26,940 residents per council seat in Québec, a higher ratio than 99% of Quebec municipalities

Who to ask

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

Outside any MRC, Québec still belongs to the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec.

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   Québec councilelected November 2025
   Bruno Marchand
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   National Assembly of Québec–
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   House of CommonsCharlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles · 63%
   Pierre Paul-Hus
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   House of CommonsBeauport—Limoilou · 25%
   Steeve Lavoie
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   House of CommonsMontmorency—Charlevoix · 12%
   Gabriel Hardy

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

22 members and how they were elected

Québec forte et fière has the largest group, and every member belongs to a team. Québec 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)

With 51% of electors taking part, the vote for mayor beat the Québec median of 51% for contested mayoral races. Bruno Marchand won the race for mayor with 49% of the votes, 56,040 ahead of Stéphane Lachance. Bruno Marchand held on to the mayor’s seat.

How Bourg-Royal voted: same source as Councillors, above.

Voters last chose the National Assembly of Québec on 5 October 2026 and the House of Commons on 28 April 2025. 4 November 2029 is the next council election in Québec, fixed by the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities for the first Sunday in November every four years. Elections Canada’s open records end with the 2021 election; its 2025 results are under terms that rule out commercial use.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Legislatures: their own member pages

The Conservative Party of Canada, Pierre Paul-Hus’s party, takes 11 of the 78 seats from Quebec; the Liberal Party of Canada takes 44.

The MP’s record

Mapped onto today’s Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles, the 2021 vote gives the Conservative Party of Canada 45%; in 2025 Pierre Paul-Hus kept the seat in the same hands. The current Parliament is Pierre Paul-Hus’ 4th, counting from a first win in 2015.

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

Pierre Paul-Hus won the 2021 race in Charlesbourg—Haute-Saint-Charles for the Conservative Party of Canada, polling 45% and beating Marie-Christine Lamontagne (Bloc Québécois) by 11,386 votes. In 2019, Pierre Paul-Hus had won the same riding with 38%.

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: $1,141 a resident, 31% of all spending. Pay and benefits made up 40% of spending. Spending by Québec council reached $3,668 a resident in 2024, well over the $2,394 median of Québec’s local municipalities. Long-term debt at Québec council stood at $2.4 billion, or $4,190 a resident, above the $2,461 median. At 65%, property taxes count for more of the revenue than the 63% seen across the province.

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 Québec council next to nearby councils, the tick marking the provincial median.

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