2021 Gatineau municipal election

A municipal election was held in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada on November 7, 2021, in conjunction with the 2021 Quebec municipal elections held on the same day. Elections will be held for Mayor of Gatineau as well as for each of the 19 districts on Gatineau City Council.

2021 Gatineau municipal election
Mayoral election
November 7, 2021
Turnout35.10% ( 3.42pp)
  JL
Nominee France Bélisle Maude Marquis-Bissonnette Jean-François Leblanc
Party Independent Action Gatineau Independent
Popular vote 29,734 26,159 11,330
Percentage 42.83% 37.68% 16.32%
Mayoral results by district
Mayor before election

Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin
Action Gatineau

 Elected Mayor

France Bélisle
Independent

City Council election
November 7, 2021
19 seats in Gatineau City Council[lower-alpha 1]
10 seats needed for a majority
Turnout35.12% ( 4.70pp)
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
Independent – 61.29 11 0
AG Maude Marquis-Bissonnette 38.71 8 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
City Council winners by district

Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin announced he would not be running for re-election.[1]

City council will expand by one seat, with the creation of the Mitigomijokan District out of parts of the Plateau and Deschênes Districts.[2]

Mayoral race
2021 Gatineau municipal election: Mayor
Party Candidate Popular vote Expenditures
Votes  % ±%
Independent France Bélisle 29,768 42.86 – $81,079.89
Action Gatineau Maude Marquis-Bissonnette 26,151 37.65 -7.46 none listed
Independent Jean-François Leblanc 11,326 16.31 – $71,309.44
Independent Jacques Lemay 1,077 1.55 – $8,206.19
Independent Rémi Bergeron 727 1.05 – $0.00
Independent Abdelhak Lekbabi 411 0.59 – none listed
Total valid votes 69,460 99.25
Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes 524 0.75 -0.98
Turnout 69,984 35.11 -3.41
Eligible voters 199,302
Note: Candidate campaign colours, unless a member of a party, are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items
(signs, literature, etc.) or colours used in polling graphs and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
Sources: Office of the City Clerk of Gatineau[3] and Élections Québec[4]

Opinion polls
Polling firm Last date of polling Link Marquis-Bissonnette Bélisle Leblanc Lemay Bergeron Ducharme Nadeau Don't know/
Wouldn't vote
SOM February 11, 2021 HTML 7 10 3 N/A N/A 12 8 52
Navigator October 6, 2021 HTML 26 23 9 3 <1 N/A N/A 38
CROP October 16, 2021 HTML 22 12 6 3 1 N/A N/A 53

Aylmer District
2021 Gatineau municipal election: Aylmer
Party Candidate Popular vote Expenditures
Votes  % ±%
Independent Steven Boivin 1,775 56.69 – $4,970.80
Action Gatineau Julie Cool 1,356 43.31 +23.77 none listed
Total valid votes 3,131 98.46
Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes 49 1.54 +0.52
Turnout 3,180 30.09 -6.51
Eligible voters 10,570
Note: Candidate campaign colours, unless a member of a party, may be based on the prominent colour used in campaign items
(signs, literature, etc.) or colours used in polling graphs and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates.
Sources: Office of the City Clerk of Gatineau[5] and Élections Québec[6]

Lucerne District
Party Candidate Vote  %
  Independent Gilles Chagnon (X)2,64167.39
 Action GatineauLaurent Lavallée1,27832.61

Deschênes District
Party Candidate Vote  %
 Action GatineauCaroline Murray1,80854.92
  Independent Michel Raymond1,23937.64
  Independent Kevin Shannon2457.44

Plateau District
Party Candidate Vote  %
 Action GatineauBettyna Belizaire2,35161.42
  Independent Serge Tonlé 1,477 38.58

Mitigomijokan District
Party Candidate Vote  %
 Action GatineauAnik Des Marais1,37640.40
  Independent André Pelletier1,13733.38
  Independent Bello Mansour89326.22

Manoir-des-Trembles-Val-Tétreau District
Party Candidate Vote  %
  Independent Jocelyn Blondin (X)2,01355.30
 Action GatineauDarlène Lozis1,62744.70

Hull-Wright District
Party Candidate Vote  %
 Action GatineauSteve Moran1,20348.57
  Independent René Coignaud67927.41
  Independent Jacques G. Lavoie59524.02

Parc-de-la-Montagne-Saint-Raymond District
Party Candidate Vote  %
  Independent Louise Boudrias (X)2,36069.37
 Action GatineauJordan Larochelle79723.43
  Independent Jérémie Carrier2457.20

Orée-du-Parc District
Party Candidate Vote  %
 Action GatineauIsabelle N. Miron (X)2,54061.95
  Independent Jacques Lacasse1,56038.05

Limbour District
Party Candidate Vote  %
 Action GatineauLouis Sabourin2,10241.88
  Independent Dérik Maltais1,83936.64
  Independent Nicole Champagne1,07821.48

Touraine District
Party Candidate Vote  %
 Action GatineauTiffany-Lee Norris Parent1,28938.43
  Independent Jean-Manuel Bock1,09832.74
  Independent Jean-Pierre Leroux96728.83

Pointe-Gatineau District
Party Candidate Vote  %
  Independent Mike Duggan (X)1,44451.81
 Action GatineauMyriam Gilbert1,09939.43
  Independent Leon Kambi Bushiri2448.75

Carrefour-de-l'Hôpital District
Party Candidate Vote  %
  Independent Olive Kamanyana1,92352.43
 Action GatineauClément Bélanger90124.56
  Independent Frédérick Castonguay50613.79
  Independent Alexandre Bouchard3389.21

Versant District
Party Candidate Vote  %
  Independent Daniel Champagne (X)2,84272.30
 Action GatineauLuc Bégin1,08927.70

Bellevue District
Party Candidate Vote  %
 Action GatineauAlicia Brunet-Lacasse1,73241.78
  Independent Paul Cloutier88321.30
  Independent Michel Payette88121.25
  Independent Serge Charette65015.68

Lac-Beauchamp District
Party Candidate Vote  %
  Independent Denis Girouard1,72556.76
 Action GatineauMarie-Nicole Groulx1,31443.24

Rivière-Blanche District
Party Candidate Vote  %
  Independent Jean Lessard (X)2,83373.36
 Action GatineauTanya Desforges1,02926.64

Masson-Angers District
Party Candidate Vote  %
  Independent Mario Aubé2,29560.49
  Independent Sylvain Tremblay62616.50
 Action GatineauAlain Bergeron54714.42
  Independent Martin Emond3268.59

Buckingham District
Party Candidate Vote  %
  Independent Edmond Leclerc2,24857.52
 Action GatineauMartin Lajeunesse (X)1,15829.63
  Independent Michel Roy50212.85

Notes
  1. The Mayor is a member of City Council, but for the purposes of documentation is treated as their own individual.

References
  1. "Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin quitte avec le sentiment du devoir accompli" (in French). Retrieved October 12, 2021.
  2. ""Mitigomijokan", le nouveau district électoral à Gatineau" (in French). Retrieved October 12, 2021.
  3. "2021 municipal election – Results". City of Gatineau. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  4. "Summary of election expenses - Municipal". Élections Québec. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  5. "Élection du 7 novembre 2021 — Résultat du recensement des votes" (PDF) (in Canadian French). City of Gatineau. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
  6. "Summary of election expenses - Municipal". Élections Québec. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
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