2018 Quebec general election

2018 Quebec general election

October 1, 2018 (2018-10-01)
125 seats in the National Assembly of Quebec 63 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	66.45% ( 4.98%)
Majority party Minority party   x160px Leader François Legault Philippe Couillard Party Coalition Avenir Québec Liberal Leader since November 4, 2011 March 17, 2013 Leader's seat L'Assomption Roberval Last election 22 seats, 23.05% 70 seats, 41.52% Seats before 21 68 Seats won 74 31 Seat change 53 37 Popular vote 1,509,455 1,001,037 Percentage 37.42% 24.82% Swing 14.37pp 16.70pp   Third party Fourth party   x160px x160px Leader Jean-François Lisée Manon Massé (candidate for premier) Party Parti Québécois Québec solidaire Leader since October 7, 2016 May 21, 2017 Leader's seat Rosemont (lost re-election) Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques Last election 30 seats, 25.38% 3 seats, 7.63% Seats before 28 3 Seats won 10 10 Seat change 18 7 Popular vote 687,995 649,503 Percentage 17.06% 16.10% Swing 8.32pp 8.47pp
325px Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead by the result in each riding. Riding names are listed at the bottom.
Premier before election Philippe Couillard Liberal Premier after election François Legault Coalition Avenir Québec

The 2018 Quebec general election was held on October 1, 2018, to elect members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The election saw a landslide victory for the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) led by François Legault, which won 74 of 125 seats, giving the party a majority and unseating the Quebec Liberal Party. The Liberals became the Official Opposition with 31 seats.

This election was the first won by the CAQ, which had previously been the third party in the legislature. It was also the first since 1966 that had been won by a party other than the Liberals or Parti Québécois.

Background

In Quebec the Liberal Party had held power since 2003, save for a period of less than two years between 2012 and 2014.

The National Assembly has had a fixed four-year term since passing a fixed election date law in 2013. The law stipulates that "the general election following the end of a Legislature shall be held on the first Monday of October of the fourth calendar year following the year that includes the last day of the previous Legislature", setting the date for October 1, 2018. However, the Chief Electoral Officer could have changed the election date in the event of a natural disaster. Furthermore, the Lieutenant Governor could have called an election sooner should the Premier have requested one, or in the event the government had been dissolved by a motion of no confidence.

Results

The CAQ went into the election as the third party in the legislature, but won a decisive victory with 74 seats, exceeding all published opinion polling. The Liberals won 31 seats, while Québec solidaire and the Parti Québécois each won 10 seats. This is the second election in a row in which a government has been defeated after only one term.

The CAQ formed government for the first time, mainly by dominating its traditional heartlands of Capitale-Nationale, Chaudière-Appalaches and Centre-du-Québec, while winning sweeps or near-sweeps in Mauricie, Estrie, Lanaudière, Montérégie, the Laurentides and northern Quebec. Many of their gains came at the expense of the PQ. The CAQ took a number of seats that had been in PQ hands for four decades or more, in some cases by landslide margins. It did, however, win only two seats in Montreal.

The Parti Québécois came up two seats short of official status in the legislature. Notably, it was completely shut out in Montreal for the first time in decades; indeed, it won only one seat (Marie-Victorin in Longueuil) in the entire Greater Montreal area. It was easily the PQ's worst showing in a provincial election in 45 years. For the second election in a row, its leader was unseated in his own riding. According to a postmortem by The Globe and Mail, the PQ was so decisively beaten that there were already questions about whether it could survive. Echoing this, Christian Bourque of Montreal-based pollster Léger Marketing told The Guardian that he believed the PQ was likely finished in its present form, and would have to merge with another sovereigntist party to avoid fading into irrelevance.

The election was viewed as the Liberals' worst defeat since the 1976 election. While the party more than held its own in Montreal (where it won 19 out of 27 seats) and Laval (where it retained all but one seat), it only won seven seats elsewhere.

This was the first election in which Québec Solidaire won seats outside Montreal, taking one seat from the PQ and three from the Liberals.

The CAQ won 37.4 percent of the popular vote, a smaller vote share than the Liberals' 41 percent in 2014 and the lowest vote share on record for a party winning a majority government. However, due to the nature of the first-past-the-post system, which awards power solely on the basis of seats won, the CAQ's heavy concentration of support in the regions they dominated was enough for a strong majority of 11 seats. Quebec elections have historically seen large disparities between the raw vote and the actual seat count.

Following the elections, both Jean-François Lisée and Philippe Couillard resigned.

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74	31	10	10
CAQ	Liberal	PQ	QS

Party		Votes			Seats
	Coalition Avenir Québec	1,509,455	37.42%	14.37%	74 / 125 (59%)
	Liberal	1,001,037	24.82%	16.70%	31 / 125 (25%)
	Parti Québécois	687,995	17.06%	8.32%	10 / 125 (8%)
	Québec solidaire	649,503	16.10%	8.47%	10 / 125 (8%)
	Others	185,548	4.60%	2.18%	0 / 125 (0%)

Vote share
CAQ			37.42%
PLQ			24.82%
PQ			17.06%
QS			16.10%
Green			1.68%
PCQ			1.46%
Others			1.43%

Seats
CAQ			59.20%
PLQ			24.80%
PQ			8.00%
QS			8.00%

Summary analysis

Popular vote
party	year		votes	change
CAQ	2014		23.05%	+14.37%
	2018		37.42%
Liberal	2014		41.52%	−16.70%
	2018		24.82%
PQ	2014		25.38%	−8.32%
	2018		17.06%
QS	2014		7.63%	+8.47%
	2018		16.10%
Others	2014		2.42%	+2.18%
	2018		4.60%

Elections to the National Assembly of Quebec – seats won/lost by party, 2014-2018

Party		2014	At dissolution	Gain from (loss to)							2018
				CAQ	PQ	Lib	QS	Ind	New riding	Dissolved riding
	Coalition Avenir Québec	22	21		+17	+30		+3	+3		74
	Liberal	70	68	(30)	(1)		(3)		+1	(4)	31
	Parti Québécois	30	28	(17)		+1	(3)	+1			10
	Québec solidaire	3	3		+3	+3		+1			10
	Independent	0	5	(3)		(1)	(1)				0
Total		125	125								125

Detailed analysis

Summary of the National Assembly of Quebec election results (October 1, 2018)

Political party		Party leader	MNAs					Votes
			Candidates	2014	Dissol.	2018	±	#	±	%	± (pp)
	Coalition Avenir Québec	François Legault	125	22	21	74	53	1,509,455	533,848	37.42	14.37
	Liberal	Philippe Couillard	125	70	68	31	37	1,001,037	756,034	24.82	16.70
	Parti Québécois	Jean-François Lisée	125	30	28	10	18	687,995	386,125	17.06	8.32
	Québec solidaire	Manon Massé, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois	125	3	3	10	7	649,503	326,379	16.10	8.47
	Independent		21	–	5	–	5	6,462	8,899	0.16	0.20
	Green	Alex Tyrrell	97	–	–	–	–	67,870	44,707	1.68	1.13
	Conservative	Adrien Pouliot	101	–	–	–	–	59,055	42,626	1.46	1.07
	New Democratic	Raphaël Fortin	59	–	–	–	–	22,863	New	0.57	New
	Citoyens au pouvoir du Québec	Stéphane Blais (intérim)	56	–	–	–	–	13,768	12,477	0.34	0.31
	Bloc Pot	Jean-Patrick Berthiaume	29	–	–	–	–	4,657	1,967	0.12	0.06
	Parti nul	Renaud Blais	16	–	–	–	–	3,659	3,880	0.09	0.03
	Marxist–Leninist	Pierre Chénier	25	–	–	–	–	1,708	308	0.04	0.01
	Parti libre	Michel Leclerc	8	–	–	–	–	1,678	New	0.04	New
	Équipe autonomiste	Stéphane Pouleur	12	–	–	–	–	1,138	738	0.03	0.02
	Parti 51	Hans Mercier	5	–	–	–	–	1,117	New	0.03	New
	Changement intégrité pour notre Québec	Eric Emond	7	–	–	–	–	693	New	0.02	New
	Alliance provinciale	Sébastien Roy	2	–	–	–	–	521	New	0.01	New
	Voie du peuple	Marc Alarie	1	–	–	–	–	190	New	–	New
	Parti culinaire	Jean-Louis Thémistocle	1	–	–	–	–	169	New	–	New
	Option nationale	n/a						Merged with QS			0.73
	Parti équitable	Patricia Domingos	–	–	–	–	–	Did not campaign			0.04
	Mon pays le Québec	n/a						Party dissolved			0.01
	Unité Nationale	n/a						Party dissolved			0.01
	Quebec – Democratic Revolution	n/a						Party dissolved			–
	Parti indépendantiste	n/a						Party dissolved			–
	Quebec Citizens' Union	n/a						Party dissolved			–
Total			940	125	125	125		4,033,538	198,724
Rejected ballots								66,085	3,292
Voter turnout								4,099,623	195,432	66.45%	4.99
Registered electors								6,169,772	157,282

Timeline

Party standings

Summary of the pre-election standings of the
National Assembly of Quebec

Party		Party leader	Seats
			2014	Dissolution
	Liberal	Philippe Couillard	70	68
	Parti Québécois	Jean-François Lisée	30	28
	Coalition Avenir Québec	François Legault	22	21
	Québec solidaire	Manon Massé	3	3
	Independent		0	5
	Vacant			0
Total			125	125

Seat changes (2014–2017)

File:By-elections to the 41st National Assembly of Quebec results by riding.svg

Results by riding of the 15 by-elections to the National Assembly of Quebec during the 41st Legislature (2014–2018)

41st National Assembly of Quebec - Movement in seats held from 2014 to 2018

Party		Leader	2014	Gain/(loss) due to							2018
				Resignation	Resigned from party	Death in office	Withdrawn from caucus	Expulsion	By-election hold	By-election gain
	Liberal	Philippe Couillard	70	(6)			(1)	(2)	5	1	67
	Parti Québécois	Jean-François Lisée	30	(5)	(1)			(1)	5		28
	Coalition Avenir Québec	François Legault	22	(2)	(1)			(1)	1	2	21
	Québec solidaire	Manon Massé	3	(1)					1		3
	Independent	N/A	–		2	(1)	1	4			6
Total			125	(14)	–	(1)	–	–	12	3	125

Changes in seats held (2014-2018)

Seat	Before				Change
	Date	Member	Party	Reason	Date	Member	Party
Lévis	August 15, 2014	Christian Dubé	█ CAQ	Resignation	October 20, 2014	François Paradis	█ CAQ
Richelieu	September 29, 2014	Élaine Zakaïb	█ Parti Québécois	Resignation	March 9, 2015	Sylvain Rochon	█ Parti Québécois
Jean-Talon	February 26, 2015	Yves Bolduc	█ Liberal	Resignation	June 8, 2015	Sébastien Proulx	█ Liberal
Chauveau	April 7, 2015	Gérard Deltell	█ CAQ	Resignation	June 8, 2015	Véronyque Tremblay	█ Liberal
Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne	August 21, 2015	Marguerite Blais	█ Liberal	Resignation	November 9, 2015	Dominique Anglade	█ Liberal
Fabre	August 24, 2015	Gilles Ouimet	█ Liberal	Resignation	November 9, 2015	Monique Sauvé	█ Liberal
Arthabaska	August 26, 2015	Sylvie Roy	█ CAQ	Resigned from party			█ Independent
René-Lévesque	September 3, 2015	Marjolain Dufour	█ Parti Québécois	Resignation	November 9, 2015	Martin Ouellet	█ Parti Québécois
Beauce-Sud	September 22, 2015	Robert Dutil	█ Liberal	Resignation	November 9, 2015	Paul Busque	█ Liberal
Chicoutimi	October 22, 2015	Stéphane Bédard	█ Parti Québécois	Resignation	April 11, 2016	Mireille Jean	█ Parti Québécois
Saint-Jérôme	May 2, 2016	Pierre Karl Péladeau	█ Parti Québécois	Resignation	December 5, 2016	Marc Bourcier	█ Parti Québécois
Marie-Victorin	June 13, 2016	Bernard Drainville	█ Parti Québécois	Resignation	December 5, 2016	Catherine Fournier	█ Parti Québécois
Arthabaska	July 31, 2016	Sylvie Roy	█ Independent	Died in office	December 5, 2016	Éric Lefebvre	█ CAQ
Verdun	August 19, 2016	Jacques Daoust	█ Liberal	Resignation	December 5, 2016	Isabelle Melançon	█ Liberal
Laurier-Dorion	October 20, 2016	Gerry Sklavounos	█ Liberal	Expulsion			█ Independent
Gouin	January 19, 2017	Françoise David	█ QC solidaire	Resignation	May 29, 2017	Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois	█ QC solidaire
Groulx	January 25, 2017	Claude Surprenant	█ CAQ	Expulsion			█ Independent
Brome-Missisquoi	January 27, 2017	Pierre Paradis	█ Liberal	Expulsion			█ Independent
Vachon	February 5, 2017	Martine Ouellet	█ Parti Québécois	Resigned from party			█ Independent
Louis-Hébert	April 27, 2017	Sam Hamad	█ Liberal	Resignation	October 2, 2017	Geneviève Guilbault	█ CAQ
Gaspé	May 16, 2017	Gaétan Lelièvre	█ Parti Québécois	Expulsion			█ Independent
Argenteuil	April 17, 2018	Yves St-Denis	█ Liberal	Withdraws from caucus			█ Independent

Other developments

Date	Event
April 7, 2014	The Quebec Liberal Party wins a majority government in the 41st Quebec general election, and Philippe Couillard becomes Quebec's Premier-designate. Outgoing Premier Pauline Marois announces her resignation as Parti Québécois leader.
April 10, 2014	The Parti Québécois caucus unanimously approves Stéphane Bédard as interim leader.
October 4, 2014	PQ riding association presidents meet to decide rules and timeline for its leadership race.
May 15, 2015	Pierre Karl Péladeau is elected leader of the Parti Québécois.
May 6, 2016	Sylvain Gaudreault is appointed interim PQ leader.
October 7, 2016	Jean-François Lisée is elected leader of the Parti Québécois.
March 24, 2017	Québec solidaire announces that its party members will vote on a proposition at its party convention in May to begin talks to merge with Option nationale.
May 21, 2017	Manon Massé and Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois are elected as co-spokespersons for Québec solidaire.
October 5, 2017	Executives of QS and ON reach an agreement to propose a merger, which has yet to be approved by members/delegates in two special congresses.
October 26, 2017	Guy Ouellette, MNA for Chomedey, withdraws from the caucus of the Liberal Party. He rejoins the caucus on November 21.
December 10, 2017	ON and QS decide to merge: ON's special congress approves merger at 90%, 8 days after QS's special congress approved it at 80%.
May 10, 2018	Paul Busque, MNA for Beauce-Sud, withdraws from the caucus of the Liberal Party during an investigation by the ethics commissioner. On June 15, 2018 he is readmitted into the caucus.
August 23, 2018	Phillippe Couillard goes to see the Lieutenant-Governor and calls the election for October 1, 2018.
August 29, 2018	The 41st Legislature ends.
September 13, 2018	First televised debate (Radio-Canada).
September 15, 2018	Candidate nominations close.
September 17, 2018	Second televised debate (CTV). English debate.
September 20, 2018	Third televised debate (TVA).

Incumbents not running for reelection

As of September 5, 2018, a total of 45 MNAs elected in 2014 will not run in the 2018 election, of whom 12 resigned from the National Assembly, one died in office and 32 announced that they will not seek re-election including one who got fired. The latter comprise the following:

Electoral District	Incumbent at dissolution and subsequent nominee			New MNA
Abitibi-Ouest		François Gendron	Sylvain Vachon		Suzanne Blais
Beauce-Nord		André Spénard	Luc Provençal		Luc Provençal
Beauharnois		Guy Leclair	Mireille Théorêt		Claude Reid
Bertrand		Claude Cousineau	Gilbert Lafrenière		Nadine Girault
Bourassa-Sauvé		Rita de Santis	Paule Robitaille		Paule Robitaille
Brome-Missisquoi		Pierre Paradis	Ingrid Marini		Isabelle Charest
Côte-du-Sud		Norbert Morin	Simon Laboissonnière		Marie-Eve Proulx
Gaspé		Gaétan Lelièvre	–		Méganne Perry-Mélançon
Gatineau		Stéphanie Vallée	Luce Farrell		Robert Bussière
Îles-de-la-Madeleine		Germain Chevarie	Maryse Lapierre		Joël Arseneau
Jacques-Cartier		Geoffrey Kelley	Greg Kelley		Greg Kelley
Jean-Lesage		André Drolet	Gertrude Bourdon		Sol Zanetti
Lac-Saint-Jean		Alexandre Cloutier	William Fradette		Éric Girard
Laurier-Dorion		Gerry Sklavounos	–		Andrés Fontecilla
Laviolette		Julie Boulet	Pierre Giguère (riding merged)		Marie-Louise Tardif
Lotbinière-Frontenac		Laurent Lessard	Pierre-Luc Daigle		Isabelle Lecours
Marguerite-Bourgeoys		Robert Poëti	Hélène David		Hélène David
Marquette		François Ouimet	Enrico Ciccone		Enrico Ciccone
Mégantic		Ghislain Bolduc	Robert G. Roy		François Jacques
Mercier		Amir Khadir	Ruba Ghazal		Ruba Ghazal
Montmorency		Raymond Bernier	Marie France Trudel		Jean-François Simard
Nelligan		Martin Coiteux	Monsef Derraji		Monsef Derraji
Orford		Pierre Reid	Guy Madore		Gilles Bélanger
Pointe-aux-Trembles		Nicole Léger	Jean-Martin Aussant		Chantal Rouleau
Portneuf		Michel Matte	Philippe Gasse		Vincent Caron
Richmond		Karine Vallières	Annie Godbout		André Bachand
Saint-François		Guy Hardy	Charles Poulin		Geneviève Hébert
Saint-Laurent		Jean-Marc Fournier	Marwah Rizqy		Marwah Rizqy
Taschereau		Agnès Maltais	Diane Lavallée		Catherine Dorion
Vachon		Martine Ouellet	–		Ian Lafrenière
Viau		David Heurtel	Frantz Benjamin		Frantz Benjamin
Westmount–Saint-Louis		Jacques Chagnon	Jennifer Maccarone		Jennifer Maccarone

At the end of his term, Gendron, Dean of the National Assembly, will have served for 41 years and 10 months, representing Abitibi-Ouest for 11 terms.

Campaign

Slogans

Parties	French	English	Refs
█ Liberal	Pour faciliter la vie des Québécois	"To facilitate the lives of Quebecers" "To make life easier for Quebecers"
█ Parti Québécois	Sérieusement.	"Seriously."
█ CAQ	Maintenant.	"Now."
█ QC solidaire	Populaires.	"Popular."
█ Green	Bien plus qu'une couleur.	"More than just a colour."
█ Conservative	Je vote conservateur.	"I vote conservative."

Issues

The election was believed to be the first in almost half a century that had not been fought on the issue of whether Quebec should stay in Canada. The PQ had promised not to hold another referendum on sovereignty until 2022 at the earliest had it won.

2018 Quebec election – issues and respective party platforms

Issue	QLP	PQ	CAQ	QS
Economy and Public Finance	Have tabled five budgets since taking power in 2014; four of them have been balanced. The 2018 budget increased spending by 4.7 per cent, one of the highest increases in the past 20 years. Plan to spend $440 million over the next five years encouraging entrepreneurship in the province.	Advocates economic nationalism. They want Quebec's pension fund manager — the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec — to help prevent corporate headquarters from leaving the province. The party would also impose a 25 per cent-Quebec content requirement on all Caisse infrastructure projects. Wants to limit the amount you can save on books, to protect small businesses.	CAQ Leader François Legault has promised to reduce the tax burden of Quebecers. A CAQ government, he says, will further harmonize school taxes across the province, a tax cut valued at $700 million. A long-standing party proposal is to create a Quebec version of Silicon Valley, which they've dubbed "The Saint-Laurent Project". It envisions turning the Saint-Lawrence Valley into a hub of innovation and entrepreneurship, with the collaboration of universities. Hoping to eliminate tens of thousands of jobs from the province's civil service.	Supports a $15/hour minimum wage, extending minimum vacation from two to four weeks and ending forced overtime. The party platform mentions the possibility of nationalizing natural resources in the province, including the mining and forestry industries. Will offer rebates on electric vehicles, and establish a ban on gas-powered vehicles by 2050.
Immigration	Endorsed a plan that will see Quebec accept between 49,000 and 53,000 immigrants in 2018. Have promised to spend $25 million over the next four years to provide more French lessons for immigrants and help their integration in rural communities.	Believes 50,000 immigrants is too much for Quebec to accept each year. Lisée wants the auditor general to suggest a different figure. Would ensure that 25 per cent of newcomers settle in rural communities. The PQ also wants immigrants to have sufficient knowledge of French and Quebec values before arriving in the province. It is not clear if this would involve additional testing.	As premier, Legault says he would temporarily reduce the number of immigrants Quebec accepts annually from 50,000 to 40,000. To qualify for a Quebec selection certificate, the CAQ wants immigrants to pass a values and language test. Immigrants would also have to prove they have been looking for employment.	Would create a network of resource centres for immigrants, in order to provide easier access to information about jobs and French lessons, among other things. Has also promised to streamline the recognition of foreign credentials.
Health Care	The Couillard government passed two major health care reforms bills aimed at centralizing administration and boosting the number of people with a family doctor. As part of the reforms, 1,400 health care managers were laid off. In 2013–2014, 65 per cent of Quebecers had a family doctor. That number rose to 75 per cent by 2016-2017.	Would reopen a recently signed agreement with province's medical specialists in order to cut their pay.	The party favours decentralizing health-care administration, while maintaining a universal free public health care system, Legault was quoted saying "The important thing is the universality of care. ... I do not want more private. Our public [health care] is a jewel of Quebec." Like the PQ, the CAQ also vowed to renegotiate with the Quebec's medical specialists in order to cut their compensation by an average of $80,000 per year. Legault believes the specialists will be open to striking a new deal. Would overhaul the province's longterm care system (CHSLDs) with a new network of smaller, more "humane" homes at an initial cost of $1 billion.	Have proposed a series of measures to reduce how much doctors are paid. Along with revisiting the medical-specialists deal, they want to prevent doctors from incorporating and limit fee-for-service billing. The party maintains the vast majority of family medicine groups (GMFs) are for-profit enterprises. QS wants to force them to register as non-profits in order to receive public funds.
Education	Increased education system spending by 1.2 and 0.2 per cent, respectively, in the first two years of their mandate. Experts say annual increases of between three and four per cent were necessary to keep pace with inflation. Tabled a plan in 2017 to boost the high school graduation rate from 68 per cent to 85 per cent by 2030, and hired 1,500 education professionals (including 600 more teachers) last year. Promised to fix up schools and add physical activity and coding classes.	Has promised to gradually move toward free CEGEP and university tuition, beginning with low-income students. This measure, they estimate, will cost $400 million. Will reduce funding for English-language CEGEPs in order to offer better quality English-language instruction in French CEGEPs. Will provide affordable lunches for elementary school students at a cost of $39 million as well as cheaper school supplies, by having schools make bulk purchases on parents' behalf.	Wants to abolish school boards and replace them with service centres that would provide administrative support to schools. The party believes this would give schools greater autonomy and make the education system cheaper to run. Wants to increase the mandatory age of staying in school to 18, to reduce the drop out rate. Wants added homework help, extracurricular activities (sport and culture), additional funding for career guidance and tutors assigned to more vulnerable students.	Free education for all people living in the province, from daycare through to university. The party estimates that providing free education for Quebecers between the ages of 0-17 will cost the government $950 million annually.
Child Care and families	Offer free educational services for four-year-olds in government-subsidized daycare and child care centres (CPEs). They estimate this will cost Quebec an additional $250 million. Families with children under 18 will get an extra $150 to $300 — per child, per year and tax-free — depending on family income.	Promise to cancel progressive pricing of subsidized daycare places. First child would cost $8.05/day, regardless of income. Second child: $4/day. Third would be free. Day care would also be free for families with revenue under $34,000.	The CAQ is also proposing to do away with progressive daycare pricing, though over a period of four years. All Quebec parents would be charged the same daily rate, regardless of their annual income.	Are proposing free daycare as part of their plan to offer free education between the ages of 0 and 17.
Identity, diversity, and secularism	Passed a religious neutrality law last year (known as Bill 62). The law requires, among other things, that people show their faces when either giving or receiving public services. This provision has been suspended pending a court decision on the law's constitutionality. Couillard believes local police forces should decide whether women officers can wear the hijab.	Believes judges, prosecutors, prison guards and police should not be allowed to display religious symbols, such as wearing a hijab. They want the same prohibition to apply to all newly hired pre-school, elementary and high school teachers.	Opposes the wearing of religious symbols, including the hijab, by police officers and others who wield coercive state power. The party would also ban school teachers from wearing religious symbols. Would pass a "Secularism Charter" to reduce the scope of religious accommodations available to civil servants.	Opposes the wearing of religious symbols, including the hijab, by police officers and others who hold coercive state power. Believes citizens should be able to wear religious symbols and still access public services.
Sovereignty	Couillard is a well-known ardent federalist. He's expressed his desire to have Quebec sign the constitution, outlined in a 200-page document called "Quebecers: Our Way of Being Canadians".	While the party remains committed to Quebec independence, Lisée has promised not to hold a referendum on sovereignty in the first mandate of a PQ government. The earliest one would be held, he says, is 2022.	Calls itself nationalist. It wants more power for Quebec, but within Canada. Legault, a former PQ cabinet minister, has promised a CAQ government will never hold a referendum on Quebec sovereignty. Legault wants to seek additional powers for Quebec, including control over immigration, increased fiscal capacity and a say in the nomination of Supreme Court justices. Some of these measures would require re-opening the Constitution.	Advocates independence. A QS government would organize elections for a constituent assembly, which would draft a constitution for an independent Quebec. That constitution would be put to a referendum.
Environment	Couillard has promised to spend an additional $2.9 billion by 2023 on sustainable mobility. Supports existing cap-and-trade system designed to reduce greenhouse gases.	Would ban all new fossil fuel projects and existing projects would be subject to stricter oversight. The Caisse de dépôt, Quebec's pension fund, would be instructed to divest from fossil fuel exploration, production and pipeline companies.	Supports international greenhouse gas reduction targets and would promote "technological innovations to ensure their achievement".	An ambitious program with the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 95 per cent in the next 30 years. More sustainable waste management, including prohibiting the use of certain toxic products. Institute a "polluter pays" policy when it comes to waste.

Opinion polls

Main article: Opinion polling for the Quebec general election, 2018

The CAQ’s landslide victory was, in part, surprising due to the close outcome that was projected by opinion polls during the campaigning period. Although polls estimated a difference of approximately 2% between the PLQ and the CAQ in the days leading up to the election, the results showed a 12.6% gap in voting. Studies suggest that this outcome is the result of an ongoing reconfiguration in Quebec’s electoral system that is shifting from a two-party to a multi-party system, as the vote share for the QLP and the PQ had been on the decline since 2007. Additionally, the question of sovereignty, which had previously been a reliable indicator of voting choice was replaced by other matters such as identity, immigration, redistribution, and the environment. Research indicates that the polls may have been misled by this change in focus combined with last-minute moves toward the CAQ and the tendency of those who did not disclose their vote to disproportionately vote for the same party. The topic of identity appeared extremely important and was mobilized throughout individuals’ participation with the election campaigns. These findings suggest that the CAQ’s shocking victory was the result of longstanding trends toward a multi-party system and a diversified agenda of topics which were not accurately predicted by the polls.

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Evolution of voting intentions during the pre-campaign period of the 2018 Quebec general election.

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Evolution of voting intentions during the campaign period of the 2018 Quebec general election.

Candidates

• This table lists the names of the registered candidates as they appear on the official list published by the Chief Electoral Officer. The symbol ‡ indicates incumbent members not running for re-election.
• Abbreviations used in the table: Auto.: Équipe autonomiste. BP: Bloc pot. CAP: Citoyens au pouvoir du Québec. CAQ: Coalition avenir Québec - L'équipe François Legault. CINQ: Changement intégrité pour notre Québec. Conservative or Cons.: Conservative Party of Québec. Cul.: Parti culinaire du Québec. Green: Green Party of Québec. Ind.: Independent candidate. Liberal: Quebec Liberal Party. Marxist–Leninist or ML: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec. NDP: Nouveau Parti démocratique du Québec. Nul: Parti nul. PL: Parti libre. PQ: Parti québécois. Prov.: Alliance provinciale du Québec. P51: Parti 51. QS: Québec solidaire. VP: Voie du peuple.
• In this list, electoral districts are grouped by administrative region and regions are listed in the order of their administrative number. (However, some sections of the list group two regions that comprise a small number of districts.) Maps of the regions and the districts they include can be consulted at Élections Quebec.

Bas-Saint-Laurent and Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine

Electoral district	Candidates											Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Other
Bonaventure		François Whittom		Sylvain Roy		Hélène Desaulniers		Catherine Cyr Wright		Daniel Bouchard (CAP) Guy Gallant (Ind.) Heather Imhoff (Green)		Sylvain Roy
Côte-du-Sud		Simon Laboissonnière		Michel Forget		Marie-Eve Proulx		Guillaume Dufour		Renaud Blais (Nul) Gabriel Dubé (BP) Marc Roussin (Cons.)		Norbert Morin ‡
Gaspé		Alexandre Boulay		Méganne Perry-Mélançon		Louis LeBouthillier		Alexis Dumont-Blanchet				Gaétan Lelièvre ‡
Îles-de-la-Madeleine		Maryse Lapierre		Joël Arseneau		Yves Renaud		Robert Boudreau-Welsh				Germain Chevarie ‡
Matane-Matapédia		Annie Fournier		Pascal Bérubé		Mathieu Quenum		Marie-Phare Boucher		Pierre-Luc Coulombe (Green) Jocelyn Rioux (CAP) Paul-Émile Vignola (Cons.)		Pascal Bérubé
Rimouski		Claude Laroche		Harold LeBel		Nancy Levesque		Carol-Ann Kack		Denis Bélanger (Ind.) Dany Levesque (BP) Alexie Plourde (Green)		Harold LeBel
Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata		Jean D'Amour		Vincent Couture		Denis Tardif		Goulimine Sylvie Cadôret		Martin Perron (Cons.)		Jean D'Amour

Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Côte-Nord and Nord-du-Québec

Electoral district	Candidates													Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Conservative		Other
Chicoutimi		Marie-Josée Morency		Mireille Jean		Andrée Laforest		Pierre Dostie		Leonard Gagnon		Tommy Philippe (Green)		Mireille Jean
Dubuc		Serge Simard		Marie-Annick Fortin		François Tremblay		Marie Francine Bienvenue		François Pelletier		Line Bélanger (Nul)		Serge Simard
Duplessis		Laurence Méthot		Lorraine Richard		Line Cloutier		Martine Roux		Alexandre Leblanc				Lorraine Richard
Jonquière		Alexandre Duguay		Sylvain Gaudreault		Benoit Rochefort		Marcel Lapointe		Jimmy Voyer		Julie Sion (Green)		Sylvain Gaudreault
Lac-Saint-Jean		Mathieu Huot		William Fradette		Éric Girard		Manon Girard		Michael Grecoff		Maude Gouin Huot (Auto.)		Alexandre Cloutier ‡
René-Lévesque		Jonathan Lapointe		Martin Ouellet		André Desrosiers		Sandrine Bourque		Eric Barnabé				Martin Ouellet
Roberval		Philippe Couillard		Thomas Gaudreault		Denise Trudel		Luc-Antoine Cauchon		Carl C. Lamontagne		Julie Boucher (CAP) Lynda Lalancette (Nul)		Philippe Couillard
Ungava		Jean Boucher		Jonathan Mattson		Denis Lamothe		Alisha Tukkiapik		Alexandre Croteau		Louis R. Couture (NDP) Cristina Roos (Green)		Jean Boucher

Capitale-Nationale

Electoral district	Candidates																	Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		Conservative		NDP		Other
Charlesbourg		François Blais		Annie Morin		Jonatan Julien		Élisabeth Germain				Valérie Tremblay				Daniel Pelletier (Auto.)		François Blais
Charlevoix–Côte-de-Beaupré		Caroline Simard		Nathalie Leclerc		Émilie Foster		Jessica Crossan						Andréanne Bouchard		Albert Chiasson (CAP)		Caroline Simard
Chauveau		Véronyque Tremblay		Jonathan Gagnon		Sylvain Lévesque		Francis Lajoie		Sabir Isufi		Adrien Pouliot		Mona Belleau				Véronyque Tremblay
Jean-Lesage		Gertrude Bourdon		Claire Vignola		Christiane Gamache		Sol Zanetti		Alex Paradis-Bellefeuille		Anne Deblois		Raymond Côté		Marie-Pierre Deschênes (CAP) Nicolas Bouffard-Savoie (Auto.) Claude Moreau (ML) Charles Verreault-Lemieux (Nul)		André Drolet ‡
Jean-Talon		Sébastien Proulx		Sylvain Barrette		Joëlle Boutin		Patrick Provost		Macarena Diab		Carl Bérubé		Hamid Nadji		Ginette Boutet (ML) Ali Dahan (Ind.) Stéphane Pouleur (Auto.)		Sébastien Proulx
La Peltrie		Stéphane Lacasse		Doni Berberi		Éric Caire		Alexandre Jobin-Lawler		Sandra Mara Riedo		Julie Plamondon				Kevin Bouchard (Nul) Yohann Dauphinais (CAP) Josée Mélanie Michaud (Auto.) Stephen Wright (P51)		Éric Caire
Louis-Hébert		Julie-Maude Perron		Normand Beauregard		Geneviève Guilbault		Guillaume Boivin		Daydree Vendette		Natalie Bjerke		Caroline Côté		Vincent Bégin (Ind.) Jean-Luc Rouckout (Auto.)		Geneviève Guilbault
Montmorency		Marie France Trudel		Alexandre Huot		Jean-François Simard		Marie-Christine Lamontagne		Nicholas Lescarbeau		Daniel Beaulieu				Jean Bédard (ML) Jean-François Simard (Ind.)		Raymond Bernier ‡
Portneuf		Philippe Gasse		Christian Hébert		Vincent Caron		Odile Pelletier				Guy Morin				Constance Guimont (CAP)		Michel Matte ‡
Taschereau		Florent Tanlet		Diane Lavallée		Svetlana Solomykina		Catherine Dorion		Élisabeth Grégoire				Roger Duguay		Christian Lavoie (CAP) Guy Boivin (Auto.) Nicolas Pouliot (Nul)		Agnès Maltais ‡
Vanier-Les Rivières		Patrick Huot		William Duquette		Mario Asselin		Monique Voisine		Samuel Raymond		Alain Fortin				Carl Côté (Ind.) David Dallaire (CAP) Carl-André Poliquin (Nul)		Patrick Huot

Mauricie

Electoral district	Candidates															Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		Conservative		Other
Champlain		Pierre-Michel Auger		Gaëtan Leclerc		Sonia LeBel		Steven Roy Cullen		Stéphanie Dufresne		Pierre-Benoit Fortin		Éric Gauthier (Auto.) Anthony Rouss (BP)		Pierre-Michel Auger
Laviolette–Saint-Maurice		Pierre Giguère		Jacynthe Bruneau		Marie-Louise Tardif		Christine Cardin				Ugo Hamel		Jacques Gosselin (CAP)		Julie Boulet ‡ Laviolette
															Merged riding
																Pierre Giguère Saint-Maurice
Maskinongé		Marc H. Plante		Nicole Morin		Simon Allaire		Simon Piotte		Amélie St-Yves		Maxime Rousseau		Jonathan Beaulieu Richard (Ind.) Alain Bélanger (CAP)		Marc H. Plante
Trois-Rivières		Jean-Denis Girard		Marie-Claude Camirand		Jean Boulet		Valérie Delage		Adis Simidzija		Daniel Hénault				Jean-Denis Girard

Estrie

Electoral district	Candidates															Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		CAP		Other
Mégantic		Robert G. Roy		Gloriane Blais		François Jacques		Andrée Larrivée		Sylvain Dodier		Richard Veilleux				Ghislain Bolduc ‡
Orford		Guy Madore		Maxime Leclerc		Gilles Bélanger		Annabelle Lalumière-Ting		Stéphanie Desmeules		Tommy Poulin		Joseph Tremblay-Bonsens (Cons.)		Pierre Reid ‡
Richmond		Annie Godbout		Véronique Vigneault		André Bachand		Colombe Landry		Yves la Madeleine		Déitane Gendron		Karl Brousseau (Cons.)		Karine Vallières ‡
Saint-François		Charles Poulin		Solange Masson		Geneviève Hébert		Kévin Côté		Mathieu Morin		Cyrille Mc Elreavy				Guy Hardy ‡
Sherbrooke		Luc Fortin		Guillaume Rousseau		Bruno Vachon		Christine Labrie		Marie-Maud Côté-Rouleau		Éric Lebrasseur		Luc Lainé (Ind.) Mona Louis-Jean (NDP) Sara Richard (Nul) Jossy Roy (BP) Patrick Tétreault (Ind.)		Luc Fortin

Montréal

East

Electoral district	Candidates																	Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		Conservative		NDP		Other
Anjou–Louis-Riel		Lise Thériault		Karl Dugal		Michèle Gamelin		Marie-Josée Forget		Hamza Madani				Vincent Henes				Lise Thériault
Bourassa-Sauvé		Paule Robitaille		Karine Gauvin		Julie Séide		Alejandra Zaga Mendez		Karina Barros		Michel Boissonneault		Abed Louis		Jean-François Brunet (BP) Sabrinel Laouadi (CINQ) Jean Marie Floriant Ndzana (Ind.)		Rita de Santis ‡
Bourget		Vincent Girard		Maka Kotto		Richard Campeau		Marlène Lessard		Marieke Hassell-Crépeau						Dany Roy (CAP) Claude Brunelle (ML)		Maka Kotto
Gouin		Alessandra Lubrina		Olivier Gignac		Arianne Lebel		Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois		Alice Sécheresse						Jenny Cartwright (Nul) Ana da Silva (BP)		Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve		Julien Provencher-Proulx		Carole Poirier		Sarah Beaumier		Alexandre Leduc				Mathieu Beaudoin		Éric-Abel Baland		Gabriel Boily (CAP) Christine Dandenault (ML) Etienne Mallette (BP)		Carole Poirier
Jeanne-Mance–Viger		Filomena Rotiroti		Marie-Josée Bruneau		Sarah Petrari		Ismaël Seck		Sylvie Hétu		Sylvain Dallaire				Garnet Colly (ML)		Filomena Rotiroti
LaFontaine		Marc Tanguay		Claude Gauthier		Loredana Bacchi		David Touchette				Caleb Lavoie				Yves Le Seigle (ML)		Marc Tanguay
Laurier-Dorion		George Tsantrizos		Marie-Aline Vadius		Simon Langelier		Andrés Fontecilla		Juan Vazquez		Mohammad Yousuf		Apostolia Petropoulos		Arezki Malek (ML) Mathieu Marcil (Nul) Eric Lessard (CAP) Hugô St-Onge (BP) Chef Jean Louis Thémis (Cul.)		Gerry Sklavounos ‡
Maurice-Richard		Marie Montpetit		Frédéric Lapointe		Manon Gauthier		Raphaël Rebelo		Gilles Fournelle				Jean Rémillard		Morgan Ali (BP) Manon Dupuis (Nul) Daniel St-Hilaire (CAP)		Marie Montpetit
Mercier		Gabrielle Collu		Michelle Blanc		Johanne Gagné		Ruba Ghazal		Stephanie Rochemont		Ludovic Proulx		Conrad Thompson		Serge Lachapelle (ML) Malou Marcil (Nul)		Amir Khadir ‡
Pointe-aux-Trembles		Eric Ouellette		Jean-Martin Aussant		Chantal Rouleau		Céline Pereira								Louis Chandonnet (Auto.) Geneviève Royer (ML) Pierre Surette (BP)		Nicole Léger ‡
Rosemont		Agata La Rosa		Jean-François Lisée		Sonya Cormier		Vincent Marissal		Karl Dubois		Alexandra Liendo		Paulina Ayala		Stéphane Chénier (ML) Coralie Laperrière (BP) Catherine Raymond-Poirier (Nul)		Jean-François Lisée
Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques		Louis Charron		Jennifer Drouin		Anna Klisko		Manon Massé		Anna Calderon		Don Ivanski				Alexis Cossette-Trudel (CAP) Henri Ladouceur (BP)		Manon Massé
Viau		Frantz Benjamin		Mounddy Sanon		Janny Gaspard		Sylvain Lafrenière				Patrick St-Onge		Mamoun Ahmed		Beverly Bernardo (Ind.) Hugo Pépino (BP)		David Heurtel ‡

West

Electoral district	Candidates																	Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		Conservative		NDP		Other
Acadie		Christine St-Pierre		Farida Sam		Sophie Chiasson		Viviane Martinova-Croteau		Laurence Sicotte		Jocelyn Chouinard		Michel Welt		Yvon Breton (ML)		Christine St-Pierre
D'Arcy-McGee		David Birnbaum		Eliane Pion		Mélodie Cohn		Jean-Claude Kumuyange		Jérémie Alarco		Yaniv Loran		Leigh Smit		Diane Johnston (ML)		David Birnbaum
Jacques-Cartier		Greg Kelley		Martine Bourgeois		Karen Hilchey		Nicolas Chatel-Launay		Catherine Polson		Louis-Charles Fortier		France Séguin		Cynthia Bouchard (CAP) Teodor Daiev (Ind.)		Geoffrey Kelley ‡
Marguerite-Bourgeoys		Hélène David		Jeannot Desbiens		Vicky Michaud		Camille St-Laurent		Smail Louardiane				Nashaat Elsayed				Robert Poëti ‡
Marquette		Enrico Ciccone		Carole Vincent		Marc Hétu		Anick Perreault		Kimberly Salt		Olivia Boye		John Symon		Roger Déry (Ind.) Patrick Desjardins (CAP)		François Ouimet ‡
Mont-Royal–Outremont		Pierre Arcand		Caroline Labelle		Anne-Marie Gagnon		Eve Torres		Vincent J. Carbonneau		Yaakov Pollak		Rebecca Anne Clark		Normand Fournier (ML)		Pierre Arcand Mont-Royal
																	Merged riding
																		Hélène David Outremont
Nelligan		Monsef Derraji		Chantal Legendre		Angela Rapoport		Simon Tremblay-Pepin		Giuseppe Cammarrota		Mathew Levitsky-Kaminski		Leslie Eric Murphy				Martin Coiteux ‡
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce		Kathleen Weil		Lucie Bélanger		Nathalie Dansereau		Kathleen Gudmundsson		Chad Walcott		Souhail Ftouh		David-Roger Gagnon		Rachel Hoffman (ML) Cynthia Nichols (Ind.)		Kathleen Weil
Robert-Baldwin		Carlos J. Leitão		Marie-Imalta Pierre-Lys		Laura Azéroual		Zachary Williams		Catherine Richardson		Michael-Louis Coppa		Luca Brown				Carlos Leitão
Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne		Dominique Anglade		Dieudonné Ella-Oyono		Sylvie Hamel		Benoit Racette		Jean-Pierre Duford		Caroline Orchard		Steven Scott		Félix Gagnon-Paquin (BP) Linda Sullivan (ML) Christopher Young (CINQ)		Dominique Anglade
Saint-Laurent		Marwah Rizqy		Elias Dib Nicolas		Marc Baaklini		Marie Josèphe Pigeon		Halimatou Bah		Guy Morissette		Jacques Dago		Fernand Deschamps (ML)		Jean-Marc Fournier ‡
Verdun		Isabelle Melançon		Constantin Fortier		Nicole Leduc		Vanessa Roy		Alex Tyrrell		Yedidya-Eitan Moryoussef		Raphaël Fortin		Marc-André Milette (Nul) Hugo Richard (BP) Eileen Studd (ML)		Isabelle Melançon
Westmount–Saint-Louis		Jennifer Maccarone		J. Marion Benoit		Michelle Morin		Ekaterina Piskunova		Samuel Dajakran Kuhn		Mikey Colangelo Lauzon		Nicholas Peter Lawson				Jacques Chagnon ‡

Outaouais and Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Electoral district	Candidates																	Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		Conservative		CAP		Other
Abitibi-Est		Guy Bourgeois		Élizabeth Larouche		Pierre Dufour		Lyne Cyr		Mélina Paquette				Éric Caron				Guy Bourgeois
Abitibi-Ouest		Martin Veilleux		Sylvain Vachon		Suzanne Blais		Rose Marquis		Yan Dominic Couture		Eric Lacroix		Stéphane Lévesque		Maxim Sylvestre (Ind.)		François Gendron ‡
Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue		Luc Blanchette		Gilles Chapadeau		Jérémy G. Bélanger		Émilise Lessard-Therrien		Jessica Wells		Guillaume Lanouette		Fernand St-Georges				Luc Blanchette

Electoral district	Candidates																	Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		Conservative		Marxist-Leninist		Other
Chapleau		Marc Carrière		Blake Ippersiel		Mathieu Lévesque		Alexandre Albert				Rowen Tanguay		Françoise Roy				Marc Carrière
Gatineau		Luce Farrell		Jonathan Carreiro-Benoit		Robert Bussière		Milan Bernard		Jasper Boychuk		Mario Belec		Alexandre Deschênes				Stéphanie Vallée ‡
Hull		Maryse Gaudreault		Marysa Nadeau		Rachel Bourdon		Benoit Renaud		Patricia Pilon		Jean-Philippe Chaussé		Pierre Soublière		Marco Jetté (CAP) Nichola St-Jean (NDP)		Maryse Gaudreault
Papineau		Alexandre Iracà		Yves Destroismaisons		Mathieu Lacombe		Mélanie Pilon-Gauvin		Michel Tardif		Joanne Godin				Lynn Boyer (CAP) Claude Flaus (P51) Isabelle Yde (Nul)		Alexandre Iracà
Pontiac		André Fortin		Marie-Claire Nivolon		Olive Kamanyana		Julia Wilkie		Roger Fleury		Kenny Roy		Louis Lang		Samuel Gendron (NDP)		André Fortin

Chaudière-Appalaches

Electoral district	Candidates																	Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		Conservative		CAP		Other
Beauce-Nord		Myriam Taschereau		Daniel Perron		Luc Provençal		Fernand Dorval				Isabelle Villeneuve		Nicole Goulet				André Spénard ‡
Beauce-Sud		Paul Busque		Guillaume Grondin		Samuel Poulin		Diane Vincent		Cassandre Poulin		Milan Jovanovic		Jean Paquet		Hans Mercier (P51)		Paul Busque
Bellechasse		Dominique Vien		Benoît Béchard		Stéphanie Lachance		Benoit Comeau				Dominique Messner				Simon Guay (BP) Sébastien Roy (Prov.)		Dominique Vien
Chutes-de-la-Chaudière		Ghyslain Vaillancourt		Serge Bonin		Marc Picard		Olivier Bolduc				Philippe Gaboury		Stéphane Blais		Evelyne Henry (NDP)		Marc Picard
Lévis		Abdulkadir Abkey		Pierre-Gilles Morel		François Paradis		Georges Goma		Maude Bussière		Michel Walters		Nancy Fournier		Lorraine Chartier (NDP) Stéphane L'heureux-Blouin (BP)		François Paradis
Lotbinière-Frontenac		Pierre-Luc Daigle		Yohann Beaulieu		Isabelle Lecours		Normand Beaudet		Marie-Claude Dextraze		Réjean Labbé		Yves Roy		Daniel Croteau (P51)		Laurent Lessard ‡

Centre-du-Québec

Electoral district	Candidates																	Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		Conservative		CAP		Other
Arthabaska		Pierre Poirier		Jacques Daigle		Éric Lefebvre		William Champigny-Fortier		Jean-Charles Pelland		Lisette Guay Gaudreault				Jean Landry (Prov.)		Éric Lefebvre
Drummond–Bois-Francs		Kevin Deland		Diane Roy		Sébastien Schneeberger		Lannïck Dinard				François Picard				Sylvain Marcoux (Ind.) Steve Therion (Auto.)		Sébastien Schneeberger
Johnson		François Vaes		Jacques Tétreault		André Lamontagne		Sarah Saint-Cyr Lanoie		Émile Coderre		Jean-François Vignola		Yves Audet		Andrew Leblanc-Marcil (NDP)		André Lamontagne
Nicolet-Bécancour		Marie-Claude Durand		Lucie Allard		Donald Martel		François Poisson		Vincent Marcotte		Jessie Mc Nicoll				Blak D. Blackburn (BP)		Donald Martel

Laval

Electoral district	Candidates																	Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		Conservative		NDP		Other
Chomedey		Guy Ouellette		Ouerdia Nacera Beddad		Alice Abou-Khalil		Rabah Moulla		Fatine Kabbaj		Nick Keramarios		Omar El-Harrache				Guy Ouellette
Fabre		Monique Sauvé		Odette Lavigne		Adriana Dudas		Nora Yata		David Gilbert-Parisée		Juliett Zuniga Lopez		Karim Mahmoodi				Monique Sauvé
Laval-des-Rapides		Saul Polo		Jocelyn Caron		Christine Mitton		Graciela Mateo		Estelle Obeo		Benoit Larocque		Jean Phariste Pharicien		Bianca Bozsodi (CAP) Elias Progakis (PL)		Saul Polo
Mille-Îles		Francine Charbonneau		Michel Lachance		Mauro Barone		Jean Trudelle		Alain Joseph						Dwayne Cappelletti (PL) Jason D'Aoust (BP)		Francine Charbonneau
Sainte-Rose		Jean Habel		Marc-André Constantin		Christopher Skeete		Simon Charron		Caroline Bergevin		Benoit Blanchard		Alain Giguère		Valérie Louis-Charles (CINQ)		Jean Habel
Vimont		Jean Rousselle		Sylvie Moreau		Michel Reeves		Caroline Trottier-Gascon		Mélanie Messier		Rachel Landerman		Andriana Kocini		Jean-Marc Boyer (Ind.) Rachel Demers (CAP)		Jean Rousselle

Lanaudière

Electoral district	Candidates															Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		Conservative		CAP
Berthier		Robert Magnan		André Villeneuve		Caroline Proulx		Louise Beaudry		Jérôme St-Jean				Rémi Bourdon		André Villeneuve
Joliette		Emilie Imbeault		Véronique Hivon		François St-Louis		Judith Sicard		Étienne St-Jean				Sébastien Dupuis		Véronique Hivon
L'Assomption		Virginie Bouchard		Sylvie Langlois Brouillette		François Legault		Marie-Claude Brière		Eve Bellavance		Charles-Etienne Everitt-Raynault		Sylvie Tougas		François Legault
Masson		Maryanne Beauchamp		Diane Gadoury Hamelin		Mathieu Lemay		Stéphane Durupt		Véronique Dubois		David Morin				Mathieu Lemay
Repentigny		Emilie Therrien		Eric Tremblay		Lise Lavallée		Olivier Huard		Chafika Hebib		Pierre Lacombe		Julie Girard		Lise Lavallée
Rousseau		Patrick Watson		Nicolas Marceau		Louis-Charles Thouin		Hélène Dubé				Richard Evanko		Michel Lacasse		Nicolas Marceau
Terrebonne		Margaux Selam		Mathieu Traversy		Pierre Fitzgibbon		Anne B-Godbout		Carole Dubois		Jules Néron		Mathieu Goyette		Mathieu Traversy

Laurentides

Electoral district	Candidates																	Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		Conservative		CAP		Other
Argenteuil		Bernard Bigras-Denis		Patrick Côté		Agnès Grondin		Céline Lachapelle		Carole Thériault		Sherwin Edwards		Louise Wiseman		Stéphanie Boyer (PL) Yves St-Denis (Ind.)		Yves St-Denis
Bertrand		Diane de Passillé		Gilbert Lafrenière		Nadine Girault		Mylène Jaccoud		Natacha Alarie		Kathy Laframboise		Benoît Pigeon		Benoit Martin (PL)		Claude Cousineau ‡
Blainville		Lucia Carvalho		Gabriel Gousse		Mario Laframboise		William Lepage		Valérie Fortier				Jean Bastien		Thierry Gervais (NDP)		Mario Laframboise
Deux-Montagnes		Fabienne Fatou Diop		Daniel Goyer		Benoit Charette		Audrey Lesage-Lanthier		Isabelle Dagenais		Delia Fodor		Denis Paré		Martin Brulé (PL) Eric Emond (CINQ) Hans Roker Jr (BP)		Benoit Charette
Groulx		Sabrina Chartrand		Jean-Philippe Meloche		Eric Girard		Fabien Torres		Robin Dick		Vincent Aubé		Chantal Lavoie		Claude Surprenant (Ind.)		Claude Surprenant
Labelle		Nadine Riopel		Sylvain Pagé		Chantale Jeannotte		Gabriel Dagenais		René Fournier		Francis Brosseau		Régis Ostigny				Sylvain Pagé
Les Plaines		Vincent Orellana-Pepin		Marc-Olivier Leblanc		Lucie Lecours		Kévin St-Jean		Boris Geynet		Mathieu Laliberté				Mathieu Stevens (PL)		New district
Mirabel		Camille Arsenault Brideau		Denise Beaudoin		Sylvie D'Amours		Marjolaine Goudreau		Émilie Paiement		Désiré Mounanga				Vincent Laurin (BP) Patricia Vaca (CINQ)		Sylvie D'Amours
Prévost		Naömie Goyette		Paul St-Pierre Plamondon		Marguerite Blais		Lucie Mayer				Malcolm Mulcahy				Michel Leclerc (PL)		New district
Saint-Jérôme		Antoine Poulin		Marc Bourcier		Youri Chassin		Ève Duhaime		Annabelle Desrochers		Normand Michaud		Sylvie Brien		Christine Simon (NDP) Giuseppe Starnino (PL)		Marc Bourcier

Montérégie

Eastern

Electoral district	Candidates																	Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		Conservative		NDP		Other
Borduas		Martin Nichols		Cédric G.-Ducharme		Simon Jolin-Barrette		Annie Desharnais		Nicolas Gravel		André Lecompte		André Martin		Razz E. (BP) Stéphane Thévenot (CAP)		Simon Jolin-Barrette
Brome-Missisquoi		Ingrid Marini		Andréanne Larouche		Isabelle Charest		Alexandre Legault		Elisabeth Dionne						Marc Alarie (VP) Manon Gamache (CAP)		Pierre Paradis ‡
Chambly		François Villeneuve		Christian Picard		Jean-François Roberge		Francis Vigeant		Camille B. Jannard		Guy L'Heureux		Gilles Létourneau		Gilles Guindon (CINQ) Benjamin Vachon (BP)		Jean-François Roberge
Granby		Lyne Laverdure		Chantal Beauchemin		François Bonnardel		Anne-Sophie Legault		Daphné Poulin		Pierre Bélanger				Stéphane Deschamps (Nul) Kevin Robidas (BP)		François Bonnardel
Iberville		Mylène Gaudreau		Nicolas Dionne		Claire Samson		Philippe Jetten-Vigeant		Michelle Kolatschek		Serge Benoit		Marc-André Renaud		Dany Desjardins (BP)		Claire Samson
Richelieu		Sophie Chevalier		Sylvain Rochon		Jean-Bernard Émond		Sophie Pagé-Sabourin		Ksenia Svetoushkina		Patrick Corriveau						Sylvain Rochon
Saint-Hyacinthe		Annie Pelletier		Daniel Breton		Chantal Soucy		Marijo Demers						Luc Chulak				Chantal Soucy
Saint-Jean		Vanessa Parent		Dave Turcotte		Louis Lemieux		Simon Lalonde		Véronique Langlois		Philippe Perreault		Geneviève Ruel		Louis Saint-Jacques (CAP)		Dave Turcotte
Verchères		Agnieszka Wnorowska		Stéphane Bergeron		Suzanne Dansereau		Jean-René Péloquin		Pierre-Olivier Downey		Lisette Benoit		Vincent Hillel				Stéphane Bergeron

South Shore

Electoral district	Candidates																	Incumbent
		Liberal		PQ		CAQ		QS		Green		Conservative		NDP		Other
Beauharnois		Félix Rhéaume		Mireille Théorêt		Claude Reid		Pierre-Paul St-Onge				Yannick Campeau		François Mantion		Tommy Mathieu (CAP)		Guy Leclair ‡
Châteauguay		Pierre Moreau		Jean-Philippe Thériault		MarieChantal Chassé		Sandrine Garcia-McDiarmid		Stephanie Stevenson		Jeff Benoit		Marie-Ève Masucci-Lauzon				Pierre Moreau
Huntingdon		Stéphane Billette		Huguette Hébert		Claire IsaBelle		Aiden Hodgins-Ravensbergen		Victoria Mary Haliburton		Jérémie Ouellette		Charles Orme				Stéphane Billette
La Pinière		Gaétan Barrette		Suzanne Gagnon		Sylvia Baronian		Marie Pagès		Aziza Dini		Anwar El Youbi		Djaouida Sellah		Patrick Hayes (Ind.) Fang Hu (Ind.)		Gaétan Barrette
Laporte		Nicole Ménard		Annie Lessard		Jacinthe-Eve Arel		Claude Lefrançois		Sabrina Huet-Côté		Linda Therrien		Marc André Audet				Nicole Ménard
La Prairie		Richard Merlini		Cathy Lepage		Christian Dubé		Daniel Blouin		Alexandre Caron		Alain Desmarais		Boukare Tall		Normand Chouinard (ML) Liana Minato (P51)		Richard Merlini
Marie-Victorin		Sonia Ziadé		Catherine Fournier		Martyne Prévost		Carl Lévesque		Laeticia Poiré-Hill				Myriam de Grandpré-Ruel		Shirley Cedent (CINQ) Pierre Chénier (ML) Florent Portron (Auto.)		Catherine Fournier
Montarville		Ludovic Grisé Farand		Daniel Michelin		Nathalie Roy		Caroline Charette						Lise Roy		Jean Dury (BP)		Nathalie Roy
Sanguinet		Marcelina Jugureanu		Alain Therrien		Danielle McCann		Maya Fréchette-Bonnier		Antonino Geraci		Nikolai Grigoriev				Hélène Héroux (ML)		Alain Therrien
Soulanges		Lucie Charlebois		Samuelle Ducrocq-Henry		Marilyne Picard		Maxime Larue-Bourdages		Bianca Jitaru		Felice Trombino		Etienne Madelein		Jean-Patrick Berthiaume (BP) Patrick Marquis (Auto.) Dominik Prud'homme (CAP)		Lucie Charlebois
Taillon		Mohammed Barhone		Diane Lamarre		Lionel Carmant		Manon Blanchard		Mel-Lyna Cadieux Walker		Gerardin Verty		Jonathan Leduc				Diane Lamarre
Vachon		Linda Caron		Patrick Ney		Ian Lafrenière		André Vincent				Lise des Greniers		Ian Lecourtois		Hugo Bluntss (BP) Stéphane Marginean (CAP)		Martine Ouellet ‡
Vaudreuil		Marie-Claude Nichols		Philip Lapalme		Claude Bourbonnais		Igor Erchov		Jason Mossa		Ryan Robertson		Ryan Young		Camille Piché-Jetté (BP) Daniel Pilon (CAP)		Marie-Claude Nichols

See also

• 41st Quebec Legislature
• Politics of Quebec
• Timeline of Quebec history
• List of political parties in Quebec

External links

• Web site of Quebec's Chief Electoral Officer