Results of the October 3 Election in Numbers
The Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) elected 90 Members of the National Assembly (MNAs) out of 125. It received 1,682,952 votes. This means that the CAQ received 40.97 per cent of the votes cast, but was elected by only 26.7 per cent of eligible voters (24.5 per cent in 2018). In other words, 73.3 per cent of those eligible to vote did not vote for the Legault government.
Said another way, of the total votes cast, 2,424,350 were for parties other than the CAQ. Adding the 2,130,288 voters who did not vote, this means that the CAQ is in power, while 4,619,837 (out of a total of 6,302,789 registered voters) did not vote for it.
Here are the results of the October 3, 2022 election in Quebec and what the numbers reveal.
Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ): 90 MNAs, 1,682,952 votes; 40.97 per cent of votes cast; 26.97 per cent of eligible voters.
Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ): 21 MNAs, 590,171 votes; 14.37 per cent of votes cast; 9.36 per cent of eligible voters.
Québec Solidaire (QS): 11 MNAs, 633,414 votes; 15.42 per cent of votes cast; 10.05 per cent of eligible voters.
Parti Québécois (PQ): 3 MNAs, 599,678 votes, 14.60 per cent of votes cast; 9.5 per cent of eligible voters.
Conservative Party of Quebec (PCQ): 0 MNAs, 530,804 votes; 12.92 per cent of votes cast; 8.4 per cent of eligible voters.
Green Party (GP): 0 MNAs, 31,206 votes; 0.76 per cent of votes cast; 0.49 per cent of eligible voters.
Independent and small party candidates: 0 MNAs, 39,062 votes; 0.93 per cent of votes cast; 0.61 per cent of eligible voters.
Note the result of the first-past-the-post vote. For example, the QLP and the PQ received roughly the same number of votes, but the result is 21 Liberal MNAs to the PQ's three. QS has more votes than the PLQ but 10 fewer MNAs.
Turnout: 65.5 per cent, the lowest since 2012 (one per cent lower than in 2018 -- 66.5 per cent)
Number of registered voters: 6,302,789
Number of votes cast: 4,163,501 (66.06 per cent)
Number of valid ballots: 4,107,302 (98.65 per cent)
Number of rejected ballots: 56,199 (1.35 per cent)
Number of polling stations in Québec: 21,897
The number of women serving in the Blue Room has increased from 52 in 2018 to now 58 out of 125 MNAs.
This article was published in
Volume 52 Number 25 - October 4, 2022
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmld2022/Articles/D520252.HTM
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