69% of electors voted in Beloeil—Chambly in 2021, more than in 90% of Canada’s ridings

Who to ask

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

Saint-Jean-Baptiste belongs to MRC La Vallée-du-Richelieu, a regional county municipality, and to the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal.

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   Saint-Jean-Baptiste councilelected November 2025
   Marilyn Nadeau
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   National Assembly of QuébecBorduas
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   House of CommonsBeloeil—Chambly
   Yves-François Blanchet

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

All the seats on Saint-Jean-Baptiste council went to candidates with no team. For one seat a single candidate came forward and was acclaimed. The mayor answers to all of Saint-Jean-Baptiste; every councillor represents a district.

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

Marilyn Nadeau held on to the mayor’s seat. Marilyn Nadeau came first for mayor on 56% of the votes, 325 more than Martin St-Gelais. With 51% of electors taking part, the vote for mayor beat the Québec median of 51% for contested mayoral races.

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

4 November 2029 is the next council election in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, fixed by the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities for the first Sunday in November every four years. Voters last chose the National Assembly of Québec on 5 October 2026 and the House of Commons on 28 April 2025. 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

The riding is Borduas: it sends one MNA to the National Assembly of Québec, and Saint-Jean-Baptiste votes in it.

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

In Quebec, Yves-François Blanchet belongs to a minority: the Bloc Québécois has 22 of 78 seats, the Liberal Party of Canada 44.

The MP’s record

Yves-François Blanchet has sat in the Commons since 2019, now for the 3rd Parliament. On today’s boundaries, the 2021 vote in Beloeil—Chambly would have gone to the Bloc Québécois with 54%, and Yves-François Blanchet kept it for them in 2025. Earlier, Yves-François Blanchet held a seat in the National Assembly of Québec.

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

19,176 votes separated Yves-François Blanchet (Bloc Québécois) from Marie-Chantal Hamel (Liberal Party of Canada) in Beloeil—Chambly in 2021, when the winner took 53%. Yves-François Blanchet was the sitting MP, elected there in 2019 with 50%.

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 water, sewers and waste, at $762 per resident and 27% of the total. Each resident’s share of Saint-Jean-Baptiste council’s 2024 spending came to $2,793, where the middle of Québec’s local municipalities sat at $2,394. Of every dollar spent, 37% went on pay and benefits. At $3,029 per resident, Saint-Jean-Baptiste council’s $9.8M of long-term debt is more than the $2,461 median. Taxes on property make up 67% of what comes in, more than the province-wide 63%.

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

480 residents share each seat on Saint-Jean-Baptiste council, more than in 61% of Quebec municipalities.

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