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| Quebec general election, 1998 | ||||
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| 125 seats in the 36th National Assembly of Quebec | ||||
| November 30, 1998 | ||||
| First party | Second party | |||
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| Leader | Lucien Bouchard | Jean Charest | ||
| Party | Parti Québécois | Liberal | ||
| Leader's seat | Jonquière | Sherbrooke | ||
| Last election | 77 | 47 | ||
| Seats won | 76 | 48 | ||
| Seat change | -1 | +1 | ||
| Popular vote | 1,744,240 | 1,771,858 | ||
| Percentage | 42.87% | 43.55% | ||
| Swing | -1.88% | -0.85% | ||
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Incumbent Premier Premier-elect |
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The Quebec general election of 1998 was held on November 30, 1998, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Parti Québécois, led by Lucien Bouchard, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Charest.
After the narrow defeat of the PQ's proposal for political independence for Quebec in an economic union with the rest of Canada in the 1995 Quebec referendum, PQ leader Jacques Parizeau resigned. Bouchard left federal politics, where he was leader of the Bloc Québécois party in the Canadian House of Commons, to lead the Parti Québécois and become premier.
Jean Charest had also left federal politics, where he had been leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Charest was initially seen as a bad fit for the Quebec Liberal Party, and for provincial politics. He later overcame this perception.
In terms of the number of seats won by each of the two parties, the result was almost identical to the previous 1994 general election. However, this time the Liberals actually won a slightly larger percentage of the popular vote, but nonetheless far fewer seats. This is primarily because of the uneven seat distribution that marginalizes English-speaking communities on the Island of Montreal.[citation needed]
Mario Dumont, leader of the Action démocratique du Québec, repeated his success in winning his own seat, as he had done in the 1994 general election. However, his party also repeated its failure to elect any other member apart from its leader.
Results
| Party | Party leader | Candi- dates |
Seats | Popular vote | |||||
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| 1994 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Lucien Bouchard | 124 | 77 | 76 | -1.3% | 1,744,240 | 42.87% | -1.88% | |
| Liberal | Jean Charest | 125 | 47 | 48 | +2.1% | 1,771,858 | 43.55% | -0.85% | |
| ADQ | Mario Dumont | 125 | 1 | 1 | - | 480,636 | 11.81% | +5.35% | |
| PDS | Paul Rose | 97 | - | - | - | 24,097 | 0.59% | -0.26% | |
| Equality | Keith Henderson | 24 | - | - | - | 12,543 | 0.31% | +0.02% | |
| Bloc pot | Marc-Boris St-Maurice | 24 | * | - | * | 9,944 | 0.24% | * | |
| Natural Law | Allen Faguy | 35 | - | - | - | 5,369 | 0.13% | -0.72% | |
| Marxist-Leninist | 24 | - | - | - | 2,747 | 0.07% | +0.04% | ||
| Innovator | 20 | - | - | - | 2,484 | 0.06% | +0.01% | ||
| Communist | 20 | - | - | - | 2,113 | 0.05% | +0.02% | ||
| Independent/no designation | 39 | - | - | - | 12,441 | 0.31% | -1.38% | ||
| Total | 657 | 125 | 125 | - | 4,068,472 | 100% | |||
| Source: Elections Quebec | |||||||||
| Note: * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. | |||||||||
Note:
* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
| Party | Seats | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Ninth | Tenth | |
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| Parti Québécois | 76 | 47 | 1 | ||||||||
| Liberal | 48 | 75 | 2 | ||||||||
| Action démocratique | 1 | 2 | 117 | 5 | |||||||
| Democratic socialist | 56 | 33 | 6 | 2 | |||||||
| Equality | 1 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| Bloc pot | 1 | 17 | 6 | ||||||||
| Natural law | 7 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Marxist-leninist | 2 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| Innovator | 2 | 7 | 8 | 3 | |||||||
| Communist | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| Independents | 1 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||||
See also
- List of Quebec political parties
- List of Quebec premiers
- Politics of Quebec
- Timeline of Quebec history
- 36th National Assembly of Quebec
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