A small constituency per seat: 150 residents in Saint-Michel-du-Squatec, fewer than in 96% of Quebec municipalities

Who to ask

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

With its neighbours, Saint-Michel-du-Squatec forms MRC Témiscouata, a regional county municipality whose mayors draw up the regional land-use plan.

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   Saint-Michel-du-Squatec councilelected November 2025
   Raynald Morin
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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

5 members and how they were elected

The voters returned every sitting member. Voters across the municipality choose the mayor and every councillor on Saint-Michel-du-Squatec council alike. All the seats on Saint-Michel-du-Squatec council went to candidates with no team.

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

The 2025 results are left out because elections.ca’s terms forbid commercial reproduction; the open catalogue’s latest is 2021. Saint-Michel-du-Squatec votes next on 4 November 2029: the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities sets municipal elections on the first Sunday in November every four years. Parliament was last elected on 28 April 2025, and the National Assembly of Québec on 5 October 2026.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Saint-Michel-du-Squatec 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)

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

The MP’s record

Bernard Généreux first won a seat in 2009 and, after a spell away, came back to the Commons in 2015. 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.

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

In 2019, Maxime Blanchette-Joncas had won the same riding with 38%. Maxime Blanchette-Joncas won the 2021 race in Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques for the Bloc Québécois, polling 49% and beating Léonie Lajoie (Liberal Party of Canada) by 10,175 votes. Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques turned out at only 61% in 2021; the country managed 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

Staff pay and benefits account for 27% of spending. Saint-Michel-du-Squatec council spent $3,620 per resident in 2024, against a median of $2,394 among Québec’s local municipalities. Roads and transit takes the biggest share, 37%, or $1,353 per resident. Property taxes and payments in lieu brought in 52% of revenue, against 63% across the province’s returns. Debt Saint-Michel-du-Squatec council owes over the long term came to $2.2M, $2,110 a resident, under the median of $2,461.

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

Beside its neighbours, Saint-Michel-du-Squatec council is the bar in colour; the headline above has the comparison with the province. The nearest places to Saint-Michel-du-Squatec with figures are 23–28 km away.

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