Québécois general election of 1973

The Québécois general election of 1973 is held on October 29th, 1973 in Quebec in order to elect with the National Assembly of Quebec the Député S of the 30e legislature. It is about the 30e general election in this province of the Canada since the confederation of 1867. The liberal government of Robert Bourassa is re-elected, demolishing the National union and the Parti Québécois and gaining most important parliamentary majority in the history Quebec.

Context

The Liberal party of Robert Bourassa is with the capacity since May 1970. Five months later, the Crise of October shakes the Québécois company. In 1971 the Prime Minister announces an ambitious project of hydro-electric development in the Bay-James. The same year, it ruins the project of constitutional recasting of the Canadian Prime Minister Pierre-Elliott Trudeau.

In December 1970 a recasting of the Québécois electoral system is adopted; in particular “ districts privilégiées ” guaranteed to the english-speaking are removed.

The June 19th 1971 Gabriel Loubier is selected chief of the National union. However the supports with this party fall. In 1972 a crisis bursts with the Ralliement creditist of Quebec and three people, Armand Bois, Camil Samson and Yvon Dupuis, fight for the post of head of the party.

In September 1973, the Prime Minister starts anticipated elections, hoping to take of surprised the opposition parties, and in particular the Parti Québécois. The result exceeds its waitings: the National union, which had formed the government before the preceding election, is completely swept electoral map (the party succeeds in nevertheless returning to the National Assembly with the election of Maurice Bellemare at the time of a by-election in 1974). The Party creditist (new name of the Rallying creditist) is torn by the internal dissensions, and loses 10 of its seats, falling to only 2. The Parti Québécois Rene Lévesque loses one seat, falling from 7 to 6 seats. However, thanks to the total rout of two other opposition parties, he manages to form the Official opposition, in spite of the fact that Rene Lévesque still does not succeed in being made elect with the National Assembly.

Important dates

September 25th, 1973: emission of the brief of election.
October 29th, 1973: poll
November 22nd, 1973: opening of the session.

Results

List deputies

Abitibi-Is : Roger Houde (Liberal party)
Abitibi-West : Jean-Hugues Boutin (Liberal party)
Acadie : François Nailsmith (Liberal party)
Anjou : Late Yves (Liberal party)
Argenteuil : Zoël Saindon (Liberal party)
Arthabaska : Jean-Gilles Massed (Liberal party)
Beauce-North : Denys Sylvain (Liberal party)
Beauce-South : Fabien Roy (Rallying creditist)
Beauharnois : Gerard Cadieux (Liberal party)
Bellechasse : Pierre Draper (Liberal party)
Berthier : Michel Denis (Liberal party)
Bonaventure : Gerard D. Lévesque (Liberal party)
Bourassa : Read Bacon (Liberal party)
Le Bourget : Jean Boudreault (Liberal party)
Brominates-Missisquoi : Glendon Pettes Brown (Liberal party)
Chambly : Guy Saint-Pierre (Liberal party)
Champlain : Norman Toupin (Liberal party)
Charlesbourg : Andre Harvey (Liberal party)
Charlevoix : Raymond Mailloux (Liberal party)
Châteauguay : George Kennedy (Liberal party)
Chauveau : Bernard Lachapelle (Liberal party)
Chicoutimi : Marc-Andre Bédard (Left Québécois)
Crémazie : Jean Welcome (Liberal party)
D' Arcy McGee : Victor Goldbloom (Liberal party)
Two-Mountains : Jean-Paul To combine It (Liberal party)
Dorion : Alfred Bossé ((Liberal party)
Drummond : Bernard Pinard (Liberal party)
Dubuc : Ghislain Harvey (Liberal party)
Duplessis : Donald Gallienne (Liberal party)
Fabre : Gilles Houde (Liberal party)
Frontenac : Henri Lecours (Liberal party)
Gaspé : Guy Fort (Liberal party)
Gatineau : Michel Gratton (Liberal party)
Gouin : Jean-Marie Beauregard (Liberal party)
Hull : Oswald Relative (Liberal party)
Huntingdon : Kenneth Fraser (Liberal party)
Iberville : Jacques-Raymond Tremblay (Liberal party)
Iles-de-la-Madeleine : Louis-Philippe Lacroix (Liberal party)
Jacques-Cartier : No5el Saint-Germain (Liberal party)
Jean-Heel : Raymond Garneau (Liberal party)
Jeanne-Mance : Aime Brisson (Liberal party)
Johnson : Jean-Claude Boutin (Liberal party)
Joliette-Montcalm : Robert Quenneville (Liberal party)
Jonquière : Gerald Harvey (Liberal party)
Kamouraska-Témiscouata : Jean-Marie Furrier (Liberal party)
Lake Midsummer's Day : Roger Controls (Liberal party)
Lafontaine : Marcel Leger (Left Québécois)
Laporte : Andre Déom (Liberal party)
Laprairie : Paul Berthiaume (Liberal party)
the Assumption : Jean Perreault (Liberal party)
Laurentides-Labelle : Roger Lapointe (Liberal party)
Bay-tree : Andre Marchand (Liberal party)
Laval : Jean-Christmas Lavoie (Liberal party)
Laviolette : Careful Carpentier (Liberal party)
Lévis : Vincent Chagnon (Liberal party)
Limoilou : Fernand Houde (Liberal party)
Lotbinière : Georges Massicotte (Liberal party)
Louis-Hébert : Gaston Desjardins (Liberal party)
Maisonneuve : Robert Burns (Left Québécois)
Marguerite-Bourgeoys : Fernand Lalonde (Liberal party)
Maskinongé : Yvon Picotte (Liberal party)
Matane : Marc-Yvan Side (Liberal party)
Matapédia : Bona Arseneault (Liberal party)
Mégantic-Compton : Omer Dionne (Liberal party)
Draper : Robert Bourassa (Liberal party)
Thousand-Islands : Bernard Lachance (Liberal party)
Montmagny-L' Islet : Julien Giasson (Liberal party)
Montmorency : Marcel Bédard (Liberal party)
Mount-Royal : John Ciaccia (Liberal party)
Nicolet-Yamaska : Benjamin Faucher (Liberal party)
Our-Lady-of-Grace : William Tetley (Liberal party)
Orford : Georges Vaillancourt (Liberal party)
Outremont : Jerome Choquette (Liberal party)
Papineau : Mark Assad (Liberal party)
Point-Claire : Arthur Ewen Séguin (Liberal party)
Pontiac-Témiscamingue : Jean-Guy Larivière (Liberal party)
Portneuf : Michel Page (Liberal party)
Prévost : Bernard-Arthur Parent (Liberal party)
Richelieu : Claude Simard (Liberal party)
Richmond : Yvon Vallières (Liberal party)
Rimouski : Claude Saint-Hilaire (Liberal party)
River-of-Wolf : Paul Lafrance (Liberal party)
Robert-Baldwin : Jean Cournoyer (Liberal party)
Roberval : Robert Lamontagne (Liberal party)
Rosemont : Gilles Bellemarre (Liberal party)
Rouyn-Noranda : Camil Samson (Rallying creditist)
Saguenay : Lucien Lessard (Left Québécois)
Holy-Anne : George Springate (Liberal party)
Sainte-Marie : Jean-Claude Malépart (Liberal party)
Saint-François : Gerard Déziel (Liberal party)
Saint-Henri : Gerard Shanks (Liberal party)
Saint-Hyacinthe : Fernand Cornellier (Liberal party)
Saint-Jacob : Claude Charron (Left Québécois)
Midsummer's Day : Jacques Veilleux (Liberal party)
the St. Lawrence : Claude Forget (Liberal party)
Saint-Louis : Harry Blank Liberal party)
Saint-Maurice : Marcel Bérard (Liberal party)
Saved : Jacques-Yvan Morin (Left Québécois)
Shefford : Richard Verreault (Liberal party)
Sherbrooke : Jean-Paul Pip (Liberal party)
Taillon : Guy Leduc (Liberal party)
Taschereau : Irenee Bonnier (Liberal party)
Terrebonne : Denis Hardy (Liberal party)
Three-Rivers : Guy Bacon (Liberal party)
Basket maker : Fernand Dufour (Liberal party)
Vaudreuil-Soulanges : Paul Phaneuf (Liberal party)
Verchères : Marcel Ostiguy (Liberal party)
Verdun : Lucien Charon (Liberal party)
Viau : Picardy Fernand (Liberal party)
Westmount : Kevin Drummond (Liberal party)

Sources

historical Section of the site of the National Assembly of Quebec

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