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Maude Marquis-Bissonnette

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Maude Marquis-Bissonnette
Marquis-Bissonnette in 2024
23rd Mayor of Gatineau
Assumed office
June 18, 2024
Preceded byDaniel Champagne (acting)
Leader of Action Gatineau
Assumed office
April 10, 2024
Preceded bySteve Moran (interim)
In office
April 25, 2021 – December 22, 2021
Preceded byMaxime Pedneaud-Jobin
Succeeded bySteve Moran (interim)
Gatineau City Councillor
In office
November 14, 2017 – November 7, 2021
Preceded byMaxime Tremblay
Succeeded byBettyna Belizaire
ConstituencyPlateau District
Personal details
Political partyAction Gatineau
SpouseAlex Van Dieren
Residence(s)Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Alma materUniversité de Montréal (BSc)
École nationale d'administration publique (MPA)
Carleton University (PhD)
OccupationUniversity professor

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.

Electoral record

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2024 Gatineau mayoral by-election
Resignation of France Bélisle
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]
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[4] and Élections Québec[5]
2017 Gatineau municipal election: Plateau
Party Candidate Popular vote Expenditures
Votes % ±%
Action Gatineau Maude Marquis-Bissonnette Acclaimed none listed
Independent Patrick Doyon[6] 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

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  1. ^ "Maude Marquis-Bissonnette élue mairesse, Action Gatineau frôle la majorité au conseil" (in Canadian French). Le Droit. Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  2. ^ "2024 municipal by-election – Mayoral results" (PDF). City of Gatineau. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
  3. ^ "Election expenses reports". City of Gatineau. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
  4. ^ "2021 municipal election – Results". City of Gatineau. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  5. ^ "Summary of election expenses - Municipal". Élections Québec. Retrieved February 26, 2024.
  6. ^ Provencher, Norman (October 28, 2017). "Gatineau council candidate acclaimed winner after opponent withdraws". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved June 13, 2024.
  7. ^ "Élection 2017-2021 — Ville de Gatineau" (PDF) (in Canadian French). City of Gatineau. Retrieved June 13, 2024.