Lisa Christensen, the longtime host of CJAD 800's Car Show, was also a winner on Sunday night.
Running under the Projet Montreal banner, she captured a borough council seat in Rivière-des-Prairies-Pointe-aux-Trembles by the slenderest of margins.
She defeated the incumbent, Team Coderre's Manuel Guedes, for the Pointe-aux-Prairies seat by just 52 votes.
Speaking to CJAD 800's Andrew Carter on Monday morning, Christensen said her interest in politics was spurred on by Flushgate — the infamous raw sewage dump of two autumns ago.
"For me, it started, really, two years ago when Mr. Coderre dumped eight billion litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence," she says. "That was the turning point for me."
She says she got a call a couple of months ago from someone who convinced her to stop being an armchair complainer and run for office.
"I said, 'you know what? You either get off the chair, or you sit back and say, well, that's too bad.' So I got off my chair."
Now that she's been elected, she says there will be a learning curve, as there will be for her boss, new mayor-elect Valérie Plante.
"A lot of people that were in my position four years ago that never got into politics, got into politics four years ago. They did change, they learned the ropes. I'm going to learn the ropes, and I'm going to do the best that I can. [Plante] is going to have people surrounding her. She's going to make some important decisions. She's got some great ideas...and that's why I walk the path behind her."
Her new duties, however, won't keep her off the radio — she will return to hosting the Car Show this coming Saturday morning at 10 a.m., after taking a few weeks off to campaign.
"It's not a political show. It's a car show," she says.