Russell Copeman projected winner of NDG mayoral race

Former Liberal MNA Russell Copeman, who ran under Marcel Ct's banner, is expected to emerge victorious in the Cte-des-NeigesNotre-Dame-de-Grce mayoral race.

With 92 per cent of the polls reporting,Copemanleads with 29.5 per cent of the vote, trailed by Projet Montral'sMichael Simkin.

The borough was left without a permanent borough mayor when MichaelApplebaumleft to become interim mayor of the greater city.Cte-des-NeigesNotre-Dame-de-Grcefound itself without an incumbent for the borough's top job this election. Interim borough mayor Lionel Perez, elected by acclamation in November 2012, decided to defend his city council seat rather than seek the job on a permanent basis.

Plateau-Mont-Royal

Incumbent mayoral candidateLucFerrandezis projected to have won the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough with 51.8 per cent of the vote, out of 81.1 per cent of polls counted.

This is the second term forFerrandez, who swept to the mayor's seat in 2009 whenProjetMontralsurged through the Plateau.

ButFerrandezwasn't given a free pass this election and the key loss of councillor Piper Huggins to the Coalition side meant the party had one less incumbent to count on.

Coalition Montreal ran actressDanileLorainin the borough mayoral race and management consultant GilbertThibodeaurepresented DenisCoderre'steam. Independent candidate Martin Boyer was also on the ballot.

Lachine

With 95.7 per cent of the polls reporting, Claude Dauphin was expected to return as Lachine's mayorwith 54.1 per cent of the votes.

Dauphin ran without competition from the teams ofDenis Coderre, MarcelCt andMlanie Joly. Three out of the four main Montreal mayoral candidates opted to pull out of the Lachine race after Dauphinwas elected the head of the Canadian federation of municipalities by hundreds of mayors across the country.

Outremont

Borough mayor since 2007, Marie Cinq-Mars was leading with 39.3 per cent of the votes at 11 p.m. About76per cent of the polls had been tallied.

Cinq-Marsopted to form her own party after the dissolution of Union Montral. Running under the "Conservon Outremont" party, Cinq-Mars, a former teacher, was trailed by by architecttienne Coutu.