One councillor per 170 residents: Lac-Bouchette is more closely represented than 88% of Quebec municipalities

Who to ask

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

MRC Le Domaine-du-Roy is Lac-Bouchette’s regional county municipality, which sets the land-use plan the municipalities follow.

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   Lac-Bouchette councilelected November 2025
   Vital Dumais
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   National Assembly of QuébecRoberval
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   House of CommonsLac-Saint-Jean
   Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe

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

All of Lac-Bouchette council is elected at large, with each voter helping fill every seat, the mayor’s as well. Lac-Bouchette council sits without party lines: none of its members ran for a team.

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

Ghislaine M.-Hudon, the sitting mayor, was beaten by Vital Dumais. A lead of 45 votes over Ghislaine M.-Hudon gave Vital Dumais the mayor’s seat, with 54% of the votes. More electors voted for mayor than in most of Québec: 55%, against a median of 51% where the race was contested.

How Lac-Bouchette voted: same source as Councillors, above.

Under the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities, Lac-Bouchette’s next municipal vote is on 4 November 2029, the first Sunday in November every four years. Voters last chose the National Assembly of Québec on 5 October 2026 and the House of Commons on 28 April 2025. Why not 2025? Elections Canada publishes those counts under non-commercial terms, and its open data stop at the 2021 election.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

For the National Assembly of Québec, Lac-Bouchette votes in Roberval, which has one MNA.

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

Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe is one of 22 Bloc Québécois MPs from Quebec, where the Liberal Party of Canada has the most seats: 44 of 78.

The MP’s record

Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe has sat in the Commons since 2019, now for the 3rd Parliament. Mapped onto today’s Lac-Saint-Jean, the 2021 vote gives the Bloc Québécois 51%; in 2025 Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe 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

Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe was the sitting MP, elected there in 2019 with 44%. Lac-Saint-Jean elected Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe (Bloc Québécois) in 2021: 51% of the vote, a lead of 12,567 over Serge Bergeron (Conservative Party of Canada).

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

At 75%, property taxes count for more of the revenue than the 63% seen across the province. At $957 per resident, Lac-Bouchette council’s $1.1M of long-term debt is less than the $2,461 median. Pay and benefits made up 27% of spending. In 2024 the median among Québec’s local municipalities was $2,394 a resident; Lac-Bouchette council spent $2,512. More goes to water, sewers and waste than to anything else: $696 a resident, 28% of all spending.

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

Beside its neighbours, Lac-Bouchette council is the bar in colour; the headline above has the comparison with the province. Distances here run 22–30 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Lac-Bouchette.

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