Topic
Quebec
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.