Sutton’s council outspends 87% of Québec’s local municipalities, per resident

Who to ask

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

Its regional county municipality is MRC Brome-Missisquoi: the mayors of its municipalities, Sutton’s among them, sit on its council.

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   Sutton councilelected November 2025
   Robert Benoit
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   National Assembly of QuébecBrome-Missisquoi
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   House of CommonsBrome—Missisquoi
   Louis Villeneuve

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

Voters elect a councillor for their own district and a mayor for the whole of Sutton. For one seat a single candidate came forward and was acclaimed. Continuité Sutton is the only team on council; the other members sit as independents.

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

Robert Benoit held on to the mayor’s seat. 59% of electors voted for mayor, above the 51% median of Québec’s contested mayoral races. Winston Bresee finished 465 votes behind Robert Benoit, who took 48% in the race for mayor.

How Sutton voted: same source as Councillors, above.

4 November 2029 is the next council election in Sutton, fixed by the Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities for the first Sunday in November every four years. Provincially the last general election was on 5 October 2026, for the National Assembly of Québec; federally, on 28 April 2025. This page stops at the 2021 vote: elections.ca keeps the 2025 counts under non-commercial terms.

Election dates: the legislatures, MMAH and MAMH

Sutton is in Brome-Missisquoi, 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)

Louis Villeneuve sits with the Liberal Party of Canada, which holds 44 of the 78 seats from Quebec.

The MP’s record

Elections Canada’s transposition of the 2021 vote onto today’s Brome—Missisquoi puts the Liberal Party of Canada first at 35%; Louis Villeneuve held it for the party in 2025. Louis Villeneuve was elected to the Commons for the first time in April 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 2021, 66% of electors cast a ballot in Brome—Missisquoi, more than the national 63%. That was among the tightest results in the country: 3 of 338 ridings were closer. 38% had won it for Lyne Bessette (Liberal Party of Canada) in 2019. Pascale St-Onge won the 2021 race in Brome—Missisquoi for the Liberal Party of Canada, polling 35% and beating Marilou Alarie (Bloc Québécois) by 197 votes.

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 79%, property taxes count for more of the revenue than the 63% seen across the province. Sutton council’s borrowing is on the heavy side: $13M long term, $2,763 a resident where the median is $2,461. At $3,448 for every resident in 2024, Sutton council sits above the $2,394 median of Québec’s local municipalities. Staff pay and benefits account for 32% of spending. More goes to roads and transit than to anything else: $1,037 a resident, 30% of all spending.

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

Only 70% of municipalities in Quebec have fewer seats for their size than Sutton council, at 680 residents each.

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