2021 Gatineau municipal election

2021 Gatineau municipal election
	Mayoral election
Turnout	35.10% ( 3.42pp)
	Mayoral results by district
Mayor before election; Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin; Action Gatineau	Elected mayor ; France Bélisle; Independent
	City Council election
	19 seats in Gatineau City Council; 10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	35.12% ( 4.70pp)
	City Council winners by district

A municipal election was held in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada on November 7, 2021, in conjunction with the 2021 Quebec municipal elections held on the same day. Elections will be held for Mayor of Gatineau as well as for each of the 19 districts on Gatineau City Council.

Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin announced he would not be running for re-election.^[1]

City council will expand by one seat, with the creation of the Mitigomijokan District out of parts of the Plateau and Deschênes Districts.^[2]

Mayoral race

2021 Gatineau municipal election: Mayor
Party		Candidate	Popular vote			Expenditures
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Independent	France Bélisle	29,768	42.86	–	$81,079.89
	Action Gatineau	Maude Marquis-Bissonnette	26,151	37.65	-7.46	none listed
	Independent	Jean-François Leblanc	11,326	16.31	–	$71,309.44
	Independent	Jacques Lemay	1,077	1.55	–	$8,206.19
	Independent	Rémi Bergeron	727	1.05	–	$0.00
	Independent	Abdelhak Lekbabi	411	0.59	–	none listed
Total valid votes			69,460	99.25
Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes			524	0.75	-0.98
Turnout			69,984	35.11	-3.41
Eligible voters			199,302
Note: Candidate campaign colours, unless a member of a party, are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.) or colours used in polling graphs and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
Sources: Office of the City Clerk of Gatineau^[3] and Élections Québec^[4]

Opinion polls

Polling firm	Last date of polling	Link	Marquis-Bissonnette	Bélisle	Leblanc	Lemay	Bergeron	Ducharme	Nadeau	Don't know/ Wouldn't vote
SOM	February 11, 2021	HTML	7	10	3	N/A	N/A	12	8	52
Navigator	October 6, 2021	HTML	26	23	9	3	<1	N/A	N/A	38
CROP	October 16, 2021	HTML	22	12	6	3	1	N/A	N/A	53

Aylmer District

2021 Gatineau municipal election: Aylmer
Party		Candidate	Popular vote			Expenditures
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Independent	Steven Boivin	1,775	56.69	–	$4,970.80
	Action Gatineau	Julie Cool	1,356	43.31	+23.77	none listed
Total valid votes			3,131	98.46
Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes			49	1.54	+0.52
Turnout			3,180	30.09	-6.51
Eligible voters			10,570
Note: Candidate campaign colours, unless a member of a party, may be based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.) or colours used in polling graphs and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
Sources: Office of the City Clerk of Gatineau^[5] and Élections Québec^[6]

Lucerne District

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Gilles Chagnon (X)	2,641	67.39
	Action Gatineau	Laurent Lavallée	1,278	32.61

Deschênes District

	Candidate	Vote	%
Action Gatineau	Caroline Murray	1,808	54.92
Independent	Michel Raymond	1,239	37.64
Independent	Kevin Shannon	245	7.44

Plateau District

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Action Gatineau	Bettyna Belizaire	2,351	61.42
	Independent	Serge Tonlé	1,477	38.58

Mitigomijokan District

	Candidate	Vote	%
Action Gatineau	Anik Des Marais	1,376	40.40
Independent	André Pelletier	1,137	33.38
Independent	Bello Mansour	893	26.22

Manoir-des-Trembles-Val-Tétreau District

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Jocelyn Blondin (X)	2,013	55.30
	Action Gatineau	Darlène Lozis	1,627	44.70

Hull-Wright District

	Candidate	Vote	%
Action Gatineau	Steve Moran	1,203	48.57
Independent	René Coignaud	679	27.41
Independent	Jacques G. Lavoie	595	24.02

Parc-de-la-Montagne-Saint-Raymond District

	Candidate	Vote	%
Independent	Louise Boudrias (X)	2,360	69.37
Action Gatineau	Jordan Larochelle	797	23.43
Independent	Jérémie Carrier	245	7.20

Orée-du-Parc District

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Action Gatineau	Isabelle N. Miron (X)	2,540	61.95
	Independent	Jacques Lacasse	1,560	38.05

Limbour District

	Candidate	Vote	%
Action Gatineau	Louis Sabourin	2,102	41.88
Independent	Dérik Maltais	1,839	36.64
Independent	Nicole Champagne	1,078	21.48

Touraine District

	Candidate	Vote	%
Action Gatineau	Tiffany-Lee Norris Parent	1,289	38.43
Independent	Jean-Manuel Bock	1,098	32.74
Independent	Jean-Pierre Leroux	967	28.83

Pointe-Gatineau District

	Candidate	Vote	%
Independent	Mike Duggan (X)	1,444	51.81
Action Gatineau	Myriam Gilbert	1,099	39.43
Independent	Leon Kambi Bushiri	244	8.75

Carrefour-de-l'Hôpital District

	Candidate	Vote	%
Independent	Olive Kamanyana	1,923	52.43
Action Gatineau	Clément Bélanger	901	24.56
Independent	Frédérick Castonguay	506	13.79
Independent	Alexandre Bouchard	338	9.21

Versant District

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Daniel Champagne (X)	2,842	72.30
	Action Gatineau	Luc Bégin	1,089	27.70

Bellevue District

	Candidate	Vote	%
Action Gatineau	Alicia Brunet-Lacasse	1,732	41.78
Independent	Paul Cloutier	883	21.30
Independent	Michel Payette	881	21.25
Independent	Serge Charette	650	15.68

Lac-Beauchamp District

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Denis Girouard	1,725	56.76
	Action Gatineau	Marie-Nicole Groulx	1,314	43.24

Rivière-Blanche District

Party		Candidate	Vote	%
	Independent	Jean Lessard (X)	2,833	73.36
	Action Gatineau	Tanya Desforges	1,029	26.64

Masson-Angers District

	Candidate	Vote	%
Independent	Mario Aubé	2,295	60.49
Independent	Sylvain Tremblay	626	16.50
Action Gatineau	Alain Bergeron	547	14.42
Independent	Martin Emond	326	8.59

Buckingham District

	Candidate	Vote	%
Independent	Edmond Leclerc	2,248	57.52
Action Gatineau	Martin Lajeunesse (X)	1,158	29.63
Independent	Michel Roy	502	12.85

Notes

^ The Mayor is a member of City Council, but for the purposes of documentation is treated as their own individual.

References

^ "Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin quitte avec le sentiment du devoir accompli" (in French). Retrieved October 12, 2021.
^ ""Mitigomijokan", le nouveau district électoral à Gatineau" (in French). Retrieved October 12, 2021.
^ "2021 municipal election – Results". City of Gatineau. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
^ "Summary of election expenses - Municipal". Élections Québec. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
^ "Élection du 7 novembre 2021 — Résultat du recensement des votes" (PDF) (in Canadian French). City of Gatineau. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
^ "Summary of election expenses - Municipal". Élections Québec. Retrieved April 2, 2024.

External links

Candidates

[1] The Mayor is a member of City Council, but for the purposes of documentation is treated as their own individual.

[2] "Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin quitte avec le sentiment du devoir accompli" (in French). Retrieved October 12, 2021.

[3] ""Mitigomijokan", le nouveau district électoral à Gatineau" (in French). Retrieved October 12, 2021.

[4] "2021 municipal election – Results". City of Gatineau. Retrieved February 26, 2024.

[5] "Summary of election expenses - Municipal". Élections Québec. Retrieved February 26, 2024.

[6] "Élection du 7 novembre 2021 — Résultat du recensement des votes" (PDF) (in Canadian French). City of Gatineau. Retrieved April 2, 2024.

[7] "Summary of election expenses - Municipal". Élections Québec. Retrieved April 2, 2024.

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