Saint-Zotique’s council spends less per resident than 91% of Québec’s local municipalities

Who to ask

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

Its regional county municipality is MRC Vaudreuil-Soulanges: the mayors of its municipalities, Saint-Zotique’s among them, sit on its council.

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   Saint-Zotique councilelected November 2025
   Jean-Pierre Daoust
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   National Assembly of QuébecSoulanges
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   House of CommonsBeauharnois—Salaberry—Soulanges—Huntingdon
   Claude DeBellefeuille

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-Zotique council: every member ran on their own. Saint-Zotique is split into districts for council seats, while the mayor faces every voter.

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

Jean-Pierre Daoust came first for mayor on 53% of the votes, 170 more than Paul Forget. 40% of electors voted for mayor, below the 51% median of Québec’s contested mayoral races.

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

Counts from April 2025 can’t appear here, since Elections Canada allows only non-commercial reuse of them. Saint-Zotique 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. Voters last chose the National Assembly of Québec on 5 October 2026 and the House of Commons on 28 April 2025.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Saint-Zotique 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)

The Liberal Party of Canada leads Quebec with 44 of 78 seats; Claude DeBellefeuille is among the 22 from the Bloc Québécois.

The MP’s record

Claude DeBellefeuille first won a seat in 2006 and, after a spell away, came back to the Commons in 2019. Elections Canada’s transposition of the 2021 vote onto today’s Beauharnois—Salaberry—Soulanges—Huntingdon puts the Bloc Québécois first at 48%; Claude DeBellefeuille 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

The 2021 count in Salaberry—Suroît put Claude Debellefeuille (Bloc Québécois) first at 48%, with Linda Gallant (Liberal Party of Canada) 12,543 votes back. In 2019, Claude Debellefeuille had won the same riding with 48%.

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

At 24% of spending ($416 a resident), water, sewers and waste leads the budget. In 2024 the median among Québec’s local municipalities was $2,394 a resident; Saint-Zotique council spent $1,733. Staff pay and benefits account for 33% of spending. Debt Saint-Zotique council owes over the long term came to $25M, $2,443 a resident, under the median of $2,461. Property taxes and payments in lieu brought in 70% of revenue, against 63% across the province’s returns.

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

At 1,490 residents a seat, Saint-Zotique council is more thinly spread than 83% of Quebec municipalities.

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