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

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. A lead of 36,581 votes over Claude Larochelle gave Stéphane Boyer the mayor’s seat, with 59% of the votes. Stéphane Boyer was already mayor and kept the seat.

How Sainte-Dorothée voted: same source as Councillors, above.

Elections Canada’s open records end with the 2021 election; its 2025 results are under terms that rule out commercial use. The last general elections came on 5 October 2026 for the National Assembly of Québec and on 28 April 2025 for Parliament. 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.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Legislatures: their own member pages

Of the 78 MPs from Quebec, 44 are with the Liberal Party of Canada, Fayçal El-Khoury among them.

The MP’s record

On today’s boundaries, the 2021 vote in Laval—Les Îles would have gone to the Liberal Party of Canada with 49%, and Fayçal El-Khoury kept it for them in 2025. Fayçal El-Khoury was first elected in 2015; the current Parliament is Fayçal El-Khoury’s 4th.

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

The 2021 count in Laval—Les Îles put Fayçal El-Khoury (Liberal Party of Canada) first at 49%, with Guillaume Jolivet (Bloc Québécois) 15,102 votes back. The 2019 vote had elected Fayçal EL-Khoury of the Liberal Party of Canada, with 48%. Turnout in Laval—Les Îles was 62% in 2021, against 63% nationally.

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

Roads and transit takes the biggest share, 35%, or $1,115 per resident. 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. Of every dollar spent, 49% went on pay and benefits. Debt Laval council owes over the long term came to $1.1 billion, $2,490 a resident, higher than the median of $2,461. At 67%, property taxes count for more of the revenue than the 63% seen across the province.

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

Nearby councils are drawn here for scale; the headline already says where Laval council stands.

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