Municipal elections were held in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on November 3, 2013, as part of the 2013 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. Denis Coderre replaced interim mayor Laurent Blanchard, who was elected to replace the previous interim mayor, Michael Applebaum, who resigned due to 14 charges laid against him including fraud, conspiracy, breach of trust, and corruption in municipal affairs. Previous elected mayor Gérald Tremblay left office on November 5, 2012, after his party Union Montréal was suspected of corruption and mafia involvement. On July 2, 2013, Louise Harel, leader of the opposition Vision Montréal, announced she would not be running for mayor, instead supporting Marcel Côté.
Final list of Mayor of Montreal candidates
Confirmed
Name Leader of Municipal Party (if applicable) Other notesRichard Bergeron Urban plannerDenis Coderre Former Liberal MPMarcel Côté Co-founder of SECORMélanie Joly Lawyer Claude Blais Louai Hamida Quality control engineer Clément Sauriol Freelance workerKofi Sonokpon Aeronautics expertPatricia Tulasne Actress (TV+cinema)Joseph Young Michel Brûlé Author and publisher
Withdrawn On October 30, Paunel Paterne Matondot decided to withdraw his nomination as mayor of Montreal at the election of November 3.Withdrawal of nomination of Paunel Paterne Matondot
Declined Raymond Bachand - MNA for Outremont Michel Bédard - Former candidate Gilles Duceppe - Former Leader of the Bloc Québécois Liza Frulla - Former MP Louise Harel - Leader of Vision Montréal Michel Labrecque - STM President David La Haye - Actor, producer Normand Legault - Entrepreneur Irois Léger - Former journalist Gilbert Rozon - Founder of Just for Laughs
Opinion polls
For mayor
Denis Coderre's support remained steady in public opinion polling during the campaign, while the other established "major" candidates – Marcel Côté and Richard Bergeron – largely failed to make an impression. Instead, a lesser-known candidate, Mélanie Joly, pulled ahead of both Côté and Bergeron in public opinion polling to emerge as the second-place contender by the time of the final published poll."Is Montreal ready for Melanie Joly and real change in the race for mayor?". Toronto Star, October 20, 2013.
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Opinion polling prior to campaignPolling firmLast date of pollingLink Coderre Harel Bergeron Other None of these Don't know/Wouldn't voteCROPPDF33151851282009 ElectionHTML—32.7325.4541.82——
Results Denis Coderre confirmed polls before the election by winning the post of mayor of Montreal with 32.15% of votes and with a majority of 26,405 votes over Mélanie Joly, his closest rival.
His party, Équipe Coderre pour Montréal, gained 27 of the 65 seats within the city council. Meanwhile, Projet Montréal, led by Richard Bergeron, gained the status of official opposition by winning 20 seats. Marcel Côté's Coalition Montréal won only 6 seats and Mélanie Joly's Vrai changement pour Montréal won 4.
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 or 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
Borough District Borough Councillors City Councillors Borough Councillor Borough Councillor Borough Mayor City Councillor Ahuntsic-Cartierville Ahuntsic Pierre Gagnier Émilie Thuillier Bordeaux-Cartierville Harout Chitilian Saint-Sulpice Pierre Desrochers Sault-au-Récollet Lorraine Pagé Anjou Centre Luis Miranda Andrée Hénault Michelle Zammit East Paul-Yvon Perron West Gilles Beaudry Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Côte-des-Neiges Russell Copeman Magda Popeanu Darlington Lionel Perez Loyola Jeremy Searle Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Peter McQueen Snowdon Marvin Rotrand L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève Denis-Benjamin-Viger Normand Marinacci Christian Larocque Jacques-Bizard Jean-D. Lévesque-René Pierre-Foretier Stéphane Côté Sainte-Geneviève Éric Dugas Lachine Du Canal Claude Dauphin Jean-François Cloutier Maja Vodanovic Fort-Rolland Kymberley Simonyik J.-Émery-Provost Daniel Racicot LaSalle Cecil-P.-Newman Manon Barbe Monique Vallée Serge Declos Josée Troilo Sault-Saint-Louis Richard Deschamps Nancy Blanchet Laura-Ann Palestini Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Hochelaga Réal Ménard Éric Alan Caldwell Louis-Riel Karine Boivin Roy Maisonneuve–Longue-Pointe Laurence L. Lalonde Tétreaultville Richard Celzi Montréal-Nord Marie-Clarac Gilles Deguire Chantal Rossi Monica Ricourt Ovide-Clermont Jean-Marc Gibeau Sylvia Lo Bianco Outremont Claude-Ryan Marie Cinq-Mars Mindy Pollak Jeanne-Sauvé Jacqueline Gremaud Joseph-Beaubien Céline Forget Robert-Bourassa Lucie Cardyn Pierrefonds-Roxboro Bois-de-Liesse Dimitrios (Jim) Beis Justine McIntyre Roger Trottier Cap-Saint-Jacques Catherine Clément-Talbot Yves Gignac Le Plateau-Mont-Royal DeLorimier Luc Ferrandez Louise Mainville Marianne Giguère Jeanne-Mance Alex Norris Christine Gosselin Mile-End Richard Ryan Marie Plourde Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles La Pointe-aux-Prairies Chantal Rouleau Richard Guay Manuel Guedes Pointe-aux-Trembles Suzanne Décarie Gilles Déziel Rivière-des-Prairies Giovanni Rapanà Nathalie Pierre-Antoine Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie Étienne-Desmarteau François Croteau Marc-André Gadoury Marie-Victorin Guillaume Lavoie Saint-Édouard François Limoges Vieux-Rosemont Érika Duchesne Saint-Laurent Côte-de-Liesse Alan DeSousa Francesco Miele Maurice Cohen Norman-McLaren Aref Salem Michèle Biron Saint-Léonard Saint-Léonard-Est Michel Bissonnet Domenico Moschella Lili-Anne Tremblay Saint-Léonard-Ouest Dominic Perri Mario Battista Le Sud-Ouest Saint-Henri–Petite-Bourgogne–Pointe-Saint-Charles Benoit Dorais Craig Sauvé Sophie Thiébaut Saint-Paul–Émard Anne-Marie Sigouin Alain Vaillancourt Verdun Champlain–L'Île-des-Sœurs Jean-F. Parenteau Manon Gauthier Pierre L'Heureux Marie-Eve Brunet Desmarchais-Crawford Sterling Downey Luc Gagnon Marie-Andrée Mauger Ville-Marie Peter-McGill (Mayor ofMontreal) Steve Shanahan Saint-Jacques Richard Bergeron Sainte-Marie Valérie Plante Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension François-Perrault Anie Samson Sylvain Ouellet Parc-Extension Mary Deros Saint-Michel Frantz Benjamin Villeray Elsie Lefebvre
Seat-by-seat results Nominations were open from September 20 to October 4.
Candidate statistics
Party names are the official ones registered with Élection Montréal.Political parties - Le Directeur général des élections du Québec (DGEQ)
Union Montréal was officially dissolved on May 9, 2013.
Party Abbrev. Number of candidates for Total Link Borough mayor City councillor Borough councillor Total positions open 18 46 38 102 Coalition Montréal - Marcel Côté CM 16 46 34 96 Équipe Andrée Champoux pour Verdun EAC 1 2 4 7 Équipe Anjou EA 1 1 3 5 Équipe Barbe Team - Pro action LaSalle PAL 1 2 4 7 Équipe conservons Outremont ECO 1 0 4 5 Équipe Dauphin Lachine EDL 1 1 3 5 Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal EDC 17 45 37 99 Équipe Richard Bélanger ERB 1 0 4 5 Équipe Savard - Option Verdun / Montréal OVM 1 2 4 7 Intégrité Montréal IM 5 17 2 24 Parti alternatif LaSalle Alternative Party LAP 1 1 2 4 Projet Montréal - Équipe Bergeron PM 18 46 38 102 Vrai changement pour Montréal - Groupe Mélanie Joly VCM 9 26 20 55 Independents Ind 4 22 21 47 Total candidates 77 211 180 468
Ahuntsic-Cartierville
Electoral DistrictEligible votersPositionTurnoutCandidates IncumbentResult Équipe Coderre Coalition Projet Montréal VCM Other — 84,524 Borough mayor 48.47% Pierre Gagnier12,063 (30.41%) Étienne Brunet6,728 (16.96%) Pierre Bastien10,705 (26.99%) Hasmig Belleli9,167 (23.11%) Claude Allard (IM)1,001 (2.52%) Pierre Gagnier EDC hold Ahuntsic 21,134 City councillor 54.23% Diane Rodrigue2,573 (23.00%) Chantal Jorg1,512 (13.52%) Émilie Thuillier4,450 (39.78%) Laurette Racine2,333 (20.86%) Julie Ducharme (IM)318 (2.84%) Émilie Thuillier PM hold Bordeaux-Cartierville 21,159 City councillor 40.99% Harout Chitilian4,107 (48.86%) Jean Héon1,001 (11.91%) Maria Ximena Florez1,442 (17.15%) Ibrahim Bruno El-Khoury1,492 (18.86%) Ali Belkacem (Ind.)270 (3.21%)Marc Essertaize (IM)94 (1.12%) Harout Chitilian EDC hold Saint-Sulpice 22,266 City councillor 46.30% Pierre Desrochers3,477 (35.45%) Jean-Jacques Lapointe2,182 (22.25%) Martin Bazinet3,468 (35.36%) Martin Félip Rainville (IM)681 (6.94%) Jocelyn Ann Campbell EDC gain from Ind. Sault-au-Récollet 19,965 City councillor 52.50% Nathalie Hotte2,883 (28.47%) Louis-Gilles Molyneux1,247 (12.31%) Sophie-Anne Legendre2,674 (26.40%) Lorraine Pagé2,884 (28.48%) Mario Lemieux (IM)263 (2.60%)Dominique Grondin (Ind.)108 (1.07%)Nathalie Nyangono (Ind.)69 (0.68%) Étienne Brunet VCM gain from CM
Anjou
Electoral DistrictEligible votersPositionTurnoutCandidates IncumbentResult Équipe Coderre Coalition Projet Montréal Équipe Anjou — 29,172 Borough mayor 49.45% Rémi Tondreau3,412 (24.49%) Nyrlande Marcellus903 (6.48%) René Obregon1,752 (12.57%) Luis Miranda7,868 (56.46%) Luis Miranda EA hold City councillor 49.39% Youssef Hariri3,263 (23.63%) Charlotte Watson-Moreau1,120 (8.11%) Daniel Attard1,962 (14.21%) Andrée Hénault7,465 (54.06%) Andrée Hénault EA hold Centre 10,802 Borough councillor 51.41% Angela Mancini1,633 (30.84%) Mona Moussalem345 (6.52%) Jean-Sébastien Roussy863 (16.30%) Michelle Di Genova Zammit2,454 (46.35%) Michelle Di Genova Zammit EA hold East 8,722 Borough councillor 47.97% Sylvain Plourde951 (23.62%) Boubacar Touré306 (7.60%) Nadia Edouard680 (16.89%) Paul-Yvon Perron2,089 (51.89%) Paul-Yvon Perron EA hold West 9,648 Borough councillor 49.08% Agata La Rosa1,274 (28.30%) Mona Sara348 (7.73%) Blaise Guillotte567 (12.60%) Gilles Beaudry2,312 (51.37%) Gilles Beaudry EA hold
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