.20	$19,746.32
	Bloc Québécois	Simon Marchand	14,389	27.72	-3.04	$47,613.01
	Conservative	Alexandre Dang	3,555	6.85	-0.35	$3,363.29
	Green	Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny	1,654	3.19	+1.52	–
	Rhinoceros	Nicolas Lemay	411	0.79	+0.26	$651.34
	Communist	Marianne Breton Fontaine	179	0.34	-0.05	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Christine Dandenault	148	0.29	-0.02	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			51,904	100.0		$219,682.85
Total rejected ballots			877	–	–
Turnout			52,781	–	–
Eligible voters			82,783
These results were subject to a judicial recount, and modified from the validated results in accordance with the Judge's rulings. The margin of Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet over Marwah Rizqy decreased from 541 votes to 500 votes as a result of the recount.
Source: Elections Canada