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The city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada held municipal elections on November 1, 1998, to elect a mayor and city councillors. Pierre Bourque was returned to a second term as mayor against a divided opposition.
Various suburban communities on the Island of Montreal also held elections on November 1.
| 1998 Montreal municipal election : Mayor of Montreal | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Vision Montreal | (x)Pierre Bourque | 141,814 | 45.52 | |||||
| New Montreal | Jacques Duchesneau | 84,289 | 27.05 | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Michel Prescott | 46,298 | 14.86 | |||||
| Team Montreal | Jean Doré | 32,167 | 10.32 | |||||
| Montreal 2000 | Michel Bédard | 3,004 | 0.96 | |||||
| Independent | Patricia Métivier | 2,224 | 0.71 | |||||
| Independent | Michel Dugré | 989 | 0.32 | |||||
| Independent | Laurent Alie | 784 | 0.25 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 311,569 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Official Results, City of Montreal | ||||||||
Party colours do not indicate affiliation or resemblance to any federal and provincial party.
| Electoral District | Position | Total valid votes | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||||||||
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| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Vision Montreal | New Montreal | Team Montreal | Democratic Coalition | Others | |||||||||||
| #01 Cartierville | City councillor | 7,042 | Fatima El Amraoui 631 (8.8%) | Gérard Legault 2,999 (41.7%) | Pierre Gagnier 2,681 (37.3%) | Ricardo Zarruk 673 (9.4%) | Marc Rubin 58 (1.76%) | Pierre Gagnier | ||||||||
| #02 Acadie | City councillor | 7,774 | Roger Labelle 611 (7.7%) | Noushig Eloyan 4,592 (58.0%) | Georges S. Berberi 2,078 (26.3%) | Pedro Utillano 304 (3.8%) | Nadia Moussa 98 (1.2%) | Patrice Leblanc (M2000) 91 (1.1%) | Noushig Eloyan | |||||||
| #03 Ahuntsic | City councillor | 7,794 | Renée Millette 754 (9.67%) | Hasmig Belleli 3,900 (50.04%) | Jimmy V. Capogreco Co-listed with Jacques Duchesneau 2,119 (27.19%) | Pierre Veilleux 793 (10.17%) | Néomie Larocque de Roquebrune 137 (1.76%) | Yvan Tremblay (M2000) 91 (1.17%) | Hasmig Belleli | |||||||
| #04 Saint-Sulpice | City councillor | 6,852 | André-Pierre Duchamp 863 (12.59%) | Maurice Beauchamp 2,686 (39.20%) | Jean Des Trois Maisons 2,039 (29.76%) | France Hubert 1,193 (17.41%) | Frédéric La Brie (M2000) 71 (1.04%) | Maurice Beauchamp | ||||||||
| #05 Fleury | City councillor | 8,334 | Pierre Lapointe 3,015 (36.18%) | Pierre de Montigny 2,284 (27.41%) | Martin Blanc 1,355 (16.26%) | Henry See 111 (1.33%) | Pierre Lachapelle (Ind.) 1,410 (16.92%) Stéphanie Dubois (M2000) 159 (1.91%) | Colette St-Martin | ||||||||
| #06 Sault-au-Récollet | City councillor | 7,294 | Jean Rémillard 893 (11.9%) | Serge-Éric Bélanger 3,125 (41.6%) | Vincenzo Mercadante 2,300 (30.6%) | Micheline Jourdain 976 (13.0%) | Serge-Éric Bélanger | |||||||||
| #07 Saint-Michel | City councillor | 5,701 | Valentino Nelson 417 (7.31%) | Paolo Tamburello 3,308 (58.02%) | Myrlande Pierre 856 (15.01%) | Pasquale Compierchio 1,015 (17.80%) | Marcel Firmin (Ind.) 105 (1.84%) | Paolo Tamburello | ||||||||
| #08 Jean-Rivard | City councillor | 5,190 | Solange Allen 323 (6.22%) | Nicole Roy-Arcelin 2,100 (40.46%) | Claude Bricault 981 (18.90%) | Keder Hyppolite 505 (9.73%) | Daniel Boucher (Ind.) 1,281 (24.68%) | Daniel Boucher | ||||||||
| #09 François-Perrault | City councillor | 5,346 | Vittorio Capparelli 1,277 (23.89%) | Frank Venneri 2,622 (49.05%) | Lanise Hayes 780 (14.59%) | Yasmin Bautista 420 (7.86%) | Michel Handfield (Ind.) 247 (4.62%) | Vittorio Capparelli | ||||||||
| #10 Villeray | City councillor | Salvatore Rubbo | Sylvain Lachance | Naïma Sebbah | Serge Fleury | Sylvain Lachance | ||||||||||
| #11 Octave-Crémazie | City councillor | Roger Caron | Anie Samson | Guy Geoffrion | Danielle Lia | Anie Samson | ||||||||||
| #12 Jarry | City councillor | Tito Alvarado | Achille Polcaro | Ghislaine Charland | Danielle Métras | Etienne Pélissier (M2000) | Achille Polcaro | |||||||||
| #13 Parc-Extension | City councillor | 7,458 | Thanasi Dionisopoulos 176 (2.36%) | Mary Deros 2,954 (39.61%) | Effie Gournaki 1,123 (15.06%) | Christos Karidogiannis 765 (10.26%) | Sylvia d'Apollonia 89 (1.19%) | Sofoklis Rasoulis (M2000) 2,124 (28.48%) Naveed Anwar 227 (3.04%) | Vacant (formerly Konstantinos Georgoulis) | |||||||
| #14 Saint-Édouard | City councillor | Alain Tremblay | François Purcell | Richard Crochetière | Pierre Goyer | Line Goyette | Anna Bagio (Ind.) | Pierre Goyer | ||||||||
| #15 Père-Marquette | City councillor | Isabelle Leduc | Jean-François Plante | Robert Laramée | Maxime Bergeron Laurencelle | Normand Gosselin | Elssa Martinez (Ind.) | Robert Laramée | ||||||||
| #16 Louis-Hébert | City councillor | Ginette Lajoie | Carl Baillargeon | Louise Doré | Diane Barbeau | André Bouthillier | Uldège Couture (Ind.) | Hubert Deraspe | ||||||||
| #17 Étienne-Desmarteau | City councillor | Yves Pellerin | Nicole Thibault | Normand D'Ambrosio | Daniel Michaud | Serge Dubois (M2000) | Michelle Daines | |||||||||
| #18 Marie-Victorin | City councillor | Anne Baribeau | Kettly Beauregard Co-listed with Pierre Bourque | André Meunier | Manon Tanguay | Claude Boismenu (M2000) | Kettly Beauregard | |||||||||
| #19 Bourbonnière | City councillor | Bohdan Paska | Denise Larouche | Christian Bolduc | Claude Bégin | Stéphane Thibault (M2000) | André Lavallée | |||||||||
| #20 Vieux-Rosemont | City councillor | Aurèle Bourassa | Marcel Grégoire | Jacques Archambault | Paul Cousineau | Sylvain Lapalme | Mélanie Dubois (M2000) | Robert Côté | ||||||||
| #21 Lorimier | City councillor | Richard Théorêt | René Théroux | Gilbert Thibodeau | Danielle Lachance | Janik Litalien (M2000) | Richard Théorêt | |||||||||
| #22 Plateau-Mont-Royal | City councillor | André Cardinal | Béranger Lessard | Douglas Buckley-Couvrette | Sylvie Gagnon | Magella Gagné (Ind.) Alain Perrier (M2000) Co-listed with Michel Bédard | Thérèse Daviau | |||||||||
| #23 Laurier | City councillor | 6,125 | Hélène Jolicoeur 1,846 (30.14%) | Odile Hénault 1,411 (23.04%) | Louise Roy 1,454 (23.74%) | Simon Robillard 1,102 (17.99%) | Jean-Guy Aubé 107 (1.75%) | Denis Munger (Ind.) 106 (1.73%) Benoît Mainguy (M2000) 99 (1.62%) | Louise Roy | |||||||
| #24 Mile End | City councillor | Maria Teresa Hillar | Ilias Kaperonis | Arminda Mota | Helen Fotopulos | Evripidis Georgiou (Ind.) | Helen Fotopulos | |||||||||
| #25 Jeanne-Mance | City councillor | Lucia Kowaluk Co-listed with Michel Prescott | Tarik Mihoubi | Nelson Santos | Carolle Piché-Burton | Jean-Jacques Gallagher (Ind.) | Michel Prescott | |||||||||
| #26 Peter-McGill | City councillor | Shawn Rosengarten | Gerry Weiner | Louise Boyne | Jean Lamarre | Reuven Shultz | René Delbuguet (Ind.) Normand Potvin (M2000) | Georgine Coutu | ||||||||
| #27 Côte-des-Neiges | City councillor | Gilles Berger | Pierre-Yves Melançon | Conrad Sauvé | Yolande Cohen | François Dumoulin (M2000) | Pierre-Yves Melançon | |||||||||
| #28 Darlington | City councillor | Lilia Esguerra | Jean Fortier | Jack Chadirdjian | Alain Landry | Ronald Finegold | Jack Chadirdjian | |||||||||
| #29 Victoria | City councillor | Dan Philip | Saulie Zajdel | Michael Polak | Bracha Udashkin | Saulie Zajdel | ||||||||||
| #30 Snowdon | City councillor | Patricia Rimok | George Kovac | Gail Campbell | Marvin Rotrand | Marvin Rotrand | ||||||||||
| #31 Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | City councillor | Deborah Rankin | Rob Bull | Michael Applebaum | David Mowat | Yves Larocque de Roquebrune | Michael Applebaum | |||||||||
| #32 Loyola | City councillor | Moshe Shaki | Stephen Laudi | David Oliver | Bruce Toombs | Jeremy Searle (Ind.) | Jeremy Searle | |||||||||
| #33 Décarie | City councillor | 5,241 | Sonya Biddle 1,737 (33.14%) | Michèle Ciampini 1,274 (24.31%) | Hubert Simart 561 (10.70%) | Sam Boskey 1,669 (31.85%) | Sam Boskey | |||||||||
| #34 Émard | City councillor | Benoît Forté | Pierre Paquin | Robert Dobie | Pascal Dussault | Christopher B. Gray | Daniel Tremblay (Ind.) | Robert Gagnon | ||||||||
| #35 Saint-Paul | City councillor | Nicole Caron Gagnon | Louis Machabée | Philippe Bissonnette | Caroline Boudreau | Philippe Bissonnette | ||||||||||
| #36 Saint-Pierre | City councillor | 4,486 | Line Hamel 1,757 (39.17%) | Germain Prégent 2,016 (44.94%) | Maria-Ines Osses 456 (10.16%) | Jo Lechay 257 (5.73%) | Germain Prégent | |||||||||
| #37 Pointe-Saint-Charles | City councillor | Olga Lebron | Claude Rivard | Dominique Ollivier | Marcel Sévigny (Ind.) | Marcel Sévigny | ||||||||||
| #38 Saint-Jacques | City councillor | 6,068 | Luc Belhomme 795 (13.10%) | Diane Cormier 1,826 (30.09%) | Serge Lareault 934 (15.39%) | Sammy Forcillo 2,298 (37.87%) | Robert Saint-Louis 91 (1.50%) | Alain Deschambault (M2000) 124 (2.04%) | Sammy Forcillo | |||||||
| #39 Sainte-Marie | City councillor | Alain Vaillancourt | Serge Lajeunesse | Francine Boudreault | Martin Lemay | Alain Tremblay | Martin Lemay | |||||||||
| #40 Hochelaga | City councillor | 4,374 | Marc Lamarche 655 (14.97%) | Luc Larivée 1,879 (42.96%) | Danielle Brazeau 1,122 (25.65%) | Jacques Beaudoin 610 (13.95%) | Clément Bouchard 108 (2.47%) | Luc Larivée | ||||||||
| #41 Maisonneuve | City councillor | 4,597 | Jacynthe Simard 719 (15.64%) | Richer Dompierre 2,179 (47.40%) | Jean Baribeau 1,047 (22.78%) | Jean Vianney Jutras 652 (14.18%) | Nathalie Malépart | |||||||||
| #42 Pierre-de-Coubertin | City councillor | 6,033 | Roland Carrier 991 (16.43%) | Benoît Parent 2,737 (45.37%) | Harry Etienne 1,351 (22.39%) | Sylvie Trudel 954 (15.81%) | Benoît Parent | |||||||||
| #43 Louis-Riel | City councillor | 7,537 | Daniel Thérien 790 (10.48%) | Jacques Charbonneau 4,077 (54.09%) | Bernard Lauzon 1,890 (25.08%) | Nathalie Langlois 698 (9.26%) | David Bédard (M2000) 82 (1.09%) | Jacques Charbonneau | ||||||||
| #44 Longue-Pointe | City councillor | 6,119 | Nicole Boudreau 975 (15.93%) | Claire St-Arnaud 2,446 (39.97%) | Martin Dumont 2,177 (35.58%) | Jean-Jacques Viger 521 (8.51%) | Claire St-Arnaud | |||||||||
| #45 Honoré-Beaugrand | City councillor | 6,583 | Patrice Lorrain-Chenu 943 (14.32%) | Ivon Le Duc 3,090 (46.94%) | André Pothier 1,822 (27.68%) | Pierre Lizotte 728 (11.06%) | Ivon Le Duc | |||||||||
| #46 Tétreauville | City councillor | 6,602 | Danielle Biron 906 (13.72%) | Jean-Guy Deschamps 3,605 (54.60%) | Jacques Gendron 1,511 (22.89%) | Arthur Prince 580 (8.79%) | Jean-Guy Deschamps | |||||||||
| #47 Marc-Aurèle-Fortin | City councillor | Giovanni De Michele | Joe Magri | Jack Thierry Morency | Michel Rainville (M2000) | Giovanni De Michele | ||||||||||
| #48 Rivière-des-Prairies | City councillor | Aimé Charron | John De Luca | Léopold Ste-Marie | Raymond Dubé (M2000) | Aimé Charron | ||||||||||
| #49 Pointe-aux-Trembles | City councillor | Ghislaine Boisvert | Marius Minier | Marie Lebeau | Ginette Beaudry | Alexandre Preneveau (Ind.) | Marie Lebeau | |||||||||
| #50 La Rousselière | City councillor | Linda Berthelot | Colette Paul | Johanne Chayer | Jacques Savard | Colette Paul | ||||||||||
| #51 Bout-de-l'Île | City councillor | Pierre Morand | Michel Plante | Ginette Houlé | Réal Lefebvre | Johanne Lorrain | ||||||||||
Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.
| Electoral District | Position | Total valid votes | Candidates | Incumbent | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Second place | ||||
| Mayor | 4,431 | Peter Yeomans 3,602 (81.29%) | Jan Eisenhardt 829 (18.71%) | 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: "West Island mayors returned," Montreal Gazette, November 2, 1998, A19.
| Electoral District | Position | Total valid votes | Candidates | Incumbent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renouveau municipal | ||||
| Mayor | - | Yves Ryan (acclaimed) | Yves Ryan | |
| District 1 | Councillor | Antonin Dupont (elected) | Antonin Dupont | |
| District 2 | Councillor | Michelle Allaire (elected) | Michelle Allaire | |
| District 3 | Councillor | Raymond Paquin (elected) | Raymond Paquin | |
| District 4 | Councillor | Georgette Morin (elected) | Georgette Morin | |
| District 5 | Councillor | Jean-Marc Gibeau (elected) | Jean-Marc Gibeau [1] | |
| District 6 | Councillor | Normand Fortin (elected) | Normand Fortin | |
| District 7 | Councillor | René Brabant | ||
| District 8 | Councillor | James Infantino (elected) | James Infantino | |
| District 9 | Councillor | Robert Guerriero (elected) | Robert Guerriero | |
| District 10 | Councillor | Andre Coulombe (elected) | Andre Coulombe |
Sources: [2]
| 1998 Saint-Leonard municipal election : Councillor, Ward Two | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Parti Municipal | (x)Mario Battista | accl. | ||||||
| Source: Irwin Block, "Second acclamation in a row for Zampino," Montreal Gazette, 15 October 1998, A6. | ||||||||
| 1998 Saint-Leonard municipal election : Councillor, Ward Three | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Parti Municipal | (x)Italo Barone | accl. | ||||||
| Source: Irwin Block, "Second acclamation in a row for Zampino," Montreal Gazette, 15 October 1998, A6. | ||||||||
| 1998 Saint-Leonard municipal election : Councillor, Ward Four | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Parti Municipal | (x)Domenico Moschella | accl. | ||||||
| Source: Irwin Block, "Second acclamation in a row for Zampino," Montreal Gazette, 15 October 1998, A6. | ||||||||
| 1998 Saint-Leonard municipal election : Councillor, Ward Six | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Parti Municipal | (x)Dominic Perri | accl. | ||||||
| Source: Irwin Block, "Second acclamation in a row for Zampino," Montreal Gazette, 15 October 1998, A6. | ||||||||
| 1998 Saint-Leonard municipal election : Councillor, Ward Seven | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Parti Municipal | (x)Yvette Bissonnet | accl. | ||||||
| Source: Irwin Block, "Second acclamation in a row for Zampino," Montreal Gazette, 15 October 1998, A6. | ||||||||
| 1998 Saint-Leonard municipal election : Councillor, Ward Eight | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Parti Municipal | (x)Vincenzo Arciresi | accl. | ||||||
| Source: Irwin Block, "Second acclamation in a row for Zampino," Montreal Gazette, 15 October 1998, A6. | ||||||||
| 1998 Saint-Leonard municipal election : Councillor, Ward Ten | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Parti municipal | (x)Robert Zambito | accl. | ||||||
| Source: Irwin Block, "Second acclamation in a row for Zampino," Montreal Gazette, 15 October 1998, A6. | ||||||||
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