1927 Quebec general election explained

Election Name:1927 Quebec general election
Country:Quebec
Type:parliamentary
Ongoing:no
Party Colour:no
Party Name:no
Previous Election:1923 Quebec general election
Previous Year:1923
Previous Mps:16th Quebec Legislature
Next Election:1931 Quebec general election
Next Year:1931
Elected Members:17th Quebec Legislature
Seats For Election:85 seats in the 17th Legislative Assembly of Quebec
43 seats were needed for a majority
Election Date:May 16, 1927
Image1:File:Louis-Alexandre Taschereau - 1930.png
Image1 Size:180x180px
Leader1:Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Leader Since1:1920
Leaders Seat1:Montmorency
Last Election1:64 seats, 51.52%
Seats1:74
Seat Change1:10
Popular Vote1:188,687
Percentage1:59.33%
Swing1:7.81pp
Image2 Size:180x180px
Leader2:Arthur Sauvé
Leader Since2:1915
Leaders Seat2:Deux-Montagnes
Last Election2:20 seats, 39.32%
Seats2:9
Seat Change2:11
Popular Vote2:109,105
Percentage2:34.31%
Swing2:5.01pp
Premier
Before Election:Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
After Election:Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Posttitle:Premier after election

The 1927 Quebec general election was held on May 16, 1927, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, was re-elected, defeating the Quebec Conservative Party, led by Arthur Sauvé.

It was the second general election victory in a row for Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, who had held office since 1920.

Results

Twelve Liberal MLAs were returned by acclamation, including one on the Island of Montreal. Taschereau himself was acclaimed in Montmorency, because of the alleged technical rejection of the Conservative candidate Lucien Drolet's nomination papers. Drolet would later sue the returning officer over this.[1]

The Liberals won back six of the Montreal seats they had lost in 1923. There was a controversy in Montréal–Saint-Louis, where the Conservative candidate Louis Fitch claimed that he had been subject to false arrest on Election Day.[2]

Polling was deferred to May 23 in Gaspé.[2] This was because weather conditions caused the closure of many roads in the area.[3]

[4] |-! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party! rowspan=2 | Party leader! colspan=4 | MPPs! colspan=4 | Votes|-! Candidates!1923!1927!±!#! ±!%! ± (pp)|-|rowspan="3" |  |style="text-align:left;" colspan="10"|Government candidates|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"|Louis-Alexandre Taschereau|85|64|74|10|188,687|38,957|59.34|7.82|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |3| - | - | - |1,365||0.43||-|rowspan="5" |  |style="text-align:left;" colspan="10"|Opposition candidates|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"|Arthur Sauvé|67|20|9|11|109,105|92,295|34.31|5.01|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - | - |1| - |1| style="text-align:center;" colspan="4"|Did not campaign[5] |-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |3| - | - | - |2,685|2,246|0.84|0.86|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |1| - |1|1|4,432|1,993|1.39|0.55|-|rowspan="3" |  |style="text-align:left;" colspan="10"|Other candidates|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |7| - |1|1|9,345|3,759|2.94|1.02|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |1| - | - | - |2,342|1,417|0.74|0.42|-! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total| 167! " colspan="3"| 85! " colspan="2"| 317,961! " colspan="2"| 100%|-| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Rejected ballots| 2,843| 965| colspan="2"||-| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Voter turnout| 320,804| 26,347| 62.91| 0.89|-| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Registered electors (contested ridings only)| 509,935| 35,141| colspan="2"||-| colspan="5" style="text-align:left;" | Candidates returned by acclamation| 12| 4| colspan="4"||}

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Notes and References

  1. News: . May 14, 1927. Une contestation dans Montmorency. A dispute in Montmorency. French. Le Progrès du Saguenay. Chicoutimi. 1.
  2. News: . May 17, 1927. Taschereau returned with a larger following. The Sherbrooke Daily Record. 1.
  3. News: . August 17, 1931. About two hundred candidates seeking seats in Legislature. Sherbrooke Daily Record. 1.
  4. Web site: Élections québécoises de 1927. Drouilly. Pierre. November 7, 2017. donneesquebec.ca . Atlas des élections au Québec .
  5. Other allegiances not professed in 1927: Labour-Government; Independent-Conservative; Farmer-Opposition