2025 Quebec City municipal election

2025 Quebec City municipal election

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21 seats in the Quebec City Council 11 seats needed for a majority
QDA LQ Leader Bruno Marchand Claude Villeneuve Sam Hamad Party Québec forte et fière Québec d'abord Leadership Québec Leader's seat Vanier-Duberger Maizerets-Lairet Mayor Last election 7 10 New Party Current seats 11 5 3   RC TQ Leader Stéphane Lachance Jackie Smith Party Respect citoyens Transition Québec Leader's seat Val-Bélair Limoilou Last election New Party 1 Current seats 1 1
Map of Quebec City's districts
Incumbent Mayor Bruno Marchand

Municipal elections will be held in Quebec City on November 2, 2025, the same day as elections in Montreal and other municipalities in the province.

Background

Political changes in the city council seats between the beginning (above) and end (below) of the current council term

In the 2021 elections, mayoral candidates Bruno Marchand and Marie-Josée Savard were neck-and-neck, separated by only 739 votes. ^[1] Although Marchand was elected mayor, his party Québec forte et fière only had a minority of seats on the city council. Four of the ten members of Marchand's first executive committee came from other parties. ^[2]

During the 2021-2025 city council term, several changes took place with the city council seats. Nine members of the 21 seat council changed parties during the term. More specifically, Marchand's Québec forte et fière went from 6 to 11 councilors and became the majority party in the council following the additions of David Weiser, ^[3] Steve Verret, ^[4] and Claude Lavoie ^[5] in 2022, with Bianca Dussault and Jean-François Gosselin joining the next year. ^{[6] [7]} These seat gains were at the expense of Québec d'abord (formerly Équipe Marie-Josée Savard ^[8] ), who went from 10 to 5 councilors, and Équipe Priorité Québec (formerly Québec 21) who went from 4 to 2 councilors, ^[9] before completely disappearing in August 2025. ^[10]

A new party, Leadership Québec was founded in April 2025. ^[11] It entered the council only a few months before the elections thanks to the addition of two councilors originally elected under Québec d'abord. ^[12] Leadership Québec absorbed what remained of Équipe Priorité Québec on August 13. ^[10]

Councilors who changed parties

Between the 2021 and 2025 elections, several councilors changed parties:

 Québec d'abord→ Québec forte et fière

• Claude Lavoie (Saint-Rodrigue)
• Steeve Verret (Lac-Saint-Charles–Saint-Émile)
• David Weiser (Le Plateau)

 Québec d'abord→ Leadership Québec

• Louis Martin (Cap-Rouge–Laurentien)
• Isabelle Roy (Robert-Giffard)

 Québec 21→ Indépendant→ Québec forte et fière

• Bianca Dussault (Val-Bélair)
• Jean-François Gosselin (Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux)

 Québec 21 → Indépendant → Équipe priorité Québec→ Leadership Québec

• Stevens Mélançon (Chute-Montmorency–Seigneurial)

 Québec 21 → Équipe priorité Québec→ Indépendant

• Éric Ralph Mercier (Les Monts) ^[13]

Mayoral candidates

On January 12, 2024, incumbent mayor Bruno Marchand (Québec forte et fière) announced he would seek a second term in office. ^[14] Council opposition leader Claude Villeneuve (Québec d'abord) announced his candidacy for mayor on January 22, 2025. ^[15] On March 10, Stéphane Lachance, former provincial candidate for the Parti conservateur du Québec, became leader of Respect Citoyens, a party founded in 2023. ^[16] After several months of speculation, Sam Hamad, former Member of the National Assembly for Louis-Hébert from 2003 to 2017, officially announced his candidacy on April 6 under the banner of Leadership Québec. ^[11] Incumbent councilor for Limoilou and leader of Transition Québec Jackie Smith followed with her own announcement on May 10. ^[17] Finally on June 11, former councilor Anne Guérette announced she would also be running for mayor. ^[18] Two independent candidates with low media visibility also announced their candidacy: Claudine Martineau and Yves Laberge, the latter a sociologist opposed to the tramway project and the third link between Quebec and Levis. ^[19]

Campaign

In June 2025, a poll revealed that 78% of the population was either very or somewhat interested in the election campaign. ^[20] Six political parties would be participating in this election, half of which were new. ^[21] All the parties presented candidates in all council districts, with the exception of Parti du monde which was only running in the mayoral seat. ^[22] In addition to the independent candidates, the election campaign began with 8 candidates for mayor and 115 candidates for city council. Of that, 50 were women and 73 were men. ^[23] One candidate in Montcalm—Saint-Sacrement withdrew from the race on October 7, denouncing a "toxic climate" on the campaign trail. ^[24]

The first debate came on October 2 between Bruno Marchand and Sam Hamad on BLVD 102.1. ^[25] This formula of "duels" between candidates was repeated by different media in the following days. ^{[26] [27]} A debate between the six party-affiliated candidadteas was organized by the Quebec City Chamber of Commerce at La salle Jean-Paul-Tardif on 7 October. ^{[28] [29]} A debate between five candidates was broadcast on Noovo on October 14. ^[30]

Mayoral election

2025 Quebec City municipal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Parti du monde	Anne Guérette
	Leadership Québec	Sam Hamad
	Independent	Yves Laberge
	Respect citoyens	Stéphane Lachance
	Québec forte et fière	Bruno Marchand
	Independent	Claudine Martineau
	Transition Québec	Jackie Smith
	Québec d'abord	Claude Villeneuve

City council elections

La Cité-Limoilou

District	Candidates												Incumbent
	Québec forte et fière		Québec d'abord		Leadership Québec		Respect citoyens		Transition Québec		Independent
Cap-aux-Diamants		Mélissa Coulombe-Leduc		Guy Boivin		Vicky Lépine		Arnaud Larue		Micha Horswill				Mélissa Coulombe-Leduc
Montcalm–Saint-Sacrement		Catherine Vallières-Roland		Félix Bouffard				Gabriel Richard-Brunet		Sandrine Hélie		Jean-François Arcand		Catherine Vallières-Roland
Saint-Roch–Saint-Sauveur		Elainie Lepage		Quentin Maridat		Pascale Houle		Mélanie Leroux		Marjorie Champagne		Patrick Kerr		Pierre-Luc Lachance
												Napoleon Woo
Limoilou		Raymond Poirier		Sébastien Morier		Véronique Thiboutot		Hippolyte Doua		Esperance Mfisimana Co-candidate for Jackie Smith		Julien Cardinal		Jackie Smith
Maizerets–Lairet		Marylou Boulianne		Hélène Guillemette Co-candidate for Claude Villeneuve		Eric Duguay		Kevin Caron		Martial Van Neste				Claude Villeneuve

Les Rivières

District	Candidates										Incumbent
	Québec forte et fière		Québec d'abord		Leadership Québec		Transition Québec		Respect citoyens
Vanier–Duberger		Clément Bourdeau Co-candidate for Bruno Marchand		Rosie-Anne Roussel Vallières		Hugo Langlois		Francis Fontaine		Eric Thiboutot		Alicia Despins
Neufchâtel–Lebourgneuf		Maxime Elmaleh		Alexandre Laforge		Emilie Robitaille		Lény Painchaud		Anik Lalancette		Patricia Boudreault-Bruyère
Les Saules–Les Méandres		Catherine Deschamps		Véronique Dallaire		Patrick Paquet		Pierre-Luc Faucher		Isabelle Dufour		Véronique Dallaire

Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge

District	Candidates												Incumbent
	Québec forte et fière		Québec d'abord		Leadership Québec		Transition Québec		Respect citoyens		Parti du monde
Saint-Louis–Sillery		Marianne White		André-Pier Bérubé		Jean-Stéphane Bernard		Raffaël Gilbert		François Labrecque				Maude Mercier Larouche
Le Plateau		Gabriel Dusablon		Moustapha Faye		Catherine Gagné		Félix L'Heureux-Bilodeau		Eugénie Tossea- Labonté				David Weiser
La Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy		Jean-Luc Lavoie		Fabio Tétu		Robert Fournier		Marie-Ève Martel		Éric Guay				Anne Corriveau
Cap-Rouge–Laurentien		Yannick Fauteux		Ana-Rose Paradis		Louis Martin		Andrée-Anne Tremblay		Philippe Moussette		Frédéric Imbeault Co-candidate for Anne Guérette		Louis Martin

Charlesbourg

District	Candidates										Incumbent
	Québec forte et fière		Québec d'abord		Leadership Québec		Transition Québec		Respect citoyens
Saint-Rodrigue		Claude Lavoie		David Audet		François Beaulé		Olivia Lavoie		Manès Webster		Claude Lavoie
Louis-XIV		Marie-Pierre Boucher		Pier-Luc St-Pierre Fortin		Donald Gagnon		Charles Lamont		Marie-Jo Bégin-Létourneau		Marie-Pierre Boucher
Les Monts		Raphaël Lebailly		Vincent Tremblay		Valérie Savard		Samuel Moisan-Domm		Éric Ralph Mercier		Éric Ralph Mercier

Beauport

District	Candidates												Incumbent
	Québec forte et fière		Québec d'abord		Leadership Québec		Transition Québec		Respect citoyens		Independent
Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux		Manouchka Blanchet		Doni Berberi		Justine Savard		Pier-Yves Champagne		Mélanie Sauvé		Patrice Fortin		Jean-François Gosselin
La Chute-Montmorency–Seigneurial		Elisa Verreault		Marie-Eve Leblond		Stevens Mélançon		Pedro-Natanaël Bordon-Richard		Joey Aubé		Mario Desjardins Pelchat		Stevens Mélançon
												Dominic Tremblay
Robert-Giffard		Éric Courtemanche Baril		Sébastien Bouchard-Théberge		Isabelle Roy		Camille Lambert-Deubelbeiss		Benoit Bourdeau				Isabelle Roy

La Haute-Saint-Charles

District	Candidates												Incumbent
	Québec forte et fière		Québec d'abord		Leadership Québec		Transition Québec		Respect citoyens		Independent
Lac-Saint-Charles–Saint-Émile		Konan Emma Amehoum		Sophie Gosselin		Jean Gagnon		Carl Gignac		Marc Roussin		Sophie Verret		Steeve Verret
Loretteville–Les Châtels		Marie-Josée Asselin		Sylvie Lefrançois		Jean Côté		Catherine Proulx		Anne-Laurence Harvey				Marie-Josée Asselin
Val-Bélair		Bianca Dussault		Kim Boyd		Mégy Gagné		Sarah Lesage		Pascal Morneau Co-candidate for Stéphane Lachance				Bianca Dussault

See also

• Quebec City Council

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