Wave of change sweeps region St. Lazare's new team: District 1 councillor Jean-Pierre Giguère, District 6 councillor Jean-Claude Gauthier, Mayor Pierre Kary, District 5 councillor Gilbert Arsenault and District 2 councillor Nathalie Richard. Only two of Michel St-Louis's candidates were elected: Brigitte Asselin in District 3 and Michel Lambert in District 4. Paul Carzoli and his six council candidates were shut out. (Gazette, Normand Primeau)   by Jim Duff Depending on where you lived, Sunday's election was a plebiscite on uncontrolled development, a perception that mayors and councillors weren't trying hard enough, or simply an Obama-esque wish for someone new. In St. Lazare, it was a combination of all three as lawyer/environmental activist Pierre Kary and four of his Shared Vision council candidates pulled off one of the most stunning upsets in the province as voters rejected established parties and their candidates. In the committee rooms of Paul Carzoli's Union St. Lazare United and Michel St-Louis's Equipe Michel St-Louis, euphoria turned to shock, then anger, then sullen acceptance as the full extent of the spanking was felt. Equipe St-Louis, frontrunner throughout the campaign, only managed to narrowly re-elect incumbent Brigitte Asselin in District 3 and newcomer Michel Lambert in District 4. Carzoli's team was completely shut out. In Notre Dame de l'Île Perrot, a massive turnout ejected incumbent Serge Roy and all but one of his slate to elect lawyer Marie-Claude Beaulieu-Nichols and five of six Option Citoyens councillors. The key issue: Roy's proposal to rezone for more high-density housing. Developers had already blasted and chainsawed their way through old-growth escarpment forest to build a development in a favoured nature trail; citizens wanted no more. In Ste. Anne de Bellevue, where voters tossed out Bill Tierney and four of the six incumbents in favour of Francis Deroo, the desire for someone new drove the vote. Maybe it was the effect of too many fires on Rue Ste. Anne, or ongoing frustration with parking meters, or the prospect of more industrial development along Chemin Ste-Marie, but the 60-percent turnout said people wanted change, even if it was just for the sake of change. In Terrasse-Vaudreuil, a bylaw battle over Awni Migali's temporary car shelter fuelled growing resentment that 10 percent of the town's total budget was going to fight legal battles. Voters elected audiologist Manon Trudel and a team of sympathetic independents from a huge field of candidates as they tossed out mayoral incumbent André Reynolds and his team. For many, the biggest surprise was in Pincourt, where Michel Kandyba, one of Quebec's longest-serving mayors, lost to one-time councillor and retired teacher Yvan Cardinal. The only real issue: Kandyba was too busy with regional politics to bother with the door-to-door tactics that got him elected to council 32 years ago. As he mulled his loss Sunday night, Kandyba seemed resigned to losing the job that gave him his power base in all those committees. As his wife Diane said, it's not the worst thing that could have happened.