| Union Montreal Union Montréal |
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Active municipal party |
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| Leader | Gérald Tremblay |
| President | Barbara Pisani |
| Founded | September 30, 2001 |
| Headquarters | 460, rue Saint-Paul Est bureau 202 Montreal, Quebec H2Y 3V1 |
| Ideology | Liberalism, Social liberalism, decentralization, environmentalism and centrism |
| Official colours | Yellow and Blue (also Green, Brown and Pink) |
| Seats on council |
38 / 65
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| Website | |
| unionmontreal.com/en/ | |
| Politics of Montreal Political parties |
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Union Montreal (French: Union Montréal) is a municipal political party in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It currently governs Montreal's city government.
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It was established as the Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU, 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.
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 against the same candidate.
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.
| Election | Mayoral Candidate | Popular Vote for Mayor | Number of Councillors | |
| 2001 | Gérald Tremblay | 49.11% | 41/73 | |
| 2005 | Gérald Tremblay | 53.73% | 47/64 | |
| 2009 | Gérald Tremblay | 37.90% | 38/64 |
Victories are indicated with bold fonts.