Quebec judge accepts recount request for mayor of Dorval, denies recount of city council race

There will be an official recount for the mayor of Dorval, a race won by incumbent Marc Doret by 225 votes during the Nov. 2 election, after a Quebec judge ruled in favour of the rival party’s request on Tuesday.

The same judge ruled against the request by Doret’s Action Dorval team for a recount of a city council race where the challenger of Démocratie Dorval was elected by five votes.

In the mayor’s race, Doret received 2,951 votes (52 per cent), defeating Umberto Macri (2,726 votes, 48 per cent) for a second term in the mayor’s office.

Doret tells CityNews the judge ruled in favour of Démocratie Dorval’s recount request “on a technicality having to do with count sheets.”

“Supposedly the law says that they (count sheets) should be given to each representative of the party, and the ot