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🍁 Montreal's Political Landscape Shifts, but Liberal Stronghold Remains 🍁

🗳 2024 Canadian Federal Election Update:

Montreal stays blue, as the Trudeau troops solidify their hold on the city.

In a surprising, yet not entirely unexpected turn, Montreal still stands strong with a robust Liberal majority. Prime Minister Mark Carney's soldiers have successfully kept their frontiers intact, as the Neo-Democrats narrowly avoid embarrassment, and the Bloc Quebecois suffers a slight setback, losing a seat they gained from the Trudeau administration last year.

As of the election's conclusion, the Quebec metropolis is poised to have a staggering total of 17 Liberal ridings, one more than before the election.

Following the departure of several high-profile party members, Montreal welcomes some fresh faces. Leading the pack is Marjorie Michel, who takes over from Justin Trudeau in Papineau, succeeding him as the riding's representative. With a career in politics dating back to 2008, Michel has advised political heavyweights, including Jean-Yves Duclos and Trudeau himself. Further west on the island, Claude Guay returns as the Liberal representative in LaSalle-Emard-Verdun, toppling the Bloc Quebecois' Louis-Philippe Sauvé, who had won a by-election in 2024.

Over in Hochelaga-Rosemont-Est, newcomer Gabrielle Ménard replaces Soraya Martinez Ferrada and assumes the reins of the Liberal party. Ferrada, a former local representative since 2019, recently announced her mayoral campaign in February and vacated her seat. Nearby, in Honoré-Mercier, Eric St-Pierre, the director-general of the Familial Trottier Foundation, is set to take over from Pablo Rodriguez, the former minister and Trudeau lieutenant who is currently vying for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP).

Making headlines in Montreal-Nord, city councilor Abdelhaq Sari clinches the Liberal nomination in Bourassa, following in the footsteps of Emmanuel Dubourg, who has been the area's representative for nearly a decade.

Boulerice holds on, Bloc Quebecois loses ground

The only Quebecous NDP MP, Alexandre Boulerice, who was first elected in 2011 during the famous "Orange Wave," successfully defends his seat. Acting as the NDP's deputy leader since 2019, Mr. Boulerice remains the lone NDP MP in Quebec.

In a similar showing, Mario Beaulieu, the Bloc Quebecois MP representing La Pointe-de-l'Île, is Montreal's lone Bloc MP, following the defeat of Louis-Philippe Sauvè. In recent years, this veteran politician has twice served as the party's leader, first between 2014 and 2015, and then again between 2018 and 2019.

Mount Royal featured a tight race between Conservative lawyer Neil Oberman and Liberal incumbent Anthony Housefather. Housefather ultimately secured his victory, though Oberman proved to be a formidable contender, making waves with his legal actions against pro-Palestinian encampments on campuses.

Housefather's victory would have marked the first change in party representation in the Mont-Royal riding in 37 years, as the Conservative Party of Canada last held a seat in the metropolis back in 1988, when Gerry Weiner represented Dollard (later Pierrefonds-Dollard) under the government of Brian Mulroney.

Former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau was the Member of Parliament for Mont-Royal for nearly 20 years, and Mr. Housefather has represented the riding since 2015.

Pedneault Fails to Make an Impact

In other Montreal ridings, most incumbent Liberal MPs have managed to maintain their seats, including Melanie Joly, Marc Miller, Steven Guilbeault, and Rachel Bendayan. Bendayan, who has been Outremont's representative since 2019, found herself up against Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault.

Originally a journalist and humanitarian worker, Mr. Pedneault made the news during the campaign for denouncing the "undemocratic" decision by the Leaders' Debate Commission, who excluded him from the debates due to the Green Party not having candidates in at least 90% of the ridings.

As it stands, it remains unclear which Montreal MPs will obtain or retain ministerial posts. Most have remained tight-lipped on the subject, citing it as the Prime Minister's decision.

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