Roger Larivée

Roger Larivée is a former politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served on the Montreal city council from 1978 to 1982 as a member of the Civic Party of Montreal.

Larivée worked at his family's roofing firm in private life.^[1] He first ran for a seat on city council in the 1974 municipal election and was defeated in the second Saint-Jacques ward. He was elected in the 1978 municipal election, in which the Civic Party won a landslide majority, and served for the next four years as a backbench supporter of mayor Jean Drapeau's administration. He was defeated by Robert Perreault of the Montreal Citizens' Movement in the 1982 election.

Larivée intended to run as a Civic Party candidate again in the 1986 municipal election but was denied the nomination.^[2] He later briefly affiliated with the Montreal Municipal Democratic Alliance party,^[3] but ultimately chose to run as an independent. He finished a distant third.

Electoral record

v t e 1986 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Laurier
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Montreal Citizens' Movement		Robert Perreault (incumbent)	3,701	70.67
Civic Party of Montreal		Gilles Lupien	1,137	21.71
Independent		Roger Larivée	399	7.62
Total valid votes			5,237	100
Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.

v t e 1982 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Laurier
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Montreal Citizens' Movement		Robert Perreault	2,635	49.73
Civic Party of Montreal		Roger Larivée (incumbent)	2,137	40.33
Municipal Action Group		Gilles Côté	527	9.95
Total valid votes			5,299	100
Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal.

v t e 1978 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Laurier
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Civic Party of Montreal		Roger Larivée	3,681	58.99
Montreal Citizens' Movement		Louis-André Cadieux	1,483	23.77
Municipal Action Group		François Patenaude	1,076	17.24
Total valid votes			6,240	100
Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. Party identifications are taken from Le Devoir, 11 November 1978.

v t e 1974 Montreal municipal election: Councillor, Saint-Jacques, Ward Two
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Montreal Citizens' Movement		Raymond Poulin	6,025	47.19
Civic Party of Montreal		Aimé Y. Charron	4,880	38.22
Independent		Roger Larivée	1,175	9.20
Democracy Montreal		Léo Manseau	688	5.39
Total valid votes			12,768	100
Source: Election results, 1833-2005 (in French), City of Montreal. Party affiliations are taken from the Montreal Star, 11 November 1974, A11.

References

^ Ann Laughlin, "MCM has firm grip in most 'Dore country' districts," Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1988, A4.
^ Larivée discovered he was being replaced as a candidate due to a chance meeting with Gilles Lupien, who unknowingly told him that he (Lupien) was being drafted as a Civic Party candidate as the party "want[ed] to unload the guy they had" in the area. See Ingrid Peritz, "For Civic Party, picking candidates is a real shot in the dark," Montreal Gazette, 25 October 1986, A4.
^ "New party wants casinos in Old Montreal," Montreal Gazette, 30 August 1986, A3.

[1] Ann Laughlin, "MCM has firm grip in most 'Dore country' districts," Montreal Gazette, 6 November 1988, A4.

[2] Larivée discovered he was being replaced as a candidate due to a chance meeting with Gilles Lupien, who unknowingly told him that he (Lupien) was being drafted as a Civic Party candidate as the party "want[ed] to unload the guy they had" in the area. See Ingrid Peritz, "For Civic Party, picking candidates is a real shot in the dark," Montreal Gazette, 25 October 1986, A4.

[3] "New party wants casinos in Old Montreal," Montreal Gazette, 30 August 1986, A3.

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