The city of Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec

Quebec

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, Canada

Canada

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 held municipal elections on November 1, 1998, to elect a mayor and city councillors. Pierre Bourque

Pierre Bourque

Pierre Bourque, CQ is a businessman and politician in Quebec, Canada. He founded the Vision Montreal political party and served as mayor of Montreal from 1994 to 2001.-Background:...

 was returned to a second term as mayor against a divided opposition.

Various suburban communities on the Island of Montreal

Island of Montreal

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 also held elections on November 1.

City Councillors

Suburban communities

Saint-Leonard

Information about the candidates

New Montreal

• Lanise Hayes (François-Perrault) was a first time candidate.
• Jacques Baribeau (Maisonneuve) was a first-time candidate. He later sought the Bloc Québécois
  Bloc Québécois
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   nomination for a 2009 by-election
  By-election
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   in Hochelaga
  Hochelaga (electoral district)
  Hochelaga is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1988 and since 2004...
  
  , describing himself as a committed Quebec sovereigntist and social democrat, but did not receive support from the party establishment and was defeated by Daniel Paillé
  Daniel Paillé
  Daniel Paillé is a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Prévost in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 1996 as a member of the Parti Québécois, and represented the district of Hochelaga in the Canadian House of Commons as a member of the Bloc Québécois.He was first elected...
  
  . He has also served as treasurer of SPQ Libre
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  .

Montreal Citizens' Movement

• Jacynthe Simard (Maisonneuve) was previously a Democratic Coalition-Ecology Montreal
  Coalition Démocratique–Montréal Écologique
  Coalition Démocratique–Montréal Écologique was a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from 1994 to 1998...
  
   candidate in the 1994 municipal election
  Montreal municipal election, 1994
  The 1994 Montreal municipal election took place on November 6, 1994. Pierre Bourque was elected to his first term as mayor, defeating incumbent Jean Doré...
  
  . A vocal supporter of Quebec sovereignty, she was appointed in October 1995 to a provincial committee on possible negotiations with the Canadian government.

Team Montreal

• Yasmin Bautista (François-Perrault) was a school commissioner.
• Jean Vianney Jutras (Maisonneuve) directed the City of Montreal's department of recreation and community development (renamed in 1993 as the department of parks, recreation and community-development services) for about twenty years, led Montreal's successful bid to host the 1997 Quebec Summer Games, and was committee treasurer for Montreal's bid to host the 2006 Gay Games
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  . He was appointed to the Montreal-Centre regional health board in 2002. The 1998 election was his only bid for public office.

Independents

• Michel Handfield (François-Perrault), a sociologist, was a member of the environmental group PARI Saint-Michel. He had been a member of the Montreal Citizens' Movement in the early 1990s and briefly joined Vision Montreal in 1994. In the 1998 election, he said that he was running to protest the city's sale of land at the Hippodrome de Montreal to the province. Handfield later took part in a campaign to shut down the Miron garbage landfill.