Quebec 1931/1935/1936
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Well this is a series of realigning elections, not anything representative of what Quebec tended to be like. The Liberals had ruled essentially a one-party state since 1897, when the Tories alienated the entire province over the Manitoba Schools Question, and the UN would rule until... well, funny I should say that.Canada has just always been like that hasn't it.
That’s East Montreal - North Montreal is west/northwest of the city centre. Because of course.As you said elsewhere - haha long boi indeed.
Apparently the PQ's original heartland demographic consists of "North Montréal and asteroid impact craters".
They also limited the Parliament to an eight year term.The Irish Parliament had been subordinated to the English Parliament for most of its existence, but in 1782, a loose alliance of MPs led by Henry Grattan (dubbed the Patriot Party) were able to secure full home rule for the island
They also limited the Parliament to an eight year term.
Yes, before then, you normally just had by-elections unless there was a new Monarch.
It’s actually kind of fascinating, because a lot of it was made up of conservative anglophones in West Montreal and along the Ontario border. Those had been Conservative voters before the 1930s realignment, but when Duplessis came along and started banging on about French Catholic national identity, they found themselves without a natural party. They voted Liberal for most of the rest of the 20th century, but my guess is that Bourassa alienated them by pursuing soft-nationalist policies like declaring French the sole official language. And I mean, they were hardly going to vote for the PQ in response to that.Any analysis of the distribution of UN vote in 1976?
The 1981 election, the only one held under its set of boundaries and the first strictly two-party assembly since 1936 (or 1966 if we don't count one or two independents). Lévesque kept his majority intact despite the crushing referendum defeat, and spent the next four years splitting his party over cooperation with Brian Mulroney's Tories on the federal level.
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This is pretty much what Quebec would look like for the next twenty-five years or so, shifting back and forth between PQ and Liberal majorities every two terms. Then the ADQ happened for real in 2007, and things started going awry again.
IIRC a lot of it is tbe habitant/forest-runner dichotomy. UN tended to appeal more towards places with a more settled farming population.For the actual francophone UN vote, I have less knowledge of that, but it is interesting to note that almost no one north of the river seems to have voted for them. Or at least elected them.
Seriously thinking of doing heatmaps for at least the former, and I suppose some federal election maps too.Great stuff, Max! Very valuable to have some pictorial evidence when I badger acquaintances with tales of the Equality Party and the Ralliement Creditiste.
I suppose it would be fairly quick to do?Seriously thinking of doing heatmaps for at least the former
They stood nineteen candidates, and their non-Montreal sister outfit the Unity Party stood sixteen. So yeah.I suppose it would be fairly quick to do?