Quebec Conservatives Fare Well in Popular Vote but Fail to Clinch a Seat

Quebec Conservative Leader Eric Duhaime speaks following the night’s results at the Conservative election night headquarters in Lac-Delage, Que., Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. Bernard Brault/The Canadian Press

Quebec’s Conservative Party (PCQ) came within a few hundred votes of winning ridings on the Oct. 3 election but failed to elect any candidates, so for now it will be observing the next four years of provincial politics from outside the National Assembly.

Nevertheless, PCQ Leader Éric Duhaime struck an optimistic note with his supporters assembled in the Quebec City area.