Analysis: Two-way race was a referendum on Coderre’s personality

Montrealers made history on Sunday, electing Valérie Plante as their first female mayor.
But the voting results appeared to be just as much a repudiation of incumbent Denis Coderre and his Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal party as several members of his executive committee in the last mandate went down to defeat. 
Montrealers haven’t had a one-term mayor since Sarto Fournier’s abbreviated reign from 1957 to 1960, bookended by the landslide victories of Jea