Close results in the city election

Quoting Steve Faguy here, who’s just tweeted the link to the full preliminary election results (PDF) and made the following notes:

Final margins of victory, pending any recount requests:

  • Outremont mayor (Laurent Desbois, EM): 23
  • CDN-NDG mayor (Gracia Kasoki Katahwa, PM): 212
  • Pointe-aux-Prairies city councillor (Lisa Christensen, PM): 13
  • Ste-Geneviève city councillor (Suzanne Marceau, EM): 41

There is now a four-day period during which people can request recounts. Otherwise the winning candidates will be declared elected. Unless recounts change the results, Montreal’s next city council will have 34 or 35 women, depending on whether Denis Coderre takes running mate Chantal Rossi’s seat in Montreal North. That’s a majority of the 65 councillors.

Coderre pretty much already said he wasn’t interested in sitting in council if he’s not the mayor, but either way, he’ll have to decide soon.