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1994 Montreal municipal election

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51 seats in Montreal City Council 26 seats needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Pierre Bourque Jean Doré Party Vision Montreal Citizens' Movement Leader since 1994 1982 Last election pre-creation 42 seats, 59.20% Seats won 38 7 Seat change 38 35 Popular vote 135,678 91,907 Percentage 46.6% 31.5% Swing New 27.70%
Mayor before election Jean Doré Citizens' Movement Elected mayor Pierre Bourque Vision Montreal

The 1994 Montreal municipal election took place on November 6, 1994. Pierre Bourque was elected to his first term as mayor, defeating incumbent Jean Doré. Elections were also held in Montreal's suburban communities.

Results

Mayor

Council (incomplete)

Party colours do not indicate affiliation or resemblance to a provincial or a federal party.

Information on the candidates

Montreal Citizens' Movement

• Michel L'Allier (Ahuntsic), Donato Caivano (Saint-Michel), and Lise Brunet (François-Perrault) were first-time candidates.

Montrealers' Party

• Michel Bureau (Ahuntsic) was a first-time candidate.
• Antoinette Corrado (Jean-Rivard) was a first-time candidate. She later sought election to the English Montreal School Board in 2007 as an ally of commission chair Dominic Spiridigliozzi.

Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal

• Jean-Pierre Le Blanc (Ahuntsic) was a first-time candidate.
• Michele A. Benigno (Saint-Michel) fought for the closure of the Miron landfill in the 1994 election. She later sought election to the English Montreal School Board in 2003 and lost to Rocco Barbieri. Four years later, she ran as part of Barbieri's electoral alliance and was again defeated.
• Pietro Bozzo (Jean-Rivard) was a first-time candidate. He later served as executive director of the Yellow Door, an activist resource center.
• Mario Laquerre (François-Perrault) is a specialist in urban affairs. He studied possible uses for the abandoned Francon Quarry in north-end Montreal during the 1990s and, in the 1994 campaign, articulated his party's position that parts of the quarry could be converted to a giant urban campsite. Laquerre also co-ordinated a local residents group that opposed the Miron quarry landfill site, an active garbage dump located within the city limits. After the 1994 election, he served as president of the Front Commun Québécois pour une Gestion Écologique des Déchets (which sought to limit the shipment of garbage among Quebec's regions) and worked for the group RECYQ-QUÉBEC.

Independents

• Ghassan Saba (Ahuntsic) had previously been a Montreal Citizens' Movement candidate in the 1990 municipal election. A newspaper report from that election listed him as a thirty-eight-year-old investment counsellor.

Suburban results

Dorval

All members of the Dorval city council were re-elected without opposition.

Source: "Who's running where in Nov. 6 elections," Montreal Gazette, October 20, 1994, F2.

Montreal North

Source: "Voting Results: The Final Count," Montreal Gazette, November 8, 1994, A4.

Saint-Leonard

Information on candidates in suburban communities

Independents

• Joseph Mormina is a Montreal entrepreneur. He sought election to the Saint-Leonard city council in 1978 and 1982 as a candidate of the Équipe du renouveau de la cité de Saint-Léonard and was narrowly defeated both times. When his party fragmented in 1984, Mormina joined the Action civique de Saint-Léonard and supported Domenico Moschella's bid to become mayor of Saint-Leonard in a municipal by-election. Action civique later folded into Unité de Saint-Léonard, and Mormina ran unsuccessfully for the latter party in the 1986 municipal election. He ran as an independent in 1994.

Results in other Montreal-area communities

Longueuil

Parti municipal de Longueuil leader Claude Gladu was elected to his first term as mayor, succeeding Roger Ferland. The Parti municipal won fourteen seats on council, while former mayor Jacques Finet's Alliance de Longueuil won the remaining six.

Source: Le Parti municipal de Longueuil: "Roger Ferland, le gestionnaire", Société historique et culturelle du Marigot, accessed February 27, 2014.

References

1. Brenda Branswell, "Voter turnout key to school boards' future; Candidates hope people will show up at polls tomorrow," Montreal Gazette, November 3, 2007, A1.
2. Graeme Hamilton, "Broken promises; St. Michel residents filled with political skepticism, especially when it comes to the Miron garbage dump," Montreal Gazette, November 3, 1994, A4.
3. Brenda Branswell, "Voter turnout key to school boards' future; Candidates hope people will show up at polls tomorrow," Montreal Gazette, November 3, 2007, A1.
4. Susan Schwartz, "Celebrities create collection plates for Mazon; And community centre supporters show style," Montreal Gazette, December 12, 2011, A29.
5. Paul Wells, "Quarry would make good campsite: party; North-end pit to continue as snow dump," Montreal Gazette, September 24, 1994, p. 3.
6. Graeme Hamilton, "Broken promises; St. Michel residents filled with political skepticism, especially when it comes to the Miron garbage dump," Montreal Gazette, November 3, 1994, p. 4; Anne McIlroy, "Neighbors fed up with life on edge of the pit," Montreal Gazette, November 21, 1994, p. 3.
7. Lynn Moore, "Protesters want tougher garbage laws," Montreal Gazette, November 5, 1995, p. 3; Rita Legault, "Grant funds composting education program: Turning organic waste into compost is a simple and inexpensive process: Morency," Montreal Gazette, April 10, 2001, p. 3.
8. Paul Wells, "Prosperous Cartierville is having its problems; Region 1: Ahuntsic/Cartierville," Montreal Gazette, October 22, 1990, A8.
9. Mike King, "Battling 272 years of experience; Mayor and his team have been in power since 1963," Montreal Gazette, October 21, 1994, A4.
10. "Case delayed in suit against St. Leonard by ex-secretary," Montreal Gazette, May 22, 1986, p. 6. Raymond Renaud won the by-election and subsequently fired Mormina's wife, who worked a secretary in the mayor's office. She later charged Renaud with wrongful dismissal.
11. Mormina was thirty-eight years old during this election. "St. Leonard party unites defectors and former rivals," Montreal Gazette, October 9, 1986, p. 8.

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