A look at the electoral battle looming in Sainte-Marie where Benoit Labonté, Sammy Forcillo and Pierre Mainville will all likely be squaring off this November. Sainte-Marie is a new electoral district spun off to accommodate the relatively new fact that the mayor of the city is also ex officio mayor of Ville-Marie.

Helen Fotopulos says she wasn't pushed out of the Plateau and will run for a seat in Côte-des-Neiges this time around.

(I hope somebody's pondering the need to simply get the vote out. Last municipal election saw the introduction of buggy voting machines and a pathetic turnout of 35%. The whole business of campaigning for office starts to look kind of sad if the majority of the electorate is so bored that they stay home.) posted at 10:23