Quebec general election, 1994
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Map of Quebec's ridings coloured in to indicate ridings won by each party and their popular vote. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Quebec general election of 1994 was held on September 12, 1994, to elect members of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The Parti Québécois, led by Jacques Parizeau, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Daniel Johnson, Jr..
Johnson had succeeded Robert Bourassa as Liberal leader and Premier. Both his father, Daniel Sr., and brother, Pierre-Marc, had previously served as premiers of Quebec as leaders of different parties.
This election was very significant for Quebec history, because it set the stage for the 1995 Quebec referendum on independence for Quebec from Canada. In this referendum, the PQ's proposals for sovereignty were very narrowly defeated.
Mario Dumont, a former president of the Liberal party's youth wing, and then leader of the newly formed Action démocratique du Québec, won his own seat, but no other members of his party were elected.
In Saint-Jean there was a tie between incumbent Liberal candidate Michel Charbonneau and PQ candidate Roger Paquin. A new election was held on October 24 and was won by Paquin by a margin of 532 votes.[1]
Results
The overall results were:[2]
Party | Party leader | Candi- dates |
Seats | Popular vote | |||||
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1989 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | ||||
Parti Québécois | Jacques Parizeau | 125 | 29 | 77 | +165.5% | 1,751,442 | 44.75% | +4.59% | |
Liberal | Daniel Johnson, Jr. | 125 | 92 | 47 | -48.9% | 1,737,698 | 44.40% | -5.55% | |
Action démocratique | Mario Dumont | 80 | * | 1 | * | 252,721 | 6.46% | * | |
New Democratic | Jean-François Sirois | 41 | - | - | - | 33,269 | 0.85% | -0.37% | |
Natural Law | Allen Faguy | 102 | * | - | * | 33,206 | 0.85% | * | |
Equality1 | Keith Henderson | 17 | 4 | - | -100.0% | 11,526 | 0.29% | -4.39% | |
Sovereignty | 19 | * | - | * | 5,566 | 0.14% | * | ||
Green | 11 | * | - | * | 5,499 | 0.14% | -1.85% | ||
Lemon | 10 | * | - | * | 4,087 | 0.10% | -0.12% | ||
CANADA! | Tony Kondaks | 10 | * | - | * | 2,567 | 0.07% | * | |
Republic of Canada | 18 | - | - | - | 2,258 | 0.06% | +0.01% | ||
Development | 11 | * | - | * | 1,876 | 0.05% | * | ||
Innovator | 11 | * | - | * | 1,861 | 0.05% | * | ||
Economic | 9 | * | - | * | 1,759 | 0.04% | * | ||
Marxist–Leninist | 13 | - | - | - | 1,171 | 0.03% | -0.09% | ||
Communist | 10 | - | - | - | 1,062 | 0.03% | +0.01% | ||
Independent/no designation | 68 | - | - | - | 66,221 | 1.69% | +0.81% | ||
Total | 680 | 125 | 125 | - | 3,913,789 | 100% | |||
Note: * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. 1 Equality Party results are compared to the combined totals of the Equality Party and the Unity Party in the 1989 election. |
Party | Seats | Second | Third | Fourth | |
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Parti Québécois | 77 | 47 | 1 | 0 | |
Liberal | 47 | 76 | 2 | 0 | |
Action démocratique | 1 | 0 | 77 | 2 |
See also
- List of Quebec premiers
- Politics of Quebec
- Timeline of Quebec history
- 35th National Assembly of Quebec
External links
References
- ↑ "Quebec votes 2003 - Riding Profiles: Saint-Jean". CBC News.
- ↑ "Résultats officiels par parti politique pour l'ensemble des circonscriptions". Directeur général des élections du Québec. Retrieved 2012-01-31.
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