One councillor per 29,470 residents: Montréal is more thinly represented than 99% of Quebec municipalities

Who to ask

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

No MRC sits above Montréal; the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal takes in the city.

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   Montréal councilelected November 2025
   Soraya Martinez Ferrada
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   National Assembly of Québec–
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   House of CommonsAhuntsic-Cartierville
   Mélanie Joly

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

65 members and how they were elected

The mayor answers to all of Montréal; every councillor represents a district. Only team candidates won, Ensemble Montréal - Équipe Soraya more than any other.

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

37% of electors voted for mayor, below the 51% median of Québec’s contested mayoral races. The race for mayor went to Soraya Martinez Ferrada with 43%, a lead of 34,383 over Luc Rabouin.

How Saint-Sulpice voted: same source as Councillors, above.

The next council election in Montréal falls on 4 November 2029, the first Sunday in November every four years under the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities. Provincially the last general election was on 5 October 2026, for the National Assembly of Québec; federally, on 28 April 2025. The latest vote shown is 2021: the 2025 counts carry Elections Canada’s non-commercial terms.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Legislatures: their own member pages

The Liberal Party of Canada holds 44 of 78 seats from Quebec, including Mélanie Joly’s.

The MP’s record

Wikidata records Mélanie Joly as Minister of Industry (since 2025), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada (2021–2025) and Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages (2019–2021). Had the 2021 ballots been cast in today’s Ahuntsic-Cartierville, the Liberal Party of Canada would have led with 52%; Mélanie Joly held it for them in 2025. Mélanie Joly was first elected in 2015; the current Parliament is Mélanie Joly’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

Turnout in Ahuntsic-Cartierville reached 64% in 2021, against 63% nationally. Ahuntsic-Cartierville elected Mélanie Joly (Liberal Party of Canada) in 2021: 52% of the vote, a lead of 15,290 over Anna Simonyan (Bloc Québécois). Back in 2019, Mélanie Joly took the riding on 52%.

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

Debt Montréal council owes over the long term came to $14.6 billion, $7,693 a resident, higher than the median of $2,461. Taxes on property make up 50% of what comes in, less than the province-wide 63%. At 41% of spending ($1,906 a resident), roads and transit leads the budget. Spending by Montréal council reached $4,598 a resident in 2024, well over the $2,394 median of Québec’s local municipalities. Salaries and benefits took 46% of the total.

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

The bars put the headline’s figure for Montréal council next to nearby councils, the tick marking the provincial median.

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