- Bromont municipal election, 2009
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The 2009 Bromont municipal election took place on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor and councillors in Bromont, Quebec. Incumbent mayor Pauline Quinlan was re-elected to another term without difficulty.[1]
Results
2009 Bromont election, Mayor of Bromont Candidate Total votes % of total votes (x)Pauline Quinlan 2,205 75.90 Gilles Duchesne 700 24.10 Total valid votes 2,905 100.00 - Pauline Quinlan has been a teacher, education consultant, and school principal.[2] She was elected as mayor of Bromont in 1998, defeating incumbent Robert Desourdy by a significant margin, and was re-elected in 2002, 2005, and 2009.[3] Quinlan joined the board of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in 2005 and later served as vice-chair of its task force on Rural Advocacy.[4] She has promoted growth in the high-technology sector: Bromont residents were among the first in Canada to have access to interactive television, and the percentage of residents connected to the internet in the early 2000s was well above the provincial average.[5] Her son Mark Quinlan has been a candidate of the Canadian Alliance and the Conservative Party of Canada.[6]
2009 Bromont election, Councillor, District One Candidate Total votes % of total votes (x)Jean-Marc Maltais 298 61.44 Jean McMaster 187 38.56 Total valid votes 485 100.00 2009 Bromont election, Councillor, District Two Candidate Total votes % of total votes Marie-Claude Cabana 284 52.01 (x)Alain Chénier 262 47.99 Total valid votes 546 100.00 2009 Bromont election, Councillor, District Three Candidate Total votes % of total votes Diane Perron 238 57.63 (x)Onil Couture 175 42.37 Total valid votes 413 100.00 2009 Bromont election, Councillor, District Four Candidate Total votes % of total votes Marie-Ève Lagacé 435 64.93 Sylvain Cormier 106 15.82 Simon Gnocchini Messier 65 9.70 Pierre Brassard 64 9.55 Total valid votes 670 100.00 - Marie-Ève Lagacé was chair of the Comité consultatif de la famille de Bromont and a member of the council to establish the École La Chantignole before running for office.[7]
2009 Bromont election, Councillor, District Five Candidate Total votes % of total votes Jacques Lapensée 274 81.07 Maurice Desruisseaux 64 28.93 Total valid votes 338 100.00 2009 Bromont election, Councillor, District Six Candidate Total votes % of total votes Anie Perrault 214 50.23 Claude Nadeau 155 36.38 Michel M. Champagne 57 13.38 Total valid votes 426 100.00 Source: Simon-Olivier Lorange, Confiance renouvelée en Pauline Quinlan, 2 November 2009, accessed 18 November 2010.
References
- ^ Simon-Olivier Lorange, Confiance renouvelée en Pauline Quinlan, 2 November 2009, accessed 18 November 2010.
- ^ Élections Bromont 2005 - Candidatures, Pauline Quinlan, City of Bromont, accessed 23 November 2010.
- ^ "Quebec election results stay true to polls," Montreal Gazette, 3 November, A8.
- ^ "Media Advisory - FCM to Release a Recommendations Report that Examines the Growing Crisis in Rural Canada and how this Crisis Threatens to Weaken Canada's National Economy" [presented], Canada NewsWire, 22 May 2009, 14:16; Joshua Bleser, "Federation of Canadian Municipalities meets in Bromont," Sherbrooke Record, 1 March 2006, p. 5.
- ^ Maurice Crossfield, "Bromont taking the lead in the information age," Sherbrooke Record, 5 June 2001, p. 1; Maurice Crossfield, "Bromont's innovation goes international," Sherbrooke Record, 27 November 2003, p. 2.
- ^ Rita Legault, "Harper seeks majority, election expected," Sherbrooke Record, 5 September 2008, p. 4.
- ^ Marie-Ève Lagacé candidate dans le quartier Shefford, cowansville.enregion.ca, 8 September 2009, accessed 18 November 2010.
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