Gatineau byelection sees 33.06% voter turnout
Sophie Demers
A total of 67,118 residents out of 203,032 registered voters took to the polls Sunday, June 9 in Gatineau’s byelection. This 33.06% voter turnout is close to the previous 2022 municipal election turnout which totaled at 35.11%. There were a total of 379 rejected ballots.
Mayoral election vote breakdown:
- Maude Marquis-Bissonnette, Action Gatineau: 27,833 votes (41.70 %) ELECTED
- Yves Ducharme, Independent: 20,600 votes (30.87%)
- Olive Kamanyana, Independent: 7,253 votes (10.87%)
- Daniel Feeny, Independent: 6,539 votes (9.80%)
- Stéphane Bisson, Independent: 3,580 votes (5.36%)
- Rémi Bergeron, Independent: 499 votes (0.75%)
- Mathieu Saint-Jean, Independent: 485 (0.65%)
Voters also voted in a new municipal councillor for the Carrefour-de-l'Hôpital district after Olive Kamanyana stepped down to run in the Mayoral race. Of the 9,305 registered voters in the district, 3,774 citizens voted. This equates to a 40.56% voter turnout. There were 144 rejected ballots.
- Catherine Craig-St-Louis, Action Gatineau: 1,516 votes (41.76%) ELECTED
- Marie-Pier Lacroix, Independent: 1,168 votes (32.18%)
- Kethlande Pierre, Independent: 946 votes (26.06%)