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...Montreal's eligible voters showed up to cast ballots-an unusually meagre turnout." According to Montreal's Le Presse (lundi, 26 octobre 1970), the turnout was actually 49.8 per cent and this turnout is higher than in any previous civic election of the past decade in which M. Drapeau has been a candidate for mayor-a total of 4 elections. The respective turnouts in 1960, 1962 and 1966 were 41.0, 42.6 and 33.0 per cent. Moreover, because the property qualification for enfranchisement was abolished by the National Assembly in December 1968, the number of eligible voters was nearly twice that...
...would be quite proper to say that the behavior of the Montreal electorate reflected that of a frightened citizenry, but the overwhelming appearance of the mandate given Drapeau and the Parti Civique de Montreal can be belittled only at the peril of those who wish to see him gone...
...early groups, the Parti Quebecois, had attracted a significant province-wide following and won nearly 25 per cent of the popular vote in Quebec's elections last April. Another party, the two-year-old Front d'Action Politique, had been threatening to topple the administration of Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau in the municipal elections last Sunday...
Regional Minister of Economic Expansion Jean Marchand said that the FRAP was a "front" that provided "moral support" for the FLQ. He also charged that the underground group was planning to disrupt the municipal elections "by explosions of all kinds and by further kidnappings or even shooting people." Mayor Drapeau joined in the condemnation, claiming that FRAP was "bringing together all the terrorist and revolutionary elements in Montreal." He also stated that "blood would flow in the streets if a party based on socialism were to be elected...
FRAP filed a $3.6 million libel suit against Drapeau late last week. Sunday's voting took place under heavy military guard. An estimated 45 per cent of Montreal's eligible voters showed up to cast ballots-an unusually meager turnout. Drapeau was swept into office with more than 90 per cent of the vote, and his party won all 52 city council seats. He will now begin his fourth term as Montreal's mayor...