title: Saint-Barnabé, Quebec
text: # Saint-Barnabé, Quebec
  
  Saint-Barnabé, also known as Saint-Barnabé-Nord, is a parish municipality in the Mauricie region of the province of Quebec in Canada.
  
  ## Demographics
  
  In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Barnabé had a population of 1,186 living in 535 of its 562 total private dwellings, a change of -0.8% from its 2016 population of 1,196. With a land area of 58.94 $km^2$ (22.76 sq mi), it had a population density of $20.1/km^2$ (52.1/sq mi) in 2021.
  
  ## Government
  
  The mayor is the municipality's highest elected official. Saint-Barnabé has had fifty mayors.
  
  | # | Mayor | Took office | Left office |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Antoine Bournival | 1855 | 1858 |
  | 2 | Raphaël Bourassa | 1858 | 1860 |
  | 3 | Alexis Gélinas | 1860 | 1860 |
  | 1 | Antoine Bournival | 1860 | 1862 |
  | 4 | Thomas Gélinas | 1862 | 1866 |
  | 5 | Antoine Gauthier | 1866 | 1872 |
  | 6 | Jean-Baptiste Lemaître | 1872 | 1874 |
  | 7 | Dr Félix Dydime Fontaine | 1874 | 1877 |
  | 8 | Joseph Bellemare | 1877 | 1880 |
  | 9 | Onésime Lesieur | 1880 | 1881 |
  | 8 | Joseph Bellemare | 1881 | 1982 |
  | 10 | Arthur Sévère Bald | 1882 | 1888 |
  | 11 | Jules Lamy | 1888 | 1890 |
  | 12 | Octave Gélinas | 1890 | 1892 |
  | 13 | François Gélinas | 1892 | 1893 |
  | 14 | Évariste L. Désaulniers | 1893 | 1894 |
  | 15 | Louis Dollard Héroux | 1894 | 1895 |
  | 16 | Hormidas Garceau | 1895 | 1897 |
  | 17 | Maxime Grenier | 1897 | 1898 |
  | 18 | Dr Élisée Bellemare | 1898 | 1900 |
  | 19 | Adolphe Lamy | 1900 | 1901 |
  | 20 | Narcisse Gélinas | 1901 | 1902 |
  | 19 | Adolphe Lamy | 1902 | 1903 |
  | 21 | Pierre Gélinas | 1903 | 1905 |
  | 22 | Jules Lamy | 1903 | 1905 |
  | 23 | Adélard Giguère | 1905 | 1907 |
  | 24 | Joseph de Charette | 1907 | 1910 |
  | 25 | Amédée Boucher | 1910 | 1912 |
  | 26 | Sinai Bournival | 1912 | 1913 |
  | 27 | Cléophas Bussière | 1913 | 1915 |
  | 28 | Adrien Gélinas | 1915 | 1916 |
  | 29 | Évariste Gélinas | 1916 | 1917 |
  | 30 | Charles Marcouiller | 1917 | 1920 |
  | 31 | Odzaca Gélinas | 1920 | 1921 |
  | 29 | Évariste Gélinas | 1921 | 1923 |
  | 32 | Alexandre Désaulniers | 1923 | 1925 |
  | 33 | Nestor Bourassa | 1925 | 1929 |
  | 34 | Raoul Bellemare | 1929 | 1931 |
  | 35 | Wilfrid Boucher | 1931 | 1933 |
  | 36 | Sévère J. Lamy | 1933 | 1935 |
  | 31 | Odzaca Gélinas | 1935 | 1936 |
  | 37 | Caméric Lemay | 1936 | 1937 |
  | 38 | Oscar Lemay | 1937 | 1939 |
  | 39 | Origène Bourassa | 1939 | 1943 |
  | 40 | Albé Diamond | 1943 | 1945 |
  | 41 | Gérard Gélinas | 1945 | 1957 |
  | 42 | Bérard Pellerin | 1957 | 1963 |
  | 43 | Robert Lemay | 1963 | 1969 |
  | 44 | Nathan Diamond | 1969 | 1981 |
  | 45 | René Gélinas | 1981 | 1990 |
  | 46 | Jean-Guy Gélinas | 1990 | 1994 |
  | 47 | Nicole D. Gélinas | 1994 | 1995 |
  | 48 | Julien Plouffe | 1995 | 2002 |
  | 49 | Germain Lacombe | 2002 | 2005 |
  | 50 | Michel Lemay | 2005 | 2009 |
  | 51 | René Bourassa | 2009 | 2013 |
  | 50 | Michel Lemay | 2013 | Current |
  
  Officially, municipal elections in Saint-Barnabé are on a non-partisan basis.
  
  