Serge Bélanger is a former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a member of the Montreal city council from 1975 to 1986 and served on the Montreal executive committee in the 1980s. Bélanger was a member of mayor Jean Drapeau's Civic Party of Montreal.
Bélanger was a building contractor in private life.[1] He was first elected to city council in the 1974 municipal election for the Sainte-Marie division and was re-elected in 1978 and 1982. He served on the executive committee during the final years of Drapeau's administration.[2]
Drapeau retired with the 1986 municipal election, in which the opposition Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) won a landslide majority on city council under Jean Doré's leadership. Bélanger was defeated by MCM candidate Serge Lajeunesse in Sainte-Marie. During this campaign, Lajeunesse accused Bélanger of attempting to scare voters in low-income neighbourhoods and retirement homes by claiming that municipal subsidies would be cut off in the event of a MCM victory. Bélanger denied the charge.[3]
Bélanger was elected to the Civic Party executive in May 1989 as a supporter of the party's Drapeau-era establishment against internal reformers.[4] He tried to return to council in the 1990 municipal election and finished third in the François-Perrault division against MCM candidate Vittorio Capparelli.[5]
Bélanger was an ally of Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Jean-Claude Malepart, who helped canvass for his municipal campaigns.[6]
Electoral record
edit| 1990 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, François-Perrault | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Vittorio Capparelli (incumbent) | 1,757 | 43.66 | |||||
| Municipal Party | Frank Venneri (incumbent) | 1,142 | 28.38 | |||||
| Civic Party of Montreal | Serge Bélanger | 1,125 | 27.96 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 4,024 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. | ||||||||
| 1986 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Sainte-Marie | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Serge Lajeunesse | 3,420 | 60.45 | |||||
| Civic Party of Montreal | Serge Bélanger (incumbent) | 2,152 | 38.03 | |||||
| ADMM | Yvon Roy | 86 | 1.52 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 5,658 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. | ||||||||
| 1982 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Sainte-Marie | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Civic Party of Montreal | Serge Bélanger (incumbent) |
3,342 | 52.23 | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Roger Marchand | 2,751 | 42.99 | |||||
| Municipal Action Group | Gaétan Toussaint | 306 | 4.78 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 6,399 | 100 | ||||||
| Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. | ||||||||
| 1978 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Sainte-Marie | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Civic Party of Montreal | Serge Bélanger (incumbent) |
3,752 | 67.10 | |||||
| Municipal Action Group | Georges Massicotte | 1,107 | 19.80 | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Pauline Laflamme | 733 | 13.11 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 5,592 | 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, Papineau, Ward Two | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Civic Party of Montreal | Serge Bélanger | 6,056 | 51.53 | |||||
| Montreal Citizens' Movement | Michel Boisvert | 5,697 | 48.47 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 11,753 | 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- ^ "MCM has firm grip in most 'Dore country' districts," Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1986, p. 4.
- ^ "Bio-tech centre to employ 220 by 1986: scientist," Montreal Gazette, 9 March 1985, p. 3; "Dupras says Civic Party will rise again," Montreal Gazette, 10 November 1986, p. 3.
- ^ "MCM has firm grip in most 'Dore country' districts," Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1986, p. 4.
- ^ "Old guard wins control of Civic Party executive," Montreal Gazette, 14 May 1989, p. 3.
- ^ Claude Arpin and Tu Thanh Ha, "We'd cut councillors' pay: Civic Party chief; Gagnon-Larocque proposes slashing taxes to stimulate investment," Montreal Gazette, 5 October 1990, p. 3.
- ^ "Mayor will turn 70 next week; Drapeau thinks about quitting and sifts possible successors," Montreal Gazette, 15 February 1986, p. 1.