Quebec General Election, 2007
The 2007 Quebec general election was held in the Canadian province of Quebec on March 26, 2007 to elect members of the 38th National Assembly of Quebec. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Premier Jean Charest managed to win a plurality of seats, but were reduced to a minority government, Quebec's first in 129 years, since the 1878 general election. The Action démocratique du Québec, in a major breakthrough, became the official opposition. The Parti Québécois was relegated to third-party status for the first time since the 1973 election. The Liberals won their lowest share of the popular vote since Confederation, and the PQ with their 28.35% of the votes cast won their lowest share since 1973 and their second lowest ever (ahead of only the 23.06% attained in their initial election campaign in 1970). Each of the three major parties won nearly one-third of the popular vote, the closest three-way split (in terms of popular vote) in Quebec electoral history until the 2012 election. T ...
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38th National Assembly Of Quebec
The 38th National Assembly of Quebec was elected in the 2007 Quebec general election and sat from May 8, 2007 to November 5, 2008. Jean Charest (Quebec Liberal Party, PLQ) was the Premier and Mario Dumont (Action démocratique du Québec, ADQ) was the leader of the opposition. It ended when the 2008 Quebec general election, 2008 general election was called. Member list Cabinet Ministers are in Bold, Leaders are in Italics and the President of the National Assembly has a Dagger next to his name. Notes * Rosaire Bertrand MNA for Charlevoix resigned on August 13, 2007, to make way for a by-election later that year in which the new Parti Québécois leader, Pauline Marois, would be a candidate* Diane Lemieux, who was the PQ House Leader resigned as MNA for Bourget on October 17, 2007 and replaced as House Leader by François Gendron* André Boisclair resigned as MNA for Pointe-aux-Trembles on November 15, 2007. * Roch Cholette announced his resignation as MNA for Hull on April 3, 20 ...
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