Oka’s council spends less per resident than 86% of Québec’s local municipalities

Who to ask

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

Oka belongs to MRC Deux-Montagnes, a regional county municipality, and to the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal.

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   Oka councilelected November 2025
   Patrick Hardy
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   National Assembly of QuébecMirabel
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   House of CommonsMirabel
   Jean-Denis Garon

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

7 members and how they were elected

One team won seats, Équipe Pascal Quevillon; everyone else on council ran alone. One seat went by acclamation, with a single candidate standing. Oka is split into districts for council seats, while the mayor faces every voter.

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

Pascal Quevillon, the sitting mayor, was beaten by Patrick Hardy. A lead of 114 votes over Pascal Quevillon gave Patrick Hardy the mayor’s seat, with 53% of the votes. 53% of electors voted for mayor, above the 51% median of Québec’s contested mayoral races.

How Oka voted: same source as Councillors, above.

Parliament was last elected on 28 April 2025, and the National Assembly of Québec on 5 October 2026. The next council election in Oka falls on 4 November 2029, the first Sunday in November every four years under the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities. There are no 2025 counts here: Elections Canada’s terms bar their commercial reuse, so 2021 is the latest open result.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Oka is in Mirabel, 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)

Jean-Denis Garon is one of 22 Bloc Québécois MPs from Quebec, where the Liberal Party of Canada has the most seats: 44 of 78.

The MP’s record

Jean-Denis Garon was first elected in 2021; the current Parliament is Jean-Denis Garon’s 2nd. Elections Canada’s transposition of the 2021 vote onto today’s Mirabel puts the Bloc Québécois first at 46%; Jean-Denis Garon 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

Mirabel turned out at 64% in 2021; the country managed 63%. The 2019 vote had elected Simon Marcil of the Bloc Québécois, with 51%. In 2021, Mirabel went to Jean-Denis Garon (Bloc Québécois) on 47%; François Loza (Liberal Party of Canada) finished 14,534 votes behind.

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

At 79%, property taxes count for more of the revenue than the 63% seen across the province. Debt Oka council owes over the long term came to $13.3M, $2,199 a resident, under the median of $2,461. Staff pay and benefits account for 30% of spending. In 2024 the median among Québec’s local municipalities was $2,394 a resident; Oka council spent $1,862. More goes to roads and transit than to anything else: $469 a resident, 25% of all spending.

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

620 residents share each seat on Oka council, more than in 68% of Quebec municipalities.

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