The 2005 Laval municipal election took place on November 6, 2005, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Laval, Quebec.
Laval is a Canadian city in southwestern Quebec, north of Montreal. It forms its own administrative region of Quebec. It is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third largest municipality in the province of Quebec, and the thirteenth largest city in Canada with a population of 422,993 in 2016.
Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada.
Gilles Vaillancourt was elected to a fifth term as mayor, and his municipal party won every seat on city council. No other parties contested the election.
Gilles Vaillancourt is a former Canadian politician. He served as the mayor of Laval, Quebec, from June 8, 1989 until November 9, 2012, when he was charged, and ultimately found guilty, with corruption and fraud. During this time Vaillancourt was also the leader of the Parti PRO des Lavallois.
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Gilles Vaillancourt | 58,804 | 74.61 | |
Independent | Audrey Boisvert | 12,613 | 16.00 | |
Independent | Emilio Migliozzi | 3,928 | 4.98 | |
Independent | Régent Millette | 3,474 | 4.41 | |
Total valid votes | 78,819 | 100 |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Jacques St-Jean | 2,939 | 73.60 | |
Independent | Christian Lajoie | 548 | 13.72 | |
Independent | Franklin Valois | 506 | 12.67 | |
Total valid votes | 3,993 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Sylvie Clermont | accl. |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Madeleine Sollazzo | 2,884 | 70.05 | |
Independent | Tino Rossi | 1,233 | 29.95 | |
Total valid votes | 4,117 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | Michèle Des Trois Maisons | 2,466 | 58.16 | |
Independent | François Bordeleau | 1,480 | 34.91 | |
Independent | Robert Allard | 294 | 6.93 | |
Total valid votes | 4,240 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Francine Légaré | 2,536 | 71.52 | |
Independent | Alain Bordeleau | 776 | 21.88 | |
Independent | Carmen Beauséjour | 234 | 6.60 | |
Total valid votes | 3,546 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Jean-Jacques Lapierre | accl. |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Benoit Fradet | accl. |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Norman Girard | accl. |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Yvon Martineau | accl. |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Lucie Hill Larocque | 2,789 | 72.40 | |
Independent | Alexandre Foisy | 1,063 | 27.60 | |
Total valid votes | 3,852 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | Ginette Grisé | 2,153 | 61.90 | |
Independent | Robert Bordeleau | 1,247 | 35.85 | |
Independent | Jacquelin Mainville | 78 | 2.24 | |
Total valid votes | 3,478 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Jocelyne Guertin | 3,526 | 83.34 | |
Independent | Louis Bordeleau | 705 | 16.66 | |
Total valid votes | 4,231 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Ginette Legault Bernier | accl. |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Basile Angelopoulos | 3,590 | 89.93 | |
Independent | Gopal Arora | 247 | 6.19 | |
Independent | Samira Tasli | 155 | 3.88 | |
Total valid votes | 3,992 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | Alexandre Duplessis | accl. |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Pierre Cléroux | 3,155 | 77.96 | |
Independent | Sylvain A. Trottier | 892 | 22.04 | |
Total valid votes | 4,047 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Jean-Jacques Beldié | accl. |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Robert Plante | accl. |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Yvon Bromley | 2,621 | 75.86 | |
Independent | Kevin Christo Lefebvre | 834 | 24.14 | |
Total valid votes | 3,455 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)André Boileau | 3,659 | 76.21 | |
Independent | Daniel Lafrenière | 1,142 | 23.79 | |
Total valid votes | 4,801 | 100.00 |
Party | Candidate | Total votes | % of total votes | |
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Parti PRO des Lavallois | (x)Denis Robillard | 3,267 | 74.47 | |
Mouvement lavallois | Yvon Montplaisir | 1,120 | 25.53 | |
Total valid votes | 4,387 | 100.00 |
Source: ÉLECTION MUNICIPALE DU 6 NOVEMBRE 2005, City of Laval.
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