Each seat on Saguenay’s council stands for 9,500 residents, more than in 99% of Quebec municipalities

Who to ask

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

No MRC sits above Saguenay, which exercises a regional county municipality’s powers on its own.

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   Saguenay councilelected November 2025
   Luc Boivin
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   National Assembly of QuébecDubuc · Chicoutimi · Jonquière
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   House of CommonsChicoutimi—Le Fjord · 52%
   Richard Martel
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   House of CommonsJonquière · 48%
   Mario Simard

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

16 members and how they were elected

Saguenay is split into districts for council seats, while the mayor faces every voter. Saguenay council sits without party lines: none of its members ran for a team.

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

The outgoing mayor, Julie Dufour, lost the seat to Luc Boivin. The race for mayor went to Luc Boivin with 45%, a lead of 232 over Andrée Laforest. More electors voted for mayor than in most of Québec: 56%, against a median of 51% where the race was contested.

How Saguenay voted: same source as Councillors, above.

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

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Each of these ridings elects its own MNA to the National Assembly of Québec, so Saguenay has more than one. The Répertoire lists the ridings without populations, so the page can’t say how much of the town each one covers.

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

Of the 78 seats from Quebec, the Liberal Party of Canada holds 44, and Richard Martel’s Conservative Party of Canada has 11.

The MP’s record

Richard Martel has sat in the Commons since 2018, now for the 4th Parliament. Had the 2021 ballots been cast in today’s Chicoutimi—Le Fjord, the Conservative Party of Canada would have led with 40%; Richard Martel held it for them 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

Turnout in Chicoutimi—Le Fjord reached 65% in 2021, against 63% nationally. In 2021, Chicoutimi—Le Fjord went to Richard Martel (Conservative Party of Canada) on 41%; Julie Bouchard (Bloc Québécois) finished 3,201 votes behind. Richard Martel already held it after the 2019 election, won with 37%.

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

Saguenay council carried $718.9M of long-term debt, $4,829 per resident against a typical $2,461. At 67%, property taxes count for more of the revenue than the 63% seen across the province. Roads and transit takes the biggest share, 23%, or $778 per resident. Each resident’s share of Saguenay council’s 2024 spending came to $3,359, where the middle of Québec’s local municipalities sat at $2,394. Salaries and benefits took 38% of the total.

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

How Saguenay council compares is at the top of the page; here it stands beside its neighbours.

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