1994 Montreal municipal election

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.

1994 Montreal municipal election

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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 Increase 38 Decrease 35
Popular vote 135,678 91,907
Percentage 46.6% 31.5%
Swing New Decrease 27.70%

Mayor before election

Jean Doré
Citizens' Movement

Elected mayor

Pierre Bourque
Vision Montreal

Results

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Mayor

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1994 Montreal municipal election: Mayor of Montreal
Party Candidate Votes %
Vision Montreal Pierre Bourque 135,678 47.61
Montreal Citizens' Movement (x)Jean Doré 91,907 32.25
Montrealers' Party Jérôme Choquette 37,214 13.06
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Yolande Cohen 12,737 4.47
White Elephant Party Michel Bédard 2,678 0.94
Independent Carole Caron 1,433 0.50
Independent Jean-Luc Bonspiel 973 0.34
Independent Glenmore Browne 818 0.29
Independent Patricia Métivier 709 0.25
Independent Carl Zephir 438 0.15
Independent Marc Rainville 379 0.13
Total valid votes 284,964 100
Source: Official results, City of Montreal.

Council (incomplete)

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Party colours do not indicate affiliation or resemblance to a provincial or a federal party.

 
Results for city councillor
  Vision Montreal: 38 seats
  Montreal Citizens' Movement: 7 seats
  Independents: 3 seats
  Montrealers' Party: 2 seats
  Democratic Coalition: 1 seat
Electoral District Position Total valid votes Candidates   Incumbent
  Montreal Citizens' Movement   Vision Montreal   Montrealers' Party   Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal   Others
40 Hochelaga City councillor 4,374   Diane Barbeau
1,654 (39.89%)
  Luc Larivée
2,040 (49.20%)
  Martin Baller
329 (7.94%)
  Clément Schreiber
123 (2.97%)
  Diane Barbeau
46 Tétreauville City councillor 6,296   Nicole Milhomme
1,846 (29.32%)
  Jean-Guy Deschamps
3,465 (55.03%)
    Sylvain Lapalme
181 (2.87%)
  Joseph Salerno (Ind.)
804 (12.77%)
  Nicole Milhomme


1994 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Ahuntsic
Party Candidate Votes %
Vision Montreal Hasmig Belleli 3,458 46.19
Montreal Citizens' Movement Michel L'Allier 2,182 29.15
Montrealers' Party Michel Bureau 943 12.60
Independent Ghassan Saba 572 7.64
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Jean-Pierre Le Blanc 203 2.71
White Elephant Party Christian Coutu 128 1.71
Total valid votes 7,486 100
Source: Official Results, City of Montreal
1994 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Saint-Sulpice
Party Candidate Votes %
Vision Montreal Maurice Beauchamp 2,602 39.26
Independent (x)Michel Benoit 2,125 32.06
Montreal Citizens' Movement Daniel Ducharme 1,540 23.23
Montrealers' Party Karine Hénault 263 3.97
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Max de Carrier 98 1.48
Total valid votes 6,628 100
Source: Official results, City of Montreal.
1994 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Saint-Michel
Party Candidate Votes %
Vision Montreal Paolo Tamburello 2,403 46.81
Montrealers' Party Pasquale Compierchio (incumbent) 1,711 33.33
Montreal Citizens' Movement Donato Caivano 737 14.36
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Michele A. Benigno 283 5.51
Total valid votes 5,134 100
Source: Official Results, City of Montreal
1994 Montreal municipal election
Party Candidate Votes %
Vision Montreal Daniel Boucher 1,954 46.85
Montreal Citizens' Movement Micheline Daigle
(incumbent)
1,338 32.08
Montrealers' Party Antoinette Corrado 672 16.11
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Pietro Bozzo 207 4.96
Total valid votes 4,171 100
Source: Official Results, City of Montreal
1994 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, François-Perrault
Party Candidate Votes %
Vision Montreal Vittorio Capparelli 2,277 48.16
Montreal Citizens' Movement Lyse Brunet 1,303 27.56
Montrealers' Party Frank Venneri 1,000 21.15
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Mario Laquerre 148 3.13
Total valid votes 4,728 100
Source: Official Results, City of Montreal
1994 Montreal municipal election
Party Candidate Votes %
Montreal Citizens' Movement (x)Konstantinos Georgoulis 2,419 33.64
Vision Montreal Angelos Diacoumacos 1,968 27.37
Independent Sofoklis Rasoulis 959 13.34
Independent Christos Karidogiannis 828 11.51
Montrealers' Party George Savoidakis 804 11.18
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Peter Stamadianos 213 2.96
Total valid votes 7,191 100
Source: Official Results, City of Montreal
1994 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Étienne-Desmarteau division
Party Candidate Votes %
Vision Montreal Michelle Daines 3,322 54.58
Montreal Citizens' Movement (x)Lea Cousineau 2,177 35.77
Montrealers' Party Pierre-Érick Noël 434 7.13
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Joseph Vega 153 2.51
Total valid votes 6,086 100
Source: Official Results, City of Montreal
1994 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Laurier
Party Candidate Votes %
Montreal Citizens' Movement Louise Roy 2,254 39.93
Vision Montreal Monique Côté 2,117 37.50
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Yolande Cohen 676 11.98
Montrealers' Party Gilbert Thibodeau 455 8.06
White Elephant Party Benoît Mainguy 88 1.56
Independent Richard Lemay 55 0.97
Total valid votes 5,645 100
Source: Official Results, City of Montreal
1994 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Peter-McGill division
Party Candidate Votes %
Vision Montreal Georgine Coutu 1,694 37.35
Independent (x)Nick Auf der Maur 1,469 32.39
Montreal Citizens' Movement Malcolm McLean 640 14.11
Montrealers' Party Van H. Petteway 477 10.52
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Douglas Buckley-Couvrette 203 4.48
White Elephant Party Pierre Corbeil 53 1.17
Total valid votes 4,536 100
Source: Official results, City of Montreal.
1994 Montreal municipal election
Party Candidate Votes %
Vision Montreal Aimé Charron 2,598 47.90
Montrealers' Party (x)Fiorino Bianco 1,423 26.24
Independent Georges Roman 597 11.01
Independent Pierre Boucher 443 8.17
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Rossa Vaccaro 228 4.20
Independent Antonio Bocchicchio 135 2.49
Total valid votes 5,424 100
Source: Official Results, City of Montreal
1994 Montreal municipal election
Party Candidate Votes %
Vision Montreal Germain Prégent
(incumbent)
2,713 71.13
Montreal Citizens' Movement Benoît St-Jean 678 17.78
Montrealers' Party Dave Schuilenburg 224 5.87
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Michael Chamberlain 199 5.22
Total valid votes 3,814 100
Source: Official Results, City of Montreal
1994 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Louis-Riel division
Party Candidate Votes %
Vision Montreal (x)Jacques Charbonneau 4,354 61.80
Montreal Citizens' Movement Yves Bougie 1,814 25.75
Montrealers' Party Fabienne Bouchard 740 10.50
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Phillip Chee 137 1.94
Total valid votes 7,045 100
Source: Official results, City of Montreal.
1994 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Longue-Pointe
Party Candidate Votes %
Vision Montreal Claire St-Arnaud 2,482 47.93
Montreal Citizens' Movement Nicole Boudreau (incumbent) 1,967 37.99
Montrealers' Party Ronald Gosselin 507 9.79
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Jacynthe Simard 222 4.29
Total valid votes 5,178 100
Source: Official Results, City of Montreal
1994 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Honoré-Beaugrand division
Party Candidate Votes %
Vision Montreal Ivon Le Duc 2,679 39.83
Montreal Citizens' Movement (x)Scott McKay 2,422 36.01
Montrealers' Party Denis Proulx 1,125 16.73
Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Julie Leduc 262 3.90
Independent Gilles Simard 156 2.32
White Elephant Party Guylaine Brisebois 82 1.22
Total valid votes 6,726 100
Source: Official Results, City of Montreal

Information on the candidates

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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
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]

Suburban results

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Dorval

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All members of the Dorval city council were re-elected without opposition.

Electoral District Position Total valid votes Candidates Incumbent
Winner
Mayor - Peter Yeomans (acclaimed) Peter Yeomans
East Ward 1 Councillor - Edgar Rouleau (acclaimed) Edgar Rouleau
East Ward 2 Councillor - Emile LaCoste (acclaimed) Emile LaCoste
East Ward 3 Councillor - Raymond Lauzon (acclaimed) Raymond Lauzon
West Ward 1 Councillor - Robert M. Bourbeau (acclaimed) Robert M. Bourbeau
West Ward 2 Councillor - Ian W. Heron (acclaimed) Ian W. Heron
West Ward 3 Councillor - Heather Allard (acclaimed) Heather Allard

Source: "Who's running where in Nov. 6 elections," Montreal Gazette, October 20, 1994, F2.

Montreal North

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Electoral District Position Total valid votes Candidates Incumbent
Renouveau municipal Collectivité de Montréal-Nord Independent
Mayor 18,619 Yves Ryan
16,459 (88.40%)
Jean-Pierre Menard
2,160 (11.60%)
Yves Ryan
District 1 Councillor 1,604 Antonin Dupont
1,332 (83.04%)
Diane Dupont
272 (16.96%)
Antonin Dupont
District 2 Councillor 1,695 Michelle Allaire
1,531 (90.32%)
Guy Devin
164 (9.68%)
Michelle Allaire
District 3 Councillor 2,167 Pierre Blain
1,665 (76.83%)
Bertrand Wall
328 (15.14%)
Michel Renaud
174 (8.03%)
Pierre Blain
District 4 Councillor - Georgette Morin (acclaimed) Georgette Morin
District 5 Councillor - Maurice Belanger (acclaimed) Maurice Belanger
District 6 Councillor - Réal Gibeau (acclaimed) Réal Gibeau
District 7 Councillor 1,826 Jean-Paul Lessard
1,389 (76.07%)
Jacqueline Roy
437 (23.93%)
Jean-Paul Lessard
District 8 Councillor 1,572 Normand Fortin
1,228 (78.12%)
Elaine Bissonnette
344 (21.88%)
Normand Fortin
District 9 Councillor 1,343 James Infantino
1,079 (80.34%)
Lise Leonard
264 (19.66%)
Armand Nadeau[9]
District 10 Councillor 1,963 Andre Coulombe
1,597 (81.36%)
Jocelyne Millaire
366 (18.64%)
Andre Coulombe
District 11 Councillor 1,061 Raymond Paquin
908 (85.58%)
Lazard Vertus
153 (14.42%)
Raymond Paquin
District 12 Councillor 1,283 Robert Guerriero
1,110 (86.52%)
Claude Forest
173 (13.48%)
Robert Guerriero

Source: "Voting Results: The Final Count," Montreal Gazette, November 8, 1994, A4.

Saint-Leonard

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1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election: Councillor, Ward Three
Party Candidate Votes %
Parti Municipal (x)Mario Battista accl. .
Source: Mike King, "Voting results: the final count," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 1994, A4.
1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election: Councillor, Ward Four
Party Candidate Votes %
Parti Municipal (x)Italo Barone 1,214 72.09
Independent Joseph Mormina 470 27.91
Total valid votes 1,684 100
Source: Mike King, "Voting results: the final count," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 1994, A4.
1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election: Councillor, Ward Six
Party Candidate Votes %
Parti Municipal (x)Dominic Perri accl. .
Source: Mike King, "Voting results: the final count," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 1994, A4.
1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election: Councillor, Ward Seven
Party Candidate Votes %
Parti Municipal (x)Yvette Bissonnet accl.
Source: Mike King, "Voting results: the final count," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 1994, A4.
1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election: Councillor, Ward Eight
Party Candidate Votes %
Parti Municipal (x)Vincenzo Arciresi accl. .
Source: Mike King, "Voting results: the final count," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 1994, A4.
1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election: Councillor, Ward Ten
Party Candidate Votes %
Parti Municipal (x)Domenico Moschella accl. .
Source: Mike King, "Voting results: the final count," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 1994, A4.
1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election: Councillor, Ward Twelve
Party Candidate Votes %
Parti municipal (x)Robert Zambito 845 53.45
Independent Giacomo Vigna 736 46.55
Total valid votes 1,581 100
Source: Mike King, "Voting results: the final count," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 1994, A4.

Information on candidates in suburban communities

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Independents

Results in other Montreal-area communities

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Parti municipal de Longueuil leader Claude Gladu was elected to his first term as mayor, succeeding Roger Ferland. The Parti municipal won fourteen seats on council, while former mayor Jacques Finet's Alliance de Longueuil won the remaining six.

Electoral District Position Total valid votes Candidates Incumbent
Parti municipal Parti Longueuillois Alliance de Longueuil Independent
Mayor 47,185 Claude Gladu
19,223 (40.74%)
Gisèle Hamelin
14,041 (29.76%)
Jacques Finet
13,921 (29.50%)
Roger Ferland
Ward One Councillor 1,850 Joël Gamache
650 (35.14%)
Claude Nephtali
557 (30.11%)
Richard Gagnon
643 (34.76%)
Pierre Beaudry
Ward Two Councillor 2,425 Mario Genest
854 (35.22%)
Martin Clark
617 (25.44%)
Cécile Langevin
954 (39.34%)
Cécile Langevin
Ward Three Councillor 2,105 Henri Dubois
1,251 (59.43%)
Anne-Marie Bischoff
396 (18.81%)
Diane Smith
458 (21.76%)
Claude Gladu
Ward Four Councillor 2,374 Gérald Marcil
902 (37.99%)
Bernard Lacelles
531 (22.37%)
Sylvie Robidas
941 (39.64%)
Sylvie Robidas
Ward Five Councillor 2,076 Nicole Béliveau
1,068 (51.45%)
Yves Ferron
474 (22.83%)
Sylvie Grenier
534 (25.72%)
Nicole Béliveau
Ward Six Councillor 2,095 Réjean Vincent
470 (22.43%)
Ginette Lemarier
659 (31.46%)
Normand Caisse
966 (46.11%)
Jacques Morissette
Ward Seven Councillor 2,267 Alain St-Pierre
1,102 (48.61%)
Martin Daraîche
497 (21.92%)
Charles A. Ashton
668 (29.47%)
Roger Lacombe
Ward Eight Councillor 2,022 Johane Deshaies
866 (42.83%)
Jean Claude D’Amour
485 (23.99%)
Suzanne Cyr
671 (33.18%)
Johane Deshaies
Ward Nine Councillor 2,585 Nicole Lafontaine
1,056 (40.85%)
Jacqueline Bonenfant
721 (27.89%)
Pierre Nantel
808 (31.26%)
Pierre Nantel
Ward Ten Councillor 2,026 Manon Hénault
1,039 (51.28%)
Olivette Rousseau
474 (23.40%)
Jean Babin
513 (25.32%)
Manon Hénault
Ward Eleven Councillor 2,396 Serge Sévigny
982 (40.98%)
Constant Jeanty
598 (24.96%)
Pierre Pétroni
816 (34.06%)
Serge Sévigny
Ward Twelve Councillor 2,410 Lise Sauvé
1,060 (43.98%)
Micheline Ward
325 (13.49%)
Michel Champagne
1,025 (42.53%)
Michel Champagne
Ward Thirteen Councillor 2,272 Bertrand Girard
866 (38.12%)
Omer Leclerc
570 (25.09%)
Jean St-Hilaire
836 (36.80%)
Jean St-Hilaire
Ward Fourteen Councillor 2,125 Ginette Lalonde
653 (30.73%)
Jean-Pierre Trahan
184 (8.66%)
Michel Timperio
1,288 (60.61%)
Michel Timperio
Ward Fifteen Councillor 2,320 Henri Charbonneau
721 (31.08%)
Arthur Méthot
540 (23.28%)
Florent Charest
1,059 (45.65%)
Florent Charest
Ward Sixteen Councillor 2,155 Pierre Beaudry
882 (40.93%)
Joanne Savoie
614 (28.49%)
Thérèse Lafrenière
659 (30.58%)
Georges Touten
Ward Seventeen Councillor 2,506 Claude Lamoureux
1,040 (41.50%)
Gérald Varichon
391 (15.60%)
Pierre Racicot
1,075 (42.90%)
Pierre Racicot
Ward Eighteen Councillor 2,934 Jacques Milette
1,365 (46.52%)
Richard Briggs
624 (21.27%)
Marc Lachance
945 (32.21%)
Jacques Milette
Ward Nineteen Councillor 2,975 Claudette Tessier
1,465 (49.24%)
Pierre Plourde
711 (23.90%)
Pierre Lestage
740 (24.87%)
Raymond Lévesque
59 (1.98%)
Benoît Danault
Ward Twenty Councillor 2,910 Simon Crochetière
1,283 (44.09%)
Pardo Chiocchio
835 (28.69%)
Léo Paduano
792 (27.22%)
Léo Paduano

Source: Le Parti municipal de Longueuil: "Roger Ferland, le gestionnaire", Société historique et culturelle du Marigot, accessed February 27, 2014.

References

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  1. ^ Brenda Branswell, "Voter turnout key to school boards' future; Candidates hope people will show up at polls tomorrow," Montreal Gazette, November 3, 2007, A1.
  2. ^ Graeme Hamilton, "Broken promises; St. Michel residents filled with political skepticism, especially when it comes to the Miron garbage dump," Montreal Gazette, November 3, 1994, A4.
  3. ^ Brenda Branswell, "Voter turnout key to school boards' future; Candidates hope people will show up at polls tomorrow," Montreal Gazette, November 3, 2007, A1.
  4. ^ Susan Schwartz, "Celebrities create collection plates for Mazon; And community centre supporters show style," Montreal Gazette, December 12, 2011, A29.
  5. ^ Paul Wells, "Quarry would make good campsite: party; North-end pit to continue as snow dump," Montreal Gazette, September 24, 1994, p. 3.
  6. ^ Graeme Hamilton, "Broken promises; St. Michel residents filled with political skepticism, especially when it comes to the Miron garbage dump," Montreal Gazette, November 3, 1994, p. 4; Anne McIlroy, "Neighbors fed up with life on edge of the pit," Montreal Gazette, November 21, 1994, p. 3.
  7. ^ Lynn Moore, "Protesters want tougher garbage laws," Montreal Gazette, November 5, 1995, p. 3; Rita Legault, "Grant funds composting education program: Turning organic waste into compost is a simple and inexpensive process: Morency," Montreal Gazette, April 10, 2001, p. 3.
  8. ^ Paul Wells, "Prosperous Cartierville is having its problems; Region 1: Ahuntsic/Cartierville," Montreal Gazette, October 22, 1990, A8.
  9. ^ Mike King, "Battling 272 years of experience; Mayor and his team have been in power since 1963," Montreal Gazette, October 21, 1994, A4.
  10. ^ "Case delayed in suit against St. Leonard by ex-secretary," Montreal Gazette, May 22, 1986, p. 6. Raymond Renaud won the by-election and subsequently fired Mormina's wife, who worked a secretary in the mayor's office. She later charged Renaud with wrongful dismissal.
  11. ^ Mormina was thirty-eight years old during this election. "St. Leonard party unites defectors and former rivals," Montreal Gazette, October 9, 1986, p. 8.