Berthier—Maskinongé was won by 937 votes in 2021, a tighter race than 96% of ridings

Who to ask

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

MRC Maskinongé is Saint-Boniface’s regional county municipality, which sets the land-use plan the municipalities follow.

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   Saint-Boniface councilelected November 2025
   Alain Gélinas
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   National Assembly of QuébecMaskinongé
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   House of CommonsBerthier—Maskinongé
   Yves Perron

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

Saint-Boniface council sits without party lines: none of its members ran for a team. For one seat a single candidate came forward and was acclaimed. All of Saint-Boniface council is elected at large, with each voter helping fill every seat, the mayor’s as well.

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

Alain Gélinas won the race for mayor with 56% of the votes, 257 ahead of Jonathan Radzvicia. Only 49% of electors took part in the vote for mayor, against a Québec median of 51% for contested mayoral races.

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

Elections Canada’s open records end with the 2021 election; its 2025 results are under terms that rule out commercial use. Under the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities, Saint-Boniface’s next municipal vote is on 4 November 2029, the first Sunday in November every four years. The National Assembly of Québec was last elected on 5 October 2026, and the House of Commons on 28 April 2025.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

For the National Assembly of Québec, Saint-Boniface votes in Maskinongé, which has one MNA.

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

The Bloc Québécois, Yves Perron’s party, takes 22 of the 78 seats from Quebec; the Liberal Party of Canada takes 44.

The MP’s record

Yves Perron has sat in the Commons since 2019, now for the 3rd Parliament. Mapped onto today’s Berthier—Maskinongé, the 2021 vote gives the Bloc Québécois 36%; in 2025 Yves Perron kept the seat in the same hands.

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

Back in 2019, Yves Perron took the riding on 38%. 937 votes separated Yves Perron (Bloc Québécois) from Ruth Ellen Brosseau (New Democratic Party) in Berthier—Maskinongé in 2021, when the winner took 35%. At 65%, more of Berthier—Maskinongé 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

Pay and benefits made up 23% of spending. In 2024 the median among Québec’s local municipalities was $2,394 a resident; Saint-Boniface council spent $1,907. At 30% of spending ($565 a resident), roads and transit leads the budget. Property taxes and payments in lieu brought in 78% of revenue, against 63% across the province’s returns. At $2,079 per resident, Saint-Boniface council’s $11.1M of long-term debt is less than the $2,461 median.

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

At 770 residents a seat, Saint-Boniface council is more thinly spread than 72% of Quebec municipalities.

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