Valerie Plante wins second term as Montreal mayor, cementing 'new era'
CTV
Incumbent Valerie Plante has won a second term as mayor, beating former mayor Denis Coderre by about 16 percentage points and 50,000 votes.
"What [voters] have confirmed tonight is that the election of Projet Montreal in 2017 wasn't just a fluke," Plante said in a victory speech shortly after 10 p.m.
"It was, in fact, the beginning of a new era, the beginning of governing Montreal in a different way... for the long term," she said, and with "transparent" leadership.
With the vast majority of votes counted as of 11 p.m., Plante was up about 16 points and 50,000 votes, with 53 per cent of the vote compared to 37 per cent won by her challenger, former mayor Denis Coderre.
Plante declared her victory just after 9 p.m. A crowd of supporters erupted in cheers at Theatre Olympia on Sainte-Catherine St., where the Plante campaign team was gathered to await results.
