Montreal election 2025: Prepare for recounts in close races

Expect potential recounts in several Montreal boroughs and island suburbs due to tight winning margins, including some as slim as one or two votes and even a tie.

In Lachine, the borough mayor position was decided by just one vote. Julie-Pascale Provost, the Ensemble Montréal candidate, beat incumbent Maja Vodanovic of Projet Montréal in that contest with 5,062 votes to 5,061. Officials rejected 287 ballots.

In the Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough, Ensemble Montréal, the party of elected Montreal mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada, and Luc Rabouin's Projet Montréal were neck and neck in the Côte-des-Neiges district. Projet Montréal candidate Emilie Brière edged out Ensemble Montréal's Yvonne Nguyen by just two votes to secure the city council seat. The election saw 113 ballots thrown out.

In the Parc-Extension district of the Villeray—St-Michel—Parc-Extension borough long-serving city councillor Mary Deros of Ensemble Montréal fell short by six votes to Projet Montréal's Elvira Carhuallanqui. Officials rejected 211 ballots in this race.

Claude Pinard, who Martinez Ferrada chose to lead the city executive committee won his city council seat. He beat Projet Montréal's Robert Beaudry by 13 votes in the Saint-Jacques district of the Ville-Marie borough.

Some races were tight, but none as close as a city council seat in the demerged island suburb of Montreal-East. Audrey Bordeleau and Julie Larivée, both running for District 1, ended up with 81 votes each. The election saw 10 rejected ballots. Just over a third of the district's 517 eligible voters showed up to cast their ballots.

A recount is on the horizon for the island suburb of Côte St-Luc where current mayor Mitchell Brownstein edged out his sole challenger, David Tordjman, by 50 votes. Out of 8,646 ballots cast, 230 were thrown out