| Bernard Sévigny | |
| Birth Date: | 18 December 1961[1] |
| Birth Place: | Montreal, Quebec |
| Residence: | Sherbrooke, Quebec |
| Office: | Mayor of Sherbrooke |
| Term Start: | November 12, 2009 |
| Term End: | November 5, 2017 |
| Successor: | Steve Lussier |
| Party: | Renouveau sherbrookois |
| Spouse: | Marie-Claude Bibeau |
Bernard Sévigny (born December 18, 1961) is a Canadian politician, who was mayor of Sherbrooke, Quebec from 2009 to 2017.
Sévigny has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French from the University of Alberta. He has a certificate in information and journalism from the Université de Montréal. He also holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics, as well as a Master's degree in the management and development of co-operatives, and a doctor of business administration from the Université de Sherbrooke.
Sévigny was a journalist at TVA from 1989 to 1999. He was a professor in the faculty of administration at the Université de Sherbrooke from 2007 to 2009.[2]
Sévigny was elected as a city councillor to Sherbrooke City Council in the 2001 Sherbrooke municipal election. He was re-elected in the 2005 municipal election and served until the 2009 municipal election.
He was elected mayor of Sherbrooke on November 12, 2009, following the 2009 municipal election.[3] Sévigny won by just 122 votes over challenger Hélène Gravel on election day. Gravel requested a recount, but was denied by a court ruling.