Union Montreal

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Union Montréal


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Active Municipal Party
Founded	September 30, 2001


Leader	Gérald Tremblay
President	Michel Archambault
Headquarters	460, rue Saint-Paul Est bureau 202 Montreal, Quebec H2Y 3V1

Political ideology	urban neoliberalism and centrism
International alignment	None
Colours	Yellow and Blue (also Green, Brown and Pink)

Website	http://www.unionmontreal.com/um2007/en/index.php

Union Montreal (French: Union Montréal) is a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It currently governs Montreal's city government.

1 Origins
2 Electoral Performance
3 Change of Name
4 Mayoral Candidates
5 Footnotes

[edit] Origins

It was established as the Montreal Island Citizens Union (French: Union des citoyens et des citoyennes de l’Île de Montréal or UCIM) in the aftermath of the province-wide municipal merger of 2001 and not long before the municipal election of that same year. It is the product of a merger between the Montreal Citizens' Movement (RCM) and a group of suburban politicians who backed Gérald Tremblay for Mayor.

[edit] Electoral Performance

Tremblay was the party's first mayoral candidate and was elected with 49% of the vote over incumbent Pierre Bourque. He was re-elected in 2005 with 54% of the vote.

[edit] Change of Name

In May 2007, Tremblay announced that the party would take its current name: Union Montreal. He also unveiled a new party logo. Instead of the yellow and blue logo used by the party from 2001 to 2007, a new multicolored symbol that represents Montreal's diversity would take place. The new label consists of five vertical stripes (blue, green, brown, yellow and pink), each bearing one of the letters of the word UNION. ^[1]

[edit] Mayoral Candidates

Election	Mayoral Candidate	Popular Vote for Mayor	Number of Councillors
2001	Gérald Tremblay	49%	40/73
2005	Gérald Tremblay	54%	47/64