The 1994 Montreal municipal election took place on November 6, 1994. Pierre Bourque was elected to his first term as mayor, defeating incumbent Jean Doré. Elections were also held in Montreal's suburban communities.

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1994 Montreal municipal election

← 1990 November 6, 1994 1998 →
51 seats in Montreal City Council 26 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Pierre Bourque Jean Doré Party Vision Montreal Citizens' Movement Leader since 1994 1982 Last election pre-creation 42 seats, 59.20% Seats won 38 7 Seat change 38 35 Popular vote 135,678 91,907 Percentage 46.6% 31.5% Swing New 27.70%
Mayor before election Jean Doré Citizens' Movement Elected Mayor Pierre Bourque Vision Montreal

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Montreal Citizens' Movement

• Michel L'Allier (Ahuntsic), Donato Caivano (Saint-Michel), and Lise Brunet (François-Perrault) were first-time candidates.

Montrealers' Party

• Michel Bureau (Ahuntsic) was a first-time candidate.
• Antoinette Corrado (Jean-Rivard) was a first-time candidate. She later sought election to the English Montreal School Board in 2007 as an ally of commission chair Dominic Spiridigliozzi.^[1]

Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal

• Jean-Pierre Le Blanc (Ahuntsic) was a first-time candidate.
• Michele A. Benigno (Saint-Michel) fought for the closure of the Miron landfill in the 1994 election.^[2] She later sought election to the English Montreal School Board in 2003 and lost to Rocco Barbieri. Four years later, she ran as part of Barbieri's electoral alliance and was again defeated.^[3]
• Pietro Bozzo (Jean-Rivard) was a first-time candidate. He later served as executive director of the Yellow Door, an activist resource center.^[4]
• Mario Laquerre (François-Perrault) is a specialist in urban affairs. He studied possible uses for the abandoned Francon Quarry in north-end Montreal during the 1990s and, in the 1994 campaign, articulated his party's position that parts of the quarry could be converted to a giant urban campsite.^[5] Laquerre also co-ordinated a local residents group that opposed the Miron quarry landfill site, an active garbage dump located within the city limits.^[6] After the 1994 election, he served as president of the Front Commun Québécois pour une Gestion Écologique des Déchets (which sought to limit the shipment of garbage among Quebec's regions) and worked for the group RECYQ-QUÉBEC.^[7]

Independents

• Ghassan Saba (Ahuntsic) had previously been a Montreal Citizens' Movement candidate in the 1990 municipal election. A newspaper report from that election listed him as a thirty-eight-year-old investment counsellor.^[8]

Independents

• Joseph Mormina is a Montreal entrepreneur. He sought election to the Saint-Leonard city council in 1978 and 1982 as a candidate of the Équipe du renouveau de la cité de Saint-Léonard and was narrowly defeated both times. When his party fragmented in 1984, Mormina joined the Action civique de Saint-Léonard and supported Domenico Moschella's bid to become mayor of Saint-Leonard in a municipal by-election.^[10] Action civique later folded into Unité de Saint-Léonard, and Mormina ran unsuccessfully for the latter party in the 1986 municipal election.^[11] He ran as an independent in 1994.