1944 Quebec general election explained

Election Name:	1944 Quebec general election
Country:	Quebec
Type:	parliamentary
Ongoing:	no
Party Colour:	no
Party Name:	no
Previous Election:	1939 Quebec general election
Previous Year:	1939
Previous Mps:	21st Quebec Legislature
Next Election:	1948 Quebec general election
Next Year:	1948
Elected Members:	22nd Quebec Legislature
Seats For Election:	91 seats in the 22nd Legislative Assembly of Quebec 46 seats were needed for a majority
Election Date:	August 8, 1944
Image1:	Duplessis 1947.jpg
Image1 Size:	150x150px
Leader1:	Maurice Duplessis
Leader Since1:	June 20, 1936
Leaders Seat1:	Trois-Rivières
Last Election1:	15 seats, 39.13%
Seats1:	48
Seat Change1:	33
Popular Vote1:	505,661
Percentage1:	38.02%
Swing1:	1.11pp
Image2 Size:	150x150px
Leader2:	Adélard Godbout
Leader Since2:	June 11, 1936
Leaders Seat2:	L'Islet
Last Election2:	70 seats, 54.05%
Seats2:	37
Seat Change2:	33
Popular Vote2:	523,316
Percentage2:	39.35%
Swing2:	14.7pp
Image3:	Andre Laurendeau 1945.jpg
Image3 Size:	150x150px
Leader3:	André Laurendeau
Leader Since3:	July 6, 1942
Leaders Seat3:	Montréal-Laurier
Last Election3:	pre-creation
Seats3:	4
Seat Change3:	4
Popular Vote3:	191,564
Percentage3:	14.40%
Swing3:	14.40pp
Premier
Before Election:	Adélard Godbout
After Election:	Maurice Duplessis
Posttitle:	Premier after election

The 1944 Quebec general election was held on August 8, 1944 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The French: [[Union Nationale (Quebec)|Union Nationale]], led by former premier Maurice Duplessis, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Adélard Godbout. This was the first Quebec provincial election in which women were allowed to vote, having been granted suffrage at the provincial level in 1941^[1] (much later than what had been fully attained at the federal level in 1919).^[2]

This election marked Duplessis's comeback after having defeated Godbout in the 1936 election and having lost to him in the 1939 election. Unlike in the 1939 election, when the alcoholic Duplessis was clearly drunk at numerous campaign rallies, le chef had benefited from the time he had spent in an American sanatorium in 1942-43, where he had sobered up, and in the 1944 election, Duplessis refrained from drinking.

The biggest issue during this election was provincial autonomy. In order to appeal to nationalist voters, Duplessis attacked the incumbent premier, claiming that he was not taking a strong enough stand against Ottawa. He mainly criticized Godbout for agreeing to transfer unemployment insurance from the province to the federal government. He also criticized the Rowell-Sirois Commission for its stance on unemployment insurance and equalization payments.^[3]

Another reason Duplessis won the election was by appealing to anti-Semitic prejudices in Quebec by making the false claim in a violently anti-Semitic speech that the Dominion government together with the Godbout government had made a secret deal with the "International Zionist Brotherhood" to settle 100,000 Jewish refugees left homeless by the Holocaust in Quebec after the war in exchange for Jewish campaign contributions to both the federal and provincial Liberal parties.^[4] By contrast, Duplessis claimed that he was not taking any money from the Jews, and if he were elected Premier, he would stop this plan to bring Jewish refugees to Quebec. To further push on the message, the Union Nationale handed out campaign pamphlets warning about the alleged plan to bring 100,000 Jewish refugees to Quebec, which featured a cartoon of the standard stereotype of an evil-looking, hook-nosed Jew handing bags of money to Godbout while in the background a vast horde of dirty, disreputable-looking, hook-nosed Jewish refugees were ready to descend on la belle province.^[5] Through Duplessis's story about the plan to settle 100,000 Jewish refugees in Quebec was entirely false, his story was widely believed in Quebec, and ensured he won the election.^[4] Duplessis's biographer Conrad Black argued that Duplessis was in no way personally anti-Semitic, but because the majority of Quebecois were at the time, Duplessis had merely used antisemitism to win the 1944 election.^[6] Duplessis won another three elections in a row, for a total of five terms of office (four consecutive), before dying in office in 1959.

In this wartime election, Godbout's support for Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in the Conscription Crisis of 1944 may have contributed to his defeat.

The Bloc Populaire won four seats on an anti-conscription platform. More importantly, they siphoned off enough votes from the Liberals to deny them a second term. Even though the Liberals narrowly won the popular vote, massive vote-splitting with the Bloc Populaire allowed the Union Nationals to win a narrow majority of seats.

The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (predecessor of the New Democratic Party) won one seat. Party member David Côté was elected to the legislature, but in July 1945, he decided to sit as an independent.

Redistribution of ridings

An Act passed before the election^[7] increased the number of MLAs from 86 to 91 through the following changes:

Abolished ridings	New ridings
Drawn from parts of other ridings
	Rouyn-Noranda^[8]
Reorganization of ridings
Châteauguay-Laprairie Saint-Jean–Napierville	Châteauguay Napierville-Laprairie Saint-Jean
Division of ridings
Abitibi	Abitibi-Est Abitibi-Ouest
Kamouraska–Rivière-du-Loup	Kamouraska Rivière-du-Loup
Richelieu-Verchères	Richelieu Verchères

Campaign

Riding contests, by number of candidates (1944)

Candidates	align="center"	UN	align="center"	Lib	align="center"	BP	align="center"	CCF	align="center"	UdE	align="center"	Nat	align="center"	Ind	align="center"	I-Lib	align="center"	Lab	align="center"	Lab-Pr	align="center"	I-UN	align="center"	I-CCF	align="center"	I-BP	align="center"	CdP	Total
2	5	4					1								10
3	45	45	40	1		2		1						1	135
4	25	25	24	10	7		5	3			1				100
5	12	12	12	9	3		7		1		2	1	1		60
6	1	1	1	1				1		1					6
7	2	2	2	2	1		2		1	2					14
8	1	1	1	1	1		1	2							8
Total	91	90	80	24	12	2	16	7	2	3	3	1	1	1	333

Results

^[9] |-! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party! rowspan=2 | Party leader! colspan=4 | MPPs! colspan=4 | Votes|-! Candidates!1939!1944!±!#! ±!%! ± (pp)|-^[10] |style="text-align:left;"|Maurice Duplessis|91|15|48|33|505,661|285,259|38.02|1.11|-|style="text-align:left;"|Adélard Godbout|90|69|37|32|523,316|221,934|39.35|14.15|-|style="text-align:left;"|André Laurendeau|80| - |4|4|191,564||14.40||-|style="text-align:left;"|Romuald-Joseph Lamoureux^[11] |24| - |1|1|33,986|31,473|2.56|2.11|-|style="text-align:left;"| |12| - | - | - |16,542||1.24||-| style="background-color:#D9B2FF;" |  | style="text-align:left;" |Action libérale nationale|style="text-align:left;"| | style="text-align:center;" colspan="8"|did not campaign|-|rowspan="10" |  |style="text-align:left;" colspan="10"|Other candidates|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |16|1| - |1|12,766|6,485|0.96|0.03|-|style="text-align:left;" |^{[12] [13]} |style="text-align:left;"| - |2|1|1||8,711|5,637|0.65|0.10|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |7| - | - | - |8,656|7,868|0.65|0.51|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |2| - | - | - |8,355|7,945|0.63|0.56|-|style="text-align:left;" |^[14] |style="text-align:left;"| - |3| - | - | - |7,873|7,714|0.59|0.56|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |3| - | - | - |6,775|6,306|0.51|0.43|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |1| - | - | - |3,015||0.23||-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |1| - | - | - |2,583||0.19||-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |1| - | - | - |156||0.01||-! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total| 333| 86! " colspan="2"| 91! " colspan="2"| 1,329,959! " colspan="2"| 100%|-| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Rejected ballots| 15,552| 8,218| colspan="2"||-| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Voter turnout| 1,345,511| 774,880| 71.98| 5.02|-| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Registered electors^[15] | 1,869,396| 1,128,265| colspan="2"||-| colspan="5" style="text-align:left;" | Candidates returned by acclamation|  - | 1| colspan="4"||}

Synopsis of results

Results by riding - 1944 Quebec general election^[16]

Riding	Winning party								Turnout ^[17]	Votes^[18]
Name	1939		Party		Votes	Share	Margin #	Margin %		UN	Lib		CCF								Total
Abitibi-Est	New			Lib	5,410	38.24%	1,434	10.14%	79.76%	3,976	5,410	2,010	889	1,862	–	–	–	–	–	–	14,147
Abitibi-Ouest	New			UN	3,729	38.82%	1,174	12.22%	86.03%	3,729	2,555	1,494	–	1,828	–	–	–	–	–	–	9,606
Argenteuil		Lib		Lib	6,084	61.84%	3,791	38.53%	77.87%	1,461	6,084	2,293	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	9,838
		Lib		Lib	5,511	40.80%	33	0.24%	86.01%	5,478	5,511	2,519	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	13,508
Bagot		Lib		Lib	3,781	47.78%	127	1.60%	83.39%	3,654	3,781	479	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7,914
Beauce		Lib		BP	5,466	29.30%	164	0.88%	85.91%	5,302	5,099	5,466	–	2,790	–	–	–	–	–	–	18,657
Beauharnois		UN		BP	7,186	45.87%	1,266	8.08%	83.18%	5,920	2,560	7,186	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	15,666
Bellechasse		Lib		Lib	4,762	49.72%	545	5.69%	79.16%	4,217	4,762	599	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	9,578
Berthier		Lib		Lib	5,138	49.96%	823	8.00%	85.38%	4,315	5,138	832	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	10,285
Bonaventure		Lib		UN	6,031	45.03%	1,542	11.51%	73.27%	6,031	1,651	1,223	–	–	–	–	4,489	–	–	–	13,394
Brome		UN		UN	2,860	51.36%	655	11.76%	74.69%	2,860	2,205	503	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	5,568
Chambly		Lib		Lib	6,638	42.25%	1,110	7.06%	70.11%	5,528	6,638	2,140	1,406	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	15,712
Champlain		Con		UN	7,632	54.41%	2,494	17.78%	81.92%	7,632	5,138	1,258	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	14,028
Charlevoix—Saguenay		Lib		UN	11,173	79.17%	8,234	58.35%	59.07%	11,173	–	–	–	–	–	2,939	–	–	–	–	14,112
Châteauguay	New			Lib	3,128	44.55%	839	11.95%	82.05%	2,289	3,128	1,604	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7,021
Chicoutimi		UN		UN	17,752	50.49%	8,906	25.33%	79.12%	17,752	8,846	6,256	–	2,307	–	–	–	–	–	–	35,161
Compton		Lib		Lib	4,566	49.99%	1,729	18.93%	76.38%	2,837	4,566	1,730	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	9,133
Deux-Montagnes		UN		UN	3,599	50.78%	1,509	21.29%	79.15%	3,599	2,090	1,313	–	–	–	–	86	–	–	–	7,088
Dorchester		UN		UN	6,887	52.95%	2,215	17.03%	81.21%	6,887	4,672	1,447	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	13,006
Drummond		Lib		UN	6,965	42.39%	1,979	12.04%	84.59%	6,965	4,986	4,481	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	16,432
Frontenac		Lib		UN	4,599	41.95%	1,307	11.92%	86.18%	4,599	3,292	1,604	–	1,417	–	52	–	–	–	–	10,964
Gaspé-Nord		Lib		UN	3,198	47.31%	539	7.97%	89.13%	3,198	2,659	150	–	–	–	753	–	–	–	–	6,760
Gaspé-Sud		UN		UN	6,090	53.64%	2,600	22.90%	79.13%	6,090	3,490	–	–	–	–	–	1,773	–	–	–	11,353
Gatineau		Lib		Lib	5,471	49.27%	1,592	14.34%	72.78%	3,879	5,471	942	813	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	11,105
Hull		Lib		UN	9,051	55.49%	4,084	25.04%	76.66%	9,051	4,967	2,293	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	16,311
Huntingdon		Lib		Lib	2,865	54.26%	1,114	21.10%	74.22%	1,751	2,865	664	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	5,280
Iberville		Lib		UN	1,910	38.81%	426	8.66%	82.43%	1,910	1,484	956	–	–	–	–	572	–	–	–	4,922
Îles-de-la-Madeleine		UN		UN	2,092	55.49%	414	10.98%	90.09%	2,092	1,678	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	3,770
Jacques-Cartier		Lib		Lib	13,349	52.04%	5,208	20.30%	66.89%	8,141	13,349	4,163	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	25,653
Joliette		UN		UN	8,652	61.83%	3,655	26.12%	82.60%	8,652	4,997	344	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	13,993
Kamouraska	New			Lib	5,175	52.04%	695	6.99%	77.88%	4,480	5,175	289	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	9,944
		Lib		UN	3,522	40.02%	368	4.18%	83.98%	3,522	3,154	–	–	–	2,124	–	–	–	–	–	8,800
L'Islet		Lib		Lib	4,834	55.14%	902	10.29%	81.25%	3,932	4,834	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8,766
Labelle		UN		UN	5,517	66.18%	3,678	44.12%	78.83%	5,517	1,839	796	–	–	–	184	–	–	–	–	8,336
Lac-Saint-Jean		Lib		Lib	3,718	38.07%	109	1.12%	89.49%	3,609	3,718	1,944	–	495	–	–	–	–	–	–	9,766
Laval		Lib		Lib	11,642	35.22%	2,511	7.60%	62.20%	7,648	11,642	9,131	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4,632	33,053
Laviolette		Lib		UN	7,455	55.04%	3,342	24.67%	79.48%	7,455	4,113	1,785	192	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	13,545
Lévis		Lib		UN	8,101	45.94%	921	5.22%	79.79%	8,101	7,180	2,352	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	17,633
Lotbinière		Nat		Lib	4,472	41.74%	812	7.58%	83.46%	3,660	4,472	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2,583	10,715
Maisonneuve		Lib		UN	10,584	32.50%	51	0.16%	65.05%	10,584	10,533	8,245	1,380	–	–	–	–	1,824	–	–	32,566
Maskinongé		Lib		UN	4,475	54.98%	1,340	16.46%	85.85%	4,475	3,135	530	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8,140
Matane		UN		UN	8,684	64.07%	4,130	30.47%	85.30%	8,684	4,554	316	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	13,554
Matapédia		Lib		UN	4,979	45.14%	678	6.15%	82.20%	4,979	4,301	1,548	–	–	–	201	–	–	–	–	11,029
Mégantic		Lib		UN	9,713	57.22%	2,450	14.43%	87.36%	9,713	7,263	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	16,976
Missisquoi		Lib		Lib	5,515	57.25%	3,044	31.60%	77.26%	2,471	5,515	1,647	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	9,633
Montcalm		Lib		UN	3,079	45.30%	926	13.62%	81.66%	3,079	2,153	1,565	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	6,797
Montmagny		Lib		Lib	4,781	55.87%	1,004	11.73%	73.39%	3,777	4,781	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8,558
Montmorency		Lib		Lib	3,764	48.42%	1,052	13.53%	80.89%	2,712	3,764	168	–	1,130	–	–	–	–	–	–	7,774
		Lib		Lib	11,662	36.45%	1,570	4.91%	64.25%	6,859	11,662	10,092	2,897	–	–	485	–	–	–	–	31,995
		Lib		BP	9,540	34.62%	647	2.35%	62.08%	8,350	8,893	9,540	438	–	–	–	–	–	–	333	27,554
		Lib		Lib	12,977	39.78%	1,566	4.80%	63.23%	11,411	12,977	8,235	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	32,623
		Lib		Lib	20,140	78.13%	17,709	68.70%	56.62%	699	20,140	1,070	2,431	–	–	1,437	–	–	–	–	25,777
		Lib		Lib	17,704	77.18%	15,540	67.74%	56.32%	1,417	17,704	2,164	–	–	–	1,654	–	–	–	–	22,939
		Lib		UN	9,569	36.34%	288	1.09%	61.13%	9,569	9,281	4,752	2,732	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	26,334
		Lib		UN	11,400	43.11%	1,504	5.69%	56.06%	11,400	9,896	3,860	1,285	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	26,441
		Lib		Lib	9,754	40.72%	2,881	12.03%	60.04%	2,890	9,754	2,421	1,241	–	–	773	–	–	6,873	–	23,952
		Lib		Lib	13,180	56.61%	8,711	37.42%	53.68%	4,469	13,180	1,659	3,974	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	23,282
		Ind		UN	9,299	35.34%	1,607	6.11%	57.94%	9,299	7,692	6,766	1,090	–	–	–	521	–	944	–	26,312
		Lib		Lib	8,793	36.62%	2,754	11.47%	64.06%	2,899	8,793	3,263	6,039	–	–	–	–	–	–	3,015	24,009
Napierville-Laprairie	New			UN	3,665	41.47%	415	4.70%	79.39%	3,665	3,250	1,922	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8,837
Nicolet		Lib		UN	5,639	44.48%	708	5.58%	78.54%	5,639	4,931	2,107	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	12,677
Papineau		UN		UN	8,842	60.71%	4,773	32.77%	78.58%	8,842	4,069	1,654	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	14,565
Pontiac		Lib		Lib	3,667	48.29%	882	11.62%	71.40%	2,785	3,667	–	1,141	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7,593
Portneuf		Lib		UN	6,489	39.04%	1,550	9.32%	80.70%	6,489	4,879	4,939	160	–	–	–	–	–	–	156	16,623
Québec-Centre		Lib		Lib	8,755	52.47%	2,817	16.88%	69.10%	5,938	8,755	1,487	290	–	–	216	–	–	–	–	16,686
Québec-Comté		Lib		Nat	6,587	34.79%	363	1.92%	79.17%	6,120	6,224	–	–	–	6,587	–	–	–	–	–	18,931
Québec-Est		Lib		Lib	7,370	31.13%	839	3.54%	74.85%	5,734	7,370	2,832	169	986	–	–	–	6,531	56	–	23,678
		Lib		Lib	6,006	54.35%	2,505	22.67%	69.70%	3,501	6,006	1,365	179	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	11,051
Richelieu	New			Lib	7,636	55.98%	4,292	31.46%	77.73%	3,344	7,636	2,661	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	13,641
Richmond		Lib		UN	5,626	45.03%	282	2.26%	81.48%	5,626	5,344	1,525	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	12,495
Rimouski		Lib		UN	7,437	51.73%	1,417	9.86%	79.93%	7,437	6,020	920	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	14,377
Rivière-du-Loup	New			Lib	7,061	50.37%	901	6.43%	84.20%	6,160	7,061	797	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	14,018
Roberval		Lib		UN	6,071	42.86%	708	5.00%	85.57%	6,071	5,363	1,509	–	1,222	–	–	–	–	–	–	14,165
Rouville		Lib		UN	3,529	45.46%	17	0.22%	84.13%	3,529	3,512	722	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7,763
Rouyn-Noranda	New			CCF	2,100	21.03%	250	2.50%	75.46%	1,643	1,753	1,850	2,100	1,411	–	14	1,215	–	–	–	9,986
Saint-Hyacinthe		Lib		UN	5,962	44.97%	995	7.50%	70.64%	5,962	4,967	1,716	–	–	–	614	–	–	–	–	13,259
Saint-Jean	New			UN	5,525	55.33%	1,804	18.07%	79.91%	5,525	3,721	739	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	9,985
Saint-Maurice		Lib		UN	9,933	51.86%	5,219	27.25%	82.65%	9,933	4,317	4,714	189	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	19,153
Saint-Sauveur		Lib		Lib	8,796	45.88%	1,590	8.29%	79.02%	7,206	8,796	1,189	172	–	–	–	–	–	–	1,810	19,173
Shefford		Lib		UN	6,473	42.85%	1,297	8.59%	80.97%	6,473	5,176	2,916	–	541	–	–	–	–	–	–	15,106
		UN		UN	10,559	52.03%	3,649	17.98%	74.64%	10,559	6,910	2,825	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	20,294
		Lib		BP	3,522	29.16%	404	3.34%	75.40%	3,118	2,785	3,522	–	553	–	2,100	–	–	–	–	12,078
		Lib		UN	2,225	34.50%	335	5.19%	80.35%	2,225	1,890	1,486	848	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	6,449
		Lib		UN	4,326	48.88%	734	8.29%	83.40%	4,326	3,592	933	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8,851
Terrebonne		Lib		UN	11,471	49.16%	1,040	4.46%	82.65%	11,471	10,431	1,432	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	23,334
Trois-Rivières		UN		UN	12,576	66.74%	7,258	38.52%	80.41%	12,576	5,318	950	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	18,844
Vaudreuil-Soulanges		Lib		Lib	4,714	46.00%	351	3.43%	79.46%	4,363	4,714	1,170	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	10,247
Verchères	New			Lib	4,036	62.78%	2,203	34.27%	76.97%	1,833	4,036	560	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	6,429
		Lib		Lib	14,271	75.74%	12,340	65.49%	45.27%	1,296	14,271	–	1,931	–	–	1,344	–	–	–	–	18,842
Wolfe		Lib		UN	3,478	46.74%	61	0.82%	88.07%	3,478	3,417	546	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7,441
Yamaska		UN		UN	4,166	62.93%	2,201	33.25%	77.43%	4,166	1,965	489	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	6,620

= open seat

= turnout is above provincial average

= winning candidate was in previous Legislature

= incumbent had switched allegiance

= not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature

= incumbency arose from byelection gain

= previously incumbent in another riding

= other incumbents renominated

= previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada

= multiple candidates

Effect of redistribution

The reorganized ridings returned the following MLAs:

1939		1944
Riding	Party	Riding	Party
Témiscamingue		Témiscamingue
		Rouyn-Noranda
		Châteauguay
		Napierville-Laprairie
		Saint-Jean
Abitibi		Abitibi-Est
		Abitibi-Ouest
Kamouraska–Rivière-du-Loup		Kamouraska
		Rivière-du-Loup
Richelieu-Verchères		Richelieu
		Verchères

Analysis

Party candidates in 2nd place

Party in 1st place		Party in 2nd place								Total
		UN	Lib	BP	CCF	Ind	I-Lib	Lab	LP
	44	2		1	1			48
28		4	3			1	1	37
3	1							4
		1						1
	1							1
Total		31	46	7	3	1	1	1	1	91

Candidates ranked 1st to 5th place, by party

Parties	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	Total
	48	31	8	2	2	91
	37	46	7			90
	4	7	60	9		80
	1	3	2	13	4	23
	1		1			2
		1	3	5	4	13
		1	1	2		4
		1		1		2
		1			1	2
			2	7	3	12
			1	1	1	3
			1			1
				1		1
					1	1

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Party
align="center"	UN	align="center"	Lib	align="center"	BP	align="center"	CCF	align="center"	Nat	Total
Seats retained	Incumbents returned	13	24				37
	Open seats held	1	6				7
Seats changing hands	Incumbents defeated - by previous incumbent	10					10
	Incumbents defeated - by new MPPs	6		4			10
	Open seats gained - previous incumbents returned	7					7
	Open seats gained - new MPPs	7	1				8
	Byelection gains held	1					1
	Incumbent switched riding					1	1
New ridings	Incumbent returned in new seat	1	2				3
	Previous member of Legislature reelected	1					1
	MP migrated from Parliament of Canada		1				1
	New MPP elected	1	3		1		5
Total		48	37	4	1	1	91

See also

• List of Quebec premiers
• Politics of Quebec
• Timeline of Quebec history
• List of Quebec political parties
• 22nd Legislative Assembly of Quebec

Notes and References

1. An Act granting to women the right to vote and to be eligible as candidates. S.Q.. 1940. 7. https://www.bibliotheque.assnat.qc.ca/DepotNumerique_v2/AffichageFichier.aspx?idf=251713., coming into force on January 1, 1941
2. An Act to confer the Electoral Franchise upon Women. S.C.. 1918. 20. https://archive.org/details/actsofparl1918v01cana/page/68/mode/2up?view=theater.
3. Web site: Sarra-Bournet . Michel . Biography - DUPLESSIS, MAURICE LE NOBLET . Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
4. Knowles, Valerie Strangers at Our Gates: Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-2006, Toronto: Dundun Press, 2007 page 149.
5. Abella, Irving & Troper, Harold None is too many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948, Toronto: L & O Denny, 1986 page 162.
6. Black, Conrad Duplesisis, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977 page 719
7. An Act respecting the Electoral Districts of the Province. S.Q.. 1944. 6. https://www.bibliotheque.assnat.qc.ca/DepotNumerique_v2/AffichageFichier.aspx?idf=118846.
8. taken from part of Témiscamingue
9. Web site: Élections québécoises de 1944. Drouilly. Pierre. December 4, 2017. donneesquebec.ca . Atlas des élections au Québec .
10. 1939 includes Joseph-Philias Morin (Champlain), who was elected under the Conservative banner and served only one term
11. Defeated in Montréal–Saint-Henri. David Côté was elected in Rouyn-Noranda.
12. [René Chaloult]
13. results compared against performance under the Parti national banner in 1939
14. formerly Communist
15. Electorate expanded on adoption of An Act granting to women the right to vote and to be eligible as candidates. S.Q.. 1940. 7. https://www.bibliotheque.assnat.qc.ca/DepotNumerique_v2/AffichageFichier.aspx?idf=251713.
16. Web site: Les membres de l'Assemblée nationale par circonscription. French. National Assembly members by riding. . National Assembly of Quebec. September 13, 2023.
17. including spoilt ballots
18. Affiliations without candidates gaining 1st or 2nd place results provincewide, or otherwise not receiving more than 1% of the total vote, are grouped under "Other"