With winning margins as low as one or two votes, get ready for recounts in several Montreal boroughs.

In Lachine, for example, the borough mayor position was won by a single ballot. Julie-Pascale Provost, the Ensemble Montréal candidate, edged out incumbent Maja Vodanovic of Projet Montréal in that race.

In the Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough, two votes separated Ensemble Montréal, the party of newly elected Montreal mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada , and Luc Rabouin’s Projet Montréal in the Côte-des-Neiges district. As things stood on Monday morning, Projet Montréal candidate Emilie Brière had beat Ensemble Montréal’s Yvonne Nguyen by a two-vote margin to take the city council seat.

Veteran city councillor Mary Deros of Ensemble Montréal lost by six votes to Projet Montréal’s

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