1989 Quebec general election

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125 seats in the 34th National Assembly of Quebec
63 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout| 75.02%
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Leader  | Robert Bourassa | Jacques Parizeau | Robert Libman
Party  | Liberal | Parti Québécois | Equality
Leader since  | October 15, 1983 | March 18, 1988 | 1989
Leader's seat  | Saint-Laurent | L'Assomption | D'Arcy-McGee
Last election  | 99 seats, 55.99%  | 23 seats, 38.69%  | pre-creation
Seats won  | 92  | 29  | 4
Seat change  | 7  | 6  | 4
Popular vote  | 1,702,808  | 1,369,067  | 125,726
Percentage  | 49.95%  | 40.16%  | 3.69%
Swing  | 6.04%  | 1.47%  |

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| Premier before election

Robert Bourassa
Liberal

| Premier after election

Robert Bourassa
Liberal

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The 1989 Quebec general election was held on September 25, 1989, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Premier Robert Bourassa, won re-election, defeating the Parti Québécois, led by Jacques Parizeau.

This election was notable for the arrival of the Equality Party, which advocated English-speaking minority rights. It won four seats, but never had any success in any subsequent election.

## Results[edit]

The overall results were:[1]

Party  | Party leader  | # of
candidates  | Seats  | Popular vote

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1985 | Elected | % Change  | #  | %  | % Change
| Liberal | Robert Bourassa | 125  | 99  | 92  | -7.1%  | 1,702,808  | 49.95%  | -6.04%
| Parti Québécois | Jacques Parizeau | 125  | 23  | 29  | +26.1%  | 1,369,067  | 40.16%  | +1.47%
| Equality | Robert Libman | 19  | *  | 4  | *  | 125,726  | 3.69%  | *
| Green | Jean Ouimet | 46  | \-  | \-  | \-  | 67,675  | 1.99%  | +1.85%
| New Democratic | Gaétan Nadeau | 55  | \-  | \-  | \-  | 41 504  | 1.22%  | -1.20%
| Unity | James Atkinson | 16  | *  | \-  | *  | 33 862  | 0.99%  | *
| Lemon | Denis Patenaude | 11  | *  | \-  | *  | 7 550  | 0.22%  | *
| Workers | Gérard Lachance  | 19  | *  | \-  | *  | 5 497  | 0.16%  | *
| Progressive Conservative | Robert Coppenrath | 12  | \-  | \-  | \-  | 4 750  | 0.14%  | -0.89%
| Parti indépendantiste | Gilles Rhéaume | 12  | \-  | \-  | \-  | 4 607  | 0.14%  | -0.31%
| Marxist–Leninist | Christine Robidoux | 30  | *  | \-  | *  | 4 245  | 0.12%  | *
| Parti 51 | André Perron | 11  | *  | \-  | *  | 3,846  | 0.11%  | *
| United Social Credit | Jean-Paul Poulin | 11  | \-  | \-  | \-  | 2,973  | 0.09%  | +0.04%
| Socialist |  | 10  | \-  | \-  | \-  | 2,203  | 0.06%  | +0.01%
| Commonwealth of Canada |  | 11  | \-  | \-  | \-  | 1,799  | 0.05%  | -0.02%
| Communist | Marianne Roy | 10  | \-  | \-  | \-  | 808  | 0.02%  | \-
| Independents/no designation  | 34  | \-  | \-  | \-  | 29,989  | 0.88%  | +0.45%
Total | 557  | 122  | 125  | +2.5%  | 3,408,909  | 100%  |

| Popular vote

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PLQ |

| 49.95%
PQ |

| 40.16%
Equality |

| 3.69%
Others |

| 6.20%

| Seats summary

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PLQ |

| 73.60%
PQ |

| 23.20%
Equality |

| 3.20%

Party  | Seats  | Second  | Third

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| Liberal | 92  | 33  | 0
| Parti Québécois | 29  | 86  | 10
| Equality | 4  | 5  | 10

## See also[edit]

* List of Quebec premiers
* Politics of Quebec
* Timeline of Quebec history
* 34th National Assembly of Quebec

## External links[edit]

* CBC TV video clip
* Results by party (total votes and seats won)
* Results for all ridings

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Résultats officiels par parti politique pour l'ensemble des circonscriptions". Directeur général des élections du Québec. Archived from the original on 2014-10-08. Retrieved 2012-01-31.

## Further reading[edit]

* Leyton-Brown, David, ed. (1995). Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, 1989. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802007148.

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