Pasquale Compierchio

Pasqaule Compierchio is a former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1990 to 1994.

Compierchio was elected to council in the 1990 municipal election as a candidate of the Civic Party in Saint-Michel. The governing Montreal Citizens' Movement won this election in a landslide, and the opposition parties won only a handful of seats between them. Compierchio was the only Civic Party candidate elected; local anger over the government's failure to close the Miron Quarry urban landfill site was a factor in the result.^[1]

There was significant realignment in Montreal's opposition parties over the next four years, and several councillors joined and left the Civic Party at different times. By early 1994, Compierchio was once again its only council member. He finally quit the party to sit as an independent on March 23, 1994, describing the party's mayoral nominee Clement Bluteau as a "big zero" and comparing him to fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.^[2] The party itself dissolved a few months thereafter.^[3]

Compierchio later aligned himself with Claude Beauchamp's short-lived Action Montreal party. This group was never officially recognized on council, and Compierchio technically remained an independent representative.^[4] After Action Montreal dissolved, Compierchio ultimately joined the Montrealers' Party and ran under its banner in the 1994 election. He lost to Paolo Tamburello of Vision Montreal.

Compierchio sought to return to council in 1998 as a candidate of Jean Doré Team Montreal. He was defeated.

Electoral record

1998 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Saint-Michel Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Vision Montreal Paolo Tamburello (incumbent) 3,308 58.02 Team Montreal Pasquale Compierchio 1,015 17.80 New Montreal Myrlande Pierre 856 15.01 Montreal Citizens' Movement Valentino Nelson 417 7.31 Independent Marcel Firmin 105 1.84 Total valid votes 5,701 100 Source: Official Results, City of Montreal

1994 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Saint-Michel Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Vision Montreal Paolo Tamburello 2,403 46.81 Montrealers' Party Pasquale Compierchio (incumbent) 1,711 33.33 Montreal Citizens' Movement Donato Caivano 737 14.36 Democratic Coalition–Ecology Montreal Michele A. Benigno 283 5.51 Total valid votes 5,134 100 Source: Official Results, City of Montreal

1990 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Saint-Michel Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Civic Party of Montreal Pasquale Compierchio 1,783 40.06 Montreal Citizens' Movement Giovanni Ialenti (incumbent) 1,448 32.53 Municipal Party Jacques Pelletier 924 20.76 Independent Franco Perrusi 149 3.35 White Elephant Party Danielle Paradis 93 2.09 Democratic Coalition Sean Berry 54 1.21 Total valid votes 4,451 100 Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.

References

1. Lewis Harris and Ingrid Peretz, "Easy MCM win; Dore cruises to his second mandate," Montreal Gazette, 5 November 1990, A1.
2. Elizabeth Thompson, "Civic Party loses its last councillor," Montreal Gazette, 24 March 1994, A3.
3. Compierchio was not, however, the final Civic Party councillor. That distinction belongs to Fiorino Bianco, who joined the party in June 1994 after serving for several months as an independent.
4. Elizabeth Thompson, "Beauchamp wins support from third councillor," Montreal Gazette, 17 March 1994, A4.