The 1982 Montreal municipal election took place on November 14, 1982, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Longtime mayor Jean Drapeau was re-elected for what turned out to be his final term in office, defeating challenger Jean Doré.Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal, accessed May 16, 2011.
Elections were also held in Montreal's suburban communities in November 1982. Most suburban elections were held on November 7.
Results Mayor
Council (incomplete)
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Electoral DistrictPositionTotal valid votesCandidates Incumbent Montreal Citizens' Movement Civic Party Municipal Action Group Independents Longue-Pointe City councillor 6,754 Nicole Boudreau2,793 (41.35%) Luc Larivée3,463 (51.27%) Nola Poirier498 (7.37%) Luc Larivée
Information about the candidates Municipal Action Group Gino Gentile (Jean-Talon) was a first-time candidate. Independents Nicola L. Corbo (Jean-Talon) was a first-time candidate.
Results in suburban communities Dorval Electoral DistrictPositionTotal valid votesCandidatesIncumbent Winner Second place Third place Fourth place Fifth place Mayor 6,302 Peter Yeomans4,430 (70.30%) Roger Blais1,632 (25.90%) Pierre Santini240 (3.80%) Sarto Desnoyers East Ward 1 Councillor 3,152 Edgar Rouleau2,141 (67.93%) Fernand Claude1,011 (32.07%) East Ward 2 Councillor 3,201 Emile Lacoste1,673 (52.26%) Denise Descary Cardinale1,528 (47.74%) East Ward 3 Councillor 2,940 Jules Daigle2,176 (74.01%) Gerard Carpentier764 (25.99%) Jules Daigle West Ward 1 Councillor 3,049 Robert M. Bourbeau1,400 (45.92%) Robert Viborg1,010 (33.13%) Michel Paquette639 (20.96%) West Ward 2 Councillor 3,023 Ian W. Heron1,365 (45.15%) Louis Lefebvre756 (25.01%) Sandra Keightley590 (19.52%) Donald Bilney175 (5.79%) Vito Lamorte137 (4.53%) West Ward 3 Councillor - Frank Richmond (acclaimed) Frank Richmond
Source: Montreal Gazette, November 8, 1982, A6.
Montréal-Nord Electoral DistrictPositionTotal valid votesCandidatesIncumbent Renouveau municipal Others Mayor 26,070 Yves Ryan 22,490 (86.27%) Suzel Hébert-Godin3,580 (13.73%) Yves Ryan Ward One Councillor 1,856 Antonin Dupont1,402 (75.54%) L. Thibault454 (24.46%) - Ward Two Councillor 2,232 Ernest Chartrand1,887 (84.54%) Giuseppe Altomare345 (15.46%) Ernest Chartrand (incumbent for West Quarter, Seat Two) Ward Three Councillor 3,126 Pierre Blain2,552 (81.64%) Pierre Lacombe574 (18.36%) Pierre Blain (incumbent for West Quarter, Seat One) Ward Four Councillor 1,902 Georgette Morin1,022 (53.73%) Morache571 (30.02%)Bernard Lebrun260 (13.67%)Petit 49 (2.58%) - Ward Five Councillor 2,233 Maurice Bélanger1,644 (73.62%) André Elliott509 (22.79%)Kenyon80 (3.58%) Maurice Bélanger (incumbent for Center Quarter, Seat Two) Ward Six Councillor 1,902 Réal Gibeau1,521 (79.97%) Madeleine Aubertin381 (20.03%) Réal Gibeau (incumbent for Center Quarter, Seat One) Ward Seven Councillor 2,101 Jean-Paul Lessard1,638 (77.96%) Roland Gagne463 (22.04%) Jean-Paul Lessard (incumbent for East Quarter, Seat One) Ward Eight Councillor 2,188 Normand Fortin1,694 (77.42%) Richard Robert494 (22.58%) Normand Fortin (incumbent for Center Quarter, Seat Two) Ward Nine Councillor 1,924 Armand Nadeau1,483 (77.08%) Pierre Laperrière441 (22.92%) - Ward Ten Councillor 2,830 André Coulombe1,394 (49.26%) Phemens (sp?)1,112 (39.29%)Victor-Levy Beaulieu324 (11.45%) - Ward Eleven Councillor 1,503 Raymond Paquin1,124 (74.78%) Pierre Robert229 (15.24%)Tiberio150 (9.98%) - Ward Twelve Councillor 1,712 Robert Guerrero1,367 (79.84%) André Houle345 (20.15%) -
Sources: Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1982, A6; Montreal Gazette, 8 November 1982, A6.
Saint-Leonard
subsequent by-elections
Information about the candidates in suburban communities Saint-Leonard Équipe du renouveau de la cité de Saint-Léonard Pierre Paquet (Ward Ten) was a Montreal lawyer during the 1980s. He was elected to council in 1982 in his first bid for public office. When the Équipe du renouveau dissolved in 1984, he joined Raymond Renaud's Ralliement de Saint-Léonard, but was dropped from that party's list before 1986 election amid disputed circumstances. Renaud said that Paquet had been largely inactive on council, while Paquet said he had been blocked for asking too many serious questions."New party enters St. Leonard race," Montreal Gazette, September 25, 1986, p. 14; "Five new candidates join St. Leonard mayor's slate," Montreal Gazette, October 2, 1986, p. 8. Union municipale de Saint-Léonard Eduardo di Bennardo (Ward Six) was elected to the Saint-Leonard city council in 1978 as a candidate of the Parti de l'alliance municipale. He was defeated in 1982, running for Union municipal. Claude Beriault (Ward Ten) appears to have been a first-time candidate.
Results in other Montreal-area communities Longueuil Jacques Finet of the Parti municipal de Longueuil was elected to his first term as mayor, defeating incumbent Marcel Robidas from the Parti civique de Longueuil. The Parti municipal also won fifteen council seats, as against four for the Parti civique.
Winning candidates are listed in boldface. Electoral DistrictPositionTotal valid votesCandidatesIncumbent Parti municipal Parti civique Independent Mayor 39,301 Jacques Finet19,157 (48.74%) Marcel Robidas19,075 (48.54%) Jacques Gendron1,069 (2.72%)Gendron ran for mayor of Longueuil in 1982 and 1987. During the latter campaign, he was described in the Montreal Gazette as a 49-year-old theatrical production company owner. See James Mennie, "Voters choose mayor Sunday in Longueuil," Montreal Gazette, May 28, 1987, I1. A candidate named Jacques Gendron ran for the House of Commons of Canada in Longueuil as an independent candidate and finished fifth against Liberal Jacques Olivier with 4,548 votes (9.17%); this was presumably the same person. A different Jacques Gendron ran as a candidate of the Canadian Alliance in the 2000 Canadian federal election and for the Quebec Liberal Party in the 2014 provincial election and has twice sought election to Montreal City Council. Marcel Robidas District 1 Councillor 1,813 Serge Rathier606 (33.43%) Jacques Bouchard802 (44.24%) Henri Bouclin205 (11.31%)V. Bourcier200 (11.03%) Jacques Bouchard District 2 Councillor 1,935 Serge Robillard1,100 (56.85%) Marcel Tessier835 (43.15%) Georges Touten District 3 Councillor 1,949 Claude Gladu1,010 (51.82%) Léonard Boulet838 (43.00%) André Marquette101 (5.18%) Léonard Boulet District 4 Councillor 2,412 Roger Ferland1,436 (59.54%) Yves Lalonde877 (36.36%) H.-P. Germain99 (4.10%) Roger Ferland District 5 Councillor 2,352 Nicole Béliveau896 (38.10%) Géraldine Courchesne773 (32.87%) Robert H. Tremblay253 (10.76%)M. Robillard221 (9.40%)G. Dorais209 (8.89%) René Leblanc District 6 Councillor 2,284 Jacques Morissette1,183 (51.80%) Richard Defoy953 (41.73%) Luc Salinovich148 (6.48%) Lorenzo Defoy District 7 Councillor 1,621 Roger Lacombe712 (43.92%) Gérard Thibeault342 (21.10%) Paul-Auguste Briand567 (34.98%) Paul-Auguste Briand District 8 Councillor 2,105 Gilles Déry1,284 (61.00%) Nicole Therrien821 (39.00%) Gilles Déry District 9 Councillor 2,567 M. Richard1,200 (46.75%) Pierre Nantel1,367 (53.25%) Pierre Nantel District 10 Councillor 2,267 Florence Mercier1,492 (65.81%) Louis-René Simard775 (34.19%) Jacques Finet District 11 Councillor 1,911 Serge Sévigny1,016 (53.17%) Lucien Lebrun895 (46.83%) Serge Sévigny District 12 Councillor 1,506 Lise Sauvé814 (54.05%) Jean-Paul Vermette692 (45.95%) Jean-Paul Vermette District 13 Councillor 2,018 Solange Boiteau676 (33.50%) Jean-Pierre Trahan839 (41.58%) Omer Leclerc503 (24.93%) Jeannine Labelle District 14 Councillor 2,018 Michel Timperio1,091 (54.06%) Jeannine Lavoie-Picard927 (45.94%) Paul-Émile Paquin District 15 Councillor 1,899 Florent Charest810 (42.65%) Paul-Émile Paquin707 (37.23%) M. Turgeon382 (20.12%) Jacques Laplante District 16 Councillor 1,948 Georges Touten960 (49.28%) Gaétan Baillargeon988 (50.72%) Benoît Danault District 17 Councillor 1,589 André Létourneau1,015 (63.88%) Didier Robidas574 (36.12%) André Létourneau District 18 Councillor 2,208 Jacques Laplante1,176 (53.26%) Laurence Juneau1,032 (46.74%) new division District 19 Councillor 2,979 Benoît Danault1,978 (66.40%) G. Grenier1,001 (33.60%) new division
Source: Le Parti municipal de Longueuil: Le premier mandat 1978 - 1982, Société historique et culturelle du Marigot, accessed January 22, 2014.
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