20,070 residents per council seat in Laval, a higher ratio than 99% of Quebec municipalities

Who to ask

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

Outside any MRC, Laval still belongs to the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal.

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   Laval councilelected November 2025
   Stéphane Boyer
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   National Assembly of Québec–
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   House of CommonsVimy
   Annie Koutrakis

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

23 members and how they were elected

Laval is split into districts for council seats, while the mayor faces every voter. Several teams won seats, Mouvement lavallois - Équipe Stéphane Boyer the most; independents sit alongside them.

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

31% of electors voted for mayor, below the 51% median of Québec’s contested mayoral races. Claude Larochelle finished 36,581 votes behind Stéphane Boyer, who took 59% in the race for mayor. The outgoing mayor, Stéphane Boyer, was re-elected.

How Laval-des-Rapides voted: same source as Councillors, above.

Laval votes next on 4 November 2029: the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities sets municipal elections on the first Sunday in November every four years. Parliament was last elected on 28 April 2025, and the National Assembly of Québec on 5 October 2026. 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

Legislatures: their own member pages

Annie Koutrakis’s party, the Liberal Party of Canada, has 44 of the 78 seats from Quebec.

The MP’s record

On today’s boundaries, the 2021 vote in Vimy would have gone to the Liberal Party of Canada with 50%, and Annie Koutrakis kept it for them in 2025. First elected in 2019, Annie Koutrakis is serving the 3rd term of a Commons career.

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

Annie Koutrakis already held it after the 2019 election, won with 48%. Annie Koutrakis won the 2021 race in Vimy for the Liberal Party of Canada, polling 50% and beating Rachid Bandou (Bloc Québécois) by 13,505 votes.

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

Of every dollar spent, 49% went on pay and benefits. In 2024 the median among Québec’s local municipalities was $2,394 a resident; Laval council spent $3,228. More goes to roads and transit than to anything else: $1,115 a resident, 35% of all spending. At 67%, property taxes count for more of the revenue than the 63% seen across the province. Laval council carried $1.1 billion of long-term debt, $2,490 per resident against a typical $2,461.

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

How Laval council compares is at the top of the page; here it stands beside its neighbours.

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