Ginette Marotte

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Ginette Marotte is politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She served on the Montreal city council from 2005 to 2013 and was mayor of the Verdun borough council from 2012 to 2013.

Borough councillor

Marotte was elected for the Champlain division on the Verdun borough council in the 2001 Montreal municipal election as a candidate of Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU). She served for a full four-year term. MICU held all of the borough council's five seats in this period, which coincided with Tremblay's first term as mayor.

City councillor and borough mayor

Marotte was elected to the Montreal city council in the 2005 municipal election for the Champlain–L'Île-des-Sœurs division. Tremblay was elected to a second term as mayor in this election, and MICU won a majority of seats on council; Marotte subsequently served as a backbench supporter of the administration. She also continued to serve on the Verdun borough council by virtue of holding her position on city council and was appointed to chair the borough's environment committee.^[1] In September 2009, she and borough mayor Claude Trudel introduced the first composter acquired by a municipal administration in Quebec.^[2]

Marotte was re-elected to city council as a member of the renamed Union Montreal party in the 2009 municipal election. She continued to serve as chair of the borough environment committee and also served on the city's committee on transport and environmental management.^[3]

Gerald Tremblay's administration became engulfed in a serious corruption scandal in late 2012, and Tremblay resigned as mayor on November 5, 2012. Marotte resigned from Union Montreal shortly thereafter to sit as an independent.^[4] Claude Trudel also resigned as borough mayor of Verdun in December 2012, and Marotte was chosen by the other council members as his replacement.^[5] She served in this position for a year and did not seek re-election in the 2013 municipal election.

During her second term on city council, Marotte served as associate councillor responsible for sustainable development, the environment, and parks,^[6] and for Mosaïcultures Internationales Montréal 2013.^[7]

Electoral record

v t e Quebec provincial by-election, December 5, 2016: Verdun
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Isabelle Melançon	5,116	35.61	-14.98
	Parti Québécois	Richard Langlais	3,900	27.15	+2.78
	Québec solidaire	Véronique Martineau	2,669	18.58	+8.93
	Coalition Avenir Québec	Ginette Marotte	1,829	12.73	+0.50
	Green	David Cox	615	4.28	+2.18
	Option nationale	Frédéric Dénommé	115	0.80	+0.33
	Conservative	David Girard	94	0.65	–
	Équipe Autonomiste	Sébastien Poirier	27	0.19	–
Total valid votes			14,365	100.00
Rejected and declined votes			138
Turnout			14,503	29.15	-41.54
Electors on the lists			49,758
	Liberal hold		Swing		-8.88
Source: Official Results (by-elections), Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

v t e 2009 Montreal municipal election : Councillor, Champlain–L'Île-des-Sœurs
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Union Montreal	Ginette Marotte	3,430	36.51	−19.18
	Vision Montreal	Catherine Chauvin	3,289	35.01	+8.44
	Projet Montréal	Alain Fredet	2,160	22.99	+16.19
	Montréal Ville-Marie	Denise Larouche	516	5.49
Total valid votes			9,395	100	–
Total rejected ballots			326	5.33	–
Turnout			9,721	39.49	–
Electors on the lists			24,618	–	–
Source: Election results, 2009, City of Montreal.

v t e 2005 Montreal municipal election : City Councillor, Champlain–L'Île-des-Sœurs
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Citizens Union	Ginette Marotte	4,176	55.69
	Vision Montreal	Daniel Beaudin	1,992	26.57
	Independent	Robert Filiatrault	695	9.27
	Projet Montréal	Guylaine Vignola	510	6.80
	Independent	François Desrochers	125	1.67
Total valid votes			7,498	100
Source: City of Montreal official results (in French), City of Montreal.

v t e 2001 Montreal municipal election : Verdun borough Councillor, Champlain
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Citizens Union	Ginette Marotte	5,026	49.29
	Vision Montreal	Robert Filiatrault	4,761	46.69
	Independent	Cook Gosselin	410	4.02
Total valid votes			10,197	100
Source: Election results, 1833–2005 (in French), City of Montreal.

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References

↑ "Starting October 20, "for a greener, cleaner Verdun" - New collection procedures for residual materials" [press release], Canada NewsWire, 25 August 2008.
↑ "Press Invitation - Verdun Borough to reveal first composter ever to be used by a Quebec municipality" [press release], Canada NewsWire, 19 September 2009; "'Zero waste' objective in the Borough's municipal buildings - Verdun becomes the first Montreal municipality with industrial composter" [press release], Canada NewsWire 21 September 2009.
↑ "Deux commissions se penchent sur l'etat de l'industrie du taxi a Montreal" [press release], Canada NewsWire, 28 October 2010.
↑ "Nouvelle demission de taille chez le parti Union Montreal: Marvin Rotrand quitte" [press release], La Presse Canadienne, 15 November 2012.
↑ Ren Bruemmer, "Disenchanted Verdun mayor Trudel quits the 'circus'; Resignation speech critical of Applebaum," Montreal Gazette, 4 December 2012, A3; Pierre Lussier, "Ginette Marotte, élue maire de Verdun" Archived 15 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine , Le Messager Verdun, 12 December 2012, accessed 12 December 2013. Marotte defeated Andrée Champoux by four votes to two among bureau council members.
↑ Borough Council: Madame Ginette Marotte, City of Montreal, accessed 13 December 2013.
↑ A larger-than-life program for the Mosaïcultures Internationales Montréal 2013 Archived 14 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine , Canada NewsWire, 12 June 2013, 11:08 am.

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[1] "Starting October 20, "for a greener, cleaner Verdun" - New collection procedures for residual materials" [press release], Canada NewsWire, 25 August 2008.

[2] "Press Invitation - Verdun Borough to reveal first composter ever to be used by a Quebec municipality" [press release], Canada NewsWire, 19 September 2009; "'Zero waste' objective in the Borough's municipal buildings - Verdun becomes the first Montreal municipality with industrial composter" [press release], Canada NewsWire 21 September 2009.

[3] "Deux commissions se penchent sur l'etat de l'industrie du taxi a Montreal" [press release], Canada NewsWire, 28 October 2010.

[4] "Nouvelle demission de taille chez le parti Union Montreal: Marvin Rotrand quitte" [press release], La Presse Canadienne, 15 November 2012.

[5] Ren Bruemmer, "Disenchanted Verdun mayor Trudel quits the 'circus'; Resignation speech critical of Applebaum," Montreal Gazette, 4 December 2012, A3; Pierre Lussier, "Ginette Marotte, élue maire de Verdun" Archived 15 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine , Le Messager Verdun, 12 December 2012, accessed 12 December 2013. Marotte defeated Andrée Champoux by four votes to two among bureau council members.

[6] Borough Council: Madame Ginette Marotte, City of Montreal, accessed 13 December 2013.

[7] A larger-than-life program for the Mosaïcultures Internationales Montréal 2013 Archived 14 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine , Canada NewsWire, 12 June 2013, 11:08 am.

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