Potton municipal election, 2001

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The 2001 Potton municipal election took place on November 4, 2001, to elect a mayor and councillors in Potton, Quebec.

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

Potton is a township municipality of about 1,850 people in the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality. It is located on the western shore of Lake Memphremagog in the Estrie region of Quebec, and is one of the municipalities in Brome County. Potton is located about 125 kilometres (78 mi) southeast of Montreal, 30 kilometres (19 mi) to the southwest of the city of Magog, and next to the United States border, north of North Troy, Vermont.

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.

Results

2001 Potton municipal election, Mayor of Potton edit
Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Claude Laplume	625	69.60
(x)André Marcoux	273	30.40
Total valid votes	898	100.00

André Marcoux was the mayor of Potton from 1977 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 2001. He lost to his cousin Jacques Marcoux in the 1989 municipal election, but regained the mayoralty four years later.^[1] In 2000, he promoted a plan for a new community centre that he said could be accomplished with assistance from the federal and provincial governments and without a tax increase.^[2] The federal and provincial governments declined to fund the centre in 2002, following Marcoux's defeat.^[3] He is not to be confused with another André Marcoux who has served as mayor of Donnacona.

Donnacona, Quebec City in Quebec, Canada

Donnacona is an industrial town located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of Quebec City in Portneuf County, Quebec, Canada.

**2001 Potton election**, Councillor, Seat One
Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Lorna Aiken-Lamothe	526	59.10
Ross Taylor	281	31.57
Damien Pouliot	83	9.33
Total valid votes	890	100.00

**2001 Potton election**, Councillor, Seat Two
Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Barbara Koch	457	51.46
(x)Ernest Tomuschat	248	27.93
John Lutzman	183	20.61
Total valid votes	888	100.00

2001 Potton municipal election, Councillor, Seat Three edit
Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Louis Veillon	526	59.57
Heather Keith-Ryan	357	40.43
Total Valid Votes	883	100

**2001 Potton election**, Councillor, Seat Four
Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Edward Mierzwinski	561	63.61
Debra Harding	321	36.39
Total valid votes	882	100.00

**2001 Potton election**, Councillor, Seat Five
Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Marcel Turner	634	71.40
(x)Pierre Pouliot	254	28.60
Total valid votes	888	100.00

**2001 Potton election**, Councillor, Seat Six
Candidate	Total votes	% of total votes
Christian Rodrigue	accl.	.

Source: "Election 2001 Sherbrooke & Townships," Sherbrooke Record, 6 November 2001, p. 5.

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References

↑ Dany Jacques, "Jacques Marcoux sollicitera la mairie du Canton de Potton" Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine ., Le Reflect du Lac, 11 December 2008, accessed 25 February 2011.
↑ Murielle Parkes, "Residents rally around plans for community centre," Sherbrooke Record, 23 June 2000, p. 7.
↑ Kate Shingler, "No gov't money for Mansonville youth centre," Sherbrooke Record, 13 August 2002, p. 4.

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[1] Dany Jacques, "Jacques Marcoux sollicitera la mairie du Canton de Potton" Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine ., Le Reflect du Lac, 11 December 2008, accessed 25 February 2011.

[2] Murielle Parkes, "Residents rally around plans for community centre," Sherbrooke Record, 23 June 2000, p. 7.

[3] Kate Shingler, "No gov't money for Mansonville youth centre," Sherbrooke Record, 13 August 2002, p. 4.