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2024 Action Gatineau leadership election

The 2024 Action Gatineau leadership election was to take place on April 15, 2024, to elect a leader to replace Maude Marquis-Bissonnette, who resigned on December 22, 2021, after the 2021 Gatineau municipal election, which, despite the party gaining a seat on city council by winning the newly created district of Mitigomijokan, saw Marquis-Bissonnette lose the mayoralty to France Bélisle.

Marquis-Bissonnette won the election on April 10 after no other candidate registered to run.

Timeline

2021

  • November 7 – The 2021 municipal election is held, increasing the party's seat count from 7 to 8, but losing the mayoralty.
  • December 22 – Party leader Maude Marquis-Bissonnette, who placed second in the mayoral election, announces her resignation.

2022

  • January 21 – Steve Moran, city councillor for Hull-Wright District, is named the interim leader of the party until a leadership election is held.

2024

  • February 22 – Incumbent Mayor of Gatineau France Bélisle announces her resignation, triggering the 2024 mayoral by-election.
  • March 20 – Action Gatineau announces the start of the leadership election and the beginning of the candidate nomination period.
  • March 25 – Maude Marquis-Bissonnette declares her candidacy.
  • April 8 – End of the candidate nomination period.
  • April 10 – Marquis-Bissonnette is acclaimed party leader.

Candidates

Declared

Maude Marquis-Bissonnette

Maude Marquis-Bissonnette was the runner-up in the 2021 Gatineau municipal election who was the party's leader until she resigned following her loss. She was the city councillor for Plateau District from 2017–2021. After leaving politics, she became an associate professor at the École nationale d’administration publique.

Candidacy announced: March 25, 2024
Candidacy registered: March 25, 2024

Declined

Notes

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