Quebec 2008: ADQ getting owned LIVE. LIBERALS LEAD DUPLESSIS!11!!!

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ADQ behind the Greenies in Ile-de-la-Madelaine. 1.5%

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David has lost.

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Khadir still ahead. (37-33)

PQ leads in Cremazie (a 2007 gain from the Libs), but it's narrow.

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ADQ wiped out from Quebec City (not including the suburbs).

Mr. Bean re-elected.

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Levy-Beaulieu is doing horribly in Riviere-du-Loup. (2.8%)

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Sherbrooke
PLQ 47.55
PQ 36.89

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The Traitor has won.

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Bergman breaks 90% in D'Arcy-McGee! Closest "rival" is a Greenie, who has 3.96%.

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64-53-7-1. Majority is 63

Dubuc is very close.

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Apparently a minority isn't out of the question, according to some pundits and talking heads.

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Minority, please! Minority, please! Minority, please! Minority, please! Minority, please!

63-54-7-1

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KHADIR ELECTED IN MERCIER. QS GAIN FROM PQ!

I guess.

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Dumont has indeed stepped down. Good bye, ADQ.

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CBC.ca. But the election is over.

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I'll make a map tonight, if I have time.

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Does QS realistically have any chance of making inroads outside of Montreal? Anyone know what and where their best showing outside of it was?

Apart from good results in other select urban areas (Hull, Taschereau in inner Quebec City) their best non-urban results is Rouyn-Noranda. IIRC, the CCF held its only provincial seat there for one term, though the guy won with something like 20% in a very divided election.

Turnout seems to be 57%, btw. Down from 71% in 2007.

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Just a question : for wich party did Charest vote in the Federal Election this year ? He was leader of the Tories in the 90's but now did he really support Harper against Dion, a french-speaking liberal federalist like him ? Isn't he opposed to the ADQ, which seems to be close to the Tories ?

Probably Conservative, though one can never know for sure. Some say Charest is even a member of the Conservative Party. The PLQ isn't exactly liberal either. Kind of like the BC Liberals. It's now a big tent for federalists, from the right to the left (though not many of the latter).

The ADQ isn't close to the Conservative Party. Sure, the ADQ is a bit Tory-like on the issues, but the only reason Harper briefly flirted with the ADQ in 2007 (when the ADQ was at 38% in polls, not 12%) was that he thought he could use the ADQ machine (lol) in the way Diefenbaker used the UN machine (now, that's a machine) in '58. When they saw the ADQ had little influence on the Tories federally and when they saw their collapse, they ended their flirtation. Dumont openly denounced Harper several times this year. Well, he had nothing to lose in doing so.

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About the ADQ, aren't the the electorate supporting them the same as that who support the Tories?

There's some overlap in some areas.

% ADQ in Montreal, 2007



Montreal, 2006 fed (Tories blue)