Council seats in Prévost are spread thin, 2,040 residents each, more than in 87% of Quebec municipalities

Who to ask

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

Prévost belongs to MRC La Rivière-du-Nord, the regional county municipality whose council of mayors adopts the land-use plan for its municipalities.

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   Prévost councilelected November 2025
   Paul Germain
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   National Assembly of QuébecPrévost
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   House of CommonsLes Pays-d'en-Haut
   Tim Watchorn

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

Renouveau prévostois avec Paul Germain has the largest group, and every member belongs to a team. Voters elect a councillor for their own district and a mayor for the whole of Prévost.

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

Paul Germain held on to the mayor’s seat. 47% of electors voted for mayor, below the 51% median of Québec’s contested mayoral races. Nicolas Toupin finished 542 votes behind Paul Germain, who took 55% in the race for mayor.

How Prévost voted: same source as Councillors, above.

The open federal catalogue ends at 2021; the 2025 results sit on elections.ca under terms that bar commercial use. The next council election in Prévost 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.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Prévost is in the riding of the same name, 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)

Tim Watchorn sits with the Liberal Party of Canada, which holds 44 of the 78 seats from Quebec.

The MP’s record

Elections Canada’s transposition of the 2021 vote onto today’s Les Pays-d'en-Haut puts the Bloc Québécois first at 48%: Tim Watchorn won it away from them in 2025. The 2025 general election sent Tim Watchorn to the Commons for the first time.

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 2019 result had favoured Rhéal Fortin as well, at 52%. Rivière-du-Nord elected Rhéal Fortin (Bloc Québécois) in 2021: 52% of the vote, a lead of 17,176 over Theodora Bajkin (Liberal Party of Canada). At 59%, fewer of Rivière-du-Nord voted in 2021 than Canada as a whole (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

Staff pay and benefits account for 27% of spending. Each resident’s share of Prévost council’s 2024 spending came to $2,082, where the middle of Québec’s local municipalities sat at $2,394. More goes to roads and transit than to anything else: $615 a resident, 30% of all spending. Local taxpayers carry a bigger share than elsewhere: 79% of revenue, where the province’s returns show 63%. Prévost council carried $46.6M of long-term debt, $3,339 per resident against a typical $2,461.

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 Prévost council stands.

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