CDN-NDG is neck and neck
Although media initially called it that Côte-des-Neiges-NDG had gone to Lionel Perez, at 11 a.m. Monday Radio-Canada is giving the green check mark to Gracia Kasoki Katahwa, although the count is now at 37.4% to 37.3% (11,889 votes to 11,846), a real nail-biter. 298 of 299 polls in.
Outremont is final, but with a count of 4,151 to 4,128 for the Ensemble candidate, probably a recount there as well.
RDP-PAT was close, but Projet’s Caroline Bourgeois is now ahead of the Ensemble candidate by nearly 500 votes, not quite final. (Update: Final tally gives Bourgeois a 306-vote lead over Ensemble’s Lyne Laperrière.)
On thinking about the results: CDN-NDG and VSMPE both had Projet women mayors last time, who fell out with Projet over issues with the borough hall people. Now both boroughs have women mayors again – let’s hope for less drama this time around.
DeWolf 12:22 on 2021-11-08 Permalink
Katahwa currently has a lead of 43 votes. I can’t see Perez letting this go without a recount. Personally, I can’t decide whether I’ll be happier to see him gone, or happier to see him struggle in office, given that his brand of politics is to complain about everything without offering any solutions.
Outremont is another close one. Philipe Tomlinson (the Projet incumbent) is trailing Laurent Desbois (upstart Coderre guy) by only 23 votes. All polls are counted but I can’t see how that wouldn’t result in a recount, especially given that there were 299 rejected ballots.
Mark Côté 12:57 on 2021-11-08 Permalink
Final count has Katahwa winning by 83 votes.
Kate 13:04 on 2021-11-08 Permalink
Good! That borough needs new faces. That it’s a woman of colour is a plus.
But there’s no way Perez isn’t going to challenge this.
Mark Côté 17:57 on 2021-11-08 Permalink
Katahwa’s lead has since grown to 177 votes since the last “final” count.
H. John 00:09 on 2021-11-09 Permalink
I was wondering. Where did you turn for your election results?
I used Radio-Canada.
When I tried Elections QC, I got nothing for Montreal:
https://donnees.electionsmunicipales.quebec/resultats.html?v=66023
Using CDN-NDG as an example, La Presse and the English paper got the result for mayor wrong.
Do we have a problem of one site, or local media (most underfunded) depending on another?
dhomas 04:53 on 2021-11-09 Permalink
I was curious about other cities within Montreal’s urban agglomeration, so I started looking around. I really think merging the city into one was the right call at the turn of the century.
Are there really 7 elected officials for l’Ile-Dorval? If so, do they need this for a population of 5 permanent residents and 49 registered voters?
https://donnees.electionsmunicipales.quebec/resultats.html?v=66092
Senneville, Baie d’Urfé, Montreal-Est, Montreal-Ouest, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Hampstead. All have quite small population: 921 to 6973. Are we not doubling up bureaucracy for population that could be served just as well by their neighbours in Montreal?
But L’Ile-Dorval is the real mystery for me.
Tim S. 09:06 on 2021-11-09 Permalink
dhomas: don’t underestimate the importance of local identity. I know people in Greenfield Park who are still really angry about being merged into Longueuil. If that encourages people to have a sense of belonging and investment in their community, I would argue that’s a good thing.
Also, most elected positions in smaller towns will be part-time and paid accordingly.
Finally, while I would say there is a need for some kind of regional government, the interests of those of us who live in the denser city will not be served by having our mayor elected from the suburbs. Just look at the difference in where the Project and Ensemble votes came from. We have our own neighbourhood identities too (assuming you’re in Montreal proper).
H. John: On the night I just googled Elections Montreal and got to this page: https://elections.montreal.ca/en/
DeWolf 09:59 on 2021-11-09 Permalink
I agree with Tim. Just look at Toronto, which went through mergers but with a more centralized system of governance than we have here. Downtown is held hostage by the suburbs, to the extent where anything that serves the interests of downtown residents is stalled or undermined by suburban councillors. Just look at the effort it took to implement the (massively successful) King Street transitway. Or the Bloor Street bike path – which, despite heavy use during its pilot run, was only extended due to pandemic emergency measures, and is still officially temporary.
Montreal’s municipal system is unwieldy and could be improved, but the general approach of giving boroughs some autonomy over their territory is a good one. If Anjou or the West Island had gotten a vote on Luc Ferrandez’s traffic calming measures on the Plateau, we never would have seen the improvements around Laurier metro, Christophe-Colomb would still be a high-speed traffic sewer, and suburban commuters would still be blasting down narrow side streets at 50 km/h.
dhomas 11:03 on 2021-11-09 Permalink
@Tim S & DeWolf you make very valid points. Upon reflection, I agree with them. I kinda went down a rabbit hole with Ile-Dorval and made some sweeping generalizations. I still don’t understand the point of Ile-Dorval as a city, though. More elected officials than residents is just weird to me.