# List of mayors of Trois-Rivières

The mayor is the highest elected official in Trois-Rivières, in the Mauricie region of Quebec. Since its incorporation in 1845, the city has had thirty-six mayors.
The mayor presides over the Trois-Rivières City Council.

## List

This is a list of mayors of the city of Trois-Rivières.
| # | Mayor | Taking Office | Leaving |
| 1 | Pierre-Benjamin Dumoulin | 1845 | 1846 |
| 2 | Antoine Polette | 1846 | 1853 |
| 3 | John McDougall | 1854 | 1855 |
| 4 | J.-B. Lajoie | 1855 | 1857 |
| 5 | Joseph-Édouard Turcotte | 1857 | 1863 |
| 6 | Louis-Charles Boucher de Niverville | 1863 | 1865 |
| 7 | Sévère Dumoulin | 1865 | 1869 |
| 8 | Joseph-Moïse Désilet | 1869 | 1872 |
| 9 | Joseph-Napoléon Bureau | 1872 | 1873 |
| 10 | Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand | 1873 | 1876 |
| 11 | Arthur Turcotte | 1876 | 1877 |
| 9 | Joseph-Napoléon Bureau | 1877 | 1879 |
| 7 | Sévère Dumoulin | 1879 | 1885 |
| 12 | Henri-Gédéon Malhiot | 1885 | 1888 |
| 13 | J.-E. Hétu | 1888 | 1889 |
| 10 | Télesphore-Eusèbe Normand | 1889 | 1894 |
| 14 | Philippe-Elisée Panneton | 1894 | 1896 |
| 15 | Richard-Stanislas Cooke | 1896 | 1898 |
| 16 | Arthur Olivier | 1898 | 1900 |
| 17 | Louis-Docithé Paquin | 1900 | 1902 |
| 18 | N.-L. Denoncourt | 1902 | 1904 |
| 19 | Nérée Le Noblet Duplessis | 1904 | 1905 |
| 17 | Louis-Docithé Paquin | 1905 | 1905 |
| 20 | J.-F. Bellefeuille | 1905 | 1906 |
| 21 | François-Siméon Tourigny | 1906 | 1908 |
| 23 | Louis-Philippe Normand | 1908 | 1913 |
| 24 | Joseph-Adolphe Tessier | 1913 | 1921 |
| 23 | Louis-Philippe Normand | 1921 | 1923 |
| 25 | Arthur Bettez | 1923 | 1931 |
| 26 | J.-H. Robichon | 1931 | 1937 |
| 27 | Atchez Pitt | 1937 | 1941 |
| 28 | Arthur Rousseau | 1941 | 1949 |
| 29 | Joseph-Alfred Mongrain | 1949 | 1953 |
| 30 | Léo Leblanc | 1953 | 1955 |
| 31 | Laurent Paradis | 1955 | 1960 |
| 29 | Joseph-Alfred Mongrain | 1960 | 1963 |
| 32 | Gérard Dufresne | 1963 | 1966 |
| 33 | René Matteau | 1966 | 1970 |
| 34 | Gilles Beaudoin | 1970 | 1990 |
| 35 | Guy Leblanc | 1990 | 2001 |
| 36 | Yves Lévesque | 2002 | 2019 |
| 37 | Jean Lamarche | 2019 | present |
Officially, elections to the Trois-Rivières Council are on a non-partisan basis.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Dumoulin was the Parti Canadien Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1827 to 1832.
* ↑ Polette was the Parti bleu Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1848 to 1858.
* ↑ McDougall was the Tory Member of the legislature for the district Drummond from 1851 to 1854.
* ↑ J.-É. Turcotte was the Parti bleu Member of the legislature for the district of Saint-Maurice from 1841 to 1844, for Trois-Rivières from 1845 to 1848, for Saint-Maurice from 1851 to 1854, for Champlain from 1858 to 1861 and again for Trois-Rivières from 1861 until his death in 1864.
* ↑ Boucher was the Parti bleu Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1865 to 1867.
* ↑ Dumoulin was the Conservative Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1868 to 1869.
* ↑ T.-E. Normand was the Conservative Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1890 to 1900.
* ↑ Arthur Turcotte was the Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1876 to 1881 and from 1884 to 1890. He was Independent Conservative, then switched to Honoré Mercier’s Parti National.
* ↑ Mailhot was the Conservative Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1871 to 1876.
* ↑ Panneton ran as a Conservative candidate for the district of Three Rivers and St. Maurice against incumbent MP Jacques Bureau in 1900 and in 1908. Each time he lost.
* ↑ Cooke was the Liberal Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1900 to 1904.
* ↑ Olivier ran as a Conservative candidate for the district of Trois-Rivières against incumbent MLA Arthur Turcotte in 1886 and in 1888. Each time he lost.
* ↑ Nérée Duplessis was the Conservative Member of the legislature for the district of Saint-Maurice from 1886 to 1900. He also ran as a Conservative candidate for the district of Three Rivers and St. Maurice against incumbent MP Jacques Bureau in 1904, but lost.
* ↑ L.-P. Normand ran as the Conservative candidate for the district of Three Rivers and St. Maurice against incumbent MP Jacques Bureau in 1911 and in 1921. Each time he lost.
* ↑ Tessier was the Liberal Member of the legislature for the district of Trois-Rivières from 1904 to 1921.
* ↑ Bettez was the Liberal Member of Parliament for the district of Three Rivers and St. Maurice from 1925 to 1931.
* ↑ Mongrain ran as the Liberal candidate for the district of Trois-Rivières against Premier and incumbent MLA Maurice Duplessis in 1952. He lost. He also ran in the district of Champlain in the 1960 provincial election. He was defeated by incumbent Maurice Bellemare.
* ↑ The name of the Mayor of Shawinigan during the same period was also Gérard Dufresne.
* ↑ Leblanc ran as the Liberal candidate for the district of Trois-Rivières against Cabinet Member and incumbent MNA Guy Julien in 1998. He lost.