| Chazel | |
| Flag Size: | 120x100px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Western Quebec |
| Pushpin Label: | Chazel |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in western Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 48.8667°N -82°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1917 |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | February 19, 1938 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Daniel Favreau |
| Area Footnotes: | [2] |
| Area Total Km2: | 140.14 |
| Area Land Km2: | 133.55 |
| Population Total: | 254 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 1.9 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 12.1% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 131 |
| Utc Offset: | −05:00 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −04:00 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | No major routes |
Chazel is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality. It had a population of 254 in the 2021 Canadian census.
The municipality was incorporated on February 19, 1938, as the Municipality of Saint-Janvier, and commonly known as Saint-Janvier-de-Chazel. In 1991, it was renamed to Chazel, named after Guillaume Chazel, a French soldier who died in 1725 near Cape Breton.[3]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Chazel, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 240 | 15.8% | 96.0% | 5 | 0.0% | 2.0% | 5 | n/a% | 2.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | ||||||||
| 285 | 1.7% | 98.3% | 5 | n/a% | 1.7% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | ||||||||
| 290 | 9.4% | 100.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | ||||||||
| 320 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | ||||||||
| 320 | 17.9% | 97.0% | 10 | n/a% | 3.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | ||||||||
| 390 | n/a | 100.0% | 0 | n/a | 0.0% | 0 | n/a | 0.0% | 0 | n/a | 0.0% | ||||||||
Municipal council (as of 2024):[4]
List of former mayors:
| Liberal | Conservative | Bloc Québécois | New Democratic | Green | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12% | 7 | 16% | 10 | 57% | 37 | 3% | 2 | 5% | 3 | ||||||
| 2019 | 7% | 6 | 36% | 29 | 54% | 44 | 0% | 0 | 3% | 2 | ||||||
| CAQ | Liberal | QC solidaire | Parti Québécois | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 45% | 57 | 4% | 5 | 10% | 13 | 17% | 22 | |||||
| 2018 | 47% | 34 | 0% | 0 | 10% | 7 | 40% | 29 | |||||
| 2014 | 13% | 11 | 12% | 10 | 8% | 6 | 67% | 54 | |||||
Provincially it is part of the riding of Abitibi-Ouest. In the 2022 Quebec general election the incumbent MNA Suzanne Blais, of the Coalition Avenir Québec, was re-elected to represent the population of Chazel in the National Assembly of Quebec.
Federally, Chazel is part of the federal riding of Abitibi—Témiscamingue. In the 2021 Canadian federal election, the incumbent Sébastien Lemire of the Bloc Québécois was re-elected to represent the population Chazel in the House of Commons of Canada.