Council seats in Laval are spread thin, 20,070 residents each, more than in 99% of Quebec municipalities

Who to ask

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

Laval belongs to no regional county municipality, but it is part of 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 CommonsLaval—Les Îles
   Fayçal El-Khoury

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

Teams share the council with independents; Mouvement lavallois - Équipe Stéphane Boyer has the largest group. Councillors come from districts, one each, and the whole of Laval elects the mayor.

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

The outgoing mayor, Stéphane Boyer, was re-elected. Claude Larochelle finished 36,581 votes behind Stéphane Boyer, who took 59% in the race for mayor. Turnout for mayor was 31%, under the 51% typical of a contested race for mayor in Québec.

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

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

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Legislatures: their own member pages

Fayçal El-Khoury is one of 44 Liberal Party of Canada MPs among the 78 from Quebec.

The MP’s record

The current Parliament is Fayçal El-Khoury’s 4th, counting from a first win in 2015. Had the 2021 ballots been cast in today’s Laval—Les Îles, the Liberal Party of Canada would have led with 49%; Fayçal El-Khoury held it for them in 2025.

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 2019 Fayçal EL-Khoury had won it for the Liberal Party of Canada with 48%. In 2021, Laval—Les Îles went to Fayçal El-Khoury (Liberal Party of Canada) on 49%; Guillaume Jolivet (Bloc Québécois) finished 15,102 votes behind. 62% of electors in Laval—Les Îles voted in 2021, below the 63% turnout across 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

Salaries and benefits took 49% of the total. Each resident’s share of Laval council’s 2024 spending came to $3,228, where the middle of Québec’s local municipalities sat at $2,394. The largest line is roads and transit: 35% of the total, $1,115 a resident. Property taxes and payments in lieu brought in 67% of revenue, against 63% across the province’s returns. At $2,490 per resident, Laval council’s $1.1 billion of long-term debt is more than the $2,461 median.

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

Beside its neighbours, Laval council is the bar in colour; the headline above has the comparison with the province.

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