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{{Infobox election
| election_name      = 1994 Montreal municipal election
| country            = Montreal
| type               = parliamentary
| ongoing            = no
| party_colour       = no
| party_name         = no
| previous_election  = 1990 Montreal municipal election
| previous_year      = 1990
| previous_mps       = 
| next_election      = 1998 Montreal municipal election
| next_year          = 1998
| next_mps           = 
| seats_for_election = 51 seats in [[Montreal City Council]]
| majority_seats     = 26
| election_date      = November 6, 1994
| turnout            = 
| image1             = File:Pierre_Bourque_au_maison_de_la_culture_Maisonneuve.jpg
| image1_size        = x100px
| colour1            = {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Vision|nohash}}
| leader1            = [[Pierre Bourque (politician)|Pierre Bourque]]
| leader_since1      = 1994
| party1             = {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Vision|name}}
| last_election1     = ''pre-creation''
| seats1             = 38
| seat_change1       = {{ increase }} 38
| popular_vote1      = 135,678
| percentage1        = 46.6%
| swing1             = ''New''
| image2             = Jean Doré.jpg
| image2_size        = x100px
| colour2            = {{Canadian party colour|MTL|MCM|nohash}}
| leader2            = [[Jean Doré]]
| leader_since2      = 1982
| party2             = {{Canadian party colour|MTL|MCM|name}}
| last_election2     = 42 seats, 59.20%
| seats2             = 7
| seat_change2       = {{ decrease }} 35
| popular_vote2      = 91,907
| percentage2        = 31.5%
| swing2             = {{ decrease }} 27.70%
| map_image          = 
| map_size           = 300px
| map_caption        = 
| title              = Mayor
| before_election    = [[Jean Doré]]
| before_party       = {{Canadian party colour|MTL|MCM|name}}
| after_election     = [[Pierre Bourque (politician)|Pierre Bourque]]
| after_party        = {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Vision|name}}
}}
The '''1994 Montreal municipal election''' took place on November 6, 1994. [[Pierre Bourque (politician)|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===
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Mayor of Montreal}}

===Council (incomplete)===
Party colours do not indicate affiliation or resemblance to a provincial or a federal party.
[[File:Élections municipales de 1994 à Montréal.svg|thumb|400px|left|Results for city councillor {{legend|#B1BA1E|Vision Montreal: 38 seats}} {{legend|#FF8040|Montreal Citizens' Movement: 7 seats}} {{legend|#BEBEBE|Independents: 3 seats}} {{legend|#251378|Montrealers' Party: 2 seats}} {{legend|#6C0277|Democratic Coalition: 1 seat}}]]

{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
!width=10% rowspan=2 colspan=2|Electoral District
!width=8% rowspan=2|Position
!width=6% rowspan=2|Total valid votes
!colspan=10|Candidates
!width=1% rowspan=2|&nbsp;
!width=10% rowspan=2|Incumbent
|-
!width=1% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|MCM|backgroundcss}}|&nbsp;
!width=12% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|MCM|backgroundcss}}|Montreal Citizens' Movement
!width=1% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Vision|backgroundcss}}|&nbsp;
!width=12% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Vision|backgroundcss}}| Vision Montreal
!width=1% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Montréalais|backgroundcss}}|&nbsp;
!width=12% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Montréalais|backgroundcss}}|Montrealers' Party
!width=1% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Democratic Coalition|backgroundcss}}|&nbsp;
!width=12% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Democratic Coalition|backgroundcss}}|Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal
!width=1% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Independent|backgroundcss}}|&nbsp;
!width=12% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Independent|backgroundcss}}|Others
|-
| align="center"|40
| Hochelaga
| City councillor
| 4,374
| <!-- {{Canadian party colour|MTL|MCM|background}} --> &nbsp;
| [[Diane Barbeau]]<br />1,654 (39.89%)
| {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Vision|background}} | &nbsp;
| [[Luc Larivée]]<br />2,040 (49.20%)
| <!-- {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Montréalais|background}} --> &nbsp;
| Martin Baller<br />329 (7.94%)
| <!-- {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Democratic Coalition|background}} --> &nbsp;
| Clément Schreiber<br />123 (2.97%)
| 
| 
| {{Canadian party colour|MTL|MCM|background}} | &nbsp;
| Diane Barbeau
|-
| align="center"|46
| Tétreauville
| City councillor
| 6,296
| <!-- {{Canadian party colour|MTL|MCM|background}} --> &nbsp;
| [[Nicole Milhomme]]<br />1,846 (29.32%)
| {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Vision|background}} | &nbsp;
| [[Jean-Guy Deschamps]]<br />3,465 (55.03%)
| <!-- {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Montréalais|background}} --> &nbsp;
|
| <!-- {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Democratic Coalition|background}} --> &nbsp;
| Sylvain Lapalme<br />181 (2.87%)
| <!-- {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Independent|background}} --> &nbsp;
| Joseph Salerno (Ind.)<br />804 (12.77%)
| {{Canadian party colour|MTL|MCM|background}} | &nbsp;
| Nicole Milhomme
|}

{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, Ahuntsic}}
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, Saint-Sulpice}}
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, Saint-Michel}}
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, Jean-Rivard}}
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, François-Perrault}}
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, Parc-Extension division}}
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, Étienne-Desmarteau division}}
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, Laurier}}
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, Peter-McGill division}}
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, Rivière-des-Prairies division}}
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, Saint-Pierre}}
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, Louis-Riel division}}
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, Longue-Pointe}}
{{1994 Montreal municipal election/Councillor, Honoré-Beaugrand division}}

==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]].<ref>Brenda Branswell, "Voter turnout key to school boards' future; Candidates hope people will show up at polls tomorrow," ''Montreal Gazette'', November 3, 2007, A1.</ref>
;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.<ref>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.</ref> 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.<ref>Brenda Branswell, "Voter turnout key to school boards' future; Candidates hope people will show up at polls tomorrow," ''Montreal Gazette'', November 3, 2007, A1.</ref>
*'''Pietro Bozzo''' (Jean-Rivard) was a first-time candidate. He later served as executive director of the Yellow Door, an activist resource center.<ref>Susan Schwartz, "Celebrities create collection plates for Mazon; And community centre supporters show style," ''Montreal Gazette'', December 12, 2011, A29.</ref>
*'''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.<ref>[[Paul Wells]], "Quarry would make good campsite: party; North-end pit to continue as snow dump," ''Montreal Gazette'', September 24, 1994, p. 3.</ref> Laquerre also co-ordinated a local residents group that opposed the Miron quarry landfill site, an active garbage dump located within the city limits.<ref>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.</ref> 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.<ref>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.</ref>
;Independents
*'''Ghassan Saba''' (Ahuntsic) had previously been a Montreal Citizens' Movement candidate in the [[1990 Montreal municipal election|1990 municipal election]]. A newspaper report from that election listed him as a thirty-eight-year-old investment counsellor.<ref>[[Paul Wells]], "Prosperous Cartierville is having its problems; Region 1: Ahuntsic/Cartierville," ''Montreal Gazette'', October 22, 1990, A8.</ref>

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

{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
!width=10% rowspan=2|Electoral District
!width=8% rowspan=2|Position
!width=6% rowspan=2|Total valid votes
!colspan=1|Candidates
!width=10% rowspan=2|Incumbent
|-
!width=12% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Independent|backgroundcss}}| Winner
|-
| 
| Mayor
| -
| [[Peter Yeomans]] (acclaimed)
| Peter Yeomans
|-
| East Ward 1
| Councillor
| -
| Edgar Rouleau (acclaimed)
| Edgar Rouleau
|-
| East Ward 2
| Councillor
| -
| Emile LaCoste (acclaimed)
| Emile LaCoste
|-
| East Ward 3
| Councillor
| -
| Raymond Lauzon (acclaimed)
| Raymond Lauzon
|-
| West Ward 1
| Councillor
| -
| Robert M. Bourbeau (acclaimed)
| Robert M. Bourbeau
|-
| West Ward 2
| Councillor
| -
| Ian W. Heron (acclaimed)
| Ian W. Heron
|-
| West Ward 3
| Councillor
| -
| Heather Allard (acclaimed)
| Heather Allard
|}

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

===Montreal North===
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
!width=10% rowspan=2|Electoral District
!width=8% rowspan=2|Position
!width=6% rowspan=2|Total valid votes
!colspan=3|Candidates
!width=10% rowspan=2|Incumbent
|-
!width=12% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Independent|backgroundcss}}| Renouveau municipal
!width=12% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Independent|backgroundcss}}| Collectivité de Montréal-Nord
!width=12% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Independent|backgroundcss}}| Independent
|-
| 
| Mayor
| 18,619
| [[Yves Ryan]]<br />16,459 (88.40%)
| Jean-Pierre Menard<br />2,160 (11.60%)
|
| Yves Ryan
|-
| District 1
| Councillor
| 1,604
| Antonin Dupont<br />1,332 (83.04%)
| Diane Dupont<br />272 (16.96%)
|
| Antonin Dupont
|-
| District 2
| Councillor
| 1,695
| Michelle Allaire<br />1,531 (90.32%)
| Guy Devin<br />164 (9.68%)
| 
| Michelle Allaire
|-
| District 3
| Councillor
| 2,167
| Pierre Blain<br />1,665 (76.83%)
| Bertrand Wall<br />328 (15.14%)
| Michel Renaud<br />174 (8.03%)
| Pierre Blain
|-
| District 4
| Councillor
| -
| Georgette Morin (acclaimed)
| 
|
| Georgette Morin
|-
| District 5
| Councillor
| -
| Maurice Belanger (acclaimed)
| 
|
| Maurice Belanger
|-
| District 6
| Councillor
| -
| Réal Gibeau (acclaimed)
| 
|
| Réal Gibeau
|-
| District 7
| Councillor
| 1,826
| Jean-Paul Lessard<br />1,389 (76.07%)
| Jacqueline Roy<br />437 (23.93%)
|
| Jean-Paul Lessard
|-
| District 8
| Councillor
| 1,572
| Normand Fortin<br />1,228 (78.12%)
| Elaine Bissonnette<br />344 (21.88%)
|
| Normand Fortin
|-
| District 9
| Councillor
| 1,343
| [[James Infantino]]<br />1,079 (80.34%)
| Lise Leonard<br />264 (19.66%)
|
|Armand Nadeau<ref>Mike King, "Battling 272 years of experience; Mayor and his team have been in power since 1963," ''Montreal Gazette'', October 21, 1994, A4.</ref>
|-
| District 10
| Councillor
| 1,963
| Andre Coulombe<br />1,597 (81.36%)
| Jocelyne Millaire<br />366 (18.64%)
|
| Andre Coulombe
|-
| District 11
| Councillor
| 1,061
| Raymond Paquin<br />908 (85.58%)
| Lazard Vertus<br />153 (14.42%)
|
| Raymond Paquin
|-
| District 12
| Councillor
| 1,283
| Robert Guerriero<br />1,110 (86.52%)
| Claude Forest<br />173 (13.48%)
|
| Robert Guerriero
|}

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

===Saint-Leonard===
{{1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election/Councillor, Ward Three}}
{{1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election/Councillor, Ward Four}}
{{1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election/Councillor, Ward Six}}
{{1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election/Councillor, Ward Seven}}
{{1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election/Councillor, Ward Eight}}
{{1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election/Councillor, Ward Ten}}
{{1994 Saint-Leonard municipal election/Councillor, Ward Twelve}}

==Information on candidates in suburban communities==
;Independents
*'''Joseph Mormina''' is a Montreal entrepreneur. He sought election to the Saint-Leonard city council in [[1978 Saint-Leonard municipal election|1978]] and [[1982 Saint-Leonard municipal election|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]].<ref>"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.</ref> Action civique later folded into [[Unité de Saint-Léonard]], and Mormina ran unsuccessfully for the latter party in the [[1986 Saint-Leonard municipal election|1986 municipal election]].<ref>Mormina was thirty-eight years old during this election. "St. Leonard party unites defectors and former rivals," ''Montreal Gazette'', October 9, 1986, p. 8.</ref> 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.

{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
!width=10% rowspan=2|Electoral District
!width=8% rowspan=2|Position
!width=6% rowspan=2|Total valid votes
!colspan=4|Candidates
!width=10% rowspan=2|Incumbent
|-
!width=12% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Independent|backgroundcss}}| Parti municipal
!width=12% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Independent|backgroundcss}}| Parti Longueuillois
!width=12% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Independent|backgroundcss}}| Alliance de Longueuil
!width=12% {{Canadian party colour|MTL|Independent|backgroundcss}}| Independent
|-
| 
| Mayor
| 47,185
| '''[[Claude Gladu]]'''<br />19,223 (40.74%)
| Gisèle Hamelin<br />14,041 (29.76%)
| [[Jacques Finet]]<br />13,921 (29.50%)
|
| [[Roger Ferland]]
|-
| Ward One
| Councillor
| 1,850
| '''Joël Gamache'''<br />650 (35.14%)
| Claude Nephtali<br />557 (30.11%)
| Richard Gagnon<br />643 (34.76%)
| 
| Pierre Beaudry
|-
| Ward Two
| Councillor
| 2,425
| Mario Genest<br />854 (35.22%)
| Martin Clark<br />617 (25.44%)
| '''Cécile Langevin'''<br />954 (39.34%)
| 
| Cécile Langevin
|-
| Ward Three
| Councillor
| 2,105
| '''Henri Dubois'''<br />1,251 (59.43%)
| Anne-Marie Bischoff<br />396 (18.81%)
| Diane Smith<br />458 (21.76%)
| 
| Claude Gladu
|-
| Ward Four
| Councillor
| 2,374
| Gérald Marcil<br />902 (37.99%)
| Bernard Lacelles<br />531 (22.37%)
| '''Sylvie Robidas'''<br />941 (39.64%)
|
| Sylvie Robidas
|-
| Ward Five
| Councillor
| 2,076
| '''Nicole Béliveau'''<br />1,068 (51.45%)
| Yves Ferron<br />474 (22.83%)
| Sylvie Grenier<br />534 (25.72%)
|
| Nicole Béliveau
|-
| Ward Six
| Councillor
| 2,095
| Réjean Vincent<br />470 (22.43%)
| Ginette Lemarier<br />659 (31.46%)
| '''Normand Caisse'''<br />966 (46.11%)
|
| Jacques Morissette
|-
| Ward Seven
| Councillor
| 2,267
| '''Alain St-Pierre'''<br />1,102 (48.61%)
| Martin Daraîche<br />497 (21.92%)
| Charles A. Ashton<br />668 (29.47%)
|
| Roger Lacombe
|-
| Ward Eight
| Councillor
| 2,022
| '''Johane Deshaies'''<br />866 (42.83%)
| Jean Claude D’Amour<br />485 (23.99%)
| Suzanne Cyr<br />671 (33.18%)
| 
| Johane Deshaies
|-
| Ward Nine
| Councillor
| 2,585
| '''Nicole Lafontaine'''<br />1,056 (40.85%)
| Jacqueline Bonenfant<br />721 (27.89%)
| Pierre Nantel<br />808 (31.26%)
|
| Pierre Nantel
|-
| Ward Ten
| Councillor
| 2,026
| '''Manon Hénault'''<br />1,039 (51.28%)
| Olivette Rousseau<br />474  (23.40%)
| Jean Babin<br />513 (25.32%)
| 
| Manon Hénault
|-
| Ward Eleven
| Councillor
| 2,396
| '''Serge Sévigny'''<br />982 (40.98%)
| Constant Jeanty<br />598 (24.96%)
| Pierre Pétroni<br />816 (34.06%)
|
| Serge Sévigny
|-
| Ward Twelve
| Councillor
| 2,410
| '''Lise Sauvé'''<br />1,060 (43.98%)
| Micheline Ward<br />325 (13.49%)
| Michel Champagne<br />1,025 (42.53%)
|
| Michel Champagne
|-
| Ward Thirteen
| Councillor
| 2,272
| '''Bertrand Girard'''<br />866 (38.12%)
| Omer Leclerc<br />570 (25.09%)
| Jean St-Hilaire<br />836 (36.80%)
|
| Jean St-Hilaire
|-
| Ward Fourteen
| Councillor
| 2,125
| Ginette Lalonde<br />653 (30.73%)
| Jean-Pierre Trahan<br />184 (8.66%)
| '''Michel Timperio'''<br />1,288 (60.61%)
|
| Michel Timperio
|-
| Ward Fifteen
| Councillor
| 2,320
| Henri Charbonneau<br />721 (31.08%)
| Arthur Méthot<br />540 (23.28%)
| '''Florent Charest'''<br />1,059 (45.65%)
|
| Florent Charest
|-
| Ward Sixteen
| Councillor
| 2,155
| '''Pierre Beaudry'''<br />882 (40.93%)
| Joanne Savoie<br />614 (28.49%)
| Thérèse Lafrenière<br />659 (30.58%)
|
| Georges Touten
|-
| Ward Seventeen
| Councillor
| 2,506
| Claude Lamoureux<br />1,040 (41.50%)
| Gérald Varichon<br />391 (15.60%)
| '''Pierre Racicot'''<br />1,075 (42.90%)
|
| Pierre Racicot
|-
| Ward Eighteen
| Councillor
| 2,934
| '''Jacques Milette'''<br />1,365 (46.52%)
| Richard Briggs<br />624 (21.27%)
| Marc Lachance<br />945 (32.21%)
| 
| Jacques Milette
|-
| Ward Nineteen
| Councillor
| 2,975
| '''Claudette Tessier'''<br />1,465 (49.24%)
| Pierre Plourde<br />711 (23.90%)
| Pierre Lestage<br />740 (24.87%)
| Raymond Lévesque<br />59 (1.98%)
| Benoît Danault
|-
| Ward Twenty
| Councillor
| 2,910
| '''Simon Crochetière'''<br />1,283 (44.09%)
| Pardo Chiocchio<br />835 (28.69%)
| Léo Paduano<br />792 (27.22%)
|
| Léo Paduano
|}

Source: [https://web.archive.org/web/20041001124719/http://www.marigot.ca/Pml/chapitre4.htm Le Parti municipal de Longueuil: "Roger Ferland, le gestionnaire"], Société historique et culturelle du Marigot, accessed February 27, 2014.

==References==
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[[Category:1994 in Montreal|Municipal election, 1994]]

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