# Maude Marquis-Bissonnette

Maude Marquis-Bissonnette is a Canadian university professor and politician who is the Mayor of Gatineau, having taking office on June 18, 2024, after being elected in the 2024 Gatineau mayoral by-election. She is the first mayor of modern Gatineau to be elected in a by-election and the first since Guy Lacroix's by-election victory in 1994 following the resignation of Robert Labine.

## Electoral record

2024 Gatineau mayoral by-election Resignation of France Bélisle :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Popular vote | Popular vote | Popular vote | Expenditures | Expenditures |
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | Expenditures |
| | Action Gatineau | Maude Marquis-Bissonnette | 27,833 | 41.70 | +4.02 | $85,881.58 |
| | Independent | Yves Ducharme | 20,600 | 30.87 | – | $77,670.15 |
| | Independent | Olive Kamanyana | 7,253 | 10.87 | – | $71,819.69 |
| | Independent | Daniel Feeny | 6,539 | 9.80 | – | $26,187.70 |
| | Independent | Stéphane Bisson | 3,580 | 5.36 | – | $27,090.54 |
| | Independent | Rémi Bergeron | 499 | 0.75 | -0.26 | $0.00 |
| | Independent | Mathieu Saint-Jean | 435 | 0.65 | – | $463.31 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 66,739 | 99.44 | | | |
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | 379 | 0.56 | -0.19 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 67,118 | 33.06 | -2.05 | |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 203,032 | | | | |
| Note: Candidate campaign colours, unless a member of a party, are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.) or colours used in polling graphs and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates. |||||||
| Sources: Office of the City Clerk of Gatineau ||||||||
2021 Gatineau municipal election: Mayor :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Popular vote | Popular vote | Popular vote | Expenditures | Expenditures |
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | Expenditures |
| | Independent | France Bélisle | 29,768 | 42.86 | – | $81,079.89 |
| | Action Gatineau | Maude Marquis-Bissonnette | 26,151 | 37.65 | -7.46 | none listed |
| | Independent | Jean-François Leblanc | 11,326 | 16.31 | – | $71,309.44 |
| | Independent | Jacques Lemay | 1,077 | 1.55 | – | $8,206.19 |
| | Independent | Rémi Bergeron | 727 | 1.05 | – | $0.00 |
| | Independent | Abdelhak Lekbabi | 411 | 0.59 | – | none listed |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 69,460 | 99.25 | | | |
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | 524 | 0.75 | -0.98 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 69,984 | 35.11 | -3.41 | |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 199,302 | | | | |
| Note: Candidate campaign colours, unless a member of a party, are based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.) or colours used in polling graphs and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates. |||||||
| Sources: Office of the City Clerk of Gatineau and Élections Québec ||||||||
2017 Gatineau municipal election: Plateau :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Popular vote | Popular vote | Popular vote | Expenditures | Expenditures |
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | Expenditures |
| | Action Gatineau | Maude Marquis-Bissonnette | Acclaimed | – | – | none listed |
| | Independent | Patrick Doyon | Withdrew | – | – | none listed |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | – | – | | | |
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | Total rejected, unmarked and declined votes | – | – | – | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | – | – | – | |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | – | | | | |
| Note: Candidate campaign colours, unless a member of a party, may be based on the prominent colour used in campaign items (signs, literature, etc.) or colours used in polling graphs and are used as a visual differentiation between candidates. |||||||
| Sources: Office of the City Clerk of Gatineau ||||||||