Serge Bélanger is a former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a member of the Montreal city council from 1975 to 1986 and served on the Montreal executive committee in the 1980s. Bélanger was a member of mayor Jean Drapeau's Civic Party of Montreal.

Bélanger was a building contractor in private life.[1] He was first elected to city council in the 1974 municipal election for the Sainte-Marie division and was re-elected in 1978 and 1982. He served on the executive committee during the final years of Drapeau's administration.[2]

Drapeau retired with the 1986 municipal election, in which the opposition Montreal Citizens' Movement (MCM) won a landslide majority on city council under Jean Doré's leadership. Bélanger was defeated by MCM candidate Serge Lajeunesse in Sainte-Marie. During this campaign, Lajeunesse accused Bélanger of attempting to scare voters in low-income neighbourhoods and retirement homes by claiming that municipal subsidies would be cut off in the event of a MCM victory. Bélanger denied the charge.[3]

Bélanger was elected to the Civic Party executive in May 1989 as a supporter of the party's Drapeau-era establishment against internal reformers.[4] He tried to return to council in the 1990 municipal election and finished third in the François-Perrault division against MCM candidate Vittorio Capparelli.[5]

Bélanger was an ally of Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) Jean-Claude Malepart, who helped canvass for his municipal campaigns.[6]

Electoral record

1990 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, François-Perrault
Party Candidate Votes%
Montreal Citizens' Movement Vittorio Capparelli (incumbent) 1,757 43.66
Municipal Party Frank Venneri (incumbent) 1,142 28.38
Civic Party of Montreal Serge Bélanger 1,125 27.96
Total valid votes 4,024 100
Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.
1986 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Sainte-Marie
Party Candidate Votes%
Montreal Citizens' Movement Serge Lajeunesse 3,420 60.45
Civic Party of Montreal Serge Bélanger (incumbent) 2,152 38.03
ADMM Yvon Roy 86 1.52
Total valid votes 5,658 100
Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.
1982 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Sainte-Marie
Party Candidate Votes%
Civic Party of Montreal Serge Bélanger
(incumbent)		 3,342 52.23
Montreal Citizens' Movement Roger Marchand 2,751 42.99
Municipal Action Group Gaétan Toussaint 306 4.78
Total valid votes 6,399 100
Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.
1978 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Sainte-Marie
Party Candidate Votes%
Civic Party of Montreal Serge Bélanger
(incumbent)		 3,752 67.10
Municipal Action Group Georges Massicotte 1,107 19.80
Montreal Citizens' Movement Pauline Laflamme 733 13.11
Total valid votes 5,592 100
Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. Party identifications are taken from Le Devoir, 11 November 1978.
1974 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Papineau, Ward Two
Party Candidate Votes%
Civic Party of Montreal Serge Bélanger 6,056 51.53
Montreal Citizens' Movement Michel Boisvert 5,697 48.47
Total valid votes 11,753 100
Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. Party affiliations are taken from the Montreal Star, 11 November 1974, A11.

References

  1. ↑ "MCM has firm grip in most 'Dore country' districts," Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1986, p. 4.
  2. ↑ "Bio-tech centre to employ 220 by 1986: scientist," Montreal Gazette, 9 March 1985, p. 3; "Dupras says Civic Party will rise again," Montreal Gazette, 10 November 1986, p. 3.
  3. ↑ "MCM has firm grip in most 'Dore country' districts," Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1986, p. 4.
  4. ↑ "Old guard wins control of Civic Party executive," Montreal Gazette, 14 May 1989, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Claude Arpin and Tu Thanh Ha, "We'd cut councillors' pay: Civic Party chief; Gagnon-Larocque proposes slashing taxes to stimulate investment," Montreal Gazette, 5 October 1990, p. 3.
  6. ↑ "Mayor will turn 70 next week; Drapeau thinks about quitting and sifts possible successors," Montreal Gazette, 15 February 1986, p. 1.
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