The city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, held a municipal election at the same time as numerous other municipalities in Quebec, on November 1, 2009. Voters elected the mayor of Montreal, Montreal City Council, and the mayors and councils of each of the city's boroughs.
The election became plagued with allegations of corruption and mafia involvement in city contracts.
Results
Despite being assailed with accusations of corruption, incumbent Mayor Gérald Tremblay led his Union Montréal party to a third victory, although with reduced standings in city council. Union's seat totals remained firm especially in the boroughs merged into the city in 2002; it retained complete control of eight boroughs and near-complete control of three more.
Vision Montréal, led by former Quebec minister of municipal affairs Louise Harel, ran a campaign targeting the mayor on ethics. However, its campaign was blindsided by a scandal involving its second-in-command and former leader Benoit Labonté, who dropped out of the race. Vision increased its council standing but was unable to defeat the mayor. It won complete control of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve and majorities in three other borough councils.
Third party Projet Montréal increased sharply in popularity. An Angus Reid poll shortly prior to the election put its leader Richard Bergeron neck-and-neck (32%) with the two other main candidates (34% for Harel, 30% for Tremblay). He would finally come in third, but the party increased from just one seat at the previous election to ten council seats, two borough mayors, four borough councillors, and complete control of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. Besides its main issue of public transit and urban planning, the party emphasized ethics, running its campaign on just $200,000.
Mayor of Montreal
Candidate Party Vote %Gérald Tremblay (incumbent) Union Montréal 159,020 37.90% Louise Harel Vision Montréal 137,301 32.73% Richard Bergeron Projet Montréal 106,768 25.45%Louise O'Sullivan Parti Montréal - Ville-Marie 8,490 2.02%Michel Bédard Parti Fierté Montréal 5,297 1.26%Michel Prairie Independent 2,648 0.63% Result: UM hold
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 for 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 Jocelyn Ann Campbell Sault-au-Récollet Étienne Brunet 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 Michael Appelbaum Helen Fotopulos Darlington Lionel Perez Loyola Susan Clarke Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Peter McQueen Snowdon Marvin Rotrand L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève Denis-Benjamin-Viger Richard Bélanger Christopher Little Jacques-Bizard François Robert Pierre-Foretier Diane Gibb Sainte-Geneviève Jacques Cardinal Lachine Du Canal Claude Dauphin Jane Cowell-Poitras Lise Poulin Fort-Rolland Jean-François Cloutier J.-Émery-Provost Bernard Blanchet LaSalle Cecil-P.-Newman Manon Barbe Alvaro Farinacci Vincenzo Cesari Josée Troilo Sault-Saint-Louis Richard Deschamps Ross Blackhurst Laura-Ann Palestini Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Hochelaga Réal Ménard Laurent Blanchard Louis-Riel Lyn Thériault Maisonneuve–Longue-Pointe Louise Harel Tétreaultville Gaëtan Primeau Montréal-Nord Marie-Clarac Gilles Deguire Clementina Teti-Tomassi Chantal Rossi Ovide-Clermont Jean-Marc Gibeau Monica Ricourt Outremont Claude-Ryan Marie Cinq-Mars Louis Moffatt Jeanne-Sauvé Ana Nunes Joseph-Beaubien Céline Forget Robert-Bourassa Marie Potvin Pierrefonds-Roxboro East Monique Worth Christian Dubois Dimitrios Jim Beis West Bertrand Ward Catherine Clément-Talbot Le Plateau-Mont-Royal DeLorimier Luc Ferrandez Josée Duplessis Carl Boileau Jeanne-Mance Richard Bergeron Piper Huggins Mile-End Alex Norris Richard Ryan Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles La Pointe-aux-Prairies Joe Magri Caroline Bourgeois Mario Blanchet Pointe-aux-Trembles Suzanne Décarie Gilles Déziel Rivière-des-Prairies Maria Calderone Giovanni Rapanà Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie Étienne-Desmarteau François Croteau Marc-André Gadoury Marie-Victorin Élaine Ayotte Saint-Édouard François Limoges Vieux-Rosemont Pierre Lampron Saint-Laurent Côte-de-Liesse Alan DeSousa Laval Demers Maurice Cohen Norman-McLaren Aref Salem Michèle Biron Saint-Léonard Saint-Léonard-Est Michel Bissonnet Robert Zambito Lili-Anne Tremblay Saint-Léonard-Ouest Dominic Perri Mario Battista Le Sud-Ouest Saint-Henri–Petite-Bourgogne–Pointe-Saint-Charles Benoit Dorais Véronique Fournier Sophie Thiébaut Saint-Paul–Émard Daniel Bélanger Huguette Roy Verdun Champlain–L'Île-des-Sœurs Claude Trudel Ginette Marotte Paul Beaupré Andrée Champoux Desmarchais-Crawford Alain Tassé Ann Guy André Savard Ville-Marie Peter-McGill (Mayor ofMontreal) Sammy Forcillo Saint-Jacques François Robillard Sainte-Marie Pierre Mainville Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension François-Perrault Anie Samson Frank Venneri Parc-Extension Mary Deros Saint-Michel Frantz Benjamin Villeray Elsie Lefebvre
Seat-by-seat results
Nomination was open until October 2 at 4:30 p.m.
Candidate statistics
Party names are the official ones registered with Élection Montréal.
Party Abbrev. Number of candidates for Total Link Borough mayor City councillor Borough councillor Total positions open 18 46 38 102 Action civique Montréal ACM 1 2 2 5 Ethnic Party of MontréalParti ethnique de Montréal EPM 0 2 0 2 Équipe Louise O'Sullivan - Parti Montréal - Ville-Marie PMVM 4 21 8 33 Parti d'Outremont PO 0 0 3 3 Équipe Bédard - Fierté MontréalTeam Bédard - Montreal Pride Party MPP 0 1 0 1 Projet Montréal PM 18 46 38 102 Renouveau municipal de Montréal RMM 1 2 2 5 Équipe Tremblay - Union Montréal UM 18 46 38 102 Parti Ville LaSalle PVL 1 2 4 7 Équipe Harel - Vision Montréal VM 18 45 38 101 Independents Ind 6 17 8 31 Total candidates 67 184 141 392
Results by party
Party Abbrev. Borough mayor City councillor Borough councillor Total seats Before Held Gained Lost After Net Before Held Gained Lost After Net Before Held Gained Lost After Net Before Held Gained Lost After Net Projet Montréal PM 0 0 2 0 2 +2 1 1 7 0 8 +7 2 1 3 (1)* 4 +2 3 2 13 (1)* 14 +12 Union Montréal UM 16 12 0 4 12 -4 36 23 3 12(+1)* 26 -10 33 27 2 6 29 -4 85 62 5 22(+1)* 67 -18 Vision Montréal VM 3 2 2 (1)* 4 +1 6 2 10 4 12 +6 3 1 2 2 3 ±0 12 5 14 6(+1)* 19 +7 Independents Ind. 0 0 0 0 0 ±0 2 0 0 2 0 -2 2 0 2 1(+1)* 2 ±0 4 0 2 3(+1)* 2 -2 * = seats lost in redistricting of Ville-Marie (see below).
Ahuntsic-Cartierville
| — | 84,532 | Borough mayor | 38,11445.09%
| Pierre Gagnier 12,760 (35.09%) | | François Purcell 11,943 (32.84%) | | Zaki Ghavitian 11,659 (32.06%)
| Marie-Andrée Beaudoin | PM gain from UM |- | Ahuntsic | 21,037 | City councillor | 10,53250.06%
| Émilie Thuillier 3,484 (34.17%) | | Diane Lemieux 3,364 (33.00%) | | Frédéric Lapointe 3,347 (32.83%)
| Hasmig Belleli | PM gain from VM |- | Bordeaux-Cartierville | 21,345 | City councillor | 8,43939.54% | | Pericles Creticos 2,040 (25.31%)
| Harout Chitilian 3,040 (37.71%) | | Hasmig Belleli 2,578 (31.98%) | | John Gentile (PMVM)403 (5.00%)Gentile was a first-time candidate. See Véronique Leduc, "Présentation des candidats du district de Bordeaux-Cartierville" Courier Ahuntsic/Bordeaux-Cartierville, October 1, 2009, accessed February 5, 2013.
| Noushig Eloyan | UM gain from VM |- | Saint-Sulpice | 21,605 | City councillor | 9,07442.00% | | Martin Bazinet 2,546 (29.25%)Born in Ahuntsic, Bazinet has a master's degree in management. He has been a member of Projet Montréal since its founding and is running for the party again in the 2013 municipal election. See Élections municipales 2013 – Deux nouveaux candidats s’ajouteront à l’équipe de Projet Montréal d’Ahuntsic-Cartierville , Projet Montréal, April 25, 2013, accessed July 11, 2013.
| Jocelyn Ann Campbell 3,099 (35.60%) | | Jean-Jacques Lapointe 3,060 (35.15%)Lapointe has a bachelor's degree in community organization from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), has pursued graduate studies in marketing and science management at UQAM and HEC Montréal, and worked for many years with the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ). The 2009 election was his first bid for public office. See Louise Harel et Benoit Labonté présentent l'équipe de candidat-e-s de Vision Montréal dans l'arrondissement d'Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Vision Montreal, August 25, 2009, accessed July 11, 2009; Pascal LeBlanc, "Présentation des candidats du district de Saint-Sulpice," Courrier Ahuntsic, 9 October 2009, accessed 11 July 2013
| Jocelyn Ann Campbell | UM hold |- | Sault-au-Récollet | 20,545 | City councillor | 10,05548.94% | | Jean-François Desgroseilliers3,030 (31.35%) | | Léonardo Fiore2,384 (24.66%)
| Étienne Brunet3,128 (32.36%) | | Giovanna Giancaspro (Ind.)743 (7.69%)Achille Polcaro (PMVM)381 (3.94%)
| Jean-François St-Onge | VM gain from UM
Anjou
| rowspan=2 | — | rowspan=2 | 29,753 | Borough mayor | 13,86746.61% | | Philippe Duval 2,020 (15.10%)
| Luis Miranda 7,403 (55.32%) | | Lynda Côté 3,958 (29.58%)
| Luis Miranda | UM hold |- | City councillor | 13,90246.72% | | Yves Laporte 2,284 (17.19%)
| Andrée Hénault 6,781 (51.03%) | | Danielle Boulet 4,223 (31.78%)
| Andrée Hénault | UM hold |- | Centre | 11,083 | Borough councillor | 5,32948.08%
| Slimane Bah 857 (16.88%)
| Michelle Zammit 2,722 (53.60%) | | Badiona Bazin 1,499 (29.52%)
| Michelle Zammit | UM hold |- | East | 8,896 | Borough councillor | 4,06245.66% | | Julien Viel 656 (16.90%)
| Paul-Yvon Perron 1,746 (44.99%)
| Rémy Tondreau 1,479 (38.11%)
| Rémy Tondreau | UM gain from VM |- | West | 9,774 | Borough councillor | 4,48845,92% | | Alexis Rochon 812 (18.92%)
| Gilles Beaudry 2,342 (54.58%) | | Souad Bounakhla 1,137 (26.50%)
| Gilles Beaudry | UM hold
Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
| — | 95,431 | Borough mayor | 34,44136.09%
| Carole Dupuis 8,678 (26.01%)
| Michael Applebaum 17,409 (52.19%)
| Brenda Mae Paris 5,686 (17.04%) | | Jacqueline Sommereyns (PMVM) 1,586 (4.75%)
| Michael Applebaum | UM hold |- | Côte-des-Neiges | 16,773 | City councillor | 6,43438.36%
| Magda Popeanu2,111 (33.81%)