88% of Québec’s local municipalities spend more per resident than Saint-Antonin

Who to ask

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

With its neighbours, Saint-Antonin forms MRC Rivière-du-Loup, a regional county municipality whose mayors draw up the regional land-use plan.

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   Saint-Antonin councilelected November 2025
   Martine Saint-Pierre
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   National Assembly of QuébecRivière-du-Loup--Témiscouata
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   House of CommonsCôte-du-Sud—Rivière-du-Loup—Kataskomiq—Témiscouata
   Bernard Généreux

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

No team or party won a seat on Saint-Antonin council: every member ran on their own. The mayor answers to all of Saint-Antonin; every councillor represents a district. None of the members elected had sat on the outgoing council.

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

49% of electors voted for mayor, below the 51% median of Québec’s contested mayoral races. Denis Fortin won the race for mayor with 55% of the votes, 538 ahead of Alain Castonguay.

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

Provincially the last general election was on 5 October 2026, for the National Assembly of Québec; federally, on 28 April 2025. Councils are elected on the first Sunday in November every four years, says the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities, so Saint-Antonin votes next on 4 November 2029. Counts from April 2025 can’t appear here, since Elections Canada allows only non-commercial reuse of them.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Saint-Antonin is in Rivière-du-Loup--Témiscouata, 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)

The Conservative Party of Canada, Bernard Généreux’s party, takes 11 of the 78 seats from Quebec; the Liberal Party of Canada takes 44.

The MP’s record

Elections Canada’s transposition of the 2021 vote onto today’s Côte-du-Sud—Rivière-du-Loup—Kataskomiq—Témiscouata puts the Conservative Party of Canada first at 45%; Bernard Généreux held it for the party in 2025. Bernard Généreux first won a seat in 2009 and, after a spell away, came back to the Commons 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

The 2021 count in Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup put Bernard Généreux (Conservative Party of Canada) first at 50%, with Simon Bérubé (Bloc Québécois) 11,568 votes back. In 2019, Bernard Généreux had won the same riding with 42%. In 2021, 62% of electors cast a ballot in Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, under the national 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

No service costs more than roads and transit, at $629 per resident and 35% of the total. Staff pay and benefits account for 29% of spending. Each resident’s share of Saint-Antonin council’s 2024 spending came to $1,808, where the middle of Québec’s local municipalities sat at $2,394. Saint-Antonin council carried $3.7M of long-term debt, $823 per resident against a typical $2,461. Local taxpayers carry a bigger share than elsewhere: 76% of revenue, where the province’s returns show 63%.

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

At 660 residents a seat, Saint-Antonin council is more thinly spread than 69% of Quebec municipalities.

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