The 1927 Quebec general election was held on May 16, 1927, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, was re-elected, defeating the Quebec Conservative Party, led by Arthur Sauvé.
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It was the second general election victory in a row for Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, who had held office since 1920.
Results
editTwelve Liberal MLAs were returned by acclamation, including one on the Island of Montreal.[1] Taschereau himself was acclaimed in Montmorency, because of the alleged technical rejection of the Conservative candidate Lucien Drolet's nomination papers. Drolet would later sue the returning officer over this.[2]
The Liberals won back six of the Montreal seats they had lost in 1923.[1] There was a controversy in Montréal–Saint-Louis, where the Conservative candidate Louis Fitch claimed that he had been subject to false arrest on Election Day.[3]
Polling was deferred to May 23 in Gaspé.[3] This was because weather conditions caused the closure of many roads in the area.[4]
| Political party | Party leader | MLAs | Votes | |||||||
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| Candidates | 1923 | 1927 | ± | # | ± | % | ± (pp) | |||
| Government candidates | ||||||||||
| █ Liberal | Louis-Alexandre Taschereau | 85 | 64 | 74 | 10
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188,687 | 38,957
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59.34 | 7.82
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| █ Independent | – | 3 | – | – | – | 1,365 | New | 0.43 | New | |
| Opposition candidates | ||||||||||
| █ Conservative | Arthur Sauvé | 67 | 20 | 9 | 11
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109,105 | 92,295
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34.31 | 5.01
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| █ Liberal | – | – | 1 | – | 1
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Did not campaign[a 1] | ||||
| █ Independent | – | 3 | – | – | – | 2,685 | 2,246
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0.84 | 0.86
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| █ Labour | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1
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4,432 | 1,993
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1.39 | 0.55
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| Other candidates | ||||||||||
| █ Independent-Liberal | – | 7 | – | 1 | 1
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9,345 | 3,759
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2.94 | 1.02
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| █ Labour | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2,342 | 1,417
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0.74 | 0.42
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| Total | 167 | 85 | 317,961 | 100% | ||||||
| Rejected ballots | 2,843 | 965
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| Voter turnout | 320,804 | 26,347
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62.91 | 0.89
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| Registered electors (contested ridings only) | 509,935 | 35,141
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| Candidates returned by acclamation | 12 | 4
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- ^ Other allegiances not professed in 1927: Labour-Government; Independent-Conservative; Farmer-Opposition
See also
editFurther reading
edit- Hopkins, J. Castell, ed. (1927). The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1926–27. Toronto: The Annual Review Company.
References
edit- ^ a b Hopkins 1927, p. 355.
- ^ "Une contestation dans Montmorency" [A dispute in Montmorency]. Le Progrès du Saguenay (in French). Chicoutimi. May 14, 1927. p. 1.
- ^ a b "Taschereau returned with a larger following". The Sherbrooke Daily Record. May 17, 1927. p. 1.
- ^ "About two hundred candidates seeking seats in Legislature". Sherbrooke Daily Record. August 17, 1931. p. 1.
- ^ Drouilly, Pierre (November 7, 2017). "Élections québécoises de 1927". donneesquebec.ca. Atlas des élections au Québec.