He was elected in the Beauharnois—Salaberry electoral district under the Bloc Québécois party in the 1993 federal election, thus serving in the 35th Canadian Parliament.
He did not seek a second term in office and therefore left Canadian politics following the 1997 federal election.
Lavigne was also a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1976 to 1985 in Beauharnois.
He was the first member of the Quebec legislature to have been granted medical aid to die.
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