2001 Montreal municipal election

The 2001 Montreal municipal election took place on November 4, 2001, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Gérald Tremblay defeated incumbent Pierre Bourque to become mayor of the newly amalgamated city. This was the only municipal election that was held for the amalgamated city (the amalgamation took effect on January 1, 2002), as the next municipal election was for the defused city.

2001 Montreal municipal election

November 4, 2001

74 seats in Montreal City Council
38 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party
 
Leader Gérald Tremblay Pierre Bourque
Party Citizens Union Vision Montreal
Leader since 2001 1994
Leader's seat Mayor Marie-Victorin
Last election pre-creation 39 seats, 45.52%
Seats won 40 31
Seat change   8
Popular vote 311,451 279,123
Percentage 50.37% 45.14%
Swing New 0.38%

Mayor before election

Pierre Bourque
Vision Montreal

Elected Mayor

Gérald Tremblay
Citizens Union

Boroughs of the merged city
Results for city councillor
Results for borough councillor

All mayoral candidates were also allowed to run for a seat on council, with "alternates" who would assume the council seat if the mayoral candidates were elected to both offices.

Results

Mayor

2001 Montreal municipal election results: Mayor of Montreal

Council (incomplete)

2001 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Acadie
2001 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Ahuntsic
2001 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Jean-Rivard
2001 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Laurier
2001 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Louis-Cyr
2001 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Parc-Extension
2001 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Plateau-Mont-Royal
2001 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Point-Saint-Charles
2001 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Saint-Léonard (three members elected)
2001 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Saint-Michel
2001 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Saint-Sulpice

Borough councils (incomplete)

2001 Montreal municipal election results: Saint-Leonard borough Councillor, Grande-Prairie division
2001 Montreal municipal election results: Saint-Leonard borough Councillor, Port-Maurice division

Composition of city and borough councils

Depending on their borough, Montrealers voted for:

  • Mayor of Montreal
  • One, two, or three city councillors for the whole borough or one for each district, who are also borough councillors
  • Zero or one additional borough councillors for the whole borough or for each district
Borough District Borough Councillors
City Councillors   Borough Councillor
  City Councillor   City Councillor   City Councillor
Ahuntsic-Cartierville L'Acadie   Hasmig Belleli    
Ahuntsic   Pierre Lapointe    
Cartierville   Noushig Eloyan    
Saint-Sulpice   Maurice Beauchamp    
Sault-au-Récollet   Achille Polcaro    
Anjou   Luis Miranda   Carol Beaupré     Andrée Hénault
Beaconsfield–Baie-D'Urfé Beaurepaire   Roy Kemp     Florence Grassby
James-Morgan     Anne-Marie Parent
Côte-des-Neiges–
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
Côte-des-Neiges   Francine Senécal    
Darlington   Saulie Zajdel    
Décarie   Marcel Tremblay    
Loyola   Jeremy Searle    
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce   Michael Appelbaum    
Snowdon   Marvin Rotrand    
Côte-Saint-Luc–
Hampstead–Montreal West
  Robert Libman   Dida Berku     Anthony Housefather
Dollard-Des Ormeaux–
Roxboro
  Edward Janiszewski   Howard Zingboim     Zoe Bayouk
Dorval–L'Île-Dorval Désiré-Girouard   Peter B. Yeomans     Egard A. Rouleau
Strathmore     Robert M. Bourbeau
L'Île-Bizard–
Sainte-Geneviève–
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
Anse-à-l'Orme   Normand Marinacci     Bill Tierney
Jacques-Bizard     Richard Bélanger
Kirkland Brunswick   John W. Meaney     Brian Macdonald
Côte-Sainte-Marie     Michel Gibson
Lachine   Claude Dauphin   Jane Cowell-Poitras     Bernard Blanchet
LaSalle Cecil-P.-Newman   Manon Barbe   Alvaro Farinacci   Richard Deschamps   Michael Vadacchino
Sault-Saint-Louis   Oksana Kaluzny
Mercier–
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Hochelaga   Luc Larivée    
Longue-Pointe   Claire St-Arnaud    
Louis-Riel   Lyn Faust    
Maisonneuve   Richer Dompierre    
Tétreaultville   Ivon Le Duc    
Montréal-Nord Marie-Clarac   Marcel Parent   Jean-Marc Gibeau   James V. Infantino   Georgette L. Morin
Ovide-Clermont   Normand Fortin
Mount Royal Frederick-G.-Todd   Suzanne Caron     Cliff Carrie
Rockland     Nicholas Stephens
Outremont Jeanne-Sauvé   Stéphane Harbour     Claude B. Piquette
Joseph-Beaubien     Marie Cinq-Mars
Pierrefonds-Senneville   Monique Worth   Bertrand A. Ward     René LeBlanc
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal Jeanne-Mance   Michel Prescott    
Laurier   Christine Poulin    
Mile End   Helen Fotopulos    
Plateau-Mont-Royal   Nicolas Tétrault    
Pointe-Claire Donegani   Bill McMurchie     Aldo Iermieri
Valois     Morris Trudeau
Rivière-des-Prairies–
Pointe-aux-Trembles–
Montréal-Est
Bout-de-l'Île   Colette Paul    
Marc-Aurèle-Fortin   Cosmo Maciocia    
Pointe-aux-Trembles   Marius Minier    
Rivière-des-Prairies   Michel Plante    
Rosemont–
La Petite-Patrie
Étienne-Desmarteau   Nicole Thibault    
Louis-Hébert   Jean-François Plante    
Marie-Victorin   Pierre Bourque    
Saint-Édouard   François Purcell    
Vieux-Rosemont   Denise Laroucche    
Saint-Laurent Côte-de-Liesse   Alan DeSousa   René Dussault   Irving Grundman   Maurice Cohen
Normand-McLaren   Michèle D. Biron
Saint-Léonard Grande-Prairie   Frank Zampino   Yvette Bissonnet   Dominic Perri   Robert Zambito
Port-Maurice   Mario Battista
Le Sud-Ouest Émard   Robert Bousquet    
Louis-Cyr   Line Hamel    
Pointe-Saint-Charles   Jacqueline Montpetit    
Verdun Champlain   Georges Bossé   Laurent Dugas   Claude Trudel   Ginette Marotte
Desmarchais-Crawford   John Gallagher
Ville-Marie Peter-McGill   Louise O'Sullivan    
Saint-Jacques   Robert Laramée    
Sainte-Marie   Martin Lemay    
Villeray–Saint-Michel–
Parc-Extension
Jarry   Anie Samson    
Jean-Rivard   Frank Venneri    
Parc-Extension   Mary Deros    
Saint-Michel   Paolo Tamburello    
Villeray   Sylvain Lachance    
Westmount Côte-Saint-Antoine   Karin Marks     John de Castell
W.-D.-Lighthall     Cynthia Lulham

Information about the candidates

Montreal Island Citizens Union
  • Robert Blondin (Louis-Cyr) appears to have been a first-time candidate. During the 1980s, a person named Robert Blondin chaired the Parti Québécois's riding committee in Saint-Henri and criticized René Lévesque's decision to de-emphasize the party's focus on Quebec sovereignty.[1] This may have been the same person.
  • Gilles Marette (Louis-Riel) was a first time candidate.
  • Nancy Boileau (Maisonneuve) is a community activist. In 2000, she sought to initiate a class-action lawsuit on behalf of commuters who had waited in cold weather for city buses that never arrived or were too full to pick up more passengers.[2] In the 2001 campaign, she campaigned against gentrification and for more affordable housing.[3]
Vision Montreal
  • Lino Colapelle (Saint-Léonard-Est borough council) was a first-time candidate.
White Elephant Party
  • Charles Paradis (Jean-Rivard), Daniel Paré (Louis-Cyr) and Denis Fournier (Saint-Léonard) were first-time candidates.[4]
Independents
  • Steve Gentile (Port-Maurice) was a first-time candidate. There is a noted designer in Saint-Leonard named Steve Gentile, though it is not known if this is the same person.[5]

Seat-by-seat results (incomplete)

Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

Electoral District Position Total valid votes Candidates   Incumbent
  MICU   Vision Montréal   Other
Côtes-des-Neiges City councillor   Francine Senécal
3,637
  Pierre-Yves Melançon
3,483
  François Dumoulin (White Elephant Party)
220
  Pierre-Yves Melançon
Darlington City councillor   Aline Malka
3,109
  Saulie Zajdel
3,304
  Koffi Doumon (Ind.)
230
  Saulie Zajdel (Victoria)
Jean-E. Fortier (Darlington)
Décarie City councillor 6,150   Marcel Tremblay
3,792 (61.66%)
  Sonya Biddle
2,358 (38.34%)
    Sonya Biddle
Loyola City councillor   Jeremy Searle
4,986
  Darryl Gray
1,766
    Jeremy Searle
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce City councillor   Michael Applebaum
5,257
  Jean-E. Fortier
2,356
  Allan Heafey (White Elephant Party)
190
  Michael Applebaum
Snowdon City councillor   Marvin Rotrand
4,913
  Bill Surkis
2,109
  Marvin Rotrand

Dorval–L'Île-Dorval

Electoral District Position Total valid votes Candidates   Incumbent
  MICU   Vision Montréal   Other
Dorval–L'Île-Dorval City councillor 8,031   Peter Yeomans
7,440 (92.64%)
  Len MacDonald
591 (7.36%)
  New position
Strathmore Borough councillor   Robert M. Bourbeau
3,929
  François Guidi
382
  New position
Désiré–Girouard Borough councillor   Edgar Rouleau
3,228
  Mario Mammone
425
  New position

Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

Electoral District Position Total valid votes Candidates   Incumbent
  MICU   Vision Montréal   Other
Hochelaga City councillor 6,636   Jean-François Moisan
1,760 (26.52%)
  Luc Larivée
4,418 (66.58%)
  Danielle Giasson (White Elephant Party)
458 (6.90%)
Maisonneuve City councillor 7,993   Nancy Boileau
2,248 (28.12%)[6]
  Richer Dompierre
5,745 (71.88%)
Louis-Riel City councillor 9,223   Gilles Marette
2,836 (30.75%)[7]
  Lyn Faust
6,387 (69.25%)
Longue-Pointe City councillor   Martin Dumont
3,767
  Claire St-Arnaud
5,474
Tétreaultville City councillor 10,082   Francisca Marques
2,968 (29.44%)
  Ivon Le Duc
7,114 (70.56%)

Montréal-Nord

Electoral District Position Total valid votes Candidates   Incumbent
  MICU   Vision Montréal   Other
Montréal-Nord City councillor
(three members)
68,695   Marcel Parent
12,884 (18.76%)
Jean-Marc Gibeau
12,097 (17.61%)
James Infantino
11,451 (16.67%)
  Michelle Allaire
11,359 (16.54%)
Luigi di Vito
9,960 (14.50%)
Nicole Roy-Arcelin
9,590 (13.96%)
  Jean-Claude Mvilongo
1,354 (1.97%)
New positions
Marie-Clarac Borough councillor   Georgette L. Morin
6,199
  Antonin Dupont
5,595
  Henri-Paul Bernier
766
New position
Ovide-Clermont Borough councillor   Normand Fortin
7,222
  Fritzberg Daleus
4,355
  New position

Verdun

Electoral District Position Total valid votes Candidates   Incumbent
  MICU   Vision Montréal   Other
Verdun City councillor
(three members)
58,773   Georges Bossé
11,415 (19.42%)
Laurent Dugas
9,001 (15.31%)
Claude Trudel
8,540 (14.53%)
  Danielle Paiement
7,593 (12.92%)
Robert Isabelle
7,577 (12.89%)
Micheline Senécal
7,377 (12.55%)
  Catherine Chauvin
4,843 (8.24%)
Pierre Labrosse
1,641 (2.79%)
Daniel Racicot (White Elephant Party)
786 (1.34%)
New positions
Desmarchais-Crawford Borough councillor 10,804 John Gallagher
5,553 (51.40%)
  André Savard
5,251 (48.60%)
  New position
Champlain Borough councillor 10,197   Ginette Marotte
5,026 (49.29%)
  Robert Filiatrault
4,761 (46.69%)
  Cook Gosselin
410 (4.02%)
New position

References

  1. Nancy Wood, "Lalonde wins St. Henri with premier's backing," Montreal Gazette, October 30, 1985, A4; Graham Fraser, "Levesque leaves sovereignty issue in doubt for vote," Globe and Mail, September 24, 1984, p. 1.
  2. Uyen Vu, "Drivers, MUCTC ink deal But transit peace hinges on maintenance accord," Montreal Gazette, March 6, 2000, A1.
  3. Paul Cherry, "Pride meets poverty: Ste. Catherine St. E. merchants seek relief from stricken economy," Montreal Gazette, October 10, 2001, A6.
  4. The Montreal Gazette reported in 2004 that a Denis Fournier of Saint-Leonard had drowned while fishing. This may have been the same person. See "Fisherman's body found along river," Montreal Gazette, July 21, 2004, A7.
  5. Maria Puente, "A fairytale re-spun: Designers tell tale of Di's dress," The Province, July 28, 2006, p. 20.
  6. Boileau is a community activist. In 2000, she sought to initiate a class-action lawsuit on behalf of commuters who had waited in cold weather for city buses that never arrived or were too full to pick up more passengers. In the 2001 campaign, she campaigned against gentrification and for more affordable housing. See Paul Cherry, "Pride meets poverty: Ste. Catherine St. E. merchants seek relief from stricken economy," Montreal Gazette, October 10, 2001, A6; Uyen Vu, "Drivers, MUCTC ink deal But transit peace hinges on maintenance accord," Montreal Gazette, March 6, 2000, A1.
  7. Marette was a first-time candidate.
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