The Township of Alfred and Plantagenet will have a new mayor when the new council takes office in a few weeks. Three out of four council seats have also flipped.
On Monday, October 26, incumbent Ward 2 Councillor Antoni Viau was elected Mayor with 2,477 votes, defeating incumbent Mayor Yves Laviolette who received 1,202 votes. Deborah Hendrix, who had withdrawn from the campaign after the nomination deadline, remained on the ballot and she received 211 votes on election day.
In Ward 1, which includes the Village of Alfred, old Alfred Township, and the Village of Lefaivre, incumbents Jean-Pierre Cadieux and Benoit Lamarche were defeated. Sylvain Gariépy was elected with 675 votes, and former Councillor René Beaulne is returning to elected office with 488 votes. Cadieux received 365 votes and 359 votes went to Lamarche. There were seven candidates for councillor in Ward 1.
Incumbent Ian Walker was re-elected in Ward 2, which includes the Village of Plantagenet and the old North Plantagenet Township. Walker received 1,327 votes and Sylvain Boudrault received 1,026 votes, which earned him the second Ward 2 seat. There were five candidates in Ward 2.
