Guy Ouellette wins second mandate from Chomedey voters

The reelected MNA who's in his second mandate, promises to make more effort to understand the voters in his corner of the island. "We have sizeable communities of Greeks, Armenians, and Portuguese. These will be the first groups I'll look at, to see if the vote came out," Mr. Ouellette indicated.

From 62.9% in 2007, the turnout dropped to 44.8% in the riding, the biggest decline in Laval. According to Mr. Ouellette, a preliminary cause of the poor turnout can be traced to a breakdown in access to information at a crucial period of the day when the Liberal team was concentrating on getting out the vote.

"Good year, bad year, you can count on 5,000 PQ supporters. They succeeded in getting out their vote," explained Mr. Ouellette, adding that in any case, neither Jonathon Cyr (PQ) nor Josée Granger (QS) made much of an appearance in the riding during the campaign. Perennial Marxist-Leninist candidate Polyvios Tsakanikas managed to draw support from 234 voters (0.93%).