Support for the Liberals, Québec solidare and PQ fell, while the Conservatives’ newfound popularity failed to generate any seats.
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Quebec records lowest voter turnout since 2008
Elections Quebec says 66.06 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots in the election.
That’s the lowest since 2008.
Here are the voter turnout rates from the last four Quebec general elections:
Conservatives to call for recounts in two Beauce ridings
The Quebec Conservative Party will call for recounts in two ridings where their candidates lost by margins of less than 500 votes.
Read our full story.
CAQ won 41% of the vote – and 72% of the seats in the National Assembly
Elections Quebec says the ballot counting is over.
Here’s a look at the results.
CAQ: 90 seats, 41 per cent of the popular vote
François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec increased its seat count by 16. Its popular vote also went up – by almost four percentage points.
The party won 41 per cent of the popular vote – and 72 per cent of the National Assembly’s 125 seats.
The CAQ also:
Liberals: 21 seats, 14.3 per cent of the popular vote
Leader Dominique Anglade won her riding (St-Henri–Ste-Anne) and held on to most strongholds but the Liberals did very poorly overall, with francophone voters shunning the party.
The party won 10 fewer seats than in 2018. Its share of the popular vote fell by more than 10 percentage points.
The Liberals won:
Québec Solidaire: 11 seats, 15.4 per cent of the popular vote
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois’s seat count went up by one compared to 2018, but its percentage of the popular vote fell by almost a full percentage point.
The party won:
Parti Québécois: three seats, 14.6 per cent of the popular vote
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s party saw both its seat count and share of the popular vote fall. It won seven fewer seats than in 2018 and its share of the vote fell by 2.4 percentage points.
The party won:
Conservatives: zero seats, 12.9 per cent of the popular vote.
Éric Duhaime managed to put the Conservatives on the map. Its share of the popular vote was just 1.5 per cent in 2018.
But it failed to win the seats, despite hopes that it would make inroads in Quebec City and the Beauce.
Duhaime is the only leader not to win a seat but in a concession speech last night he vowed to lead the party into the next general election in four years.
‘National Assembly will continue to suffer from a huge democratic deficit,’ Duhaime says
Mon plus grand bonheur: avoir permis à ces centaines de milliers de Québécois de centre-droite de s’exprimer.
Ma plus grande tristesse: l’Assemblée nationale continuera de souffrir d’un énorme déficit démocratique.
— Eric Duhaime (@E_Duhaime) October 4, 2022
Only Québec solidaire resisted the CAQ wave: Nadeau-Dubois
‘Our work continues,’ Balarama Holness says
CAQ steamrolls Quebec but stalls in Montreal
A new mandate and it’s a whopper.
With his opposition splintered into four different parties and Quebecers in a mood for stability, François Legault Monday easily sailed into his second mandate as a premier with a majority government.
Read our full story, by Philip Authier.
Quebec election results: ‘I will be the premier of all Quebecers,’ François Legault says after winning huge majority
A blow-by-blow account of election night.
Read last night’s live blog.
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Quebec election results: 'I will be the premier of all Quebecers,' François Legault says after winning huge majority
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CAQ steamrolls Quebec but stalls in Montreal
