Montreal election: Martinez Ferrada elected mayor. Live updates.
Posted November 2, 2025 7:10 pm.
Last Updated November 2, 2025 10:08 pm.
Montrealers have voted in a new mayor on Sunday night after eight years under Valérie Plante.
Including borough mayors, councillors and borough councillors, a total of 103 positions are up for grabs. For a list of detailed results from across Montreal, click here.
CityNews is covering the election as it happens.
10:05 p.m.
Ensemble Montréal’s Soraya Martinez Ferrada was elected mayor of Montreal.
9:39 p.m.
Ensemble Montréal’s Soraya Martinez Ferrada (45 per cent) grew her lead to 15,519 votes over Luc Rabouin (34 per cent) with 33 per cent of the polls reporting.
Action Montréal’s Gilbert Thibodeau (10 per cent) was third.
Transition Montréal’s Craig Sauvé (eight per cent) was fourth.
9:25 p.m.
Robert Beaudry, Projet Montréal candidate for city councillor in Saint-Jacques, Ville-Marie, tells CityNews he is feeling confident on election night. By 9:25 p.m., Beaudry was trailing Claude Pinard in the race by just 20 votes.
“I was really involved in the last term in many challenges in downtown Montreal with homelessness, with security issues,” Beaudry said. “But, yeah, people recognize all the effort that we made. … People said, ‘yes, you face challenge and we need a progressive administration and you are this progressive administration.’ So, yeah, I feel confident.”
8:55 p.m.
Soraya Martinez Ferrada (48 per cent) leads Luc Rabouin (33 per cent) by 9,228 votes, with 557 polls reporting (out of 3,918).
Gilbert Thibodeau (8.5 per cent) and Craig Sauvé (7.5 per cent) were third and fourth.
8:42 p.m.
Stéphane Boyer is re-elected mayor of Laval.
8:34 p.m.
Projet Montréal campaign manager Mathieu Vick tells CityNews’ Lola Kalder he’s happy with the campaign they ran.
“We had a good campaign, you know. We’re a party that’s really close to people. We’re a party of engaged citizens who are anchored in their communities. So we talked to thousands and thousands of people, knocking on doors, making phone calls. And also we had a candidate that wasn’t really well known at the beginning of the campaign. And as the campaign went along, I think that people got to discover a credible, a pragmatic leader who knew the issues and could talk about the issues that mattered to Montrealers.
“So we’ve had a good campaign, and our big advantage I think is really the number of volunteers we have today going to talk to people, going to make sure that the people that said that they would vote for us, vote for Luc Rabouin, would actually go and vote.”
8:20 p.m.
Twenty minutes after polls close in Montreal, Soraya Martinez Ferrada (49 per cent) leads Luc Rabouin (33 per cent) by 7,259 votes, with 406 polls reporting (out of 3,918).
8:10 p.m.
Catherine Fournier has been re-elected mayor of Longueuil in a landslide victory.
8 p.m.
Polls close across Montreal, and results have begun coming in.
6:11 p.m.
Political analyst and former Liberal MP Eleni Bakopanos breaks down Luc Rabouin’s campaign, exploring whether or not the borough mayor of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal was able to distance himself from unpopular policy decision and the divisive legacy of outgoing mayor Valérie Plante.
“He was a municipal councillor very much aligned with Projet Montréal and Valérie Plante. He was also president of the executive committee. He is very much attached to whatever decisions were made… good or bad, by Projet Montréal. So he had a difficult time during this campaign to try to distance himself from those decisions that were very unpopular.”
6:07 p.m.
Speaking to CityNews live from the Ensemble Montréal headquarters at La TOHU, political analyst Karim Boulos provided an overview of Soraya Martinez Ferrada’s campaign.
“People said her campaign was a little negative; she pointed out all the things that were wrong with Montreal, all the reasons that she needs to be mayor to fix them. People argue if you think so badly of Montreal, why would you want to take over such a mess? So there was a little bit of a negative spin put onto her whole process.”
4:31 p.m.
Élections Montréal announces the voter turnout was at 27 per cent with four hours left before polls close.
