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2017 Montreal municipal election

2017 Montreal municipal election

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Municipal elections were held in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada on November 5, 2017 as part of the 2017 Quebec municipal elections. Voters elected 65 positions on the Montreal City Council, including the mayor, borough mayors, and city councillors, as well as 38 borough councillors.[1]

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Results

Results for borough mayor
Results for city councillor
Results for borough councillor

Despite early polls giving incumbent mayor Denis Coderre a comfortable lead, the election concluded with Valérie Plante of Projet Montréal winning the mayoralty race by a margin of over 27,000 votes, becoming the first woman and first representative of Projet Montréal to be elected mayor of Montreal. Her party won a majority of the city council, 34 of 65 councillors.

Projet Montréal won unanimous control of four borough councils and majorities on seven more. Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal won unanimous control of four borough councils and majorities on two more. The two remaining boroughs, Anjou and LaSalle, were won unanimously by local parties, Équipe Anjou and Équipe Barbe Team respectively.

Several key city council figures were defeated, such as Russell Copeman, Harout Chitilian, Claude Dauphin, Anie Samson, Réal Ménard and Elsie Lefebvre. Projet Montréal founder Richard Bergeron, who had crossed the floor to Équipe Coderre, was defeated by the candidate for his former party, Robert Beaudry.[2]

Following his defeat, Denis Coderre announced he would resign from political life, leaving his city council seat to his co-candidate[3] Chantal Rossi.[4] On November 9, members of his party elected Darlington councillor Lionel Perez as leader; it was also announced that the party, named for Coderre, would change name in the coming weeks.[5]

Coalition Montréal was left with only one remaining elected official, Montreal's longest-serving city councillor Marvin Rotrand. Vrai changement pour Montréal, which had come in second in the mayoralty race in the previous election, lost all its seats, and announced it would suspend its activities.[6]

For the first time, a majority of Montreal's elected officials (53 out of 103) were women.[7] Six of the 103 elected officials (5.8%), including four of the 65 members of the city council, declared themselves to be members of visible minorities. Visible minorities make up a third of the population of the city.[8] Another elected official, Champlain–L'Île-des-Soeurs city councillor Marie-Josée Parent, who is of Mi'kmaq ancestry, became the first indigenous person elected to Montreal city council.[9]

The official results were released on November 8, 2017.[10] There was one request for a recount, in the race for borough councillor for La Pointe-des-Prairies in Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles, in which Lisa Christensen of Projet Montréal had been announced as the winner with a lead of 32 votes.[11] The recount was conducted by a judge of the Court of Quebec and Ms. Christensen was confirmed as the winner by a majority of 30 votes.[12]

Composition of city and borough councils

Depending on their borough, Montrealers voted for:

  • Mayor of Montreal
  • Borough mayor (except in Ville-Marie, whose mayor is the Mayor of Montreal), who is also a city councillor
  • A city councillor for the whole borough (Anjou and Lachine only) or for each district, who is also a borough councillor (Outremont and L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève have no city councillors other than the borough mayor)
  • Zero, one, or two additional borough councillors for each district
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Timeline

2014

2015

2016

2017

Incumbent mayors and councillors who did not run for re-election

Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal

Projet Montréal

Équipe Anjou

  • Paul-Yvon Perron, borough councillor, East district, Anjou

Independent

Opinion polls

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Seat-by-seat results

Mayoral race

Although Jean Fortier of Coalition Montréal abandoned his campaign for mayor on October 17, 2017 and endorsed Valérie Plante, his name officially remained on the ballot.

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Ahuntsic-Cartierville

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Anjou

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Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

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L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève

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Lachine

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LaSalle

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Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

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Montréal-Nord

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Outremont

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Pierrefonds-Roxboro

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Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

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Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles

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Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie

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Saint-Laurent

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Saint-Léonard

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Le Sud-Ouest

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Verdun

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Ville-Marie

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Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension

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By-elections

Mayor of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles

By-elections were held on December 16, 2018:[41]

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Councillor, Saint-Michel District

By-elections were held on December 16, 2018:[41]

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Mayor of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

A by-election was held on October 6, 2019:[42]

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References

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  2. Daoust-Braun, Sarah (November 6, 2017). "De grosses pointures s'effondrent à Montréal, dont Richard Bergeron". Journal de Montréal. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  3. "A person may only run for one position, either mayor of the city, borough mayor, city councillor, or borough councillor. However, a person running for mayor of the city for an authorized party may also run, together with a second person called a 'co-candidate' (colistier), for city councillor. This does not include the position of borough mayor. If the candidate for mayor is elected and also obtains the largest number of votes for the position of city councillor, he or she becomes mayor of the city and the co-candidate becomes city councillor. If he or she is defeated for city but obtains the largest number of votes for city councillor, he or she becomes city councillor for the district or (in the case of Anjou and Lachine only) the borough instead of the co-candidate, unless he or she refuses the position in writing within 30 days after his or her election as city councillor is announced." - Élection Montréal. Manuel du candidat. 2009. pp. 8-9.
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