Winner of Montreal-area coin toss election calls it ‘very taxing’
Global News
After a judicial recount confirmed a tie following the Nov. 2 election, a city council seat in Montréal-Est was decided by pulling a name out of a box.
More than a week after dozens of people voted, the final city council seat in Montreal-Est has been decided by pulling a name from a box.
On Monday morning at the local city hall, Julie Larivée was named city councillor.
“I feel overwhelmed,” Larivée told reporters in French following the lottery. “The past week has been a roller coaster of emotions with ups and downs. Very taxing emotionally.”
Larivée and Audrey Bordeleau each received 81 votes in the Nov. 2 election, with fewer than one-third of the 517 registered voters in the district casting their ballot.
Following the release of the tie, a judicial recount was conducted to see if the tie would be broken.
Even with 10 ballots rejected, the tie remained sending the two candidates to leave it to chance with the winner to be decided in a lottery, as laid out by provincial law.
“It’s a crazy thing, I don’t want to live that another time in my life,” said Anne St-Laurent, Montreal-Est’s mayor.
The result in Montreal-Est wasn’t the only one that was a close result.
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