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Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon raises both fists on stage at the party's election-night event in Montreal on Oct. 5, 2026.

28% of the Vote, 59 Seats: How First-Past-the-Post Built Quebec's PQ Win

Quebec's Parti Québécois won 59 of 127 seats with 28.02% of the vote, a record-low share for a governing party, yet 2022 was the more distorted election. The riding arithmetic shows how close the PQ came to a majority and what the seat count does and does not say about reform and independence.

World  · 8 Oct 2026, 18:52  · Elena Marsh