Équipe Andrée Champoux pour Verdun

Équipe Andrée Champoux pour Verdun (EAC) (English: Team Andrée Champoux for Verdun) is a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The party contested seats on the Verdun borough council in the 2013 Montreal municipal election.

Party leader

As its name implies, EAC is led by Andrée Champoux, who was also its candidate for borough mayor in 2013. Champoux had previously been elected as a borough councillor for Champlain–L'Île-des-Sœurs in the 2009 Montreal municipal election as a candidate of Union Montreal. She left the party on December 4, 2012, after its leader, Gérald Tremblay, resigned from office amid scandal.[1]

When Verdun borough mayor Claude Trudel also resigned from office in the same period, Champoux put forward her name to become his successor. She was defeated by city councillor Ginette Marotte in a four-to-two vote among the remaining borough council members.[2]

2013 election

After serving for several months as an independent, Champoux formed EAC in 2013. The party's campaign slogan in that year's municipal election was «citoyens d’abord» (English: "citizens first").[3] During the campaign, Champoux outlined her party's approaches to subjects such as public transit on Nuns' Island and poverty reduction.[4]

She was defeated in the mayoral contest, and none of the EAC's candidates for city council and borough council were elected.

Election results

Electoral District Eligible voters Position Turnout Candidates   Incumbent Result
  Équipe Coderre   Coalition   Projet Montréal   OVM   VCM   Other
— 47,677 Borough mayor 44.74%   Jean-François Parenteau
5,147 (24.81%)		 Alain Tassé
2,902 (13.99%)		 Mary Ann Davis
4,594 (22.14%)		 André Savard
2,669 (12.86%)		 Mourad Bendjennet
3,645 (17.57%)		 Andrée Champoux (EAC)
1,549
(7.47%)

Jency Mercier (IM)
139 (0.67%)

Katherine Le Rougetel (Ind.)
102 (0.49%)		   Ginette Marotte EDC gain from Ind.
Champlain
–L'Île-des-Sœurs		 25,660 City councillor 45.60% Manon Gauthier
2,972 (26.25%)		 André Julien
1,612 (14.24%)		 Jack L. Kugelmass
2,195 (19.39%)		 Marc Touchette
833 (7.36%)		 Mathieu Bélanger
2,643 (23.34%)		 Jacques Gendron (EAC)
1,067 (9.42%)		 Vacant EDC gain
Borough councillor I 45.64% Pierre L'Heureux
3,051		 Paul Beaupré
1,782		 Dolores Durbau
2,149		 Charles Côté
984		 Jacline Leroux
2,514		 Carole Anctil (EAC)
752

Abdulilah Kassem (Ind.)
109		   Paul Beaupré EDC gain from CM
Borough councillor II 45.68% Marie-Eve Brunet
3,051		 Jean-Pierre Boivin
1,886		 Stefana Lamasanu
2,313		 Luce Latendresse
800		 Stéphanie Raymond-Bougie
2,617		 Béatrice Guay Pepper (EAC)
684		   Andrée Champoux EDC gain from EAC
Desmarchais-Crawford 22,017 City councillor 43.68% Sébastien Dhavernas
2,095		 Françoise Gloutnay
1,082		 Sterling Downey
2,306		 Richard Langlais
1,523		 Marie-Josée Parent
1,917		 France Caya (EAC)
376		   Alain Tassé PM gain from CM
Borough councillor I 43.67% Michelle Tremblay
2,141		 Monique Trudel
1,228		 Luc Gagnon
2,329		 Joanne Poulin
1,431		 Gladys Negret
1,773		 Michèle L'Allier-Davies (EAC)
387		   Ann Guy PM gain from Ind.
Borough councillor II 43.67% Philippe Sarrasin
2,018		 Rielle Lévesque
1,060		 Marie-Andrée Mauger
2,422		 Robert Auger
1,510		 André-Yanne Parent
1,878		 Mamad Raheemeea (EAC)
409		   André Savard PM gain from OVM

References

  1. ↑ Tracey Ariel, "Ginette Marotte new mayor of Verdun", The Suburban, 19 December 2012, accessed 17 December 2013; Pierre Lussier, "Mairie de Verdun: que nous réserve 2013?", Le Reflet du Lac, 2 January 2013, accessed 14 December 2013.
  2. ↑ Pierre Lussier, "Ginette Marotte, élue maire de Verdun", Le Messager Verdun, 12 December 2012, accessed 12 December 2013.
  3. ↑ Un nouveau parti pour Verdun, Métro, 12 September 2013, accessed 14 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "Question à Andrée Champoux – Équipe Andrée Champoux pour Verdun, candidate à la mairie d'arrondissement de Verdun", Le Messager Verdun, 30 October 2013, accessed 17 December 2013; "Question à Andrée Champoux – Équipe Andrée Champoux pour Verdun, candidate à la mairie d'arrondissement de Verdun", Le Magazine de L'île des Soeurs, 29 October 2013, accessed 17 December 2013.
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