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List of Quebec general elections |
This article provides a summary of results for the general elections to the Canadian province of Quebec's unicameral legislative body, the National Assembly of Quebec (and its predecessor, the Legislative Assembly of Quebec). The number of seats has generally increased over time, from 65 for the first six elections, to the current high of 125.
The chart on the right shows the information graphically, with the most recent elections on the right. It shows that the Liberal party (red) is the only party to have won seats at every election; the disappearance of the Conservative party (blue) after 1935; the rise and fall of its replacement, the Union Nationale (green); and arrival of the separatist Parti Québécois (cyan) in the 1970s. The Liberal party have been the most successful in the province, winning twenty-one out of thirty-seven elections.
This article only covers elections since the Canadian confederation in 1867, when Quebec was created as one of the Canada's provinces. For Quebec's first 15 elections as Lower Canada from 1792 to 1840, see Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada. For the 8 joint elections of Ontario and Quebec as the Province of Canada, from 1840 to 1867, see list of elections in the Province of Canada.
The table below shows the total number of seats won by the major political parties at each election. It also shows the percentage of the vote obtained by the major political parties at each election. The winning party's totals are shown in bold. There has been five elections (1998, 1966, 1944, 1892 and 1886) in which the winning party did not have the largest share of the vote. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row.
| Election | Liberal | Parti Québécois | Union Nationale | Conservative[A] | ADQ | Other | Total seats |
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| Vote (%) | Seats | Vote (%) | Seats | Vote (%) | Seats | Vote (%) | Seats | Vote (%) | Seats | Vote (%) | Seats | Seat-winning party | |||
| 2008 | 125 | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | 33.08 | 48 | 28.35 | 36 | 30.84 | 41 | 7.73 | 125 | |||||||
| 2003[B] | 45.99 | 76 | 33.24 | 45 | 18.18 | 4 | 2.59 | 125 | |||||||
| 1998[C] | 43.55 | 48 | 42.87 | 76 | 11.81 | 1 | 1.77 | 125 | |||||||
| 1994[D] | 44.40 | 47 | 44.75 | 77 | 6.46 | 1 | 4.39 | 125 | |||||||
| 1989 | 49.95 | 92 | 40.16 | 29 | 9.89 | 4 | Equality | 125 | |||||||
| 1985 | 55.99 | 99 | 38.69 | 23 | 0.23 | 5.08 | 122 | ||||||||
| 1981 | 46.08 | 42 | 49.20 | 80 | 4.00 | 0.71 | 122 | ||||||||
| 1976 | 33.78 | 26 | 41.37 | 71 | 18.20 | 11 | 6.64 | 2 | PNP, Créditistes | 110 | |||||
| 1973 | 54.65 | 102 | 30.22 | 6 | 4.92 | 10.21 | 2 | Créditistes | 110 | ||||||
| 1970 | 45.4 | 72 | 23.06 | 7 | 19.65 | 17 | 11.89 | 12 | Créditistes | 108 | |||||
| 1966 | 47.29 | 50 | 40.82 | 56 | 11.89 | 2 | Independents | 108 | |||||||
| 1962 | 56.4 | 63 | 42.15 | 31 | 1.45 | 1 | Independent | 95 | |||||||
| 1960 | 51.38 | 51 | 46.61 | 43 | 2.01 | 1 | Independent | 95 | |||||||
| 1956 | 44.87 | 20 | 52.8 | 72 | 2.33 | 1 | Independent | 93 | |||||||
| 1952 | 45.77 | 23 | 50.5 | 68 | 3.72 | 1 | Independent | 92 | |||||||
| 1948 | 36.17 | 8 | 51.24 | 82 | 12.59 | 2 | Independents | 92 | |||||||
| 1944 | 39.35 | 37 | 38.02 | 48 | 22.63 | 6 | Bloc Populaire (4) CCF, Independent |
91 | |||||||
| 1939 | 54.05 | 70 | 39.13 | 15 | 6.81 | 1 | Independent | 86 | |||||||
| 1936 | 39.41 | 14 | 56.88 | 76 | 3.71 | 90 | |||||||||
| 1935 | 46.53 | 47 | 18.93 | 17 | 34.54 | 25 | ALN | 89 | |||||||
| 1931 | 54.88 | 79 | 43.54 | 11 | 1.58 | 90 | |||||||||
| 1927 | 59.33 | 74 | 34.31 | 9 | 6.36 | 2 | Independents | 85 | |||||||
| 1923 | 52.52 | 64 | 39.32 | 20 | 8.16 | 1 | Independent | 85 | |||||||
| 1919 | 51.91 | 75 | 16.9 | 5 | 31.19 | 2 | Parti ouvrier | 82 | |||||||
| 1916 | 60.57 | 75 | 35.09 | 6 | 4.34 | 81 | |||||||||
| 1912 | 53.54 | 64[E] | 43.01 | 16 | 3.45 | 1 | Ligue nationaliste | 81 | |||||||
| 1908 | 53.53 | 57 | 39.92 | 14 | 6.55 | 3 | Ligue nationaliste | 74 | |||||||
| 1904 | 55.43 | 67 | 42.73 | 7 | 1.84 | 74 | |||||||||
| 1900 | 53.15 | 67 | 41.85 | 7 | 5.00 | 74 | |||||||||
| 1897 | 53.28 | 51 | 43.82 | 23 | 2.90 | 74 | |||||||||
| 1892 | 43.65 | 21 | 42.41 | 52 | 13.94 | 73 | |||||||||
| 1890 | 44.20 | 43 | 45.11 | 24 | 10.69 | 6 | Parti national (5); Parti ouvrier |
73 | |||||||
| 1886 | 39.58 | 33 | 46.19 | 29 | 14.23 | 3 | Parti national | 65 | |||||||
| 1881 | 38.97 | 15 | 50.38 | 50 | 10.65 | 65 | |||||||||
| 1878 | 47.49 | 31[H] | 49.49 | 34 | 3.02 | 65 | |||||||||
| 1875 | 38.59 | 19 | 50.67 | 46 | 10.74 | 65 | |||||||||
| 1871 | 39.43 | 19 | 51.72 | 46 | 8.84 | 65 | |||||||||
| 1867 | 35.4 | 13[F] | 53.48 | 52[G] | 11.12 | 65 | |||||||||
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