MONTREAL — Voters in roughly 1,100 municipalities across Quebec chose their local leaders on Sunday. Here are four things to know about the province's municipal election results.

Montrealers have voted for change

After eight years of the left-wing government of outgoing Mayor Valérie Plante, Montrealers have chosen centrist candidate Soraya Martinez Ferrada as the city's new mayor. Martinez Ferrada, who arrived in Canada as a Chilean refugee in 1980, served in the cabinet of ex-prime minister Justin Trudeau before running to lead the Ensemble Montréal party.

With more than 80 per cent of polls reporting, Martinez Ferrada had 43 per cent of the vote, compared with 36 per cent for Luc Rabouin, leader of Plante's party. Martinez Ferrada's policies include taking four years to end the tent

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