2008 Quebec general election

Issues

Charest called the election on November 5, saying he needed a "clear mandate" and a majority to handle the economic storm. He was criticized, however, by the Parti Québécois and the Action démocratique du Québec for calling a snap election to get a majority when they were willing to work with him to fix the economy.

Most notably, the election was marked by a significant collapse in support for the ADQ. Formerly a relatively minor party, the ADQ had attracted significant protest support in the 2007 election, beating the Parti Québécois to Official Opposition status. In 2008, however, the party's support dropped back to approximately 15 per cent of the popular vote, roughly the same range of support the party attracted before 2007. As a result of this loss of support, Mario Dumont announced in his concession speech that he would step down as party leader.

In the final days of the election campaign, the concurrent parliamentary confidence dispute became an issue, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper attacking the credibility of a potential Liberal-New Democratic Party coalition government because the Bloc Québécois had pledged to support the coalition on motions of confidence. Both Marois and Dumont called upon Charest, a former leader of the federal Progressive Conservatives, to clarify where he stood on the coalition and on Harper's use of anti-sovereigntist rhetoric in the dispute. Charest emphasized that the Bloc MPs had been legitimately elected by Quebecers, and stated that "I live in a society in which people can be sovereigntists or federalists, but they respect each other. The same thing should prevail in the federal parliament."

Media analysts noted that while Charest's Liberals won a majority, the final result was much narrower in both the popular vote and the seat total than polls even just a few days before the election had predicted, because the Liberals only won an eight-seat majority, a result which was widely credited to a late voter swing toward the PQ as a result of Harper's comments.

Timeline

2007

• March 26 - 38th Quebec general election
• April 4 - Mario Dumont becomes the leader of the Official Opposition.
• April 5 - Swearing in of the liberals members of the National Assembly
• April 12 - Swearing in of the ADQs members of the National Assembly
• April 18 - Swearing in of the Cabinet members
• April 25 - Swearing in of the PQs members of the National Assembly
• May 8 - Resignation of André Boisclair as leader of the Parti Québécois
• May 9 - The opening speech of the 38th National Assembly of Quebec is pronounced by Premier Jean Charest.
• May 10 - François Gendron becomes the interim leader of the Parti Québécois, so the leader of the Second Opposition group.
• May 24 - The budget speech is pronounced by Monique Jérôme-Forget. Both opposition parties announce that they will vote against the budget, causing a crisis in the National Assembly.
• June 1 - Monique Jérôme-Forget adds 111 million dollars to the budget to avoid the holding of a general election. The budgetary policy is approved by 46 votes against 44.
• June 7 - Pierre Duchesne becomes the twenty-eighth Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
• June 26 - Pauline Marois is elected as leader of the Parti Québécois without opposition.
• August 13 - Resignation of Rosaire Bertrand as MNA of Charlevoix
• September 24 - In a by-election, Pauline Marois is elected MNA of Charlevoix with 59.2% of the vote.
• October 17 - Resignation of Diane Lemieux as MNA of Bourget
• November 15 - Resignation of André Boisclair as MNA of Pointe-aux-Trembles

2008

• March 8 - 97.2% of the liberals delegates support their leader, Jean Charest.
• March 13 - Monique Jérôme-Forget pronounces her second budget speech. Mario Dumont announces that the ADQ will vote for the budget, whereas Pauline Marois announces that the PQ will vote against. Thus, the government is safe.
• March 16 - 94.8% of the ADQ's delegates support their leader, Mario Dumont.
• March 29 - Guy Rainville is elected as leader of the Green Party against Scott McKay.
• April 9 - Resignation of Roch Cholette as MNA of Hull
• May 12 - In by-elections, Maka Kotto, Maryse Gaudreault and Nicole Léger are respectively elected MNAs of Bourget, Hull and Pointe-aux-Trembles. The voter turnout is around 34% in the three electoral districts.
• June 25 - Resignation of Philippe Couillard as MNA of Jean-Talon and swearing in of Yves Bolduc as minister of Health and Social Services
• July 14 - Resignation of Michel Bissonnet as president of the National Assembly
• September 24 - Resignation of Michel Bissonnet as MNA of Jeanne-Mance–Viger
• September 29 - In a by-election, Yves Bolduc is elected MNA of Jean-Talon with 58.5% of the vote.
• October 21 - Election of François Gendron as president of the National Assembly
• October 22 - Resignation of Russell Copeman as MNA of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
• October 23 - ADQ members of the National Assembly André Riedl and Pierre-Michel Auger cross the floor to sit as members of the Liberal caucus.
• November 5 - Premier Jean Charest calls a general election for December 8.
• November 25 - Leaders debate

Opinion polls

Campaign slogans

• Action démocratique du Québec: Donnez-vous le pouvoir ("Give yourselves the power")
• Parti libéral du Québec: L'économie d'abord OUI ("The economy first YES")
• Parti québécois: Québec gagnant avec Pauline ("Quebec is a winner with Pauline")
• Parti vert du Québec : Votons pour l'avenir ("Let's vote for the future")
• Québec solidaire : Pour un système de santé public / Pour des salaires décents / Pour une souveraineté solidaire / Pour une économie verte et locale / Pour Éole Québec ("For a public health system" / "For decent incomes" / "For an independence in solidarity" / "For a green and local economy" / "For Wind Québec" [Éole Québec is a play on the state-run Hydro-Québec power utility, and refers to the nationalization of the wind energy industry])

Incumbent MNAs not running for re-election

Liberals

• Maurice Clermont, Mille-Îles
• Jean-Marc Fournier, Châteauguay
• Benoît Pelletier, Chapleau

''Péquistes''

• Maxime Arseneau, Îles-de-la-Madeleine
• Jacques Côté, Dubuc
• Serge Deslières, Beauharnois
• Rita Dionne-Marsolais, Rosemont
• Louise Harel, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
• Guy Lelièvre, Gaspé

List of candidates and results per riding

The results in each riding (electoral division) were:

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

|- || |Nathalie Normandeau 10,707 64.29% | |Denise Porlier 586 3.52% | |Marcel Landry 4,829 28.99% | | | |Patricia Chartier
533 3.20% | | ||

| |Marcelle Guay 499 3.15% | |Annie Chouinard 6,285 39.67% | | | |Simon Tremblay-Pepin 175 1.10% | | ||

| |Patrick Leblanc 121 1.72% | |Jeannine Richard 3,194 45.36% | |Nicolas Tremblay 129 1.83% | |Jacques Bourdeau 87 1.24% | | ||

| |Ian Sénéchal 4,436 21.56% | |Michel Forget 4,351 21.15% | | | |Manon Côté 604 2.94% | |Alexie Plourde (Ind.) 134 0.65% ||

| |Éric Plourde 5,503 33.27% | |Denis Paquette 1,127 6.81% || |Pascal Bérubé 9,589 57.98% | | | |Gilles Arteau 320 1.93% | | ||

| |Jean-Yves Roy 5,828 33.94% | |Cindy Rousseau 1,982 11.54% || |Danielle Doyer 8,815 51.34% | | | |Eve-Lyne Couturier 544 3.17% | | ||

| |Raymond Guiguère 9,424 35.33% | |Frédéric Audet 3,410 12.78% || |Irvin Pelletier 12,873 48.26% | | | |Alain Thibault 967 3.63% | | ||

| |Jean-Pierre Rioux 5,795 26.98% || |Mario Dumont 11,115 51.75% | |Stephan Shields 3,049 14.20% | |Alain Gagnon 513 2.39% | |Stacy Larouche 400 1.86% | |Victor-Lévy Beaulieu (Ind.) 607 2.83% || |Mario Dumont |}

[[Côte-Nord]] and [[Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean]]

|- | |Joan Simard 12,128 41.61% | |Jean-Philippe Marin 2,455 8.42% || |Stéphane Bédard 13,402 45.98% | | | |Réjean Godin 1,164 3.99% | | ||

| |Robert Émond 2,789 12.29% | |André Michaud 9,272 40.86% | | | |Marie-France Bienvenue 708 3.12% | |Fernand Bouchard (Ind.) 199 0.88% ||

| |Pierre Cormier 6,300 34.28% | |Bernard Lefrançois 1,532 8.34% || |Lorraine Richard 9,619 52.34% | |Jacques Gélineau 459 2.50% | |Olivier Noël 469 2.55% | | ||

| |Martine Girard 10,367 37.80% | |Marc Jomphe 2,913 10.62% || |Sylvain Gaudreault 13,077 47.68% | | | |Gabrielle Desbiens 1,068 3.89% | | ||

| |Pierre Simard 7,825 29.94% | |Sylvain Carbonneau 2,764 10.57% || |Alexandre Cloutier 14,539 55.62% | |France Bergeron 483 1.85% | |Samuel Thivierge 527 2.02% | | ||

| |Patrick Sullivan 4,725 26.29% | |Louis-Olivier Minville 2,198 12.23% || |Marjolain Dufour 10,554 58.71% | | | |Marie-Claude Ouellette 498 2.77% | | ||

| |Georges Simard 10,905 40.07% | |Jacques Cadieux 2,641 9.70% || |Denis Trottier 12,528 46.03% | | | |Nicole Schmitt 571 2.10% | |Sébastien Girard (PDQ) 571 2.10% || |Denis Trottier |}

[[Capitale-Nationale]]

|- || |Michel Pigeon 14,196 42.35% | |Catherine Morissette 9,814 29.28% | |Renaud Lapierre 8,449 25.20% | | | |Martine Sanfaçon 1,063 3.17% | | ||

| |Jean-Luc Simard 6,252 31.00% | |Marc Cardwell 2,568 12.73% || |Pauline Marois 10,532 52.21% | |David Turcotte 326 1.62% | |André Jacob 340 1.69% | |Jean-Michel Harvey (Ind.) 152 0.75% ||

| |Sarah Perreault 10,359 33.76% || |Gérard Deltell 13,281 43.28% | |François Aumond 6,267 20.42% | | | |Catherine Flynn 778 2.54% | | ||

| |Jean-François Gosselin 7,302 26.05% | |Hélène Guillemette 7,497 26.75% | | | |Jean-Yves Desgagnés 1,236 4.41% | |José Breton (Ind.) 314 1.12% ||

| |Martin Briand 2,588 9.28% | |Patrick Neko Likongo 8,937 32.05% | |Nathalie Gingras 1,066 3.82% | |Marc-André Gauthier 1,410 5.06% | | ||

| |France Hamel 13,133 38.09% || |Éric Caire 13,393 38.84% | |France Gagné 7,014 20.34% | | | |Guillaume Boivin 943 2.73% | | ||

| |Jean Nobert 5,863 16.24% | |Françoise Mercure 10,508 29.10% | |Carl Lavoie 1,069 2.96% | |Dominique Gautron 1,037 2.87% | | ||

| |Hubert Benoit 11,375 33.14% | |Jacques Nadeau 8,784 25.59% | |Jacques Legros 726 2.12% | |Lucie Charbonneau 751 2.19% | |Luc Duranleau (PI) 153 0.45% ||

| |Raymond Francoeur 9,388 33.61% | |René Perreault 6,553 23.46% | | | |André Lavoie 934 3.34% | | ||

| |Hébert Dufour 7,845 29.48% | |Renée-Claude Lizotte 3,563 13.39% || |Agnès Maltais 11,768 44.22% | |Antonine Yaccarini 1,048 3.94% | |Serge Roy 2,241 8.42% | |Mélanie Thériault (PI) 149 0.56% ||

| |Sylvain Légaré 12,599 36.93% | |Éric Boucher 7,512 22.02% | | | |Monique Voisine 931 2.73% | | || |Sylvain Légaré |}

[[Mauricie]]

|- | |Pierre-Michel Auger 10,286 34.15% | |Luc Arvisais 6,582 21.86% || |Noëlla Champagne 12,317 40.91% | | | |Myriam Fauteux 714 2.37% | |Jean-Pierre Grenier (Ind.) 211 0.70% ||

| |Éric Tapps 2,121 10.77% | |Claude Lessard 5,413 27.48% | | | |Rémy Francoeur 516 2.62% | | ||

| |Jean Damphousse 6,252 19.86% | |Rémy Désilets 10,841 34.44% | | | |Mariannick Mercure 709 2.25% | |Michel Thibeault (Ind.) 395 1.26% ||

| |Céline Trépanier 8,138 38.43% | |Robert Deschamps 3,119 14.73% || |Claude Pinard 8,769 41.41% | |Stéphane Normandin 447 2.11% | |Allison Molesworth 429 2.03% | |Yves Demers (Ind.) 276 1.30% ||

| |Sébastien Proulx 4,241 18.63% | |Yves St-Pierre 8,169 35.88% | |Louis Lacroix 515 2.26% | |Alex Noël 714 3.14% | | || |Sébastien Proulx |}

[[Chaudière-Appalaches]] and [[Centre-du-Québec]]

|- || |Claude Bachand 13,227 42.49% | |Jean-François Roux 7,735 24.85% | |Catherine Coutel 8,791 28.24% | |François Fillion 690 2.22% | |Bill Ninacs 685 2.20% | | ||

| |Richard Lehoux 9,612 37.99% || |Janvier Grondin 12,633 49.93% | |Mireille Mercier-Roy 2,297 9.08% | |Francis Paré 381 1.51% | |Émilie Guimond-Bélanger 264 1.04% | |Benoît Roy (Ind.) 116 0.46% ||

| |Claude Morin 11,499 41.09% | |André Côté 2,959 10.57% | |Francis Cossette 749 2.68% | |Anne-Marie Provost 307 1.10% | |Léo Doyon (Ind.) 332 1.19% ||

| |Jean Domingue 7,553 34.28% | |Jerry Beaudoin 3,435 15.59% | | | |Jean-Nicolas Denis 518 2.35% | | ||

| |Réal St-Laurent 10,657 30.87% || |Marc Picard 15,366 44.51% | |Marie Raiche 7,428 21.52% | | | |Marie-Hélène Côté-Brochu 1,069 3.10% | | ||

| |Jacques Sigouin 10,860 32.54% | |Sébastien Schneeberger 9,757 29.23% || |Yves-François Blanchet 11,480 34.40% | | | |Luce Daneau 1,279 3.83% | | ||

| |Paul-André Proulx 3,539 17.03% | |Juliette Jalbert 4,852 23.35% | | | |Claudette Lambert 423 2.04% | |Martin Duranleau (PI) 183 0.88% ||

| |Denis F. Morin 8,478 30.99% | |Éric Charbonneau 6,318 23.09% || |Étienne-Alexis Boucher 11,012 40.25% | |Pierre-Olivier Jetté 919 3.36% | |Colombe Landry 634 2.32% | | ||

| |Christian Lévesque 11,196 34.32% | |Jimmy Grenier 7,326 22.46% | | | |Valérie Guilloteau 1,457 4.47% | | ||

| |Julie Champagne 7,540 34.31% || |Sylvie Roy 9,615 43.75% | |Guy St-Pierre 4,238 19.28% | | | |Guillaume Dorval 586 2.67% | | ||

| |Claude Roy 5,596 28.96% | |Guy Bélanger 3,048 15.78% | |Richard Piper 356 1.84% | |Bernard Beaulieu 294 1.52% | | ||

| |Mario Landry 7,991 34.56% | |Éric Dorion 6,052 26.17% || |Jean-Martin Aussant 8,132 35.17% | | | |Marianne Mathis 950 4.11% | | || |Éric Dorion |}

[[Estrie]] (Eastern Townships)

|- || |Johanne Gonthier 9,204 45.32% | |Samuel Therrien 3,268 16.09% | |Gloriane Blais 7,079 34.85% | | | |Julie Dionne 760 3.74% | | ||

| |Pierre Harvey 4,525 13.35% | |Michel Breton 12,470 36.80% | |Louis Hamel 1,030 3.04% | |Patricia Tremblay 1,135 3.35% | | ||

| |Jean-Philippe Hamel 3,682 16.27% | |Martyne Prévost 6,535 28.87% | | | |Michel Reesor 760 3.36% | | ||

| |Vincent Marmion 2,230 7.86% | |Réjean Hébert 11,845 41.74% | | | |Sandy Tremblay 769 2.71% | |François Mailly (Ind.) 210 0.74% ||

| |Jacques Joly 2,065 6.82% | |Laurent-Paul Maheux 11,380 37.57% | |Steve Dubois 1,016 3.35% | |Christian Bibeau 1,956 6.46% | |Hubert Richard (Ind.) 178 0.59% || |Jean Charest |}

[[Montérégie]]

Eastern Montérégie

|- | |Jacques Charbonneau 9,125 32.61% | |Jean Dion 3,430 12.26% || |Pierre Curzi 13,329 47.63% | |Marco Caron 914 3.27% | |Eric Noël 966 3.45% | |Michel Lepage (PI) 219 0.78% ||

| |Mario Charpentier 5,127 16.87% | |Richard Leclerc 8,280 27.24% | |Louise Martineau 1,006 3.31% | |Diane Cormier 884 2.91% | |Jacques-Antoine Normandin (Ind.) 171 0.56% ||

| |Stéphanie Doyon 14,485 36.11% | |Richard Merlini 6,455 16.09% || |Bertrand St-Arnaud 16,049 40.01% | |Nicholas Lescarbeau 1,200 2.99% | |Jocelyn Roy 1,167 2.91% | |Ghislain Lebel (PI) 758 1.89% ||

| |André Riedl 9,075 32.01% | |Lyne Denechaud 6,087 21.47% || |Marie Bouillé 11,698 41.26% | |Guy Berger 882 3.11% | |André Dupuis 612 2.16% | | ||

| |Christian Cournoyer 8,546 34.63% | |Patrick Fournier 3,127 12.67% || |Sylvain Simard 11,607 47.04% | |Patrick Lamothe 691 2.80% | |Paul Martin 704 2.85% | | ||

| |Claude Corbeil 11,609 37.38% | |Claude L'Écuyer 5,690 18.32% || |Émilien Pelletier 11,822 38.07% | |Louis-Pierre Beaudry 975 3.14% | |Richard Gingras 957 3.08% | | ||

| |Jean-Pierre Paquin 12,568 36.52% | |Lucille Méthé 6,266 18.21% || |Dave Turcotte 13,474 39.15% | |Éric Beaudry 1,034 3.00% | |Danielle Desmarais 768 2.23% | | Martin Rioux (PI) 189 0.55% Guillaume Tremblay (Ind.) 118 0.34% ||

| |Jean-Claude Tremblay 11,201 34.42% || |François Bonnardel 11,271 34.63% | |Jean-François Arseneault 8,019 24.64% | |Martin Giard 789 2.42% | |Ginette Moreau 1,085 3.33% | |Lucie Piédalue (Ind.) 181 0.56% ||

| |Vincent Sabourin 6,389 22.87% | |Daniel Castonguay 4,333 15.52% || |Stéphane Bergeron 15,457 55.37% | |Christine Hayes 842 3.02% | |Lynda Gadoury 737 2.64% | |Yvon Sylva Aubé (PI) 158 0.57% || |Stéphane Bergeron |}

South Shore

|- | |Louis-Charles Roy 8,811 33.64% | |Michael Betts 3,311 12.64% || |Guy Leclair 12,349 47.15% | |Stéphanie Théorêt 570 2.18% | |Maxime Larue-Bourdages 681 2.60% | |Christian Grenon (Ind.) 467 1.78% ||

| |Geneviève Tousignant 4,115 12.54% | |Michel Pinard 13,132 40.03% | |Johanne Côté 967 2.95% | |Véronique Pronovost 677 2.06% | |Nicole Caron (PI) 215 0.66% Hélène Héroux (M-L) 115 0.35% ||

| |Albert De Martin 6,372 25.09% | |Joan Gosselin 6,988 27.51% | | | |Stéphane Thellen 863 3.40% | | ||

| |Marc-André Beauchemin 2,822 9.92% | |Jocelyne Duguay-Varfalvy 7,046 24.77% | | | |Nadine Beaudoin 971 3.41% | |Serge Patenaude (M-L) 131 0.46% ||

| |Alain Dépatie 2,462 9.41% | |Robert Pellan 8,765 33.50% | |Richard Morisset 1,162 4.44% | |Michèle St-Denis 954 3.65% | | ||

| |Marc Savard 13,621 37.41% | |Monique Roy Verville 5,162 14.18% || |François Rebello 16,322 44.83% | | | |Danielle Maire 759 2.08% | |Martin McNeil (Ind.) 392 1.08% Normand Chouinard (M-L) 150 0.41% ||

| |Jean-Robert Grenier 13,096 35.85% | |Simon-Pierre Diamond 6,731 18.43% || |Monique Richard 14,545 39.82% | |Thomas Goyette-Levac 1,097 3.00% | |Hugo Bergeron 1,059 2.90% | | ||

| |Isabelle Mercille 6,185 28.92% | |Roger Dagenais 2,369 11.08% || |Bernard Drainville 11,026 51.56% | |Réal Langelier 665 3.11% | |Sébastien Robert 957 4.48% | |Yves Ménard (PI) 182 0.85% ||

| |Daniel Lavigne 2,992 11.98% | |Louisanne Chevrier 9,229 36.95% | |Denis Eperjusy 736 2.95% | |Jonathan Vallée-Payette 459 1.84% | | ||

| |Richard Bélisle 10,688 32.98% | |Karine Simard 3,889 12.00% || |Marie Malavoy 15,021 46.34% | |Simon Bernier 1,094 3.37% | |Manon Blanchard 1,374 4.24% | |Éric Tremblay (PI) 349 1.08% ||

| |Georges Painchaud 8,802 32.26% | |Jean-François Denis 3,776 13.84% || |Camil Bouchard 13,203 48.39% | |Denis Durand 886 3.25% | |François Cyr 615 2.25% | | ||

| |Lucie Boudreault 2,578 8.81% | |Claude Turcotte 8,789 30.03% | |Julien Leclerc 1,083 3.70% | |Maria-Pia Chavez 543 1.86% | |Kevin Côté (Ind.) 305 1.04% Gilles Paquette (PRQ) 140 0.48% || |Yvon Marcoux |}

[[Montréal]]

East Montreal

|- || |Lise Thériault 13,082 | |Jacques Lachapelle 2,242 | |Sébastien Richard 8,927 | |Sylvie Morneau 727 | |Francine Gagné 944 | | ||

| |Guy Mailloux 1,933 | |Roland Carrier 6,059 | | | |Enrico Gambardella 732 | | ||

| |Pierre MacNicoll 7,984 | |Guy Boutin 2,677 || |Maka Kotto 13,046 | |Gilbert Caron 939 | |Gaétan Legault 1,177 | |Antonis Labbé (PI) 127 ||

| |Martin Cossette 11,757 | |Diane Charbonneau 1,847 || |Lisette Lapointe 12,947 | |Daniel Hémond 778 | |André Frappier 1,639 | | ||

| |Édith Keays 4,974 | |Caroline Giroux 895 || |Nicolas Girard 10,276 | |Stephen Marchant 753 | |Françoise David 7,987 | |Jonathan Godin (PI) 110 ||

| |Julie Tremblay 4,115 | |Jean-Lévy Champagne 1,303 || |Carole Poirier 10,529 | |Sylvie Woods 816 | |Serge Mongeau 2,502 | |Christine Dandenault (M-L) 117 ||

| |Luigi Verrelli 1,736 | |Christine Normandin 3,379 | | | |Céline Gingras 554 | |Katia Proulx (Ind.) 284 Garnet Colly (M-L) 125 ||

| |Gaetano Giumento 1,306 | |Luigi De Benedictis 3,838 | |Gaétan Bérard 549 | |Natacha Larocque 389 | | ||

| |Olivier Manceau 943 | |Badiona Bazin 7,701 | |Michel Lemay 1,090 | |Ruba Ghazal 2,963 | |Peter Macrisopoulos (M-L) 219 Michel Prairie (Ind.) 86 ||

| |Catherine Émond 4,940 | |Elysa Toutant 575 | |Daniel Turp 7,989 | |Olivier Adam 833 || |Amir Khadir 8,861 | |Jean-Marc Labrèche (PI) 83 ||

| |Gilbert Thibodeau 5,581 | |Pierre Trudelle 2,525 || |Nicole Léger 12,845 | |Xavier Daxhelet 733 | |Marie-Josèphe Pigeon 664 | |Gérald Briand (Ind.) 159 Geneviève Royer (M-L) 81 ||

| |Nathalie Rivard 9,557 | |Audrey Serec 1,901 || |Louise Beaudoin 15,149 | |Sylvain Valiquette 816 | |François Saillant 2,470 | |Stephane Chénier (M-L) 88 ||

| |Éric Prud'homme 5,536 | |Dominic Boisvert 793 || |Martin Lemay 9,135 | |Annie Morel 1,089 | |Manon Massé 3,009 | |Serge Lachapelle (M-L) 207 ||

| |Martin Fournier 1,186 | |Martine Banolok 4,783 | |Michel Cummings 678 | |Rosa Dutra 916 | | || |Emmanuel Dubourg |}

West Montreal

| |Ahamed Badawy 980 | |Marc-André Nolet 4,717 | |Nicolas Rémillard-Tessier 755 | |André Parizeau 956 | | ||

| |Mathieu Lacombe 292 | |Marie-Aude Ardizzon 564 | |Jean-Christophe Mortreux 666 | |Abraham Weizfeld 264 | | ||

| |Marie-Hélène Trudel 980 | |Olivier Gendreau 1,555 | |Ryan Young 1,895 | |Marianne Breton-Fontaine 364 | |Marsha Fine (M-L) 87 ||

| |Michel Beaudoin 1,900 | |Félix Sylvestre-Kentzinger 4,750 | | | |Elena Tapia 752 | | ||

| |Marc-Antoine Desjardins 2,062 | |Catherine Major 6,451 | |Réjean Malette 1,308 | |Manuel Teigeiro 588 | |Yves Le Seigle (M-L) 86 ||

| |Caroline Morgan 555 | |Simon Robert-Chartrand 1,854 | |Mario Bonenfant 736 | |Robbie Mahoud 577 | |Diane Johnston (M-L) 69 ||

| |François Savard 1,418 | |Anais Valiquette-L'Heureux 3,634 | |Jonathan Théorêt 1,556 | |Elahé Machouf 378 | | ||

| |Matthew Conway 481 | |Fabrice Martel 2,307 | |Peter McQueen 2,430 | | | |Linda Sullivan (M-L) 124 David Sommer Rovins (Ind.) 64 ||

| |Christian Collard 577 | |Sophie Fréchette 4,919 | |Maxime Simard 1,204 | |May Chiu 2,228 | | ||

| |Alexandra Lauzon 877 | |Alexandre Pagé-Chassé 1,602 | |Maryse Goulet 1,059 | |Sarah Landry 375 | |Nicholas Lin (M-L) 74 ||

| |Claude-Ludovic Mbany 1,326 | |Frédéric Isaya 8,535 | |Tim Landry 985 | |Marie-Ève Rancourt 1,471 | |Jean-Paul Bédard (M-L) 146 ||

| |José Fiorilo 1,009 | |Gabrielle Dufour-Turcotte 3,505 | | | |William Sloan 731 | |Fernand Deschamps (M-L) 147 ||

| |Moscou Côté 1,411 | |Richard Langlais 8,314 | |Sébastien Beausoleil 1,087 | |Chantale Michaud 1,215 | |Sylvie Tremblay (Ind.) 216 Robert Lindblad (Ind.) 61 ||

| |Léonidas Priftakis 438 | |Daniella Johnson-Meneghini 1,525 | |Patrick Daoust 1,090 | |Nadia Alexan 641 | | || |Jacques Chagnon |}

[[Laval, Quebec|Laval]]

|- || |Guy Ouellette 16,482 | |Josée Granger 1,932 | |Jonathan Cyr 5,218 | |Christian Picard 618 | |Francine Bellerose 547 | |Polyvios Tsakanikas (M-L) 234 ||

| |Tom Pentefountas 4,024 | |François-Ghyslain Rocque 12,425 | |Erika Alvarez 1,021 | |Pierre Brien 918 | | ||

| |Robert Goulet 2,727 | |Marc Demers 10,264 | |Nicholas Sarrazin 779 | |Sylvie DesRochers 758 | |Mathieu Desbiens (PI) 151 Jacques Frigon (Ind.) 125 Yvon Breton (M-L) 114 ||

| |Pierre Tremblay 3,588 | |Donato Santomo 12,124 | |Maude Delangis 903 | |Nicole Bellerose 905 | |Isabelle Gérin-Lajoie (Ind.) 191 Régent Millette (Ind.) 44 ||

| |Pierre Brien 3,932 | |Rachel Demers 12,257 | | | |Audrey Boisvert 1,537 | | || |Vincent Auclair |}

[[Lanaudière]]

|- | |Norman Blackburn 8,393 | |François Benjamin 8,239 || |André Villeneuve 13,650 | |Yan Beaudry 903 | |Jocelyne Dupuis 931 | | ||

| |Christian Trudel 9,168 | |Pascal Beaupré 6,171 || |Véronique Hivon 14,647 | | | |Flavie Trudel 1,544 | |Pablo Lugo-Herrera (Ind.) 244 ||

| |Christian Gauthier 11,384 | |Éric Laporte 6,977 || |Scott McKay 15,494 | |Chantal Latour 946 | |Olivier Huart 1,099 | |Fanny Bérubé (PI) 341 ||

| |David Grégoire 8,174 | |Ginette Grandmont 7,436 || |Guillaume Tremblay 17,997 | |Michel Paulette 954 | |Gabriel Poirier 716 | |Bertrand Lefebvre (PI) 257 ||

| |Michel Fafard 6,689 | |Jean-Pierre Parrot 4,778 || |François Legault 16,783 | |Michel Popik 607 | |François Lépine 730 | | ||

| |Chantal Leblanc 9,439 | |Jean-François Therrien 7,377 || |Mathieu Traversy 15,455 | |Yoland Gilbert 1,103 | |Sabrina Perreault 894 | | || |Jean-François Therrien |}

[[Laurentides]]

|- || |David Whissell 10,843 | |Michael Perzow 2,455 | |John Saywell 7,353 | |Claude Sabourin 790 | |Loïc Kauffeisen 456 | | ||

| |Isabelle Lord 10,424 | |Diane Bellemare 3,463 || |Claude Cousineau 14,970 | |Michelle L. Déry 839 | |Mylène Jaccoud 843 | | ||

| |Johanne Berthiaume 11,301 | |Pierre Gingras 7,677 || |Daniel Ratthé 14,118 | |Michel Sigouin 962 | |Francis Gagnon-Bergmann 798 | | ||

| |Marie-France D'Aoust 8,979 | |Lucie Leblanc 4,983 || |Benoit Charette 11,932 | |Guy Rainville 1,168 | |Julien Demers 632 | | ||

| |Monique Laurin 10,823 | |Linda Lapointe 6,036 || |René Gauvreau 11,226 | |Carmen Brisebois 955 | |Adam Veilleux 701 | |Sébastien Hotte (PI) 102 ||

| |Déborah Bélanger 7,140 | |Claude Ouellette 2,807 || |Sylvain Pagé 13,195 | |François Beauchamp 754 | |Luc Boisjoli 751 | | ||

| |Ritha Cossette 7,207 | |François Desrochers 6,522 || |Denise Beaudoin 13,700 | |Simon Cadieux 847 | |Kim Joly 621 | | ||

| |Jacques Gariépy 10,001 | |Martin Camirand 7,193 || |Gilles Robert 15,229 | |Bernard Anton 913 | |Lise Boivin 1,107 | | || |Martin Camirand |}

[[Outaouais]]

|- || |Marc Carrière 13,968 | |Gilles Taillon 3,182 | |Yves Morin 6,560 | |Roger Fleury 1,032 | |Benoît Renaud 609 | |Jean-Pierre Grenier (Ind.) 118 Pierre Soublière (M-L) 51 ||

| |Serge Charrette 2,395 | |Thérèse Viel-Déry 7,176 | | | | | |Benoit Legros (M-L) 304 ||

| |Renée Gagné 1,319 | |Gilles Aubé 7,602 | | | |Bill Clennett 2,006 | |Jean-Roch Villemaire (PI) 139 Gabriel Girard-Bernier (M-L) 101 ||

| |Bruno Lemieux 2,825 | |Gilles Hébert 8,674 | |Patrick Mailloux 790 | |Françoise Breault 805 | |Christian-Simon Ferlatte (M-L) 92 ||

| |Christian Toussaint 1,215 | |Nathalie Lepage 3,553 | |Gail Lemmon Walker 950 | |Charmain Lévy 804 | |Lisa Leblanc (M-L) 122 || |Charlotte L'Écuyer |}

[[Abitibi-Témiscamingue]] and [[Nord-du-Québec]]

|- || |Pierre Corbeil 8,942 | |Samuel Dupras 1,742 | |Alexis Wawanoloath 8,427 | | | |Lizon Boucher 438 | | ||

| |Claude Nelson Morin 5,309 | |Sébastien D'Astous 2,182 || |François Gendron 10,570 | | | | | |Grégory Vézeau (PI) 370 ||

| |Paul-Émile Barbeau 4,111 | |Johanne Morasse 8,604 | | | |Guy Leclerc 1,413 | | ||

| |Pierre Gaudreault 3,015 | |Pascal Dion 917 || |Luc Ferland 4,118 | | | |Mélanie Dufour 439 | |Gilbert Hamel (Ind.) 218 || |Luc Ferland |}

Results

The overall results were:

|- style="background-color:#CCCCCC;" ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party leader ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;font-size:80%;" | Candi- dates ! colspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | Seats ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | Popular vote |- style="background-color:#CCCCCC;text-align:center;" | 2007 | 2008 | % | # | % | 125 | 48 | 48 | 66 | +18 | 52.80% | 1,366,046 | 42.08% | +9.00% | 125 | 36 | 36 | 51 | +15 | 40.80% | 1,141,751 | 35.17% | +6.82% | 125 | 41 | 39 | 7 | -34 | 5.60% | 531,358 | 16.37% | -14.47% Amir Khadir†

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Vote and seat summaries

|File:Ternary QC2007.svg |2007 |File:Ternary QC2008.svg |2008

Synopsis of results

: = open seat : = turnout is above provincial average : = winning candidate was in previous Legislature : = incumbent had switched allegiance : = previously incumbent in another riding : = not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature : = incumbency arose from byelection gain : = other incumbents renominated : = previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada : = multiple candidates

Comparative analysis for ridings (2008 vs 2007)

Seats that changed hands

Summary analysis

References

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