Marcel Tremblay is a Canadian politician and a

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lor in

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. Marcel Tremblay, Montreal Island Citizens Union
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candidate to the

in a 1991

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in the district of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce but lost. In the wake of the province-wide Municipal Merger of 2001, Tremblay ran as a candidate for his brother's

Gérald Tremblay Gérald Tremblay (born September 20, 1942) is a former Canadian politician and businessman who served as mayor of Montreal from 2002 until his resignation in 2012. He also served as president of the Montreal Metropolitan Community. Before ...

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'' () in the district De Décarie. The party is now known as ''Union Montreal''. Tremblay won the election over

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Sonya Biddle. He was re-elected in 2005, representing the district of

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. Instead of seeking his incumbent seat in the 2009 Montreal municipal election, he ran for borough mayor of

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, where he was defeated by Anie Samson of Vision Montréal. His former city council seat was won by

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Electoral record

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