In 2021, Berthier—Maskinongé went by only 937 votes, narrower than in 96% of ridings

Who to ask

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

Its regional county municipality is MRC D'Autray: the mayors of its municipalities, Lavaltrie’s among them, sit on its council.

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   Lavaltrie councilelected November 2025
   Christian Goulet
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   National Assembly of QuébecBerthier
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   House of CommonsBerthier—Maskinongé
   Yves Perron

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

9 members and how they were elected

Alongside independents, Équipe Joel Latour is the council’s one team. The mayor answers to all of Lavaltrie; every councillor represents a district.

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

The race for mayor went to Christian Goulet with 52%, a lead of 194 over Joel Latour. Fewer electors voted for mayor than in most of Québec: 40%, where the median contested race drew 51%. Christian Goulet was already mayor and kept the seat.

How Lavaltrie voted: same source as Councillors, above.

Counts from April 2025 can’t appear here, since Elections Canada allows only non-commercial reuse of them. Parliament was last elected on 28 April 2025, and the National Assembly of Québec on 5 October 2026. 4 November 2029 is the next council election in Lavaltrie, fixed by the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities for the first Sunday in November every four years.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Lavaltrie is in Berthier, one of the ridings that each elect a MNA to the National Assembly of Québec.

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

The Bloc Québécois, Yves Perron’s party, takes 22 of the 78 seats from Quebec; the Liberal Party of Canada takes 44.

The MP’s record

First elected in 2019, Yves Perron is serving the 3rd term of a Commons career. Elections Canada’s transposition of the 2021 vote onto today’s Berthier—Maskinongé puts the Bloc Québécois first at 36%; Yves Perron 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

Yves Perron won the 2021 race in Berthier—Maskinongé for the Bloc Québécois, polling 35% and beating Ruth Ellen Brosseau (New Democratic Party) by 937 votes. Yves Perron already held it after the 2019 election, won with 38%. In 2021, 65% of electors cast a ballot in Berthier—Maskinongé, 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: $456 a resident, 24% of all spending. Staff pay and benefits account for 30% of spending. Spending by Lavaltrie council came to $1,898 a resident in 2024, under the $2,394 median of Québec’s local municipalities. Debt Lavaltrie council owes over the long term came to $38.3M, $2,421 a resident, under the median of $2,461. Property taxes and payments in lieu brought in 82% of revenue, against 63% across the province’s returns.

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

At 1,780 residents a seat, Lavaltrie council is more thinly spread than 86% of Quebec municipalities.

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