Per resident, Senneterre spends less than 97% of Québec’s local municipalities

Who to ask

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

With its neighbours, Senneterre forms MRC La Vallée-de-l'Or, a regional county municipality whose mayors draw up the regional land-use plan.

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   Senneterre councilelected November 2025
   Jacline Rouleau
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   National Assembly of QuébecAbitibi-Est
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   House of CommonsAbitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou
   Mandy Gull-Masty

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

Every seat on Senneterre council, the mayor’s included, is chosen by the whole municipality. All the seats on Senneterre council went to candidates with no team.

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

Jacline Rouleau was already mayor and kept the seat. Fewer electors voted for mayor than in most of Québec: 33%, where the median contested race drew 51%. Jacline Rouleau came first for mayor on 59% of the votes, 57 more than Marc Bernier.

How Senneterre voted: same source as Councillors, above.

Counts from April 2025 can’t appear here, since Elections Canada allows only non-commercial reuse of them. Provincially the last general election was on 5 October 2026, for the National Assembly of Québec; federally, on 28 April 2025. Under the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities, Senneterre’s next municipal vote is on 4 November 2029, the first Sunday in November every four years.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Senneterre is in Abitibi-Est, 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)

Mandy Gull-Masty sits with the Liberal Party of Canada, which holds 44 of the 78 seats from Quebec.

The MP’s record

Had the 2021 ballots been cast in today’s Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, the Bloc Québécois would have led with 38%; in 2025 Mandy Gull-Masty took it from them. April 2025 was Mandy Gull-Masty’s first election to the House of Commons.

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 Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou put Sylvie Bérubé (Bloc Québécois) first at 38%, with Lise Kistabish (Liberal Party of Canada) 3,400 votes back. In 2019, Sylvie Bérubé had won the same riding with 36%. In 2021, 45% of electors cast a ballot in Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, under the national 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

At 31% of spending ($470 a resident), roads and transit leads the budget. Spending by Senneterre council came to $1,520 a resident in 2024, under the $2,394 median of Québec’s local municipalities. Property taxes and payments in lieu brought in 76% of revenue, against 63% across the province’s returns. Staff pay and benefits account for 17% of spending.

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

No closer places have figures: these lie 15–39 km from Senneterre. At 170 residents a seat, Senneterre council is more closely spread than 89% of Quebec municipalities.

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