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

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I'm endorsing... um... f**k Quebec politics .

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I'm secretly rooting for Marois, because I think Canada needs a female premier. But, I would rather wait for Carole James

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Québec Solidaire ftw!

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I would probably vote for one of their spokesmen who almost won in their ridings, and maybe that Bill Clennett guy... but I'm not sure if I would root for them. Argh...

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Have there been boundary changes since the last election [qm]

I don't believe so.

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Boring.. Charest gets another mandate

Damnit Mario, you were making things exciting in Quebec!

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It is very surprising, but a good sign.  Vive le Quebec!

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I seem to remember QS finishing second (to the PQ) in at least one riding in 2007.  What were their best ridings percentage-wise and those where they came in the highest (2nd being higher than 3rd, etc.) place (perhaps the same, but not necessarily)?

QS got 26.03% in Gouin and 29.38% in Mercier. David ran in Gouin and Khadir in Mercier. And 14.16% in Sainte-Marie—Saint-Jacques.

they finished a close second in both those ridings. They are very working class francophone ridings.

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The Liberals and PQ will both improve in those constituencies, but I think the QS will remain at its same levels.

The Greenies have no chance of winning anything. Their best result was 15% in NdG, a wealthy West Island Anglophone area (and Liberal stronghold forever, save for the Equality Party episode). It will be interesting to compare the PVQ results to those of the federal Greens, who performed best in English-speaking Quebec in October. I'll check the two other ridings where the Greens finished second in 2007. I'm pretty sure they were distant seconds to Liberals in the West Island.

Which is interesting, because the PVQ is pretty much a sovereigntist party. They just wont admit it.

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It's middle income, I'd say. My best friend who lives there, says it's Montreal's version of the Glebe (an Ottawa neighbourhood). Very trendy, lots of shops, etc. Probably a high student population. (He goes to Concordia)

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11% of Anglophones are pequistes?

Apparently. And I know one of them. Actually, he's probably voting ADQ, but he is a sovereigntist.

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Haitians, west Africans, etc.

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Boring...

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Well, I was curling, so I missed the election, but some obvious comments:

I'm not happy about a majority, but it's better than I thought. The ADQ and PQ did better than expected, and the QS won a seat!

While QS are separatists, I kind of see them as Quebec's NDP... sort of... same colours anyways So, that's pretty awesome. Going to make the map for Wikipedia now.

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Good night; came this close to a minority, ADQ wiped out, QS in!

Had to go to a party, missed the fun. But the level of polarization on the Island is hilarious. Someone make a map.

My map with it's terrible layout (but Im too lazy to make a good one, perhaps next representation) is up on Wikipedia.

Oh, and Montreal has always been like that

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Some political notes about Mericer...

After comparing it with the federal ridings, I can tell you it includes the most hard core NDP areas of Outremont (and in all of Quebec), plus what is probably the best NDP areas in Laurier-Sainte-Marie. I'm guessing we won some polls up there. We finished second in 2006 there.

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Ok, here y'all go...

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

This isn't true in Montreal (as you can see from the maps), but very true in central Quebec.