Bromont municipal election, 2009
The 2009 Bromont municipal election took place on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor and councillors in Bromont, Quebec. Incumbent mayor Pauline Quinlan was re-elected to another term without difficulty.[1]
Results
(x) denotes incumbent.
2009 Bromont election, Mayor of Bromont
| Candidate |
Total votes |
% of total votes |
| (x)Pauline Quinlan |
2,205 |
75.90 |
| Gilles Duchesne |
700 |
24.10 |
| Total valid votes |
2,905 |
100.00 |
- Pauline Quinlan has been a teacher, education consultant, and school principal.[2] She was elected as mayor of Bromont in 1998, defeating incumbent Robert Desourdy by a significant margin, and was re-elected in 2002, 2005, and 2009.[3] Quinlan joined the board of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in 2005 and later served as vice-chair of its task force on Rural Advocacy.[4] She has promoted growth in the high-technology sector: Bromont residents were among the first in Canada to have access to interactive television, and the percentage of residents connected to the internet in the early 2000s was well above the provincial average.[5] Her son Mark Quinlan has been a candidate of the Canadian Alliance and the Conservative Party of Canada.[6]
2009 Bromont election, Councillor, District One
| Candidate |
Total votes |
% of total votes |
| (x)Jean-Marc Maltais |
298 |
61.44 |
| Jean McMaster |
187 |
38.56 |
| Total valid votes |
485 |
100.00 |
2009 Bromont election, Councillor, District Two
| Candidate |
Total votes |
% of total votes |
| Marie-Claude Cabana |
284 |
52.01 |
| (x)Alain Chénier |
262 |
47.99 |
| Total valid votes |
546 |
100.00 |
2009 Bromont election, Councillor, District Three
| Candidate |
Total votes |
% of total votes |
| Diane Perron |
238 |
57.63 |
| (x)Onil Couture |
175 |
42.37 |
| Total valid votes |
413 |
100.00 |
2009 Bromont election, Councillor, District Four
| Candidate |
Total votes |
% of total votes |
| Marie-Ève Lagacé[7] |
435 |
64.93 |
| Sylvain Cormier[8] |
106 |
15.82 |
| Simon Gnocchini Messier |
65 |
9.70 |
| Pierre Brassard |
64 |
9.55 |
| Total valid votes |
670 |
100.00 |
2009 Bromont election, Councillor, District Five
| Candidate |
Total votes |
% of total votes |
| Jacques Lapensée |
274 |
81.07 |
| Maurice Desruisseaux |
64 |
28.93 |
| Total valid votes |
338 |
100.00 |
2009 Bromont election, Councillor, District Six
| Candidate |
Total votes |
% of total votes |
| Anie Perrault |
214 |
50.23 |
| Claude Nadeau |
155 |
36.38 |
| Michel M. Champagne |
57 |
13.38 |
|
| Total valid votes |
426 |
100.00 |
Source: Simon-Olivier Lorange, Confiance renouvelée en Pauline Quinlan, 2 November 2009, accessed 18 November 2010.
References
- ↑ Simon-Olivier Lorange, Confiance renouvelée en Pauline Quinlan, 2 November 2009, accessed 18 November 2010.
- ↑ Élections Bromont 2005 - Candidatures, Pauline Quinlan, City of Bromont, accessed 23 November 2010.
- ↑ "Quebec election results stay true to polls," Montreal Gazette, 3 November, A8.
- ↑ "Media Advisory - FCM to Release a Recommendations Report that Examines the Growing Crisis in Rural Canada and how this Crisis Threatens to Weaken Canada's National Economy" [presented], Canada NewsWire, 22 May 2009, 14:16; Joshua Bleser, "Federation of Canadian Municipalities meets in Bromont," Sherbrooke Record, 1 March 2006, p. 5.
- ↑ Maurice Crossfield, "Bromont taking the lead in the information age," Sherbrooke Record, 5 June 2001, p. 1; Maurice Crossfield, "Bromont's innovation goes international," Sherbrooke Record, 27 November 2003, p. 2.
- ↑ Rita Legault, "Harper seeks majority, election expected," Sherbrooke Record, 5 September 2008, p. 4.
- ↑ Lagacé was chair of the Comité consultatif de la famille de Bromont and a member of the council to establish the École La Chantignole before running for office. She was first elected in 2009. See Marie-Ève Lagacé candidate dans le quartier Shefford, cowansville.enregion.ca, 8 September 2009, accessed 18 November 2010.
- ↑ Cormier appears to have been a first-time candidate.