2,540 residents per council seat in Saint-Lazare, a higher ratio than 91% of Quebec municipalities

Who to ask

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

Saint-Lazare belongs to MRC Vaudreuil-Soulanges, a regional county municipality, and to the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal.

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   Saint-Lazare councilelected November 2025
   Geneviève Lachance
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   National Assembly of QuébecSoulanges
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   House of CommonsVaudreuil
   Peter Schiefke

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

9 members and how they were elected

Saint-Lazare is split into districts for council seats, while the mayor faces every voter. No team or party won a seat on Saint-Lazare council: every member ran on their own.

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

The outgoing mayor, Geneviève Lachance, was re-elected. 36% of electors voted for mayor, below the 51% median of Québec’s contested mayoral races. François Beaulne finished 2,394 votes behind Geneviève Lachance, who took 63% in the race for mayor.

How Saint-Lazare 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. The last general elections came on 5 October 2026 for the National Assembly of Québec and on 28 April 2025 for Parliament. Councils are elected on the first Sunday in November every four years, says the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities, so Saint-Lazare votes next on 4 November 2029.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Saint-Lazare is in Soulanges, 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)

In Quebec, 44 of 78 ridings are held by the Liberal Party of Canada, the party Peter Schiefke sits with.

The MP’s record

Elections Canada’s transposition of the 2021 vote onto today’s Vaudreuil puts the Liberal Party of Canada first at 47%; Peter Schiefke held it for the party in 2025. First elected in 2015, Peter Schiefke is serving the 4th term of a Commons career.

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

At 67%, more of Vaudreuil—Soulanges voted in 2021 than Canada as a whole (63%). In 2019, Peter Schiefke had won the same riding with 47%. The 2021 count in Vaudreuil—Soulanges put Peter Schiefke (Liberal Party of Canada) first at 46%, with Thierry Vadnais-Lapierre (Bloc Québécois) 15,693 votes back.

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

Local taxpayers carry a bigger share than elsewhere: 78% of revenue, where the province’s returns show 63%. Saint-Lazare council’s borrowing is light: $48.8M long term, $2,144 a resident where the median is $2,461. Staff pay and benefits account for 36% of spending. Saint-Lazare council spent $1,784 per resident in 2024, against a median of $2,394 among Québec’s local municipalities. Roads and transit takes the biggest share, 27%, or $489 per resident.

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

The headline above gives the figure; the bars set Saint-Lazare council beside nearby councils, with the provincial median as the tick.

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