
	Where results make sense

Topic: 1998 Quebec election

Related Topics

2003 Quebec election

1993 Canadian election

Canadian federal election, 1997

Quebec separatism

39th Canadian federal election

History of Quebec

In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	CNN - Canadian separatist party wins Quebec election - December 1, 1998
		MONTREAL (CNN) -- Lucien Bouchard and his separatist Parti Quebecois were returned to power in Monday's provincial general election in Quebec but results showed Tuesday that Bouchard's independence cause enjoyed only lackluster support.
		He said he would work toward creating "the conditions for a winning referendum for the sovereignty of Quebec," the vague term he used in his campaign without specifying a deadline.
		Quebec election may augur sovereignty sentiment - November 29, 1998
	cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9812/01/quebec.01 (563 words)

	CNN - Quebec election may augur sovereignty sentiment - November 29, 1998
		In the last election, in 1994, the popular vote was split almost evenly, but the separatists won 77 seats because their support is spread more evenly across the province.
		Quebec's first referendum on secession was in 1980, and the separatists were crushed by a 60-40 margin.
		The wild card in the election is a third party, Democratic Action, whose 28-year-old leader, Mario Dumont, is its only representative in the legislature.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/americas/9811/29/canada.election (933 words)

	CANADA
		In August 1998, Canada's Supreme Court handed down an advisory opinion on whether Quebec was legally entitled to secede from Canada, indicating that such an event would have to be negotiated with the rest of Canada and processed as though it were an amendment to the Constitution.
		It is a flat to gently rolling region that extends southwest from Quebec City to Lake Huron and includes all of the St. Lawrence River valley and the Ontario Peninsula, a triangular, densely populated area of southern Ontario that is bordered by the shores of Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario.
		Quebec is nicknamed la belle province ("the beautiful province") because of its variety of lakes, forests, and open country, its commercial centers, and its French culture.
	personales.mundivia.es /lbouza/canada.htm (12063 words)

	The Militant - June 9, 2003 -- New Liberal government is elected in Quebec
		Quebec is the second largest of Canada’s 10 provinces, with a population of 7.4 million.
		While refusing to define the party as federalist, ADQ leader Mario Dumont repeated many times during the election campaign that, “sovereignty is outmoded.” The ADQ promised a substantial reduction in taxes, the privatization of part of the health-care system, and the issuing of vouchers to parent s wishing to send their children to private schools.
		This is in striking contrast to the referendum of 1995 and the election of 1998.
	www.themilitant.com /2003/6719/671967.html (1975 words)

	ANNUAL EDITIONS: Canadian Politics, Fifth Edition
		Following the 1998 Supreme Court's ruling on Quebec's right to secede unilaterally from the Canadian federation, Dan Usher suggests that there now is a new constitutional obligation to negotiate on significant questions.
		Although the government of Quebec has indicated that this margin would be sufficient, the public does not share this view.
		Alastair Taylor suggests that in Quebec's quest for recognition as a "distinct society" it may be more appropriate to seek recognition as having a "distinctive society." This would apply to the culture of other provinces as well.
	www.dushkin.com /text-data/catalog/0072365579.mhtml?SECTION=TOC (2623 words)

	quebec
		The most recent general election was held on 1 December 1998, in which the separatist Parti Québécois won 75 of the legislature's 125 seats, while the anti-separatist Quebec Liberal Party won 48.
		The death rate in 1998 was 7.3 per 1,000 residents, with 53,410 deaths occurring that year.
		Québec's estimated 1998 population of 7.33 million is equivalent to 24 percent of the national total.
	cms.westport.k12.ct.us /cmslmc/foreignlanguages/canada/quebec.htm (7499 words)

	All quiet on the separatist front (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		However, the problem lies in the fact that Quebec's intelligentsia keeps stoking the nationalist fire in the not unreasonable hope of eventually bringing on side a majority of Quebecers.
		Trudeau's nation-building process came under fire, and the old vision of a bi-national Canada repackaged as the recognition of Quebec as a "distinct society" was presented as the wave of the future.
		The ethno-territorial brand of Quebec nationalism that nourishes separatism is still alive and kicking and the intelligentsia is working diligently to adapt it to the new context.
	www.vigile.net /999/nemni.html (1833 words)

	Quebec general election, 1981 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the Quebec general election on April 13 1981 the incumbent Parti Québécois under René won re-election defeating the Quebec Liberal Party under Claude Ryan.
		The Union Nationale which had won 11 seats in modest comeback in the 1976 general election was wiped off the map in election and never won another seat in subsequent election (it is now disbanded).
		They not helped by the fact that their in the 1976 election Rodrigue Biron had in the meantime resigned and to the Parti Québécois.
	www.freeglossary.com /1981_Quebec_election (212 words)

	ipedia.com: Action démocratique du Québec Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The party was formed in 1994 by former members of the Parti libéral du Québec who left that party due to its reluctance to commit to Quebec sovereignty following the defeat of the Charlottetown Accord.
		The 1998 Quebec election gave the same result as before: Dumont was the only candidate from his party to win a seat.
		In the 2003 Quebec election, the ADQ lost the four seats it had gained in the by-elections, but picked up three other seats previously held by the PQ, and pulled enough votes from the PQ to give the victory to Charest's Liberals.
	www.ipedia.com /action_democratique_du_quebec.html (439 words)

	1998 Annual Report
		During 1998, the Institute adopted a new model for the calculation of this magnitude, which is a combination of the complex social policy simulator built by Statistics Canada, and the previous model which has been used by the Institute for a decade.
		The Parti Quebecois' return to power in the 1998 Quebec election is a reminder that separation is still a real possibility and that the rest of Canada must be proactive and public on continuing issues involved with reforming the federation if Canada is to survive intact.
		Quebec would be the bigger loser in terms of significant rise in interest rates, downgrading of Quebec bonds and a lower rate of economic growth than the other provinces.
	oldfraser.lexi.net /about_us/annual_reports/1998 (12936 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A similar pattern emerges out of the post election survey: Those who refused to indicate how they had voted were more numerous in households where a refusal had been recorded (in the pre election poll).
		The Statmedia 1998 study has shown that the proportion of respondents who indicate that their telephone number is not listed or that they are not sure that it is listed is 12 p.
		In this study, we have examined all the possible explanations for discrepancies between estimations of vote intention and actual election results in the last general election in Quebec where a systematic bias in favor of the Parti Québécois had appeared in the polls.
	www.jpsm.umd.edu /icsn/papers/Durand.htm (3405 words)

	CJNews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While most French Quebecers believe that the issue of effective government takes precedence over the referendum question, the vast majority of members of Quebec minorities, including the Jewish community, regard national unity as the main focus of the election.
		Although most French Quebecers resist the idea of a holding a referendum, they are equally if not more concerned by the concrete changes that the Charest Liberals might make in such areas as health and education.
		Like most Quebecers who strongly support Canadian unity, members of the overwhelmingly federalist Quebec Jewish community have also undergone significant mood swings, as public opinion polls suggested that a provincial Liberal victory was not guaranteed.
	www.cjnews.com /pastissues/98/nov12-98/main.htm (658 words)

	Log Cabin Chronicles Peter Black's Canadian Gulf War column
		Quebec is champing at the bit to unleash an all-out exploration rush in the more promising areas, which include Anticosti Island, the Gaspé Peninsula, and the Magdalen Islands.
		In the meantime, however, geological work has confirmed an enormous potential in the Gulf; the sedimentation of the zone centered on the Magdalen Islands, for example, is said to be a dead ringer for the gigantic oil pocket in the Gulf of Mexico.
		The resource is clearly within Quebec's territorial boundaries, but nevertheless the federal government has certain prerogatives vis-a-vis navigable waters and taxation that bring it to the negotiating table.
	www.tomifobia.com /black/gulf_war.shtml (690 words)

	Canada Votes 2004 - Federal political parties in Manitoba
		With the failure of the Meech Lake Accord in 1990, reforms that would recognize Quebec as a distinct society with special status within Confederation were not adopted.
		Located only in Quebec, the Bloc Quebecois is committed to affirming the existence of the Quebecois nation, defending the interests of Quebecois, and demanding recognition of its distinct place within Canada.
		The Liberal party has approached politics from a left-wing perspective, although sometimes being accused of “ruling from the right.” The party maintains that progress in health care, education, economic strength, and relationships in the international community are key factors in their policies.
	www.newwinnipeg.com /news/election2004/federal/parties.htm (1339 words)

	It's time for change! - Quebec Elections: 1960-1998 - CBC Archives
		It's 1960 and Quebec is at the dawn of the Quiet Revolution.
		A progressive, urban, democratic, and modern Quebec is quickly overtaking the old Quebec, characterized as conservative, patronage-oriented, rural and under the thumb of the Roman Catholic Church, reports CBC Television.
		The bitterly-fought election, riddled with name-calling, defamation suits and bribery, ends in a historic victory for the Liberal party.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-73-651-3569/politics_economy/quebec_elections/clip1 (333 words)

	cric.ca - Canada's Portal - Opinion Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the 2000 election, the Liberals took 40.8% of the popular vote and 57.1% of the seats in the Commons.
		Her remarks came in the wake of an interview in which Premier Bernard Landry suggested PR should be part of a post-sovereignty institutional reform.
		From 1994 to 1998 the number of students pursuing university degrees in commerce rose by nearly 10%.
	www.cric.ca /en_html/opinion/opv3n22.html (1638 words)

	CBC - Quebec Votes 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The party is scrounging for victories in every riding possible, in anticipation of a tight race to the finish with the PQ.
		They'll also have to hold onto what they've got, including Jean-Talon, the only Quebec City riding the PQ has never won, but the Liberals took it by just 150 votes last time.
		Margaret Delisle was the winner in Jean-Talon in 1998, four years earlier she won by 25 votes.
	montreal.cbc.ca /regional/servlet/View?filename=qc_libs030405 (360 words)

	NSCB - Statistically Speaking... On Election Polls: Part III by Dr. Romulo A. Virola
		In India, the Election Commission issued guidelines in 1998 and 1999 prohibiting the dissemination of exit polls and opinion polls one month before the elections but was rebuked by the Supreme Court which ruled that the Commission was not empowered to do so.
		In Canada, the Canada Elections Act was amended in 1993 to prohibit the dissemination of results during the last three days of an election campaign but this was declared to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1998.
		As I have said before, election polls, when conducted scientifically and objectively, are powerful tools for measuring the pulse of the voters.
	www.nscb.gov.ph /headlines/StatsSpeak/050604_rav_polls.asp (1812 words)

	CTV.ca \| Mike Duffy: Jean Charest set for a comeback
		In the 1998 Quebec election, Jean Charest's Liberals got 44 per cent of the popular vote.
		It would be the perfect response to historians who won't forget the near-disastrous 1995 Quebec referendum, when we came within a whisker of losing Quebec.
		He'll be expected to deliver the goods; and that means millions of dollars more for Quebec from Ottawa to correct what Quebecers call the "fiscal imbalance" between the feds and the province.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1050254718600_26?hub=TopStories (484 words)

	Corpus Christi Online - / Secession's future at stake in Quebec election Monday
		MONTREAL - Quebec voters will make a momentous choice Monday between an incumbent provincial leader who favors independence and an underdog challenger seeking to end the threat of secession.
		If Premier Lucien Bouchard's Parti Quebecois wins the election, he has pledged to hold a vote on leaving Canada whenever he thinks that the separatists can win.
		But Charest's lead evaporated, and poll after poll in recent days suggest the Parti Quebecois is poised to maintain a comfortable majority in the 125-seat legislature.
	www.caller2.com /autoconv/newsworld98/newsworld152.html (314 words)

	The Polls in the 2002 French Presidential Election: An Autopsy -- Durand et al. 68 (4): 602 -- Public Opinion Quarterly
		In the Quebec context, Durand, Blais, and Vachon (2001
		election of 1997, and the European election of 1999.
		in that election) was systematically underrepresented or underreported,
	poq.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/68/4/602?ijkey=45ZVrtgzd01TQ&keytype=ref (5278 words)

	Vigile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The PQ was clearly the party of French Quebec, the Liberals the party of the "others." That forecast an eventual PQ victory in a general election: Quebec is 82 per cent French, and the French ridings have fewer voters than the populous ridings in the West Island of Montreal where the "others" are hived.
		During the 1998 Quebec election, the Liberals had actually received more votes than the PQ, though far fewer seats.
		They, like many regions of Quebec, had been jostled by the PQ government's technocratic arrogance in overriding their wishes and their attachment to local communities.
	www.vigile.net /01-10/4-wj.html (711 words)

	Law Commission of Canada :: About Us :: Reports :: Research Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A study of factors influencing voter participation in the 2000 election found that turnout was slightly higher in constituencies where a greater number of parties won at least five percent of the vote (Jansen and Siaroff, 2002: 12).
		In Quebec, the electoral system was one of a range of institutions the Parti québécois (PQ) scrutinized after it came to power in 1976.
		Some commentators, for example, Paul Cliche (1998) objected to what they labelled a “reversal” of the popular vote: despite receiving fewer votes (43 percent) than the Quebec Liberal party (44 percent), the PQ won 76 of the 125 National Assembly seats.
	www.lcc.gc.ca /research_project/02_reform_5-en.asp (4915 words)

	The Reform of the Voting System in Québec (abridged version)
		In 1998, the party that formed the government did not receive the largest share of the popular vote, whereas the party that did ended up in the opposition.
		If Quebecers decided to change their voting system, they could retain a single-member plurality-majority system but allow a second round of voting (as in France) or adopt a preferential vote, a formula that allows electors to rank candidates by order of preference.
		If the 1998 election were held according to a PR system, the Parti Québécois and the Liberal Party would have won a number of seats closer to the percentage of votes they received (approximately 43% each), and Action démocratique would have won a proportion of seats closer to the 12% of the vote it received.
	www.assnat.qc.ca /eng/Publications/rapports/rapci1reng.htm (4420 words)

	CANOE -- CNEWS Politics - Quebec Elections
		Jean Charest's election as premier of Quebec will be good for Canada and Alberta.
		I was with him in 1998 when Daniel Johnson announced his resignation as leader of Quebec's Liberal Party.
		MONTREAL -- As testament to politics making for strange bedfellows, the menage of three parties in today's Quebec provincial election is vying for the heart of what can be best described as a very eclectic but sophisticated electorate.
	cnews.canoe.ca /CNEWS/Politics/Quebec/home.html (212 words)

	babble: Charest: heading down the road to Ottawa?
		Granted he is less popular across Quebec now, and the Bloc got a lot of his old votes, but that's a heck of a good personal base.
		I agree with you and I said this myself in a thread earlier this Summer about the next Provincial election in Quebec where I said that he is not necessarily going to be wiped out like some think.
		I suspect Charest's original plan a few years back was probably to win 2 terms as Quebec Premier and then make the move back to Ottawa to run for PM again so it's certainly possible it will happen some day.
	www.rabble.ca /babble/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=004824 (1314 words)

	Wed873 pre Vote on David T. Nicholson's Wednesday-Night.com
		Wednesday evening, November 25, 1998, was taken up mostly with the stock market, the Québec election and its effect on the Canadian dollar and the economy.
		They are simply not a factor in an election that they cannot possibly influence.
		Some of the "vedettes" of this campaign were simply wound up and told to shake hands in safe ridings rather than addressing issues on which they had opinions and experience.
	www.geocities.com /davidnicholson_99/Wed873vote.htm (1277 words)

	Surprising turn of events - Quebec Elections: 1960-1998 - CBC Archives
		As shown in this CBC Television clip, a confident Lesage tells a crowd of supporters that he is ready to take Quebec to the second stage of progress.
		The results of the June 5, 1966 election mean six years of Liberal rule is coming to an abrupt end.
		Rural concerns were largely ignored in favour of big, long-term projects such as nationalizing power companies and improving education and highways.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-73-651-3571/politics_economy/quebec_elections/clip3 (280 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)