Chandler’s mayor: Gilles Daraiche

Who to ask

Green: municipal. Gold: provincial. Grey: federal.

With its neighbours, Chandler forms MRC Le Rocher-Percé, a regional county municipality whose mayors draw up the regional land-use plan.

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   Chandler councilelected November 2025
   Gilles Daraiche
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   National Assembly of QuébecBonaventure
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   House of CommonsGaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj
   Alexis Deschênes

Party colours are neutral on purpose: they tell parties apart and aren’t the parties’ own. MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada

7 members and how they were elected

Chandler is split into districts for council seats, while the mayor faces every voter. A single seat was filled without a contest. All the seats on Chandler council went to candidates with no team.

Councils and results: Résultats des élections municipales générales de 2025, MAMH (CC BY 4.0)

Dominique Giroux finished 1,340 votes behind Gilles Daraiche, who took 68% in the race for mayor. With 60% of electors taking part, the vote for mayor beat the Québec median of 51% for contested mayoral races. The outgoing mayor, Gilles Daraiche, was re-elected.

How Chandler voted: same source as Councillors, above.

This page stops at the 2021 vote: elections.ca keeps the 2025 counts under non-commercial terms. Voters last chose the National Assembly of Québec on 5 October 2026 and the House of Commons on 28 April 2025. 4 November 2029 is the next council election in Chandler, fixed by the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities for the first Sunday in November every four years.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

For the National Assembly of Québec, Chandler votes in Bonaventure, which has one MNA.

Québec ridings: Répertoire des municipalités, MAMH (CC BY 4.0)

The MP’s record

The 2025 general election sent Alexis Deschênes to the Commons for the first time. Mapped onto today’s Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Listuguj, the 2021 vote gives the Bloc Québécois 44%; in 2025 Alexis Deschênes kept the seat in the same hands.

MPs: Wikidata (CC0), 45th Parliament statements, read 7 November 2026; ridings: 2023 Representation Order, Statistics Canada · MPs’ records: Wikidata (CC0), positions held and party memberships, read 8 November 2026

In 2021, 57% of electors cast a ballot in Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, under the national 63%. The 2019 result had favoured Diane Lebouthillier as well, at 42%. In 2021, Gaspésie—Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine went to Diane Lebouthillier (Liberal Party of Canada) on 46%; Guy Bernatchez (Bloc Québécois) finished 2,618 votes behind.

Federal results: Elections Canada, 43rd and 44th general elections and the 44th’s transposition to the 2023 ridings, via open.canada.ca. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada

Property taxes and payments in lieu brought in 76% of revenue, against 63% across the province’s returns. Chandler council’s borrowing is light: $17.9M long term, $2,411 a resident where the median is $2,461. Spending by Chandler council came to $2,323 a resident in 2024, under the $2,394 median of Québec’s local municipalities. Pay and benefits made up 27% of spending. Water, sewers and waste takes the biggest share, 32%, or $746 per resident.

Money: rapport financier and profil financier 2024, ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation (CC BY 4.0)

At 1,050 residents a seat, Chandler council is more thinly spread than 78% of Quebec municipalities. The nearest places to Chandler with figures are 16–23 km away.

Residents: 2021 Census; seats: the province’s council list