1994 Montreal municipal election explained

Election Name:	1994 Montreal municipal election
Country:	Montreal
Type:	parliamentary
Ongoing:	no
Party Colour:	no
Party Name:	no
Previous Election:	1990 Montreal municipal election
Previous Year:	1990
Next Election:	1998 Montreal municipal election
Next Year:	1998
Seats For Election:	51 seats in Montreal City Council
Majority Seats:	26
Election Date:	November 6, 1994
Image1:	File:Pierre_Bourque_au_maison_de_la_culture_Maisonneuve.jpg
Image1 Size:	x100px
Leader1:	Pierre Bourque
Leader Since1:	1994
Last Election1:	pre-creation
Seats1:	38
Seat Change1:	38
Popular Vote1:	135,678
Percentage1:	46.6%
Swing1:	New
Image2 Size:	x100px
Leader2:	Jean Doré
Leader Since2:	1982
Last Election2:	42 seats, 59.20%
Seats2:	7
Seat Change2:	35
Popular Vote2:	91,907
Percentage2:	31.5%
Swing2:	27.70%
Map Size:	300px
Mayor
Before Election:	Jean Doré
After Election:	Pierre Bourque

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.

Results

Council (incomplete)

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

width=10% rowspan=2 colspan=2	Electoral District	width=8% rowspan=2	Position	width=6% rowspan=2	Total valid votes	Candidates										width=1% rowspan=2		width=10% rowspan=2	Incumbent
width=1%		width=12%	Montreal Citizens' Movement	width=1%		width=12%	Vision Montreal	width=1%		width=12%	Montrealers' Party	width=1%		width=12%	Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal	width=1%		width=12%	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

Information on the candidates

Montreal Citizens' Movement

• Michel L'Allier (Ahuntsic), Donato Caivano (Saint-Michel), and Lise Brunet (François-Perrault) were first-time candidates.

Montrealers' Party

• Michel Bureau (Ahuntsic) was a first-time candidate.
• Antoinette Corrado (Jean-Rivard) was a first-time candidate. She later sought election to the English Montreal School Board in 2007 as an ally of commission chair Dominic Spiridigliozzi.^[1]

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

Dorval

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

width=10% rowspan=2	Electoral District	width=8% rowspan=2	Position	width=6% rowspan=2	Total valid votes	Candidates	width=10% rowspan=2	Incumbent
width=12%	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

width=10% rowspan=2	Electoral District	width=8% rowspan=2	Position	width=6% rowspan=2	Total valid votes	Candidates			width=10% rowspan=2	Incumbent
width=12%	Renouveau municipal	width=12%	Collectivité de Montréal-Nord	width=12%	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

Information on candidates in suburban communities

Independents

• Joseph Mormina is a Montreal entrepreneur. He sought election to the Saint-Leonard city council in 1978 and 1982 as a candidate of the Équipe du renouveau de la cité de Saint-Léonard and was narrowly defeated both times. When his party fragmented in 1984, Mormina joined the Action civique de Saint-Léonard and supported Domenico Moschella's bid to become mayor of Saint-Leonard in a municipal by-election.^[10] Action civique later folded into Unité de Saint-Léonard, and Mormina ran unsuccessfully for the latter party in the 1986 municipal election.^[11] He ran as an independent in 1994.

Results in other Montreal-area communities

Longueuil

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.

width=10% rowspan=2	Electoral District	width=8% rowspan=2	Position	width=6% rowspan=2	Total valid votes	Candidates				width=10% rowspan=2	Incumbent
width=12%	Parti municipal	width=12%	Parti Longueuillois	width=12%	Alliance de Longueuil	width=12%	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

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]
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]
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.