The election also involved municipal political parties for the first time.
Councillors are members of municipal political parties and are elected by the citizens.
Gilles Vaillancourt was elected to a fourth term as mayor, and his municipal party won every seat on city council.
He is the leader of Projet Montréal, a municipal political party.
Projet Montreal is a municipal political party, founded in November 2004.
He led a fledgling municipal political party called Team Action whose candidates won a majority of the city council.
The party transformed into an entirely municipal party in Vallentuna.
She was the first woman to become leader of a municipal political party in the province of Quebec.
Gilles Vaillancourt was elected to a second term as mayor, and his municipal party won all but one seat on city council.
In 2006, Laframboise sought the an idea of creating a new municipal political party.