1994 Montreal Municipal Election
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The 1994 Montreal municipal election took place on November 6, 1994. Pierre Bourque was elected to his first term as
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, defeating incumbent
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. 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
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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
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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
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as a candidate of the
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and was narrowly defeated both times. When his party fragmented in 1984, Mormina joined the Action civique de Saint-Léonard and supported
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's bid to become mayor of Saint-Leonard in a municipal
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. Action civique later folded into
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, and Mormina ran unsuccessfully for the latter party in the 1986 municipal election.Mormina was thirty-eight years old during this election. "St. Leonard party unites defectors and former rivals," ''Montreal Gazette'', October 9, 1986, p. 8. He ran as an independent in 1994.


Results in other Montreal-area communities


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''Parti municipal de Longueuil'' leader
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was elected to his first term as mayor, succeeding
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. The ''Parti municipal'' won fourteen seats on council, while former mayor
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's ''
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'' 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

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