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Number of seats won by major parties at each election
Conservative
Liberal
Union Nationale
Parti Québécois
Independent
ADQ
Other
Electoral results by parties and independent MNAs (as a percentage of total National Assembly seats) from 1927 to 2008.
The table below shows the total number of seats won by the political parties in each election. It also shows the percentage of the vote obtained by each party. The winning party's totals are shown in bold. There have been five elections (1998, 1966, 1944, 1892 and 1886) in which the winning party did not have the largest share of the popular vote. Full details on any election are linked via the year of the election at the start of the row.
A Includes all Independent Conservative candidates elected from 1875 to 1892.
B Results include the by-election on 20 May 2003 in the Champlain electoral district to break a tie in the original general election.
C Results include the by-election on 14 December 1998 in the Masson electoral district due to the death of PQ candidate Yves Blais on 22 November 1998.
D Results include the by-election on 24 October 1994 in the Saint-Jean electoral district to break a tie in the original general election.
E Includes Independent Liberal candidate; the 27 May 1912 election of Gustave Lemieux by acclamation in Gaspé; and the 15 July 1912 election of Joseph-Édouard Caron in the Îles-de-la-Madeleine.
F Includes the Independent Liberal candidate elected.
G Includes the Conservative candidate elected in the by-election held in Kamouraska on 11 February 1869.
H Power went back and forth a few times after the 1878 election. For most of that legislature, the Liberals controlled a minority parliament with the support of some Conservative members.
I The Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) ran from 1994–2008. The Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) was founded in 2011, merged with the ADQ (absorbing all of its sitting MNAs), and ran in its first election in 2012.