Laval Mayor Stéphane Boyer re-elected

Laval Mayor Stéphane Boyer is ready for a second term after soundly defeating his opponents in 2025.

Laval Mayor Stéphane Boyer has been reelected with 58.87 per cent of the vote.

Coming in a distant second was Claude Larochelle (Parti Laval) with 21.75 per cent, followed by Frédéric Mayer (Action Laval) with 19.37 per cent of votes.

Polls were closed for a little more than 30 minutes when Boyer and his Mouvement lavallois team declared victory.

The reelected mayor is promising to improve the city’s infrastructure during his second mandate, with a particular focus on climate change.

“Laval was built in the 60s and 70s, so now, a lot of the streets that we built back then, they need love,” he said. “They need to be remade again. So, we want to focus [on] better maintenance of our infrastructure.”

Laval is the third largest city in Quebec, and Boyer says he plans to lobby the National Assembly in Quebec City for more support to help with education, health care and public transit.

“We have only one hospital,” he said. “We have only one CEGEP that is rejecting thousands of people every year. We have very few public transit [options].”

Other key issues for voters in Laval include security and taxes.

Boyer says he hears people’s concerns - as well as their criticisms - and insists that he wants to address those issues over the next four years.

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He says the timing is right, with the provincial election coming up in 2026.

“I feel like sometimes Quebec City and Montreal receive a lot of attention from the provincial government, but there are also other cities and the suburbs do have needs that have to be fulfilled,” he said.

Boyer was first elected in 2021 at the age of 33, the youngest mayor in the history of Laval.

There are 22 city councillor positions in Laval. According to Elections Laval, here are the results:

With files from CTV News’ Matt Grillo.