Roger Larivée

Roger Larivée is a former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1978 to 1982 as a member of the Civic Party of Montreal.

Larivée worked at his family's roofing firm in private life.^[1] He first ran for a seat on city council in the 1974 municipal election and was defeated in the second Saint-Jacques ward. He was elected in the 1978 municipal election, in which the Civic Party won a landslide majority, and served for the next four years as a backbench supporter of mayor Jean Drapeau's administration. He was defeated by Robert Perreault of the Montreal Citizens' Movement in the 1982 election.

Larivée intended to run as a Civic Party candidate again in the 1986 municipal election but was denied the nomination.^[2] He later briefly affiliated with the Montreal Municipal Democratic Alliance party,^[3] but ultimately chose to run as an independent. He finished a distant third.

Electoral record

1986 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Laurier Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Montreal Citizens' Movement Robert Perreault (incumbent) 3,701 70.67 Civic Party of Montreal Gilles Lupien 1,137 21.71 Independent Roger Larivée 399 7.62 Total valid votes 5,237 100 Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.

1982 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Laurier Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Montreal Citizens' Movement Robert Perreault 2,635 49.73 Civic Party of Montreal Roger Larivée (incumbent) 2,137 40.33 Municipal Action Group Gilles Côté 527 9.95 Total valid votes 5,299 100 Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.

1978 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Laurier Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Civic Party of Montreal Roger Larivée 3,681 58.99 Montreal Citizens' Movement Louis-André Cadieux 1,483 23.77 Municipal Action Group François Patenaude 1,076 17.24 Total valid votes 6,240 100 Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. Party identifications are taken from Le Devoir, 11 November 1978.

1974 Montreal municipal election results: Councillor, Saint-Jacques, Ward Two Party Candidate Total votes % of total votes Montreal Citizens' Movement Raymond Poulin 6,025 47.19 Civic Party of Montreal Aimé Y. Charron 4,880 38.22 Independent Roger Larivée 1,175 9.20 Democracy Montreal Léo Manseau 688 5.39 Total valid votes 12,768 100 Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. Party affiliations are taken from the Montreal Star, 11 November 1974, A11.

References

1. Ann Laughlin, "MCM has firm grip in most 'Dore country' districts," Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1988, A4.
2. Larivée discovered he was being replaced as a candidate due to a chance meeting with Gilles Lupien, who unknowingly told him that he (Lupien) was being drafted as a Civic Party candidate as the party "want[ed] to unload the guy they had" in the area. See Ingrid Peritz, "For Civic Party, picking candidates is a real shot in the dark," Montreal Gazette, 25 October 1986, A4.
3. "New party wants casinos in Old Montreal," Montreal Gazette, 30 August 1986, A3.