2021 Gatineau municipal election

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2021 Gatineau municipal election
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Mayoral election
←  2017 November 7, 2021 2024 (by-election)  →
Turnout35.10% (Decrease2.svg 3.42pp)
  France Belisle.jpg Maude Marquis-Bissonnette.jpg JL
Nominee France Bélisle Maude Marquis-Bissonnette Jean-François Leblanc
Party Independent Action Gatineau Independent
Popular vote29,73426,15911,330
Percentage42.83%37.68%16.32%
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Mayoral results by district
Mayor before election

Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin
Action Gatineau

Elected Mayor

France Bélisle
Independent

City Council election
←  2017 November 7, 2021 2025  →
19 seats in Gatineau City Council [lower-alpha 1]
10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout35.12% (Increase2.svg 4.70pp)
PartyLeader%Seats+/–
Independent –61.29110
AG Maude Marquis-Bissonnette 38.718+1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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City Council winners by district

A municipal election was held in Gatineau , Quebec, Canada on November 7, 2021, in conjunction with the 2021 Quebec municipal elections held on the same day. Elections will be held for Mayor of Gatineau as well as for each of the 19 districts on Gatineau City Council.

Contents

Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin announced he would not be running for re-election. [1]

City council will expand by one seat, with the creation of the Mitigomijokan District out of parts of the Plateau and Deschênes Districts. [2]

Mayoral race

2021 Gatineau municipal election: Mayor
PartyCandidatePopular voteExpenditures
Votes %±%
Independent France Bélisle 29,76842.86–$81,079.89
Action Gatineau Maude Marquis-Bissonnette 26,15137.65-7.46none listed
Independent Jean-François Leblanc11,32616.31–$71,309.44
Independent Jacques Lemay1,0771.55–$8,206.19
Independent Rémi Bergeron7271.05–$0.00
Independent Abdelhak Lekbabi4110.59–none listed
Total valid votes69,46099.25
Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes5240.75-0.98
Turnout69,98435.11-3.41
Eligible voters199,302
Note: Candidate campaign colours, unless a member of a party, are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items
(signs, literature, etc.) or colours used in polling graphs and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
Sources: Office of the City Clerk of Gatineau [3] and Élections Québec [4]

Opinion polls

Polling firmLast date of pollingLinkMarquis-BissonnetteBélisleLeblancLemayBergeron Ducharme NadeauDon't know/
Wouldn't vote
SOMFebruary 11, 2021 HTML 7103N/AN/A12852
NavigatorOctober 6, 2021 HTML 262393<1N/AN/A38
CROPOctober 16, 2021 HTML 2212631N/AN/A53

Aylmer District

2021 Gatineau municipal election: Aylmer
PartyCandidatePopular voteExpenditures
Votes %±%
Independent Steven Boivin1,77556.69–$4,970.80
Action Gatineau Julie Cool1,35643.31+23.77none listed
Total valid votes3,13198.46
Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes491.54+0.52
Turnout3,18030.09-6.51
Eligible voters10,570
Note: Candidate campaign colours, unless a member of a party, may be based on the prominent colour used in campaign items
(signs, literature, etc.) or colours used in polling graphs and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
Sources: Office of the City Clerk of Gatineau [5] and Élections Québec [6]

Lucerne District

PartyCandidateVote %
 IndependentGilles Chagnon (X)2,64167.39
 Action GatineauLaurent Lavallée1,27832.61

Deschênes District

PartyCandidateVote %
 Action GatineauCaroline Murray1,80854.92
 IndependentMichel Raymond1,23937.64
 IndependentKevin Shannon2457.44

Plateau District

PartyCandidateVote %
 Action GatineauBettyna Belizaire2,35161.42
 IndependentSerge Tonlé1,47738.58

Mitigomijokan District

PartyCandidateVote %
 Action GatineauAnik Des Marais1,37640.40
 IndependentAndré Pelletier1,13733.38
 IndependentBello Mansour89326.22

Manoir-des-Trembles-Val-Tétreau District

PartyCandidateVote %
 IndependentJocelyn Blondin (X)2,01355.30
 Action GatineauDarlène Lozis1,62744.70

Hull-Wright District

PartyCandidateVote %
 Action GatineauSteve Moran1,20348.57
 IndependentRené Coignaud67927.41
 IndependentJacques G. Lavoie59524.02

Parc-de-la-Montagne-Saint-Raymond District

PartyCandidateVote %
 IndependentLouise Boudrias (X)2,36069.37
 Action GatineauJordan Larochelle79723.43
 IndependentJérémie Carrier2457.20

Orée-du-Parc District

PartyCandidateVote %
 Action GatineauIsabelle N. Miron (X)2,54061.95
 IndependentJacques Lacasse1,56038.05

Limbour District

PartyCandidateVote %
 Action GatineauLouis Sabourin2,10241.88
 IndependentDérik Maltais1,83936.64
 IndependentNicole Champagne1,07821.48

Touraine District

PartyCandidateVote %
 Action GatineauTiffany-Lee Norris Parent1,28938.43
 IndependentJean-Manuel Bock1,09832.74
 IndependentJean-Pierre Leroux96728.83

Pointe-Gatineau District

PartyCandidateVote %
 IndependentMike Duggan (X)1,44451.81
 Action GatineauMyriam Gilbert1,09939.43
 IndependentLeon Kambi Bushiri2448.75

Carrefour-de-l'Hôpital District

PartyCandidateVote %
 IndependentOlive Kamanyana1,92352.43
 Action GatineauClément Bélanger90124.56
 IndependentFrédérick Castonguay50613.79
 IndependentAlexandre Bouchard3389.21

Versant District

PartyCandidateVote %
 IndependentDaniel Champagne (X)2,84272.30
 Action GatineauLuc Bégin1,08927.70

Bellevue District

PartyCandidateVote %
 Action GatineauAlicia Brunet-Lacasse1,73241.78
 IndependentPaul Cloutier88321.30
 IndependentMichel Payette88121.25
 IndependentSerge Charette65015.68

Lac-Beauchamp District

PartyCandidateVote %
 IndependentDenis Girouard1,72556.76
 Action GatineauMarie-Nicole Groulx1,31443.24

Rivière-Blanche District

PartyCandidateVote %
 IndependentJean Lessard (X)2,83373.36
 Action GatineauTanya Desforges1,02926.64

Masson-Angers District

PartyCandidateVote %
 IndependentMario Aubé2,29560.49
 IndependentSylvain Tremblay62616.50
 Action GatineauAlain Bergeron54714.42
 IndependentMartin Emond3268.59

Buckingham District

PartyCandidateVote %
 IndependentEdmond Leclerc2,24857.52
 Action GatineauMartin Lajeunesse (X)1,15829.63
 IndependentMichel Roy50212.85

Notes

  1. ↑ The Mayor is a member of City Council, but for the purposes of documentation is treated as their own individual.

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References

  1. ↑ "Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin quitte avec le sentiment du devoir accompli" (in French). Retrieved October 12, 2021.
  2. ↑ ""Mitigomijokan", le nouveau district électoral à Gatineau" (in French). Retrieved October 12, 2021.
  3. ↑ "2021 municipal election – Results". City of Gatineau. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Summary of election expenses - Municipal". Élections Québec . Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  5. ↑ "Élection du 7 novembre 2021 — Résultat du recensement des votes" (PDF) (in Canadian French). City of Gatineau. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Summary of election expenses - Municipal". Élections Québec . Retrieved April 2, 2024.
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