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.

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 CommonsMarc-Aurèle-Fortin
   Carlos Leitão

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

Each electoral district elects one councillor; the mayor is chosen by all of Laval. Mouvement lavallois - Équipe Stéphane Boyer is the largest of the teams on council, and some members sit as independents.

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

Stéphane Boyer held on to the mayor’s seat. Claude Larochelle finished 36,581 votes behind Stéphane Boyer, who took 59% in the race for mayor. Fewer electors voted for mayor than in most of Québec: 31%, where the median contested race drew 51%.

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

Under the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities, Laval’s next municipal vote is on 4 November 2029, the first Sunday in November every four years. Provincially the last general election was on 5 October 2026, for the National Assembly of Québec; federally, on 28 April 2025. The open federal catalogue ends at 2021; the 2025 results sit on elections.ca under terms that bar commercial use.

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, Carlos Leitão among them.

The MP’s record

April 2025 was Carlos Leitão’s first election to the House of Commons. Elections Canada’s transposition of the 2021 vote onto today’s Marc-Aurèle-Fortin puts the Liberal Party of Canada first at 44%; Carlos Leitão held it for the party 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

Marc-Aurèle-Fortin elected Yves Robillard (Liberal Party of Canada) in 2021: 44% of the vote, a lead of 6,937 over Manon D. Lacharité (Bloc Québécois). 45% had elected Yves Robillard there in 2019. In 2021, 67% of electors cast a ballot in Marc-Aurèle-Fortin, more than the national 63%.

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

More goes to roads and transit than to anything else: $1,115 a resident, 35% of all spending. Staff pay and benefits account for 49% of spending. Spending by Laval council reached $3,228 a resident in 2024, well over the $2,394 median of Québec’s local municipalities. Laval council’s borrowing is on the heavy side: $1.1 billion long term, $2,490 a resident where the median is $2,461. Local taxpayers carry a bigger share than elsewhere: 67% of revenue, where the province’s returns show 63%.

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

The headline above gives the figure; the bars set Laval council beside nearby councils, with the provincial median as the tick.

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