Sept-Îles spends more per resident than 91% of Québec’s local municipalities

Who to ask

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

MRC Sept-Rivières is Sept-Îles’s regional county municipality, which sets the land-use plan the municipalities follow.

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   Sept-Îles councilelected November 2025
   Benoit Méthot
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   National Assembly of QuébecDuplessis
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   House of CommonsCôte-Nord—Kawawachikamach—Nitassinan
   Marilène Gill

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

10 members and how they were elected

No team or party won a seat on Sept-Îles council: every member ran on their own. Each electoral district elects one councillor; the mayor is chosen by all of Sept-Îles.

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

Benoit Méthot came first for mayor on 50% of the votes, 851 more than Patrick Hudon. 35% of electors voted for mayor, below the 51% median of Québec’s contested mayoral races.

How Sept-Îles voted: same source as Councillors, above.

Sept-Îles 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. The National Assembly of Québec was last elected on 5 October 2026, and the House of Commons on 28 April 2025. Elections Canada’s open records end with the 2021 election; its 2025 results are under terms that rule out commercial use.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

For the National Assembly of Québec, Sept-Îles votes in Duplessis, which has one MNA.

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

From Quebec come 78 MPs: 44 for the Liberal Party of Canada, 22 for the Bloc Québécois, Marilène Gill’s party.

The MP’s record

First elected in 2015, Marilène Gill is serving the 4th term of a Commons career. Mapped onto today’s Côte-Nord—Kawawachikamach—Nitassinan, the 2021 vote gives the Bloc Québécois 53%; in 2025 Marilène Gill kept the seat in the same hands.

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

10,779 votes separated Marilène Gill (Bloc Québécois) from Rodrigue Vigneault (Conservative Party of Canada) in Manicouagan in 2021, when the winner took 53%. 54% had elected Marilène Gill there in 2019. At 50%, fewer of Manicouagan voted in 2021 than Canada as a whole (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

More goes to water, sewers and waste than to anything else: $1,114 a resident, 29% of all spending. Pay and benefits made up 36% of spending. Each resident’s share of Sept-Îles council’s 2024 spending came to $3,776, where the middle of Québec’s local municipalities sat at $2,394. At $4,608 per resident, Sept-Îles council’s $113.3M of long-term debt is more than the $2,461 median. Taxes on property make up 79% 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)

A seat on Sept-Îles council covers 2,450 residents; 90% of Quebec municipalities have fewer per seat. No closer places have figures: these lie 42–143 km from Sept-Îles.

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