Maude Marquis-Bissonnette is a Canadian university professor and politician who is the Mayor of Gatineau, having taking office on June 18, 2024, after being elected in the 2024 Gatineau mayoral by-election.[1] She is the first mayor of modern Gatineau to be elected in a by-election and the first since Guy Lacroix's by-election victory in 1994 following the resignation of Robert Labine.
Maude Marquis-Bissonnette | |
|---|---|
 Marquis-Bissonnette in 2024 | |
| 23rd Mayor of Gatineau | |
| Assumed office June 18, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Daniel Champagne (acting) |
| Leader of Action Gatineau | |
| Assumed office April 10, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Steve Moran (interim) |
| In office April 25, 2021 – December 22, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin |
| Succeeded by | Steve Moran (interim) |
| Gatineau City Councillor | |
| In office November 14, 2017 – November 7, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Maxime Tremblay |
| Succeeded by | Bettyna Belizaire |
| Constituency | Plateau District |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Action Gatineau |
| Spouse | Alex Van Dieren |
| Residence(s) | Gatineau, Quebec, Canada |
| Alma mater | Université de Montréal (BSc) École nationale d'administration publique (MPA) Carleton University (PhD) |
| Occupation | University professor |
Electoral record
edit| Party | Candidate | Popular vote | Expenditures | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | ||||||||||
| Action Gatineau | Maude Marquis-Bissonnette | 27,833 | 41.70 | +4.02 | $85,881.58 | |||||||
| Independent | Yves Ducharme | 20,600 | 30.87 | – | $77,670.15 | |||||||
| Independent | Olive Kamanyana | 7,253 | 10.87 | – | $71,819.69 | |||||||
| Independent | Daniel Feeny | 6,539 | 9.80 | – | $26,187.70 | |||||||
| Independent | Stéphane Bisson | 3,580 | 5.36 | – | $27,090.54 | |||||||
| Independent | Rémi Bergeron | 499 | 0.75 | -0.26 | $0.00 | |||||||
| Independent | Mathieu Saint-Jean | 435 | 0.65 | – | $463.31 | |||||||
| Total valid votes | 66,739 | 99.44 | ||||||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | 379 | 0.56 | -0.19 | |||||||||
| Turnout | 67,118 | 33.06 | -2.05 | |||||||||
| Eligible voters | 203,032 | |||||||||||
| 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[2][3] | ||||||||||||
| 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[4] and Élections Québec[5] | ||||||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Popular vote | Expenditures | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±% | ||||||||||
| Action Gatineau | Maude Marquis-Bissonnette | Acclaimed | – | – | none listed | |||||||
| Independent | Withdrew | – | – | none listed | ||||||||
| Total valid votes | – | – | ||||||||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | – | – | – | |||||||||
| Turnout | – | – | – | |||||||||
| Eligible voters | – | |||||||||||
| 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[7] | ||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ "Maude Marquis-Bissonnette élue mairesse, Action Gatineau frôle la majorité au conseil" (in Canadian French). Le Droit. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
- ^ "2024 municipal by-election – Mayoral results" (PDF). City of Gatineau. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
- ^ "Election expenses reports". City of Gatineau. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
- ^ "2021 municipal election – Results". City of Gatineau. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
- ^ "Summary of election expenses - Municipal". Élections Québec. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
- ^ Provencher, Norman (October 28, 2017). "Gatineau council candidate acclaimed winner after opponent withdraws". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved June 13, 2024.
- ^ "Élection 2017-2021 — Ville de Gatineau" (PDF) (in Canadian French). City of Gatineau. Retrieved June 13, 2024.
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