MONTREAL — The Latest on the Quebec provincial election:
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1:40 a.m.
With all 125 ridings declared, the Coalition Avenir Quebec has 74 seats, the Liberals 32, Quebec solidaire 10 and the Parti Quebecois nine.
In terms of popular support, the Coalition has 37.4 per cent, the Liberals 24.8 per cent, the PQ 17.1 per cent and Quebec solidaire 16.1 per cent.
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1:30 a.m.
With one riding still not declared, the Coalition Avenir Quebec has 73 seats, the Liberals 32, Quebec solidaire 10 and the Parti Quebecois nine. The Coalition is leading in the 125th and final riding.
In terms of popular support, the Coalition has 37.4 per cent, the Liberals 24.8 per cent, the PQ 17.1 per cent and Quebec solidaire 16.1 per cent.
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11:10 p.m.
Parti Quebecois Leader Jean-Francois Lisee announces his resignation after his party’s poor showing and his own loss in his Montreal riding.
The PQ failed to achieve official party status, winning fewer than the 12 seats or the 20 per cent popular support required.
Lisee also lost his Rosemont riding against former journalist Vincent Marissal.
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9:45 p.m.
Quebec’s outgoing Liberal premier, Philippe Couillard, says he will spend the next few days reflecting on his future.
Couillard, whose party was soundly defeated by the Coalition Avenir Quebec in Monday’s provincial election, says it is clear voters wanted change.
The 61-year-old says says he is not bitter about the outcome of the vote, but rather proud to have left the province in a better state than he found it 2014.
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9:30 p.m.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is congratulating the Coalition Avenir Quebec for its majority win in Monday’s provincial election.
Trudeau issued a statement saying he is looking forward to working with the province’s incoming premier, Coalition Leader Francois Legault.
The prime minister also thanked the outgoing premier, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard, for his years of service.
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9:15 p.m.
The Coalition Avenir Quebec has won a majority in Monday’s Quebec election.
The party led by Francois Legault has triumphed over the incumbent Liberals, who fell to a distant second as the numbers rolled in.
The province’s outgoing premier, Philippe Couillard, said on Twitter he had spoken to Legault to congratulate him.
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9:10 p.m.
Parti Quebecois Leader Jean-Francois Lisee has lost his Montreal riding of Rosemont after being defeated by Quebec solidaire candidate Vincent Marissal.
Polls had suggested the two men were locked in a heated race going into Monday’s election.
Lisee was first elected to the legislature in 2012 and took control of the party in 2016 following the resignation of Pierre Karl Peladeau.
The PQs, which started the campaign as the official Opposition, now appears to be tied for third place in the polls.
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9:10 p.m.
Manon Masse, one of the two spokespeople for the Quebec solidaire, has been elected in her riding of Sainte-Marie-Saint-Jacques.
Masse, 55, a former community organizer and co-ordinator at a women’s centre, was first elected in 2014 by a margin of 91 votes.
Sainte-Marie-Saint-Jacques comprises part of downtown Montreal.
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9 p.m.
His party has been ousted but Quebec’s Liberal leader and outgoing premier, Philippe Couillard, has won his riding.
Couillard first won Roberval, a riding north of Quebec City, and the province’s top job in 2014 — a year after taking the reins of the party.
The Liberals started the campaign in second place in the polls but gained ground during the 39-day campaign, putting them in a tight race with the Coalition Avenir Quebec.
But the Coalition surged ahead after polls closed Monday and is poised to form at least a minority government.
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9 p.m.
The Coalition Avenir Quebec has formed at least a minority government in Monday’s provincial election.
The Coalition quickly eclipsed its closest rivals, the incumbent Liberals, after polls closed.
The two parties had been locked in a tight race going into the vote.
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8:50 p.m.
The left-of-centre Quebec solidaire has won its first riding ever outside of Montreal.
Catherine Dorion has been elected in the Quebec City riding of Taschereau, which was left vacant by the Parti Quebecois’ Agnes Maltais.
Maltais had held the riding since the late 1990s.
Early results show Quebec solidaire in a close race with the PQ for third place in Monday’s Quebec election.
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8:40 p.m.
Quebec solidaire’s co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois has been re-elected in his Montreal riding of Gouin.
The 28-year-old was thrust into the spotlight during the 2012 student protests in Montreal and won his seat in a byelection five years later.
The party is hoping to parlay its momentum into more seats than the three it held at dissolution.
Should Quebec solidaire win, the party’s other spokesperson, Manon Masse, would be premier.
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8:35 p.m.
Early results suggested the Coalition Avenir Quebec was surging way ahead and would form the new government in Monday’s provincial election.
The party held a commanding lead soon after the polls closed, with the incumbent Liberals in second place and the Parti Quebecois in third.
A Coalition victory would mark the first time in nearly 50 years that the province would be led by a party other than the Liberals or the Parti Quebecois.
The last party to hold power was the now-defunct Union Nationale, which led the province from 1966 to 1970.
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8:25 p.m.
Francois Legault, the leader of the Coalition Avenir Quebec, has won his seat in L’Assomption, a riding northeast of Montreal.
The multimillionaire co-founder of Air Transat was elected to the riding in 2012, a year after he created the Coalition.
He made headlines during the election campaign with a promise to cut annual immigration to the province by 20 per cent and “expel” newcomers who fail to pass a French-language and Quebec values test within three years of arriving.
The Coalition had a leg up on the Liberals at the start of the campaign and appeared headed for power after early results Monday.
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8 p.m.
Polls have closed in Quebec after a 39-day campaign that ended with the governing Liberals in a tight race with the Coalition Avenir Quebec.
Public opinion polls have suggested for months that a majority of Quebecers want a change from the Liberals, who have been in power 13 of the last 15 years.
But no party has emerged as a clear front-runner and the Coalition — which started the campaign with a significant lead — was neck and neck in terms of popular support with the Liberals heading into Monday’s election.
The Parti Quebecois has held third place in the polls, with Quebec solidaire fourth but appearing to gain momentum.
At dissolution, the Liberals held 68 seats in the legislature, the PQ 28, the Coalition 21, Quebec solidaire three; and there were five Independents.
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The Canadian Press
