Bromont municipal election, 2009
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The 2009 Bromont municipal election took place on November 1, 2009, to elect a mayor
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....

 and councillors in Bromont
Bromont, Quebec
Bromont is a city in southwestern Quebec in Canada, 75 kilometres east of Montreal on Autoroute 10, bordering the Eastern Townships at the base of Mount Brome . The population as of the Canada 2006 Census was 6,049....

, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

. Incumbent mayor Pauline Quinlan was re-elected to another term without difficulty.

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. She was elected as mayor of Bromont in 1998, defeating incumbent Robert Desourdy by a significant margin, and was re-elected in 2002
    Bromont municipal election, 2002
    The 2002 Bromont municipal election took place on November 3, 2002, to elect a mayor and councillors in Bromont, Quebec. Incumbent mayor Pauline Quinlan was re-elected to a second mandate without difficulty.-Results:...

    , 2005
    Bromont municipal election, 2005
    The 2005 Bromont municipal election took place on November 6, 2005, to elect a mayor and councillors in Bromont, Quebec. Incumbent mayor Pauline Quinlan was re-elected to a third mandate without difficulty.-Results:...

    , and 2009. Quinlan joined the board of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities
    Federation of Canadian Municipalities
    The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is a civic advocacy group representing many Canadian municipalities. It is an organization with no formal power but significant ability to influence debate and policy, as it is main national lobby group of mayors, councillors and other elected municipal...

     in 2005 and later served as vice-chair of its task force on Rural Advocacy. She has promoted growth in the high-technology sector: Bromont residents were among the first in Canada to have access to interactive television
    Interactive television
    Interactive television describes a number of techniques that allow viewers to interact with television content as they view it.- Definitions :...

    , and the percentage of residents connected to the internet in the early 2000s was well above the provincial average. Her son Mark Quinlan has been a candidate of the Canadian Alliance
    Canadian Alliance
    The Canadian Alliance , formally the Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance , was a Canadian conservative political party that existed from 2000 to 2003. The party was the successor to the Reform Party of Canada and inherited its position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons and held...

     and the Conservative Party of Canada
    Conservative Party of Canada
    The Conservative Party of Canada , is a political party in Canada which was formed by the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. It is positioned on the right of the Canadian political spectrum...

    .


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.


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.
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