Renouveau municipal de Montréal

The Renouveau municipal de Montréal (RMM) was a political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that contested seats in the Montréal-Nord borough in the 2009 Montreal municipal election.

Party leader

The RMM's leader was Michelle Allaire, a chartered accountant and accounting and finance teacher at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her campaign literature indicates that she has a Master of Business Administration degree from HEC Montréal.[1] In 2009, she said the RMM would work to restore Montreal-Nord's image and develop work programs for area youth.[2]

Allaire had previously served as a city councillor in Montréal-Nord from 1986 to 2001 as a member of mayor Yves Ryan's political party, the similarly named Renouveau municipal. Montréal-Nord became part of the newly amalgamated city of Montreal in 2001; Allaire ran for a seat on the Montreal city council as a Vision Montreal candidate in that year's municipal election but was narrowly defeated.[3] She subsequently ran for the Action démocratique du Québec in the 2003 provincial election and for the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2008 federal election.

Allaire originally planned to run for Montréal-Nord borough mayor in the 2009 election as a candidate of Louise O'Sullivan's Parti Montréal Ville-Marie, but she instead chose to launch a separate party.[4]

Party election results in 2009

Along with Allaire's campaign for borough mayor, the RMM fielded candidates for Montréal-Nord's two city council and two borough council seats. The party received a total of 7,917 votes, and none of its candidates were elected. The RMM seems to have disappeared after this time; it did not run any candidates in the 2013 municipal election, in which Allaire ran for city council as a Coalition Montréal candidate in Marie-Clarac.

The party's full results from 2009 are as follows:

Electoral District	Eligible voters	Position	Turnout					Incumbent	Result
Electoral District	Eligible voters	Position	Turnout	Projet Montréal	Union Montréal	Vision Montréal	Other	Incumbent	Result
—		Borough mayor		Ronald Boisrond 2,438 (14.55%)	Gilles Deguire 6,784 (40.50%)	Daniel Renaud 4,317 (25.77%)	Michelle Allaire (RMM) 3,213 (19.18%)	Marcel Parent	UM hold
Marie-Clarac		City councillor		Hugues Surprenant 1,456	Clementina Teti-Tomassi 3,410	Marc L. Fortin 2,817	Louis Pelletier (RMM) 1,345	James Infantino	UM hold
Marie-Clarac		Borough councillor		Saïd Ghoulimi 1,256 (13.96%)	Chantal Rossi 3,506 (38.96%)	Roland Carrier 2,824 (31.38%)	Jeannette Belisle (RMM) 1,413 (15.70%)	Clementina Teti-Tomassi	UM hold
Ovide-Clermont		City councillor		Judith Houedjissin 920	Jean-Marc Gibeau 3,787	Brunilda Reyes 2,035	Réjean Loyer (RMM) 953	Jean-Marc Gibeau	UM hold
Ovide-Clermont		Borough councillor		Nicolas Bergeron 1,140	Monica Ricourt 3,313	Guerline Rigaud 2,020	Lynn Boulerice (RMM) 993 Henri-Paul Bernier (Ind) 189	Normand Fortin	UM hold

Source: Rapport officiel du recensement des votes, City of Montreal.

References

Michelle Allaire: City Councillor Candidate in Marie-Clarac District, Coalition Montréal Marcel Côté, accessed 4 December 2013.
"Montreal North councillor quits," Montreal Gazette, 23 October 1986, H3; Linda Gyulai, "Political veteran is thinking locally; She eschews role with city-wide party, forms group to serve Montreal North," Montreal Gazette, 6 August 2009, A6.
"Vote recount abandoned," Montreal Gazette, 15 November 2001, A4.
Linda Gyulai, "Political veteran is thinking locally; She eschews role with city-wide party, forms group to serve Montreal North," Montreal Gazette, 6 August 2009, A6.

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[1] Michelle Allaire: City Councillor Candidate in Marie-Clarac District, Coalition Montréal Marcel Côté, accessed 4 December 2013.

[2] "Montreal North councillor quits," Montreal Gazette, 23 October 1986, H3; Linda Gyulai, "Political veteran is thinking locally; She eschews role with city-wide party, forms group to serve Montreal North," Montreal Gazette, 6 August 2009, A6.

[3] "Vote recount abandoned," Montreal Gazette, 15 November 2001, A4.

[4] Linda Gyulai, "Political veteran is thinking locally; She eschews role with city-wide party, forms group to serve Montreal North," Montreal Gazette, 6 August 2009, A6.