{"id":260575,"date":"2025-11-04T07:41:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260575\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T07:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:41:24","slug":"four-things-on-quebecs-municipal-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260575\/","title":{"rendered":"Four things on Quebec\u2019s municipal elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Voters in roughly 1,100 municipalities across Quebec chose their local leaders on Sunday. Here are four things to know about the province\u2019s municipal election results.<\/p>\n

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Montrealers have voted for change<\/p>\n

After eight years of the left-wing government of outgoing Mayor Val\u00e9rie Plante, Montrealers have chosen centrist candidate Soraya Martinez Ferrada as the city\u2019s new mayor. Martinez Ferrada, who arrived in Canada as a Chilean refugee in 1980, served in the cabinet of ex-prime minister Justin Trudeau before running to lead the Ensemble Montr\u00e9al party.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tSoraya Martinez Ferrada waves to supporters after being elected mayor of Montreal during the municipal election in Montreal on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tTHE CANADIAN PRESS\/Christinne Muschi\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

With more than 80 per cent of polls reporting, Martinez Ferrada had 43 per cent of the vote, compared with 36 per cent for Luc Rabouin, leader of Plante\u2019s party. Martinez Ferrada\u2019s policies include taking four years to end the tent cities across the island, and reviewing the bike lane network with an eye to removing paths that have caused the biggest headaches to residents, businesses and motorists.<\/p>\n

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And while Montrealers chose Martinez Ferrada, they also gave tens of thousands of votes to two other mayoral hopefuls \u2014 right-of-centre candidate Gilbert Thibodeau and leftist Craig Sauv\u00e9 \u2014 a sign that voters wanted change but were unhappy with both leading parties.<\/p>\n

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Quebec City gives major vote of confidence to Bruno Marchand<\/p>\n

After winning his first mayoral campaign by 0.4 per cent in 2021, Bruno Marchand was elected Sunday with more than 49 per cent of the vote, compared to 23 per cent for his closest rival, businessman St\u00e9phane Lachance. Sam Hamad, a former provincial Liberal cabinet minister, finished third with 14 per cent.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tBruno Marchand reacts to his re-election as mayor of Quebec City during celebrations in Quebec City, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n

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Marchand says his win is a signal that Quebec City residents want a tramway, a major public transit project that for years has faced serious headwinds in the city. Construction on the project has barely started.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am very proud, but \u2026 we are taking it with humility,\u201d he told reporters after his win. \u201cHumility to say that if we don\u2019t unite people, then our city will continue to have major challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ex-federal politicians running Quebec cities<\/p>\n

Other than Soraya Martinez Ferrada, another former member of Trudeau\u2019s cabinet will be running a big city in Quebec. Marie-Claude Bibeau, who has held the national revenue, agriculture and international development portfolios, was elected mayor of Sherbrooke, in the Eastern Townships region. She was an MP between 2015-2021.<\/p>\n

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Steven Blaney, who was a minister in the Conservative federal government of Stephen Harper, has been elected mayor of L\u00e9vis, located on the south shore of Quebec City. Blaney was a Tory MP between 2006-2021, and held the veterans, francophonie, and public safety portfolios.<\/p>\n

Guy Caron, an MP with the NDP between 2011-2019, won his second mandate as mayor of Rimouski.<\/p>\n

One man, two cities<\/p>\n

Yves L\u00e9vesque, who was mayor of Trois-Rivi\u00e8res between 2001-2018, has been elected mayor of Shawinigan, located about 30 kilometres north.<\/p>\n

Levesque left municipal politics in 2018 for health reasons, and ran three consecutive failed bids with the federal Conservatives to represent the riding of Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, in 2019, 2021 and 2025.<\/p>\n

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He won comfortably on Sunday night, with just under 52 per cent of the vote over Jacinthe Campagna, who earned slightly less than 30 per cent.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 2, 2025.<\/p>\n

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