Leader Éric Duhaime Wins Seat, Quebec Conservatives Soar on Election Night
The party projected about 19 seats, giving it official status and strengthening Duhaime’s leverage after a campaign focused on the Quebec City region.
- On Monday, the Quebec Conservatives surged to win 19 seats in the National Assembly, securing official party status for the first time in a century under Leader Éric Duhaime.
- Duhaime focused his campaign efforts on the greater Quebec City area, converting popular support into seats after the party received nearly 13 per cent of votes four years ago without winning any.
- Candidates like Karine Laflamme in Lévis and 23-year-old Éloïse Coulombe in Charlesbourg secured victories. The party platform promised to slash gas taxes and cut $47 billion in state spending over five years.
- The strong showing limited the Parti Québécois to a minority government. Duhaime promised to use his leverage to act as a "guard dog" protecting taxpayer interests and blocking future referendum votes.
- For the first time in 100 years, Quebecers have elected a large caucus of Conservative MNAs. The modern party, revived in 2009, succeeds an earlier iteration that dissolved in 1936 after a 72-year history.
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National Post
Who is Conservative Party of Quebec Leader Éric Duhaime?
Heading into Monday’s Quebec general election, leader Éric Duhaime hoped to see a dozen Conservative Party of Quebec (CPQ) candidates, including himself, elected to the National Assembly — the minimum for official party status. By night’s end, however, he and the party had “written a page” in the province’s history, winning 19 seats, the third most in a crowded field. “This evening is only the beginning,” the 57-year-old former political advisor…
Eric Duhaime wants to show that his troops know how to assume the functions entrusted to them by the population.
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The breakthrough of the PCQ on Monday is due in particular to the breakdown of the CAQ.
After many attempts to be elected to the National Assembly since his arrival at the head of the Conservative Party of Quebec (PCQ) in 2021, Éric Duhaime will finally make his entry to the Blue Salon through the big door, after a historic election evening for his troops.Read also: Elections 2026: Here are the results of the leaders of the 5 main parties in their county Québec did indeed experience a blue wave on Monday, October 5, after 39 days o…
It's a scene that Eric Duhaime would never have dreamed of, just a few years ago, when he was driving through the roads of Quebec driving his old Nissan Sentra, to end up in empty rooms.
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