page_title: Laval, Quebec
section_title: Municipal politics
hierarchical_section_title: Laval, Quebec / Government / Municipal politics
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Hôtel de ville de Laval, au 1 Place du Souvenir, Laval, Québec, Canada. English: Laval City Hall, on 1 Place du Souvenir, Laval, Quebec, Canada.
context_page_description: Laval is a Canadian city in southwestern Quebec, north of Montreal. It is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third largest city in Quebec, and the thirteenth largest city in Canada with a population of 422,993 in 2016.
  Laval is geographically separated from the mainland to the north by the Rivière des Mille Îles, and from the Island of Montreal to the south by the Rivière des Prairies. Laval occupies all of Île Jésus as well as the Îles Laval.
  Laval forms its own administrative region in Quebec which constitutes the 13th region of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec as well as a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality and census division with geographical code 65. It also constitutes the judicial district of Laval.
context_section_description: The city's longtime mayor, Gilles Vaillancourt, resigned on 9 November 2012, following allegations of corruption made against him in hearings of the provincial Charbonneau Commission. City councillor Basile Angelopoulos served as acting mayor until Alexandre Duplessis was selected in a council vote on 23 November. Duplessis, in turn, stepped down after just seven months in office after facing allegations of being implicated in a prostitution investigation; he was succeeded by city councillor Martine Beaugrand until the city's current mayor, Marc Demers, was elected in the 2013 municipal election.
  Past mayors have been:
  Jean-Noël Lavoie (founding mayor), 1965
  Jacques Tétreault, 1965–1973
  Lucien Paiement, 1973–1981
  Claude Lefebvre, 1981–1989
  Gilles Vaillancourt, 1989–2012
  Alexandre Duplessis, 2012–2013
  Martine Beaugrand, 2013
  Marc Demers, 2013–present
  On 3 June 2013, the provincial government of Pauline Marois placed the city under trusteeship due to the ongoing corruption scandal affecting the city. Florent Gagné, a former head of the Sûreté du Québec, will serve as the city's head trustee, with responsibility for reviewing and approving or rejecting all decisions made by city council. Municipal Affairs Minister Sylvain Gaudreault said that Laval's Mayor Alexandre Duplessis and his council will continue to serve, but council decisions must be approved by the trustees. Duplessis, in turn, resigned as mayor on 28 June 2013, after being implicated in a separate prostitution allegation.
caption: Laval City Hall
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