Projet Montreal took the lead again in Montreal’s most populous borough, Côte-des-Neiges – Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, on Monday morning. Former opposition leader at town hall, Lionel Perez, so far seemed to be heading for victory.
At the start of the day, when there were only a few boxes left to scrutinize, the candidate of the Ensemble Montréal – Équipe Denis Coderre team had indeed obtained 193 more votes than Gracia Kasoki Katahwa, who represented Mayor Valérie’s Montreal Project. Plant.
But the options for victory completely changed sides with only one box left to count. By late morning, Kasoki Katahwa now had 43 votes more than Lionel Perez.
In Outremont, another Montreal borough where the results of the vote were delayed on Monday, it was the candidate for Denis Coderre’s team who finally won by a tiny majority of 23 votes, according to the latest official count ( 59 polling stations counted out of 59). Laurent Desbois obtained 4,151 votes against 4,128 votes that went to Philippe Tomlinson of Projet Montréal.
The participation rate in Outremont was 56%, which is significantly higher than that of Côte-des-Neiges – Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, which hovers around 32%.