Montreal municipal election, 1986

The 1986 Montreal municipal election took place on November 9, 1986, to elect a mayor and city councillors in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Longtime mayor Jean Drapeau did not seek re-election, and Jean Doré from the opposition Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) was elected to the position by a significant margin.^[1]

Elections also took place in suburban Montreal communities.

Results (incomplete)

Party colours do not indicate affiliation with or resemblance to a provincial or a federal party.

Electoral District	Position	Total valid votes	Candidates									Incumbent
				Montreal Citizens' Movement		Civic Party of Montreal		ADMM		Independents
	Mayor	339,773		Jean Doré 230,025 (67.70%)		Claude Dupras 99,739 (29.35%)		Kenneth Cheung 4,108 (1.21%)		Marie-Claire Desroches 2,282 (0.67%) Gilles Côté 1,676 (0.49%) Philip Moscovitch 1,235 (0.36%) Ned Dmytryshyn 708 (0.21%)		Jean Drapeau
Louis Riel	City councillor	7,428		Jacques Charbonneau 4,506 (60.66%)		Carmen G. Millette 2,922 (39.34%)						Carmen G. Millette
Marie-Victorin	City councillor	7,404		Réal Charest 4,524 (61.10%)		François Delorme 2,880 (38.90%)						Fernand Desjardins
Longue-Pointe	City councillor	6,138		Nicole Boudreau 4,260 (69.40%)		Luc Larivée 2,040 (30.60%)						Luc Larivée
Maisonneuve	City councillor	5,611		Ginette L'Heureux 3,702 (65.98%)		Roger Gallagher 1,909 (34.02%)						André Roy
François-Perrault	City councillor	5,688		Frank Venneri 3,564 (62.66%)		Rocco Luccisano 2,124 (37.34%)						Rocco Luccisano
Gabriel-Sagard	City councillor	6,400		Vittorio Capparelli 3,139 (49.05%)		Marc Beaudoin 1,874 (29.28%)		Marcel Paquet 1,387 (21.67%)[2]				Marc Beaudoin
Jean-Rivard	City councillor	3,653		Micheline Daigle 2,476 (67.78%)		Raymonde Filion 1,177 (32.22%)						Ernest Roussille
Jean-Talon	City councillor	3,653		Pierre Goyer 2,870 (59.33%)		George Savoidakis 1,547 (31.98%)		Demetre Costopoulos 420 (8.68%)				George Savoidakis
Laurier	City councillor	5,237		Robert Perreault 3,701 (70.67%)		Gilles Lupien 1,137 (21.71%)				Roger Larivée 399 (7.62%)		Robert Perreault
Sainte-Marie	City councillor	5,658		Serge Lajeunesse 3,420 (60.45%)		Serge Bélanger 2,152 (38.03%)		Yvon Roy 86 (1.52%)				Serge Bélanger
Ville-Marie	City councillor	4,792		John Gardiner 3,197 (66.72%)		René Avon 1,240 (25.88%)		Cinthia Cheung 355 (7.41%)				John Gardiner
Saint-Henri	City councillor	5,419		Kevin Cadloff 2,254 (41.59%)		Germain Prégent 3,165 (58.41%)						Germain Prégent

Results in suburban communities (incomplete)

Dorval

All of Dorval's serving representatives were re-elected without opposition.

Electoral District	Position	Total valid votes	Candidates	Incumbent
			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	-	Jules Daigle (acclaimed)	Jules Daigle
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	-	Frank Richmond (acclaimed)	Frank Richmond

Source: Elizabeth Thompson, "Dorval mayor, councillors returned by acclamation," Montreal Gazette, 23 October 1986, I7.

Montreal North

Electoral District	Position	Total valid votes	Candidates			Incumbent
			Renouveau municipal	Action locale et municipal	Independent
	Mayor	-	Yves Ryan (acclaimed)			Yves Ryan
District 1	Councillor	1,516	Antonin Dupont 1,266 (83.51%)	Pierre Lacombe 250 (16.49%)		Antonin Dupont
District 2	Councillor	1,701	Michelle Allaire 1,331 (78.25%)	Elaine Bissonnette 328 (19.28%)	Albert Donat Dumouchel 42 (2.47%)	Ernest Chartrand
District 3	Councillor	-	Pierre Blain (acclaimed)
District 4	Councillor	945	Georgette Morin 652 (68.99%)	Richard Bonin 293 (31.01%)		Georgette Morin
District 5	Councillor	-	Maurice Belanger (acclaimed)
District 6	Councillor	-	Real Gibeau (acclaimed)
District 7	Councillor	-	Jean-Paul Lessard (acclaimed)
District 8	Councillor	-	Normand Fortin (acclaimed)
District 9	Councillor	-	Armand Nadeau (acclaimed)
District 10	Councillor	-	Andre Coulombe (acclaimed)
District 11	Councillor	-	Raymond Paquin (acclaimed)
District 12	Councillor	1,391	Robert Guerriero 1008 (72.47%)	Pierre Gamache 383 (27.53%)		Robert Guerriero

Sources: "Montreal North councillor quits," Montreal Gazette, 23 October 1986, H3; "Results of council elections in 18 Montreal-area municipalities," Montreal Gazette, 3 November 1986, A8.

Saint-Leonard

1986 Saint-Leonard mayoral election results Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Ralliement de Saint-Léonard (x)Raymond Renaud 11,374 44.30 Unité de Saint-Léonard Tony Iammatteo 8,304 32.34 Équipe démocratique de Saint-Léonard Andre Bastien 3,218 12.53 Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Saint-Léonard Rosario Nobile 2,778 10.82 Total valid votes 25,674 100 Source: "Results of council elections in 18 Montreal-area municipalities," Montreal Gazette, 3 November 1986, A8.

1986 Saint-Leonard municipal election results: Councillor, Ward Three Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Ralliement de Saint-Léonard Frank Zampino 1,006 47.23 Unité de Saint-Léonard Tony Iadeluca 646 30.33 Équipe démocratique de Saint-Léonard Yvon Desrochers 402 18.87 Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Saint-Léonard Bruno Madvo 76 3.57 Total valid votes 2,130 100 Source: "Results of council elections in 18 Montreal-area municipalities," Montreal Gazette, 3 November 1986, A8.

1986 Saint-Leonard municipal election results: Councillor, Ward Four Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Ralliement de Saint-Léonard (x)Pari Montanaro 1,278 50.12 Unité de Saint-Léonard Joseph Mormina 827 32.43 Équipe démocratique de Saint-Léonard Sylvie Bourassa 260 10.20 Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Saint-Léonard Domenico Manzo 185 7.25 Total valid votes 2,550 100 Source: "Results of council elections in 18 Montreal-area municipalities," Montreal Gazette, 3 November 1986, A8.

1986 Saint-Leonard municipal election results: Councillor, Ward Five Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Ralliement de Saint-Léonard Alex Pacetti 1,270 61.89 Unité de Saint-Léonard Gaetane Laporte 437 21.30 Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Saint-Léonard Liborio Sciascia 266 12.96 Équipe démocratique de Saint-Léonard Frank Toro 79 3.85 Total valid votes 2,052 100 Source: "Results of council elections in 18 Montreal-area municipalities," Montreal Gazette, 3 November 1986, A8.

1986 Saint-Leonard municipal election results: Councillor, Ward Six Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Ralliement de Saint-Léonard (x)Dominic Perri 1,309 66.62 Unité de Saint-Léonard Luigi Tesolin 350 17.81 Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Saint-Léonard Paolo Gervasi 187 9.52 Équipe démocratique de Saint-Léonard Giovanni Sardo 119 6.06 Total valid votes 1,965 100 Source: "Results of council elections in 18 Montreal-area municipalities," Montreal Gazette, 3 November 1986, A8.

1986 Saint-Leonard municipal election results: Councillor, Ward Seven Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Ralliement de Saint-Léonard Yvette Bissonnet 790 41.27 Unité de Saint-Léonard Remi Boyer 772 40.33 Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Saint-Léonard Vincent Rizzuto 182 9.51 Équipe démocratique de Saint-Léonard Micheline Neveu-Dumontet 170 8.88 Total valid votes 1,914 100 Source: "Results of council elections in 18 Montreal-area municipalities," Montreal Gazette, 3 November 1986, A8.

1986 Saint-Leonard municipal election results: Councillor, Ward Eight Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Ralliement de Saint-Léonard (x)Basilio Giordano 963 47.16 Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Saint-Léonard Rosario Ortona 631 30.90 Unité de Saint-Léonard Quintino Cimaglia 365 17.87 Équipe démocratique de Saint-Léonard Antonio Barretta 83 4.06 Total valid votes 2,042 100 Source: "Results of council elections in 18 Montreal-area municipalities," Montreal Gazette, 3 November 1986, A8.

1986 Saint-Leonard municipal election results: Councillor, Ward Ten Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Ralliement de Saint-Léonard (x)Maurice Benoît 767 33.20 Équipe démocratique de Saint-Léonard Jules Lauzon 730 31.60 Unité de Saint-Léonard Gabriel Paradis 626 27.10 Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Saint-Léonard Yvon Plante 187 8.10 Total valid votes 2,310 100 Source: "Results of council elections in 18 Montreal-area municipalities," Montreal Gazette, 3 November 1986, A8.

1986 Saint-Leonard municipal election results: Councillor, Ward Eleven Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Ralliement de Saint-Léonard (x)Jean-Jacques Goyette 803 35.16 Unité de Saint-Léonard Marcelle Gaudreault 761 33.32 Équipe démocratique de Saint-Léonard Fiorino Bianco 456 19.96 Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Saint-Léonard Giovanni Mogianesi 264 11.56 Total valid votes 2,284 100 Source: "Results of council elections in 18 Montreal-area municipalities," Montreal Gazette, 3 November 1986, A8.

1986 Saint-Leonard municipal election results: Councillor, Ward Twelve Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Ralliement de Saint-Léonard Robert Zambito 787 39.95 Unité de Saint-Léonard (x)Domenico Moschella 753 38.22 Équipe démocratique de Saint-Léonard Jacques Amyot 216 10.96 Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Saint-Léonard Michelango Cannistraro 214 10.86 Total valid votes 1,970 100 Source: "Results of council elections in 18 Montreal-area municipalities," Montreal Gazette, 3 November 1986, A8.

Information about the candidates in Saint-Leonard

Ralliement de Saint-Léonard

• Maurice Benoît (Ward Ten) was first elected to the Saint-Leonard council in the 1982 municipal election, winning as a Équipe du renouveau de la cité de Saint-Léonard candidate in the city's twelfth ward.^[3] He joined the newly formed Ralliement de Saint-Léonard in 1984 and was re-elected under its banner for the tenth ward in 1986. In May 1988, he joined seven other RdSL councillors, including future mayor Frank Zampino, in resigning from the party to sit as independents.^[4] Benoît was not returned to council in the 1990 election.

Unité de Saint-Léonard

• Luigi Tesolin (Ward Six) was a thirty-eight-year-old engineer, running in his first election.^[5]
• Quintino Cimaglia (Ward Eight) was a forty-six-year-old entrepreneur, running in his first election.^[6]

Équipe démocratique de Saint-Léonard

• Yvon Desrochers (Ward Three) was a forty-nine-year-old grocery wholesaler in 1986. He had previously chaired the Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer from 1977 to 1980 and remained a member of the commission until 1983. In the 1982 municipal election, he ran unsuccessfully as a Union municipale de Saint-Léonard candidate.^[7]
• Giovanni Sardo (Ward Six) ran for the Saint-Leonard city council in 1978 as a Parti civique candidate and in 1986 for the Équipe démocratique. He was defeated both times. Sardo was sixty years old in 1986 and identified as a travel agent.^[8]
• Micheline Neveu-Dumontet (Ward Seven) was a forty-seven-year-old public servant. She had previously been a candidate in the 1982 Saint-Leonard election, running for the Parti de l'alliance municipale (PAM).^[9]
• Antonio Barretta (Ward Eight) was a thirty-six-year-old salesman in 1986. He was a first-time political candidate.^[10]
• Jules Lauzon (Ward Ten) was an engineer.^[11] He was elected to the Saint-Leonard city council in 1978 as a candidate of the Parti de l'alliance municipale (PAM), which won a narrow majority on council. He ran for re-election in 1982 and was defeated by Pierre Paquet. He was later appointed to a vacant seat on the Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer in January 1985 and emerged as an opponent of commission chair Dominic Perri.^[12] He attempted to change the board's summer hiring policy in 1987, charging that it was plagued by nepotism.^[13] He sought re-election to the Saint-Leonard council as an Équipe démocratique candidate in 1986 and was narrowly defeated.^[14] He did not seek re-election to the school commission in 1987.^[15]
• Jacques Amyot (Ward Twelve) was a forty-three-year-old employee of the Montreal Urban Community Transit Corp..^[16]

Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Saint-Léonard

• Liborio (Bob) Sciascia (Ward Five) was a thirty-eight-year-old accountant.^[17] He is not to be confused with a different Liborio Sciascia, who was killed in a mafia-related shooting in 2010.
• Paolo Gervasi (Ward Six) was a fifty-eight-year-old realtor.^[18] He is not to be confused with a different Paolo Gervasi, who was killed in a gangland-style execution in 2004.
• Rosario Ortona (Ward Eight), a school teacher, was thirty-nine years old in 1986.^[19] He was elected to the Saint-Leonard city council in the 1978 municipal election as a candidate of Michel Bissonnet's Équipe du renouveau de la cité de Saint-Léonard. He later left this party to join the Union municipale de Saint-Léonard and was defeated under its banner in the 1982 election. Subsequently, Ortona became Union municipale's leader and ran as its mayoral candidate in a 1984 by-election; he was defeated by Raymond Renaud. Renaud and seven councillors launched a $423,000 libel suit against Ortona and his official agent after the election; the suit related to campaign advertisements from Ortona's team that criticized a land deal approved by the city.^[20] Newspaper accounts do not indicate how this matter was resolved. Ortona worked to create a united opposition party in Saint-Leonard during this period, and shortly before the 1986 election he dissolved his party to join the Rassemblement des citoyens et citoyennes de Saint-Léonard.^[21] In 2000, he was hired as adult education director for the English Montreal School Board.^[22]
• Michelangelo Cannistraro (Ward Twelve) was a forty-eight-year-old company manager.^[23]

Subsequent by-elections in suburban communities

Anjou

Anjou council by-election, Lucie Bruneau division, 1 March 1987 Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Alliance municipale d'Anjou Nicole Massue 708 54.00 Relève democratique municipale Pierre Charbonneau 503 38.37 Independent René Vergé 100 7.63 Total valid votes 1,311 100 Source: Debbie Parkes, "Anjou split continues as mayor's side wins a seat," Montreal Gazette, 2 March 1987, A3. The by-election was caused by the death of Michel Massue in December 1986.

Results in other Montreal-area communities (incomplete)

Longueuil

The governing Parti municipal de Longueuil was returned to office with a landslide majority. Party leader Jacques Finet was re-elected to a second term as mayor, and the party won all nineteen seats on council.

Winning candidates are listed in boldface.

Electoral District	Position	Total valid votes	Candidates			Incumbent
			Parti municipal	Parti civique	Independent
	Mayor	35,419	Jacques Finet 28,675 (80.96%)	Claude Jollet 6,744 (19.04%)		Jacques Finet
District 1	Councillor		Pierre Hurtubise 784	Gilles Petel 407
District 2	Councillor		André Normandin 1402	Marcel Tessier 474
District 3	Councillor		Claude Gladu 1,296	Lucie Bertrand-Giroux 384		Claude Gladu
District 4	Councillor	2,000	Roger Ferland 1,380 (69.00%)	Marc E. Decelles 620 (31.00%)		Roger Ferland
District 5	Councillor		Nicole Béliveau-Zeitter 1,170	Paul-Auguste Briand 704		Nicole Béliveau-Zeitter
District 6	Councillor		Jacques Morissette 1,899	François Robidas 208	Lorenzo Defoy Jr. 40	Jacques Morissette
District 7	Councillor		Roger Lacombe 1,007	Claude Royal 218		Roger Lacombe
District 8	Councillor		Gilles Déry 1,401	Solange Therrien 548		Gilles Déry
District 9	Councillor		Magella Richard 1,384	Pierre Nantel 1,082		Pierre Nantel
District 10	Councillor		Florence Mercier 1,524	Serge Darveau 189		Florence Mercier
District 11	Councillor		Serge Sévigny 1,354	Michel Landry 235		Serge Sévigny
District 12	Councillor		Lise Sauvé-Thiverge 1,200	André Giroux 334		Lise Sauvé-Thiverge
District 13	Councillor		Jean St-Hilaire 1,186	Jean-Pierre Trahan 667		Jean-Pierre Trahan
District 14	Councillor		Michel Timperio 1,754	Mario Chartier 177		Michel Timperio
District 15	Councillor		Florent Charest 1,334	André Chapdelaine 376		Florent Charest
District 16	Councillor		Georges Touten 1,311	Jacques Bouchard 754		Jacques Bouchard
District 17	Councillor		André Létourneau 1,864	André Chartier 201		André Létourneau
District 18	Councillor		Jacques Milette 1,224	Lise Rathé 545
District 19	Councillor		Benoît Danault 2,180	Jean L’Écuyer 777		Benoit Danault

Source: Le Parti municipal de Longueuil: Jacques Finet, l'innovateur, Société historique et culturelle du Marigot, accessed 19 February 2014. Some minor corrections to candidate names are taken from "Final tally shows size of victory in Longueuil," Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1986, V1.

Jacques Finet resigned as mayor on April 16, 1987, to take a vice-president's job at Hydro-Quebec. A by-election to choose his successor was held on May 30, 1987.

Electoral District	Position	Total valid votes	Candidates			Incumbent
			Parti municipal	Independent	Independent
	Mayor	25,961	Roger Ferland 18,596 (71.63%)	Jacques Olivier 7,035 (27.10%)	Jacques Gendron 330 (1.27%)[24]

Source: James Mennie, "Ferland whips ex-MP to win Longueuil mayoralty," Montreal Gazette, 1 June 1987, A3.

References

1. Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal, accessed 16 May 2011.
2. Paquet was a shopkeeper in Montreal. He had previously contested Gabriel-Sagard as an independent candidate in the 1982 municipal election. See "East-end areas may be linked but have distinct issues," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 1986, p. 7.
3. Le Devoir, 8 November 1982, p. 1.
4. Amorell Saunders, "Eight St. Leonard city councillors quit mayor's 'undemocratic' party," Montreal Gazette, 5 May 1988, A3.
5. "St. Leonard party unites defectors and former rivals," Montreal Gazette, 9 October 1986, p. 8.
6. "St. Leonard party unites defectors and former rivals," Montreal Gazette, 9 October 1986, p. 8.
7. "New St. Leonard high school decision coming in 2 weeks," Montreal Gazette, 16 October 1979, p. 4; "New party picks slate for vote in St. Leonard," Montreal Gazette, 16 October 1986, p. 6.
8. "New party unveils slate for vote in St. Leonard," Montreal Gazette, 16 October 1986, p. 4.
9. "New party picks slate for vote in St. Leonard," Montreal Gazette, 16 October 1986, p. 6.
10. "New party picks slate for vote in St. Leonard," Montreal Gazette, 16 October 1986, p. 6.
11. "New party picks slate for vote in St. Leonard," Montreal Gazettee, 16 October 1986, p. 6.
12. The seat became vacant on the resignation of Alfonso Gagliano, who had been elected to the Canadian House of Commons. See "Gagliano quits post on school commission," Montreal Gazette, 30 January 1985, p. 1; "Angry parents plan to protest school decision," Montreal Gazette, 12 June 1985, p. 1. See also Debbie Parkes, "Locating a school for Grade 7s divides Jerome Le Royer board," Montreal Gazette, 6 March 1986, p. 6.
13. "Le Royer commissioners criticized for board's summer job hiring policy," Montreal Gazette, 3 July 1986, p. 10.
14. "St. Leonard gears for recounts as mayor's party scores near-sweep," Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1986, p. 1.
15. Jeannie Stiglic, "School board factions battle in the East End," Montreal Gazette, 22 October 1987, p. 13.
16. "New party unveils slate for vote in St. Leonard," Montreal Gazette, 16 October 1986, p. 4.
17. "St. Leonard party vows it will sweep every council seat," Montreal Gazette, 23 October 1986, p. 1.
18. "St. Leonard party vows it will sweep every council seat," Montreal Gazette, 23 October 1986, p. 1.
19. "St. Leonard party vows it will sweep every council seat," Montreal Gazette, 23 October 1986, p. 1.
20. "Ultimatum to Renaud latest salvo in suburb war of words," Montreal Gazette, 2 January 1985, p. 1.
21. "Councillor calls for a united opposition in St. Leonard," Montreal Gazette, 1 May 1985, p. 1; "Mayoral hopeful wants to follow his grandfather," Montreal Gazette, 4 September 1986, p. 5.
22. "Retirements lead to spate of changes at English school board," Montreal Gazette, 10 July 2000, p. 4. Concerns were subsequently raised about hiring practices on the board; see "Nepotism should be public" [editorial], Montreal Gazette, 7 December 2005, p. 30.
23. "St. Leonard party vows it will sweep every council seat," Montreal Gazette, 23 October 1986, p. 1.
24. Gendron was described in the Montreal Gazette as a 49-year-old theatrical production company owner. He had previously sought election for mayor of Longueuil in 1982. See James Mennie, "Voters choose mayor Sunday in Longueuil," Montreal Gazette, 28 May 1987, I1. There was a Jacques Gendron who ran for Montreal city council in 1998; media reports do not indicate if this was the same person. A different Jacques Gendron ran as a candidate of the Canadian Alliance in the 2000 Canadian federal election.