Laval municipal election, 2009

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The 2009 Laval municipal election took place on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Laval, Quebec.

Laval, Quebec City and Administrative region in Quebec, Canada

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 Province of Canada

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 sixth term as mayor, and his municipal party won every seat on city council.

Gilles Vaillancourt Canadian mayor

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.

Results

2009 Laval municipal election, Mayor of Laval edit
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Gilles Vaillancourt 60,045 61.29
Mouvement lavallois Lydia Aboulian 22,179 22.64
Parti au service du citoyen Robert Bordeleau 14,577 14.88
Independent Régent Millette 682 0.70
Independent Rick Blatter 482 0.49
Total valid votes 97,965 100
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District One
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Jacques St-Jean 3,132 65.87
Mouvement lavallois Danielle Guillaume 822 17.29
Parti au service du citoyen Vladimir Létang 535 11.25
Independent Christian Lajoie 176 3.70
Independent Franklin Valois 90 1.89
Total valid votes4,755100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Two
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Sylvie Clermont 3,494 75.12
Mouvement lavallois Alain Boucher 1,157 24.88
Total valid votes4,651100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Three
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Madeleine Sollazzo 2,806 62.65
Mouvement lavallois Tristan Desjardins Drouin 1,673 37.35
Total valid votes4,479100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Four
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Michèle Des Trois Maisons 2,972 65.26
Mouvement lavallois Benoit Fauteux 1,582 34.74
Total valid votes4,554100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Five
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Francine Légaré 2,532 66.58
Parti au service du citoyen Thérèse Duarte 647 17.01
Mouvement lavallois Jocelyne Frédéric-Gauthier 624 16.41
Total valid votes3,803100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Six
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois Claire Le Bel 2,387 58.04
Parti au service du citoyen Anne Renaud-Deschênes 871 21.18
Mouvement lavallois Sophie Deslauriers 855 20.79
Total valid votes4,113100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Seven
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Benoit Fradet 3,159 71.91
Parti au service du citoyen Jose Onofre 727 16.55
Mouvement lavallois Antonio Spada 507 11.54
Total valid votes4,393100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Eight
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Norman Girard 3,267 64.20
Parti au service du citoyen Danielle Soucy 1,186 23.31
Mouvement lavallois Walter Peruz 636 12.50
Total valid votes5,089100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Nine
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Yvon Martineau 2,554 47.24
Mouvement lavallois David Decotis 2,226 41.18
Parti au service du citoyen Tanya Onofre 626 11.58
Total valid votes5,406100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Ten
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Lucie Hill Larocque 3,294 59.90
Mouvement lavallois Alexandre Foisy 1,550 28.19
Parti au service du citoyen Eve Thibault 655 11.91
Total valid votes5,499100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Eleven
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Ginette Grisé 2,799 62.62
Parti au service du citoyen Lucile Martin Bordeleau 929 20.78
Mouvement lavallois Claude Théberge 742 16.60
Total valid votes4,470100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Twelve
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Jocelyne Guertin 3,961 78.79
Mouvement lavallois Virginie Dufour 649 12.91
Parti au service du citoyen Patricia Sepulveda 417 8.30
Total valid votes5,027100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Thirteen
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Ginette Legault Bernier 3,048 74.43
Mouvement lavallois Nikki Petropoulos 1,047 25.57
Total valid votes4,095100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Fourteen
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Basile Angelopoulos 3,335 84.88
Parti au service du citoyen Noémia Onofre De Lima 326 8.30
Mouvement lavallois Karla Osorio 268 6.82
Total valid votes3,929100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Fifteen
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x) Alexandre Duplessis 2,322 58.61
Independent Manuel Botelho 1,640 41.39
Total valid votes3,962100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Sixteen
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Pierre Cléroux 2,807 61.95
Mouvement lavallois Jean Habel 863 19.05
Parti au service du citoyen Anita De Lima 861 19.00
Total valid votes4,531100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Seventeen
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Jean-Jacques Beldié 2,365 52.50
Mouvement lavallois Isabelle Piché 1,737 38.56
Parti au service du citoyen Rezak Belaid 403 8.95
Total valid votes4,505100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Eighteen
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois France Dubreuil 2,956 66.17
Mouvement lavallois Emilio Migliozzi 1,511 33.83
Total valid votes4,467100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Nineteen
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Yvon Bromley 2,734 61.97
Parti au service du citoyen Kevin Christo Lefebvre 940 21.31
Mouvement lavallois James Lee Bissi 738 16.73
Total valid votes4,412100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Twenty
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois Martine Beaugrand 3,027 54.37
Parti au service du citoyen Sophie Hébert 1,509 27.11
Mouvement lavallois Isabelle Chumpitaz 1,031 18.52
Total valid votes5,567100.00
2009 Laval election, Councillor, District Twenty-One
Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes
Parti PRO des Lavallois (x)Denis Robillard 3,196 57.51
Mouvement lavallois Jean-François Paquet 2,361 42.49
Total valid votes5,557100.00

Source: Résultants 2009; Élections municipales 2009; Affairs municipales, Régions et Occupation du territoire, Government of Quebec.

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