Roger Larivée is a former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1978 to 1982 as a member of the Civic Party of Montreal.
Larivée worked at his family's roofing firm in private life.[1] He first ran for a seat on city council in the 1974 municipal election and was defeated in the second Saint-Jacques ward. He was elected in the 1978 municipal election, in which the Civic Party won a landslide majority, and served for the next four years as a backbench supporter of mayor Jean Drapeau's administration. He was defeated by Robert Perreault of the Montreal Citizens' Movement in the 1982 election.
Larivée intended to run as a Civic Party candidate again in the 1986 municipal election but was denied the nomination.[2] He later briefly affiliated with the Montreal Municipal Democratic Alliance party,[3] but ultimately chose to run as an independent. He finished a distant third.
Electoral record
edit| 1986 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Laurier | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Robert Perreault (incumbent) | 3,701 | 70.67 | |||||
| Civic Party of Montreal | Gilles Lupien | 1,137 | 21.71 | |||||
| Independent | Roger Larivée | 399 | 7.62 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 5,237 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. | ||||||||
| 1982 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Laurier | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Robert Perreault | 2,635 | 49.73 | |||||
| Civic Party of Montreal | Roger Larivée (incumbent) | 2,137 | 40.33 | |||||
| Municipal Action Group | Gilles Côté | 527 | 9.95 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 5,299 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. | ||||||||
| 1978 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Laurier | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Civic Party of Montreal | Roger Larivée | 3,681 | 58.99 | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Louis-André Cadieux | 1,483 | 23.77 | |||||
| Municipal Action Group | François Patenaude | 1,076 | 17.24 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 6,240 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. Party identifications are taken from Le Devoir, 11 November 1978. | ||||||||
| 1974 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Saint-Jacques, Ward Two | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Raymond Poulin | 6,025 | 47.19 | |||||
| Civic Party of Montreal | Aimé Y. Charron | 4,880 | 38.22 | |||||
| Independent | Roger Larivée | 1,175 | 9.20 | |||||
| Democracy Montreal | Léo Manseau | 688 | 5.39 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 12,768 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. Party affiliations are taken from the Montreal Star, 11 November 1974, A11. | ||||||||
References
edit- ^ Ann Laughlin, "MCM has firm grip in most 'Dore country' districts," Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1988, A4.
- ^ Larivée discovered he was being replaced as a candidate due to a chance meeting with Gilles Lupien, who unknowingly told him that he (Lupien) was being drafted as a Civic Party candidate as the party "want[ed] to unload the guy they had" in the area. See Ingrid Peritz, "For Civic Party, picking candidates is a real shot in the dark," Montreal Gazette, 25 October 1986, A4.
- ^ "New party wants casinos in Old Montreal," Montreal Gazette, 30 August 1986, A3.