Craig Sauvé

Craig Robert Sauvé (born 1981) is a Canadian politician and musician, currently serving as city councillor for the district of Saint-Henri—Little-Burgundy—Pointe-Saint-Charles in Le Sud-Ouest. He currently serves as the leader of Transition Montréal. Previously, he represented the district as a Projet Montréal and independent member.

Craig Sauvé
Leader of Transition Montréal
Incumbent
Assumed office July 17, 2025
Preceded by	Olivier Labrèche
Montreal City Councillor
Incumbent
Assumed office 2013
Preceded by	Véronique Fournier
Constituency	Saint-Henri-Est–Petite-Bourgogne–Pointe-Saint-Charles–Griffintown
Personal details
Born	1981 (age 43–44) Montreal, Quebec
Political party	New Democratic Party (federal) Transition Montréal (2025–present, municipal)
Other political affiliations	Independent (2021–2025, municipal) Projet Montréal (2013–2021, municipal)
Alma mater	Concordia University Vanier College John Abbott College

Life and career

He was first elected in the 2013 Montreal municipal election as a Projet Montréal candidate.^[1] In that election, he received 29% of the vote in a three-way race between himself, incumbent Véronique Fournier of Coalition Montréal, and Derek Robertson of Équipe Denis Coderre pour Montréal. He was re-elected in 2017, receiving over 65% of the vote. Ahead of the 2021 Montreal municipal election, Sauvé left the Projet Montréal political party due to sexual assault allegations.^[2][3][4][5] He was re-elected with 52% of the vote.

While in the opposition, Sauvé was Projet Montréal's transport critic, and as such has taken positions in favour of increased active transport infrastructure, increasing funding for the STM, and against the highway 19 extension.^[6] Sauvé has also taken a public stand against reversing the flow of petroleum pipeline 9b^[7] and opposed the P-6 bylaw.

He currently is a special advisor to the executive committee as well as vice-chair of the board of directors of the Société de transport de Montréal (STM).^[8]

On March 28, 2024, Sauvé announced that he was standing for nomination for the New Democratic Party's candidate in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun at the September 18, 2024 federal by-election.^[9] He received 26% of the vote and placed third, behind Bloc Québécois candidate Louis-Philippe Sauvé and Liberal candidate Laura Palestini. He ran again in the same riding in the 2025 Canadian federal election and placed fourth, receiving 10.4% of the vote.

On July 17, 2025, Sauvé joined Transition Montréal and will run for mayor under the party banner.^[10]

Sauvé is also a heavy metal musician.

Electoral record

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election: LaSalle—Émard—Verdun
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Claude Guay	27,439	50.86	+7.44
	Bloc Québécois	Louis-Philippe Sauvé	11,467	21.25	−0.58
	Conservative	Zsolt Fischer	7,456	13.82	+6.19
	New Democratic	Craig Sauvé	5,587	10.36	−8.65
	Green	Bisma Ansari	1,298	2.41	−0.60
	People's	Gregory Yablunovsky	260	0.48	−2.93
	Rhinoceros	Frédéric Dénommé	169	0.31	N/A
	Communist	Manuel Johnson	136	0.25	−0.15
	Marxist–Leninist	Normand Chouinard	81	0.15	N/A
	Centrist	Fang Hu	60	0.11	N/A
Total valid votes/expense limit			53,953	98.79
Total rejected ballots			662	1.21
Turnout			54,615	66.86
Eligible voters			81,685
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+4.01
Source: Elections Canada[11][12]
Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations.

v t e Canadian federal by-election, September 16, 2024: LaSalle—Émard—Verdun Resignation of David Lametti
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Bloc Québécois	Louis-Philippe Sauvé	8,925	28.20	+6.11
	Liberal	Laura Palestini	8,656	27.35	-15.58
	New Democratic	Craig Sauvé	8,272	26.13	+6.77
	Conservative	Louis Ialenti	3,641	11.50	+4.05
	Green	Jency Mercier	557	1.76	-1.28
	Independent	Tina Jiu Ru Zhu	198	0.63	–
	People's	Gregory Yablunovsky	159	0.50	-2.88
	Canadian Future	Mark Khoury	93	0.29	–
	Rhinoceros	Sébastien CoRhino	67	0.21	–
	Christian Heritage	Alain Paquette	55	0.17	–
	Marijuana	Steve Berthelot	53	0.17	–
	Independent	Lanna Palsson	48	0.15	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Normand Chouinard	40	0.13	–
	No Affiliation	Myriam Beaulieu	40	0.13	–
	Independent	Line Bélanger	34	0.11	–
	Independent	Marie-Hélène LeBel	30	0.09	–
	Independent	Pierre Samson	29	0.09	–
	Independent	Julie St-Amand	24	0.08	–
	Independent	Laura Vegys	23	0.07	–
	No Affiliation	Manon Marie Lili Desbiens	21	0.07	–
	Independent	Alain Bourgault	21	0.07	–
	Independent	Mark Moutter	20	0.06	–
	Independent	Charles Lemieux	19	0.06	–
	Independent	Peter Barry Clarke	19	0.06	–
	Independent	Guillaume Paradis	19	0.06	–
	Independent	Hans Armando Vargas	17	0.05	–
	Independent	Felix-Antoine Hamel	17	0.05	–
	Independent	Martin Croteau	17	0.05	–
	Independent	Daniel Gagnon	17	0.05	–
	Independent	Matéo Martin	16	0.05	–
	Independent	Daniel St-Pierre	16	0.05	–
	Independent	John "The Engineer" Turmel	16	0.05	–
	Independent	Alex Banks	16	0.05	–
	Independent	Agnieszka Marszalek	15	0.05	–
	No Affiliation	Fang Hu	15	0.05	–
	Independent	Nassim Barhoumi	15	0.05	–
	Independent	Connie Lukawski	14	0.04	–
	Independent	Alain Lamontagne	14	0.04	–
	Independent	Marie-Eve Vermette	14	0.04	–
	Independent	Glen MacDonald	14	0.04	–
	Independent	Mylène Bonneau	14	0.04	–
	Independent	Martin Acetaria Caesar Jubinville	13	0.04	–
	Independent	Réal BatRhino Martel	13	0.04	–
	Independent	Andrew Davidson	13	0.04	–
	Independent	Ryan Huard	13	0.04	–
	Independent	John Dale	12	0.04	–
	Independent	John Francis O'Flynn	12	0.04	–
	Independent	Jaël Champagne Gareau	12	0.04	–
	Independent	Mário Stocco	12	0.04	–
	Independent	Jacques-Eric Guy	12	0.04	–
	Independent	Yusuf Nasihi	11	0.03	–
	Independent	Antony George Ernest Marcil	11	0.03	–
	Independent	Samuel Ducharme	11	0.03	–
	Independent	Christian Baril	11	0.03	–
	Independent	Alexandra Engering	11	0.03	–
	Independent	Danny Légaré	10	0.03	–
	Independent	Timothy Schoen	10	0.03	–
	Independent	Marc Corriveau	10	0.03	–
	Independent	Mark Dejewski	9	0.03	–
	Independent	Krzysztof Krzywinski	9	0.03	–
	Independent	Grayson Pollard	8	0.03	–
	Independent	Michael Bednarski	8	0.03	–
	Independent	Donovan Eckstrom	7	0.02	–
	Independent	Lorant Polya	7	0.02	–
	Independent	Judy D. Hill	7	0.02	–
	Independent	Adam Smith	6	0.02	–
	Independent	Jordan Wong	6	0.02	–
	Independent	Jeani Boudreault	6	0.02	–
	No Affiliation	Katy Le Rougetel	6	0.02	–
	Independent	Elliot Wand	5	0.02	–
	Independent	Darcy Justin Vanderwater	5	0.02	–
	Independent	Gavin Vanderwater	5	0.02	–
	Independent	Lajos Polya	5	0.02	–
	Independent	Michael Skirzynski	5	0.02	–
	Independent	Gerrit Dogger	4	0.01	–
	Independent	Harout Manougian	4	0.01	–
	Independent	Roger Sherwood	4	0.01	–
	Independent	Spencer Rocchi	4	0.01	–
	Independent	Patrick Strzalkowski	4	0.01	–
	Independent	Anthony Hamel	3	0.01	–
	Independent	Julian Selody	3	0.01	–
	Independent	Erle Stanley Bowman	3	0.01	–
	Independent	Dji-Pé Frazer	3	0.01	–
	Independent	Benjamin Teichman	3	0.01	–
	Independent	Winston Neutel	2	0.01	–
	Independent	Blake Hamilton	2	0.01	–
	Independent	Wallace Richard Rowat	1	0.00	–
	Independent	Pascal St-Amand	1	0.00	–
	Independent	David Erland	1	0.00	–
	Independent	Daniel Stuckless	0	0.00	–
	Independent	Ysack Dupont	0	0.00	–
Total valid votes			31,653	97.77
Total rejected ballots			723	2.23	+0.09
Turnout			32,376	40.84	-19.75
Eligible voters			79,268
	Bloc Québécois gain from Liberal		Swing		+10.81
Source: Elections Canada[13]