Did Coderre at least carry the Westmount and Griffintown ridings?
Griffintown is not an electoral district and its territory is split between the electoral districts of Le Sud-Ouest and Saint-Jacques - both rather large districts - and maybe even
a little bit of the Peter-McGill district depending on where you place the limits of Griffintown. In Le Sud-Ouest, Benoît Dorais of Projet Mtl was easily reelected 71% to 29%, and the 4 elected councilors were from Projet and won by wide margins. In Saint-Jacques, Projet's candidate Robert Beaudry won 52 to 46 over Richard Bergeron, who was running for Equipe Coderre.
For mayor, Plante won by 5.73% over Coderre, who himself had won the 2013 election by a 5.68% margin over his main challenger.
The turnout went from 43.32% in 2013 to 42.45% in 2017.
Interestingly, some numbers that I have seen floated around on Twitter Sunday night seemed to indicate a strong turnout in areas dominated by Projet, and a lower turnout in Coderre's areas of strength. So much for the supposed Projet's inability to get the vote out.
EB, I have to admit that I was a bit triggered by your comment last week when you wrote
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the young people who support Plante overwhelmingly historically will not vote, especially not on a Sunday when they are sleeping in after a late night of partying",
and I joked by replying that I was fine with Coderre's supporters staying home if they were so sure to win :rain: I don't know if you were serious or not, but I can't blame you for thinking that, because that's what we often hear - and what often happens... even if I'd counter that by pointing out that there's also a great deal of older people who don't know squat about politics and don't even bother to read the news. But I'd say it's refreshing to see that, on a rainy-stormy-shitty-weather D-Day, Plante's supporters, who are often 45 and younger, young professionals, students, young families, were motivated enough to carry her, when Coderre, despite being the incumbent, failed to generate enough enthusiasm to get his own supporters to the polls.
Age is not everything and Coderre is only a decade older than Plante, but there's also something to say about electing a 43 year-old woman, who entered active politics at 39, over a 54 year-old man who ran for office for the first time at 25 and basically did nothing else of his life.
All the 2017 Montreal election results are here.
