2012 Quebec general election

Timeline

2008

• December 8 – 39th Quebec general election
• December 15 – Pauline Marois becomes the leader of the Official Opposition.
• December 18 – Swearing in of the Cabinet members

2009

• January 13 – Yvon Vallières is elected President of the National Assembly.
• January 14 – An economic statement is pronounced by Monique Jérôme-Forget.
• March 6 – Resignation of Mario Dumont (ADQ) as MNA of Rivière-du-Loup
• March 10 – The opening speech of the 39th Quebec Legislature is pronounced by Premier Jean Charest.
• March 25 — The Conservative Party of Quebec is registered.
• April 8 – Resignation of Monique Jérôme-Forget (Lib) as MNA of Marguerite-Bourgeoys
• April 9 — The Parti nul is registered.
• June 22 – In two by-elections, Jean D'Amour (Lib) and Clément Gignac (Lib) are elected MNAs of Rivière-du-Loup and Marguerite-Bourgeoys respectively.
• June 25 – Resignation of François Legault (PQ) as MNA of Rousseau
• September 21 – In a by-election, Nicolas Marceau (PQ) is elected MNA of Rousseau with 57% of the vote.
• October 18 – Gilles Taillon is elected as leader of the Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ).
• November 6 – Éric Caire and Marc Picard leave the ADQ to sit as independents.
• November 10 – Gilles Taillon resigns his post as ADQ leader amid Caire and Picard's defections. Taillon also called for a police investigation into the “troubling” funding practices in the party."
• November 19 – Gérard Deltell replaces Taillon as leader of ADQ.

2010

• January 6 – Resignation of Camil Bouchard (PQ) as MNA of Vachon
• May 6 – Tony Tomassi is kicked out of the Liberal cabinet and caucus after it is revealed he was given a gasoline credit card by a private security firm.
• July 5 – In a by-election, Martine Ouellet (PQ) is elected MNA of Vachon with 59% of the vote.
• August 9 – Resignation of Jacques Dupuis (Lib) as MNA of Saint-Laurent
• September 7 – Resignation of Claude Béchard as MNA of Kamouraska-Témiscouata (Lib), he dies from cancer later that day
• September 13 – In a by-election, Jean-Marc Fournier (Lib) is elected MNA of Saint-Laurent with 64% of the vote.
• November 29 – In a by-election, André Simard (PQ) is elected MNA of Kamouraska-Témiscouata with 37% of the vote.

2011

• March 7 — A party named "Québec - Révolution démocratique" is registered.
• June 6 – Louise Beaudoin, Pierre Curzi, and Lisette Lapointe leave the Parti Québécois to sit as independents.
• June 7 – Jean-Martin Aussant leaves the Parti Québécois to sit as an independent.
• June 21 – Benoit Charette leaves the Parti Québécois to sit as an independent and René Gauvreau is asked to leave the Parti Québécois pending an investigation of his former aide.
• September 6 – Resignation of Nathalie Normandeau (Lib) as MNA of Bonaventure
• September 19 – Jean-Martin Aussant (Ind, ex-PQ) announces his intention to register a new sovereigntist political party, Option nationale.
• November 4 – Coalition Avenir Québec, a new party led by François Legault, is officially registered.
• November 17 – Lisette Lapointe buys an Option nationale membership, but remains sitting as an independent.
• November 24 – Daniel Ratthé is expelled from the PQ caucus.
• December 5 – In a by-election, Damien Arsenault (Lib) is elected MNA of Bonaventure with 49.5% of the vote.
• December 14 – The Coalition Avenir Québec and the ADQ announced an agreement in principle to merge, pending final approval from the ADQ membership.
• December 16 – Resignation of David Whissell (Lib) as MNA of Argenteuil
• December 19 – Éric Caire (Ind, ex-ADQ), Benoit Charette (Ind, ex-PQ), Marc Picard (Ind, ex-ADQ), and Daniel Ratthé (Ind, ex-PQ) join the Coalition Avenir Québec.

2012

• January 9 – François Rebello (PQ) joins the Coalition Avenir Québec.
• January 22 – The ADQ membership approves a merger with the Coalition Avenir Québec, resulting in ADQ MNA's Sylvie Roy, Janvier Grondin, François Bonnardel and leader Gérard Deltell becoming CAQ members.
• February 14 — The Coalition Avenir Québec is registered.
• February 25 – Founding convention of Option nationale.
• March 4 – Independent Lisette Lapointe announces that she will not run in the next election.
• March 21 — The Équipe autonomiste is registered.
• April 3 - Louise Beaudoin (Ind) rejoins the Parti Québécois.
• April 5 - René Gauvreau (Ind) is re-admitted into the Parti Québécois.
• May 3 - Resignation of Tony Tomassi (Ind) as MNA of LaFontaine
• May 8 — The Middle Class Party of Quebec is registered.
• May 14 - Resignation of Line Beauchamp (Lib) as MNA of Bourassa-Sauvé
• June 11 - In by-elections, Marc Tanguay (Lib) is elected MNA of LaFontaine with 53% of the vote, and Roland Richer (PQ) is elected MNA of Argenteuil with 36% of the vote.
• June 13 — The Coalition pour la constituante is registered.
• June 29 — The Parti démocratie chrétienne du Québec is renamed to Parti unité nationale.
• July 11 — Documents from the Quebec Liberal Party and the Government suggest that a general election will be called on August 1 and take place on Tuesday, September 4.
• July 13 — The Quebec Citizens' Union is registered.
• August 1 - Lieutenant Governor Pierre Duchesne dissolves the National Assembly, on Premier Jean Charest's request, and calls an election for September 4, 2012.
• September 4 - The election takes place.
  • Pauline Marois's victory speech is disrupted by the 2012 Montreal shooting.

Redistribution of ridings

The Commission de la représentation électorale performed a redistribution in 2011, which maintained the number of seats in the National Assembly at 125 for the next general election, making the following alterations:

Incumbent MNAs who did not run for re-election

Liberal

• Vincent Auclair, Vimont
• Daniel Bernard, Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue
• Michelle Courchesne, Fabre
• Monique Gagnon-Tremblay, Saint-François
• Johanne Gonthier, Mégantic-Compton
• Norman MacMillan, Papineau
• Yvon Vallières, Richmond

Parti Québécois

• Louise Beaudoin, Rosemont
• Danielle Doyer, Matapédia
• René Gauvreau, Groulx
• Martin Lemay, Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques
• Claude Pinard, Saint-Maurice
• Sylvain Simard, Richelieu
• Guillaume Tremblay, Masson

Coalition Avenir Québec

• Janvier Grondin, Beauce-Nord

Independent

• Pierre Curzi, Borduas
• Lisette Lapointe, Crémazie

Opinion polls

Results

|- style="background-color:#CCCCCC;" ! rowspan="2" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party{{cite web|title=Results of September 4, 2012 general election - Results by political party| date=December 3, 2021 |url=https://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/en/results-and-statistics/general-election-results/?e=2012-09-04 ! rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Party leader ! rowspan="2" style="font-size:80%;" | Candidates ! colspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | Seats ! colspan="3" style="text-align:center;" | Popular vote |- style="background-color:#CCCCCC;text-align:center;" | 2008 | 2012 | % | % | 125 | 51 | 47 | 54 | +3 | 43.20 | 1,393,703 | 31.95 | -3.22 | 125 | 66 | 64 | 50 | -16 | 40.00 | 1,360,968 | 31.20 | -10.88 | 125 | 7† | 9 | 19 | +12† | 15.20 | 1,180,235 | 27.05 | +10.68† | 124 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1.60 | 263,111 | 6.03 | +2.25 | 120 | * | 1 | — | * | — | 82,539 | 1.89 | * | 66 | — | — | — | — | — | 43,394 | 0.99 | -1.18 | 46 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 11,578 | 0.27 | +0.07 | 27 | * | — | — | * | — | 7,654 | 0.18 | * | 29 | * | — | — | * | — | 5,197 | 0.12 | * | 10 | * | — | — | * | — | 2,743 | 0.06 | * | 17 | * | — | — | * | — | 2,182 | 0.05 | * | 20 | * | — | — | * | — | 2,089 | 0.05 | * | 7 | * | — | — | * | — | 2,053 | 0.05 | * | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | 1,969 | 0.05 | -0.03 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | 1,244 | 0.03 | -0.10 | 12 | * | — | — | * | — | 1,227 | 0.03 | * | 2 | * | — | — | * | — | 420 | 0.01 | * | 1 | * | — | — | * | — | 256 | 0.01 | * | 1 | * | — | — | * | — | 126 | 0.00 | * | * | 1 | 1 |- style="background-color:#e9e9e9;" | 892 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 0 | 100.00% | 4,362,688 | 100.00 | |- | 4,362,688 | 98.78

Vote and seat summaries

|File:Ternary QC2008.svg |2008 |File:Ternary QC2012.svg |2012

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 (2012 vs 2008)

List of candidates

The deadline for candidacies was August 18, 2012 at 2 pm.https://archive.today/20130115182118/http://dgeq.qc.ca/english/news-detail.php?id=4229

• Official Search page for candidates, by party or by electoral division (monvote.qc.ca, a website of the Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec)

(1) [[Bas-Saint-Laurent]] and (11) [[Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine]]

|- | |Damien Arsenault || |Sylvain Roy | |Jean-Marc Landry | |Patricia Chartier | |Louis-Patrick St-Pierre | | ||

| |André Simard | |François Lagacé | |Josée Michaud | |Marc-André Robert | |Serge Lévesque (ÉA) || |Norbert Morin Montmagny-L'Islet |- | |Georges Mamelonet || |Gaétan Lelièvre | |Yvan Blanchard | |Éric Boucher | |Frédérick DeRoy | | ||

| |Germain Chevarie || |Jeannine Richard | |Georges Painchaud | |Yvonne Langford | |Jonathan Godin | | ||

| |Raymond Giguère || |Irvin Pelletier | |Jean-Paul Carrier | |Rosalie Carrier Cyr | |Pierre Beaudoin | |Clément Pelletier (Green) Renaud Blais (PN) ||

(2) [[Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean]] and (9) [[Côte-Nord]]

|- | |Carol Néron || |Stéphane Bédard | |Alix Boivin | |Pierre Dostie | |Catherine Bouchard-Tremblay | |Simon Lavoie (PCM) ||

| |Serge Simard || |Jean-Marie Claveau | |François Tremblay | |Marie Francine Bienvenue | |David Girard | |Charles-Olivier B. Tremblay (Ind.) Pascal Tremblay (Ind.) ||

| |Lise Pelletier || |Lorraine Richard | |Gervais Gagné | |Jacques Gélineau | |Yan Rivard | |Marc Fafard (CC) Alain Magnan (Ind.) ||

| |Martine Girard || |Sylvain Gaudreault | |Pierre-Olivier Simard | |Réjean Dumais | |Sébastien Lévesque | |Alexis St-Gelais (QCU) Alain Létourneau (PN)

Tommy Gagnon (Ind.) ||

| |Jeannot Boulianne || |Alexandre Cloutier | |Michel Simard | |Frédérick Plamondon | |Jordan Racine | |France Bergeron (Green) Matthew Babin (BP) ||

| |Pascal Chouinard || |Marjolain Dufour | |Dereck Blouin-Perry | |Julie Gonthier-Brazeau | |Maxime Cantin | | ||

| |Georges Simard || |Denis Trottier | |Alain Hamel | |Olivier Bouchard-Lamontagne | |Catherine Douesnard | | || |Denis Trottier |}

(3) [[Capitale-Nationale]]

|- | |Michel Pigeon | |Christophe Fortier Guay || |Denise Trudel | |Marie Céline Domingue | |Guillaume Cyr | |Pierre Chénier (ML) Yves Marier (ÉA)

Daniel Lachance (PUN)

Jérôme Paquin (PN)

Alain Pérusse (Ind.) ||

| |Claire Rémillard || |Pauline Marois | |Ian Latrémouille | |André Jacob | |Pierre Tremblay | |Daniel Laforest (CC) || |Pauline Marois Charlevoix |- | |Marie-Ève Picard-Bédard | |Marie-Ève D’Ascola || |Gérard Deltell | |Sébastien Bouchard | |Ariane Grondin | |Gaétan Roy (PC) Noémie Rocque (QCU)

Normand Michaud (ÉA)

Sylvain Rancourt (PCM) ||

| |Pierre Châteauvert | |Johanne Lapointe | |Élaine Hémond | |Christian St-Pierre | |Claude Moreau (ML) Simon Beaudoin (QCU)

Steve Nadeau (ÉA)

Oxana Vassiltchenko (PUN)

Debelle Michel (Ind.) ||

| |Neko Likongo | |Hugues Beaulieu | |Émilie Guimond-Bélanger | |Guillaume Langlois | |Stéphane Pouleur (ÉA) ||

| |Jean-François Gosselin | |Jean-Luc Jolivet || |Éric Caire | |Brigitte Hannequin | |Alexandre Desmeules | |Charlotte Cyr (ÉA) Anthony Leclerc (Ind.) ||

| |Rosette Côté | |Michel Hamel | |Guillaume Boivin | |Sol Zanetti | |Guillaume Dion (CC) Véronique Durand (PC)

Maxime Guérin (QCU)

Hugues Fortin (ÉA)

Julie Lachance (PN) ||

| |Raymond Bernier | |Michel Létourneau || |Michelyne St-Laurent | |Lucie Charbonneau | |Jean Bouchard | |Maryse Belley (ÉA) Luc Duranleau (PI)

Jean Lavoie (PCM)

Martin Roussel (Ind.) ||

| |Michel Matte | |René Perreault || |Jacques Marcotte | |Raphaël Langevin | |Marianne Garnier | |Sylvie Gagné (PC) Yves St-Amant (Ind.) ||

| |Clément Gignac || |Agnès Maltais | |Mario Asselin | |Serge Roy | |Catherine Dorion | |François Tremblay (CC) Guy Boivin (ÉA)

Jean-Luc Savard (PN) ||

| |Patrick Huot | |Marc Dean || |Sylvain Lévesque | |Monique Voisine | |Mathieu Fillion | |Jean Cloutier (Green) Daniel Brisson (PC)

Jean-François Morency (ÉA)

Carl Côté (Ind.) || |Patrick Huot Vanier |}

(4) [[Mauricie]]

|- | |Marc-Antoine Trudel || |Noëlla Champagne | |Pierre Jackson | |Yves Sansregret | |Émilie Joly | |Jessy Trottier (ÉA) Éric L'Abbée (Ind.) ||

| |André Beaudoin | |Sylvain Medzalabenleth | |Jean-François Dubois | |Gabriel Pelland | |Jean-Paul Bédard (ML) Jean Marceau (Ind.) ||

| |Patrick Lahaie | |Jean Damphousse | |Julie Veilleux | |Émilie Viau-Drouin | |Laurence J. Requilé (Green) Marie Anny Gosselin (CC)

Didier Provencher (ÉA)

Linda Delmé (PCM) ||

| |Robert Pilotte || |Luc Trudel | |Pierre Giguère | |Luc Lafrance | |Nathalie Lortie | |Gilles Noël (PUN) Marie-Paule Bertrand (Ind.) ||

| |Djemila Benhabib | |Andrew D'Amours | |Jean-Claude Landry | |Charles-Hugo Normand | |Kathie Mc Nicoll (ÉA) Robert Deschamps (Ind.) || |Danielle St-Amand |}

(5) [[Estrie]] (Eastern Townships)

|- || |Ghislain Bolduc | |Gloriane Blais | |Raymonde Lapointe | |William Leclerc Bellavance | |Jasmin Roy-Rouleau | |Jacques Audet (Ind.) Jean-Luc Perron (Ind.) || |Johanne Gonthier Mégantic-Compton |- || |Pierre Reid | |Michel Breton | |Jean L'Écuyer | |Patricia Tremblay | |Marie-Hélène Martin | |Guillaume Corriveau (Green) Serge Trottier (CC) ||

| |Étienne-Alexis Boucher | |Marie-Soleil Perron | |Colombe Landry | |Jean-Sébastien Lamothe | |Nick Fonda (Green) Danielle Voisard (CC) ||

| |Nathalie Goguen || |Réjean Hébert | |Éric Giroux | |André Poulin | |Gaby Machabée | |Lindsay-Jane Gowman (Green) Lionel Lambert (PUN) ||

| |Jean Charest || |Serge Cardin | |Philippe Girard | |Christian Bibeau | |Évelyne Beaudin | |Suzanne Richer (Green) Christian Clavet (PI) || |Jean Charest |}

(6) [[Montreal]]

East

|- || |Lise Thériault | |Martine Roux | |Richard Campeau | |Marlène Lessard | |Raphaël Couture | |Samuel Stohl (CC) Linda Sullivan (ML) || |Lise Thériault Anjou |- || |Rita de Santis | |Marianne Dessureault | |Louis Pelletier | |Will Prosper | |Nancy Lavallée |

| |Dave McMahon || |Maka Kotto | |Mario Bentrovato | |Patrice Gagnon | |Paolo Zambito | |Gilbert Caron (Green) Jan Stohl (CC)

Claude Brunelle (ML)

Gaston Savard (PUN)

Sylvie R. Tremblay (PI) ||

| |Eleni Bakopanos || |Diane De Courcy | |Carla El-Ghandour | |André Frappier | |Yanek Lauzière-Fillion | |Yves Laporte (Green) ||

| |Anson Duran | |Nicolas Girard | |Bernard Labadie || |Françoise David | | | |Sameer Muldeen (Green) Gilles Guibord (PUN) ||

| |Alexandre Farley || |Carole Poirier | |David Monette | |Alexandre Leduc | |André Lamy | |Nicholas Kulak (Green) Jean-François Jetté (CC)

Christine Dandenault (ML)

Serge Provost (PI)

Denis Poulin (PN) ||

| |Nicolas Bonami | |Jean-François Gagné | |Marie-Chantal Locas | |Julie Surprenant | |Garnet Colly (ML) ||

| |Marc Boulerice | |Domenico Cavaliere | |Christine Filiatrault | |Maxime St-Arnault | |Gaëtan Bérard (Green) Patrice Raza (PC)

Steven Hombrados (QCU) ||

| |Badiona Bazin 8,524 26.44% | |Marie Josée Godbout 3,154 9.78% | |Andrés Fontecilla 7,844 24.33% | |Miguel Tremblay 912 2.83% | |Danny Polifroni (Green) 480 1.49% Yves Pageau (CC) 66 0.20%

Peter Macrisopoulos (ML) 100 0.31%

David H. Cherniak (Ind.) 119 0.37%

Michel Dugré (Ind./nd) 50 0.16% ||

| |Anne Pâquet | |Jean Poirier | |Julie Boncompain || |Amir Khadir | |Nicolas Payne | |David Kovacs (Green) ||

| |Jessica Cialdella || |Nicole Léger | |Guy Boutin | |Natacha Larocque | |Guillaume Simard L'Heureux | |Geneviève Royer (ML) Gérald Briand (PI)

Jean-Marcel Seck (Ind.) ||

| |Madwa-Nika Phanord-Cadet || |Jean-François Lisée | |Léo Fradette | |François Saillant | |Johanne Lavoie | |Daniel Guersan (CC) Stéphane Chénier (ML)

Raynald St-Onge (BP) ||

| |Étienne Collins || |Daniel Breton | |Cédrick Beauregard | |Manon Massé | |Denis Monière | |Serge Lachapelle (ML) Edson Emilio (QCU)

Louis Provencher (PCM)

Jean-Marc Labrèche (Ind.)

Dimitri Mourkes (Ind.) ||

| |Gabriel Arbieto Munayco | |Walid Hadid | |Geneviève Fortier-Moreau | |Simon-Pierre Bélanger | |Eric Perreault-Chamberland (Green) || |Emmanuel Dubourg |}

West

|- || |Christine St-Pierre | |Rachid Bandou | |Abel-Claude Arslanian | |Marianne Breton-Fontaine | |Sébastien Croteau | | ||

| |Guy Amyot | |Sophie Leroux | |Émilie Beauchesne | | | |Abraham Weizfeld (Ind.) ||

| |Olivier Gendreau | |Paola L. Hawa | |François-Xavier Charlebois | |Raphael Hébert | |Alex Tyrrell (Green) Ágnes Mina Barti (QCU)

Francis Juneau (Ind.) ||

| |Jessica Riggi | |Michel Delisle | |Yebo Romaric Okou | |Véronique Pelletier | |Yves Le Seigle (ML) ||

| |Étienne Gougoux | |Victor A. Tan | |Claudelle Cyr | |Patrick Valois | |John Symon (Green) ||

| |André Normandeau | |Stefan Stanczykowski | |Marc-André Beauchamp | |Guillaume Blanchet | |Ken McMurray (Green) Amal Bouchentouf (CC)

Diane Johnston (ML) ||

| |Marcos Archambault | |Philippe Boileau | |Elahé Machouf | |François Landry | |Kristianne Brunet (Green) Jean-Dominic Lévesque-René (QCU) ||

| |Olivier Sirard | |Angely Pacis | |David Mandel | |Sylvain Labranche | |Claude Sabourin (Green) Rachel Hoffman (ML) ||

| |Roxanne Gendron | |Claude Michaud | |Édith Laperle | |Luc Séguin | |Olga Sharonova (CC) Jonathan Moffatt (QCU)

Mathieu Marcil (PN) ||

| |Alexandre Pagé-Chassé | |Toni Rinow | |Sarah Landry | |Sophie Turcot | |Mathieu Mireault (Green) Fredrick-Anthony Ghali (QCU) ||

| |Sophie Stanké | |Joakim Beaupré | |Nicolas Boisclair | |Luc Lefebvre | |Andrzej Jastrzebski (PUN) ||

| |Roger Gagnon | |George Manolikakis | |Marie Josèphe Pigeon | |Maxime Bellerose | |Pierre Etienne Loignon (Green) Fernand Deschamps (ML)

Brian Jenkins (PUN) ||

| |Thierry St-Cyr | |André Besner | |Chantale Michaud | |Marc-Antoine Daneau | |Jeffrey Mackie (Green) Eileen Studd (ML)

Philippe Refghi (QCU) ||

| |Marc-André Bahl | |Johnny Kairouz | |Mélissa Desjardins | |Benoît Guérin | |Lisa Julie Cahn (Green) Pierre JC Allard (Ind./nd) || |Jacques Chagnon |}

(7) [[Outaouais]]

|- || |Marc Carrière | |Yves Morin | |Luc Angers | |Benoit Renaud | |Eid Harb | |Jonathan Meijer (Green) Pierre Soublière (ML) ||

| |Maude Tremblay | |Michel Halloran | |Francis Da Silva-Casimiro | |Nicolas Lepage | |Brandon Bolduc (Green) Yvon Breton (ML) ||

| |Gilles Aubé | |Étienne Boulrice | |Bill Clennett | |Mikaël St-Louis | |Jozyam Ilsa Fontaine (Green) Gabriel Girard Bernier (ML)

Kamal Maghri (QCU)

Marc Fiset (PN) ||

| |Jean-François Primeau | |Chantal Dubé | |Katia Gagnon | |Jonathan Beauchamp | |Alexandre Deschênes (ML) Christine Gagné (PN)

Mario Parent (Ind.) ||

| |Geneviève Gendron-Nadeau | |André Laframboise | |Charmain Levy | |Patrick Émard | |Garry Bélair (Green) Louis Lang (ML) || |Charlotte L'Écuyer |}

(8) [[Abitibi-Témiscamingue]] and (10) [[Nord-du-Québec]]

|- | |Pierre Corbeil 7,653 || |Élizabeth Larouche 8,430 | |Samuel Dupras 4,059 | |Sarah Charbonneau-Beaulieu 1,047 | |Richard Trudel 452 | |Yvette Poucachiche (Green) 316 ||

| |Claude Nelson Morin 4,399 || |François Gendron 12,066 | |Sébastien D'Astous 4,759 | |Ghislaine Camirand 1,260 | |Grégory Vézeau 997 | | ||

| |Melissa Turgeon 7,983 || |Gilles Chapadeau 11,082 | |Bernard Flebus 7,140 | |Guy Leclerc 2,941 | |Sébastien-L. Pageon 534 | |Robert Bertrand (Green) 451 || |Daniel Bernard |}

|- | |Gérald Lemoyne 3,701 || |Luc Ferland 4,854 | |Stéphane Robichaud 1,176 | |Sylvain Couture 655 | |Dominic Hamelin-Johnston 277 | | || |Luc Ferland |}

(12) [[Chaudière-Appalaches]] and (17) [[Centre-du-Québec]]

|- | |Claude Bachand | |Lucie LeBrun || |Sylvie Roy | |Christine Letendre | |Rémi Marineau | |François Fillion (Green) Eric Lafontaine (QCU)

Jean Landry (Ind.) ||

| |Jack Roy | |Daniel Bizier || |André Spénard | |Yv Bonnier Viger | |Stéphane Trudel | |Gwendoline Mathieu-Poulin (Green) Danielle Favreau (CC)

Sébastien Drouin (PC)

Benoît Roy (Ind.) ||

| |Luc Villeneuve | |Richard Savoie | |Marie-Claude Verville | |Vanessa Roy | |Robert Genesse (QRD) Jean Rhéaume (Ind.) ||

| |Clément Pouliot | |Christian Lévesque | |Benoit Comeau | | | |Linda Beaudoin (PC) Sébastien Ruel (ÉA)

Christine Lavoie (PUN)

Patrice Aubin (PCM) ||

| |Réal St-Laurent | |Daniel Lachance || |Marc Picard | |Eveline Gueppe | | | |Marielle Parent (Green) Renaud Grégoire (PC) ||

| |Marie Désilets | |Annie Jean || |Sébastien Schneeberger | |Francis Soulard | |Martin Allard | |François Picard (PC) Robert Dufour (PUN)

Pierre Hébert (Ind.) || |Yves-François Blanchet Drummond |- | |Nancy Boyce || |Yves-François Blanchet | |Stéphane Legault | |Julie Dionne | |Steve Lemay | |Benoit Lussier (PC) ||

| |Gilles Lehouillier | |Stéphane Labrie || |Christian Dubé | |Valérie Guilloteau | |Nathaly Dufour | |Luc Harvey (PC) Carl Michaud (ÉA)

Paul Biron (PUN)

Patrick Vallières (PCM)

Yvan Rodrigue (PÉ) ||

| |Marc Descôteaux | |Gilles Mayrand || |Donald Martel | |none | |Jean-Martin Aussant | |Mathieu Benoit (PC) || |Jean-Martin Aussant Nicolet-Yamaska |}

(13) [[Laval, Quebec|Laval]]

|- || |Guy Ouellette | |Jean Cooke | |Marielle Potvin | |Francine Bellerose | |Patrick Simard | |Stéphanie Stevenson (Green) Kamal Germanos Lutfi (Ind.) ||

| |François-Gycelain Rocque | |Dominique Anglade | |Wilfried Cordeau | |Bruno Forget | |Jean-François Lepage (Green) Philippe Mayrand (Ind.) ||

| |Alain Paquet || |Léo Bureau-Blouin | |Maud Cohen | |Sylvie Des Rochers | |Lawrence Côté-Collins | |Carl Desmarais (Green) Monique Chartrand (CC) ||

| |Robert Carrier | |Jean Prud’homme | |Nicole Bellerose | |Alain Sénécal | |Henrico Negro (Green) Carlos Silva (QCU)

Régent Millette (Ind.) ||

| |Geneviève April || |Suzanne Proulx | |François Gaudreau | |Nicolas Chatel-Launay | |Sylvain Fortin |

| |Linda Tousignant | |Christopher Skeete | |David Lanneville | |Catherine Houbart | |Alain Robert (PC) Jean-Marc Boyer (Ind.) || |Vincent Auclair |}

(14) [[Lanaudière]]

|- | |Catherine Haulard || |André Villeneuve | |François Benjamin | |Louise Beaudry | |Raymond Guay | |Dany Ouellet (Green) Pierre Baril (CC) ||

| |Pascal Beaupré || |Véronique Hivon | |Normand Masse | |Flavie Trudel | |Amélie Dolbec | |Mikey Colangelo Lauzon (PC) Michel Thouin (QCU)

Jean-Mathieu Desmarais (Ind.) ||

| |Lise Hébert | |Lizabel Nitoi || |François Legault | |Sylvain Fournier | |Evelyne Marcil | |Christine Lebel (Green) ||

| |Suzanne Rathé || |Diane Hamelin | |Christian Gauthier | |Jacinthe Sabourin | |Samuel Bergeron | |Michel Paulette (Green) Adam Stohl (CC) ||

| |Marc Thompson || |Scott McKay | |Chantal Longpré | |Olivier Huard | |Anne-Marie Labrosse | | |- | |Mario Racette || |Nicolas Marceau | |Laurence R. Fortin | |François Lépine | |Gilles Chapdelaine | |André Matteau (PI) Robert Boucher (Ind.) ||

| |Josée Gingras || |Mathieu Traversy | |Gaétan Barrette | |Yan Smith | |Marc-André Dénommée | |Benoit Carignan (Green) Patrick Dubé (CC) || |Mathieu Traversy |}

(15) [[Laurentides]]

|- | |Lise Proulx || |Roland Richer | |Mario Laframboise | |Yvan Zanetti | |Patrick Sabourin | |Stephen Matthews (Green) ||

| |Yannick Ouellette || |Claude Cousineau | |Jean-Marc Lacoste | |Lise Boivin | |Samuelle Ducrocq-Henry | |Marc Saint-Germain (Green) Patrick Dubé (CC) ||

| |Joao Neves | |Bernard Généreux || |Daniel Ratthé | |Étienne Ferland | |Christian Bélanger | |Michel Sigouin (Green) Yan Bégin (PI) ||

| |Stéphanie Ménard || |Daniel Goyer | |Benoit Charette | |Normand Godon | |Wilson Ortiz | |Princess Brooks (Green) ||

| |Linda Lapointe | |Raymond Archambault || |Hélène Daneault | |Sylvie Giguère | |Alain Marginean | |Alec Ware (Green) Alex Munteanu (Ind.) ||

| |Vicki Emard || |Sylvain Pagé | |Robert Milot | |Normand St-Amour | |Simon Marcil | |François Beauchamp (Green) ||

| |Ismaël Boisvert || |Denise Beaudoin | |Sylvie D'Amours | |Mylène Jaccoud | |Jean-François Pouliot | |Eric Emond (Ind.) ||

| |Marc Bustamante | |Gilles Robert || |Jacques Duchesneau | |Vincent Lemay-Thivierge | |Julien Benca | |Olivier Adam (Green) || |Gilles Robert Prévost |}

(16) [[Montérégie]]

Eastern

|- | |Conrad Deschênes || |Pierre Duchesne | |Emmanuelle Géhin | |Jean-François Lessard | |Martin Dulac | |Mary Harper (Green) Michel Lepage (PI) ||

| |Richard Leclerc | |Benoit Legault | |Benoit Van Caloen | |Patrick Melchior | |Louise Martineau (Green) Dominique Favreau (CC)

Jacques Pipon (PC)

Gilles Alarie (Ind.)

Jean-Pierre Dufault (Ind.) ||

| |Julie Tremblay || |Bertrand St-Arnaud | |Martin Trudeau | |Anne Poussard | |Martin Laramée | |Nicholas Lescarbeau (Green) Daniel Nicol (PC) ||

| |Guy Gaudord | |Luc Perron || |François Bonnardel | |Éric Bédard | |Jocelyn Beaudoin | |Francine St-Onge (CC) Stéphane Gagné (PC)

Stéphane Deschamps (PN) || |François Bonnardel Shefford |- | |Alain Ménard || |Marie Bouillé | |Claire Samson | |Myriam-Zaa Normandin | |Claude Chagnon | |Marie-France Allard (Green) ||

| |Alain Plante || |Élaine Zakaïb | |Jean-Bernard Émond | |Marie-Ève Mathieu | |Michaël Rocheleau | | ||

| |Louise Arpin || |Émilien Pelletier | |Pierre Schetagne | |Richard Gingras | |Jérôme Saint-Amand | |Isabelle Leclerc (PC) Thomas Gagné (QCU)

Alexandre Bruneau (ÉA)

Lise Gaudette (PUN) ||

| |Martin Massé || |Dave Turcotte | |Yvan Berthelot | |Carole Lusignan | |Félix Lemaire | |Carmyn Girard (PC) François Mailly (QCU)

Yvon Sylva Aubé (PI) ||

| |Maxime St-Onge || |Stéphane Bergeron | |Chantal Soucy | |Marie-Thérèse Toutant | |Diane Massicotte | |Mario Geoffrion (CC) Steven Terranova (Ind.) || |Stéphane Bergeron |}

South Shore

|- | |Lyse Lemieux || |Guy Leclair | |Michel Drouin | |Pierre-Paul St-Onge | |Jérémie Poupart Montpetit | |Bruno Auclair (Green) Lynne Mimeault (PC)

Matthieu Bonin (Ind.)

Sylvain Larocque (Ind./nd) ||

| |Maryse Perreault | |Denis Leftakis | |Xavier P.-Laberge | |Nicolas Dionne | |Denis Côté (Green) Jean-Paul Pellerin (PC) ||

| |Gaétan Arel | |Claire IsaBelle | |Carmen Labelle | |Éric Paré | |Nicholas Roach (Green) Antoine-Marie Bourdon (CC)

Maxime Collette (PC)

Steven Gomory (QCU) ||

| |Pierre O. Thibert | |François Lemay | |Johane Beaupré | |Mylaine Larocque | |Marc-André Beauchemin (Green) Claude Chalhoub (PC)

Serge Patenaude (ML)

Sean Connolly-Boutin (QCU) ||

| |Simon Bélanger | |Donald LeBlanc | |Michèle St-Denis | |Linda Dupuis | |Camil Lambert (PC) ||

| |Lucie F. Roussel | |Pierre Langlois || |Stéphane Le Bouyonnec | |Yohan Perron | |Jean-Pierre Gouin | |Kevin Murphy (Green) Adrian Ahsly Gutierrez (CC)

Monique Roy-Verville (PC)

Normand Chouinard (ML) ||

| |Farida Chemmakh || |Bernard Drainville | |Simon Jolin-Barrette | |Carl Lévesque | |Olivier Chauvin | |Mathieu Yargeau (Green) Jean Baillargeon (CC)

Yves Ménard (PI) ||

| |Nicole Girard | |Monique Richard || |Nathalie Roy | |David Fortin Côté | |Luc Lapierre-Pelletier | |Dominique Robitaille (Green) Claude Leclair (PC) || |Monique Richard Marguerite-D'Youville |- | |Jocelyne Bates || |Alain Therrien | |François Rebello | |Frédéric Nadeau | |Keven Rousseau | |André Martel (PC) Hélène Héroux (ML)

Martin Mc Neil (Ind.) |- || |Lucie Charlebois | |André Bouthillier | |Mario Gagnier | |Andrée Bessette | |Frédéric Roy | |Patricia Domingos (Ind.) ||

| |Marie-Ève Pelletier || |Marie Malavoy | |Pierre Cimoné | |Manon Blanchard | |Julien-Alexandre Bilodeau | |Carole Mainville Bériault (Green) Marie-Noelle Mondoux-Lemoine (CC)

Normand Fournier (ML)

Robert Morin (Ind.) ||

| |Linda Langlois Saulnier || |Martine Ouellet | |Jean-François Roberge | |Sébastien Robert | |Sylvain Gauthier | |Pierre-André Beauchemin (Green) Marc Joseph (CC) ||

| |Kim Comeau | |Martin Legault | |Marc-André Pilon | |Julien Bédard | |Julien Leclerc (Green) Étienne Ouellet (QCU) || |Yvon Marcoux |}

Summary analysis

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