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The Quebec general election of 1989 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.
The National Assembly of Quebec is the legislative body of the province of Quebec in Canada. Legislators are called MNAs. The Queen in Right of Quebec, represented by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec and the National Assembly compose the Legislature of Quebec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other Westminster-style parliamentary systems.
Quebec is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay; to the east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the province of New Brunswick and the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. It also shares maritime borders with Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada.
The Quebec Liberal Party is a federalist provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. It has been independent of the federal Liberal Party of Canada since 1955.
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.
The Equality Party was a political party in Quebec, Canada, that promoted the use of English in Quebec on an equal basis with French. Four Equality Party members were elected to Quebec's National Assembly in 1989, as part of an anglophone reaction to changes made by the governing Liberals to Quebec's language law. The party had no success in subsequent elections, and stopped organizing after the 2003 Quebec election.
English-speaking Quebecers are terms used to refer to English speaking members of Quebec. Anglo-Quebecers (anglophone) are a minority due to the official language of the French-speaking (francophone) province of Quebec, Canada. The English-speaking community in Quebec constitutes an official linguistic minority population under Canadian law.
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% | |||
Party | Seats | Second | Third | |
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Liberal | 92 | 33 | 0 | |
Parti Québécois | 29 | 86 | 10 | |
Equality | 4 | 5 | 10 |
The politics of Quebec are centred on a provincial government resembling that of the other Canadian provinces, namely a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy. The capital of Quebec is Quebec City, where the Lieutenant Governor, Premier, the legislature, and cabinet reside.
This article presents a detailed timeline of Quebec history. Events taking place outside Quebec, for example in English Canada, the United States, Britain or France, may be included when they are considered to have had a significant impact on Quebec's history.
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