Quebec by-elections today

[Hatman 🍁]

What a birthday present for me, elections!

Polls close at 8 o'clock in two heavily separatist ridings. Taillon in Longueuil and Pointe-aux-Trembles in Montreal.

The interesting race will be in Pointe-aux-Trembles where PQ leader Andre Boisclair (yes, the cocaine using gay guy) will try and get into the National Assembly. The Liberals and the ADQ are not running against him. Quebec solidaire, which is the new left wing party in Quebec will likely finish 2nd. It will be interesting to see how well they do. 

Website (in English)
http://www.monvote.qc.ca/en/index.asp

[Filuwaúrdjan]

2003 results:

Taillon

PQ 45.7%, PLQ 34.2%, ADQ 16.6%

Poine-aux-Trembles

PQ 50%, PLQ 33.3%, ADQ 14.2%

Random other stuff:

Taillon is 90% Franco, voted 60% Oui in '95 and has been held by the PQ since 1976. It was Rene Levesque's seat for a while.

P-a-T is 93% Franco, voted 63% Oui in '95 and has been held by the PQ since it's creation in 1989.

---
I've not seen any recent polls for Quebec, but I've heard that recent PQ leads haven't been quite as huge as they were a year or so ago.

[Hatman 🍁]

Those numbers for PAT are irrelevant because the ADQ and PLQ are not running. Well, perhaps we can make guesses from that as to what QS will get.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Those numbers for PAT are irrelevant because the ADQ and PLQ are not running. Well, perhaps we can make guesses from that as to what QS will get.

True. How long till the resuts?

[Hatman 🍁]

Those numbers for PAT are irrelevant because the ADQ and PLQ are not running. Well, perhaps we can make guesses from that as to what QS will get.

True. How long till the resuts?

Well, they were supposed to have closed half an hour ago. Usually, these things take half and hour to start reporting. There's no sign on the elections website of any results though I'm surprised, because I've been very pleased with the imformation I can find on it.

[Hatman 🍁]

Found them!

63/171 polls

Boisclair, André (P.Q.)   2 835   70,89 %   2 358
Daxhelet, Xavier (P.V.Q./G.P.Q.)   477   11,93 %   
Ritchot, Dominique (Q.S.)   310   7,75 %   
Bergeron, Benoît (IND)   191   4,78 %   
Leduc, Jocelyne (IND)   91   2,28 %   
Kasapoglu, Benjamin (B.P.)   42   1,05 %   
Boyer, Jean-Marc (IND)   40   1,00 %   
Millette, Régent (IND)   13   0,33 %

[Hatman 🍁]

Tailon cannot be released until 9:00

Interesting. QS has to be disappointed, they are behind the Green Party!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Yeah; if this holds, this probably counts as a bad start for them

[Hatman 🍁]

It's obvious the federalist vote is going to the Green Party. Interestingly, Boisclair is getting some federalist vote as well as his 71% is more than the 63% that voted to separate.  Obviously turnout is horrible as well.

[Hatman 🍁]

about 50% of the polls are in (86/171)

Boisclair, André (P.Q.)   4 100   71,30 %   3 410
Daxhelet, Xavier (P.V.Q./G.P.Q.)   690   12,00 %   
Ritchot, Dominique (Q.S.)   452   7,86 %   
Bergeron, Benoît (IND)   260   4,52 %   
Leduc, Jocelyne (IND)   115   2,00 %   
Boyer, Jean-Marc (IND)   59   1,03 %   
Kasapoglu, Benjamin (B.P.)   59   1,03 %   
Millette, Régent (IND)   15   0,26 %

Still no word for Taillon. They had to keep some polls open until 9 and didnt want to realease any results, if my french serves me right.

[Hatman 🍁]

TAILLON
Last update: 21:17:56
Number of polling stations:  34 / 224
 
Candidates and
political affiliation    Valid votes    Percentage of valid ballots (%)    Majority
Malavoy, Marie (P.Q.)   1 096   45,31 %   437
Mercier, Véronique (P.L.Q./Q.L.P.)   659   27,24 %   
Simard, Karine (A.D.Q./É.M.D.)   334   13,81 %   
Blanchard, Manon (Q.S.)   189   7,81 %   
Rudolphe, Yvon (P.V.Q./G.P.Q.)   97   4,01 %   
Beuzart, Francis (B.P.)   23   0,95 %   
Dénommée Pigeon, Tristan (IND)   21   0,87 %

QS managed to beat the Greens this time!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Presuming the current numbers don't greatly change, the more interesting result is Taillon; the PQ vote seems to be about where it was in 2003, but the Liberals and ADQ are crumbling somewhat.

Odd that QS is polling about the same in both seats.

[Hatman 🍁]

Looks like in Taillon Liberal and ADQ votes are going to QS.

TAILLON
Last update: 21:37:34
Number of polling stations:  66 / 224
 
Candidates and
political affiliation    Valid votes    Percentage of valid ballots (%)    Majority
Malavoy, Marie (P.Q.)   2 303   46,22 %   951
Mercier, Véronique (P.L.Q./Q.L.P.)   1 352   27,13 %   
Simard, Karine (A.D.Q./É.M.D.)   707   14,19 %   
Blanchard, Manon (Q.S.)   365   7,32 %   
Rudolphe, Yvon (P.V.Q./G.P.Q.)   175   3,51 %   
Dénommée Pigeon, Tristan (IND)   43   0,86 %   
Beuzart, Francis (B.P.)   38   0,76 %

They were showing Boisclair on TV at his victory party with Jacques Parizeau hehe

[Hatman 🍁]

Watching some more speeches on TV

Veronique Mercier, the PLQ canddidate is very attractive: http://www.veroniquemercier.com/en/video_clips/index.html (though she was hotter on TV)

POINTE-AUX-TREMBLES
Last update: 22:12:31 FINAL
Number of polling stations:  171 / 171
 
Candidates and
political affiliation    Valid votes    Percentage of valid ballots (%)    Majority
Boisclair, André (P.Q.)   9 250   70,89 %   7 701
Daxhelet, Xavier (P.V.Q./G.P.Q.)   1 549   11,87 %   
Ritchot, Dominique (Q.S.)   1 095   8,39 %   
Bergeron, Benoît (IND)   621   4,76 %   
Leduc, Jocelyne (IND)   240   1,84 %   
Boyer, Jean-Marc (IND)   125   0,96 %   
Kasapoglu, Benjamin (B.P.)   114   0,87 %   
Millette, Régent (IND)   54   0,41 %

TAILLON
Last update: 22:20:52
Number of polling stations:  163 / 224
 
Candidates and
political affiliation    Valid votes    Percentage of valid ballots (%)    Majority
Malavoy, Marie (P.Q.)   5 909   44,40 %   2 031
Mercier, Véronique (P.L.Q./Q.L.P.)   3 878   29,14 %   
Simard, Karine (A.D.Q./É.M.D.)   1 852   13,92 %   
Blanchard, Manon (Q.S.)   1 015   7,63 %   
Rudolphe, Yvon (P.V.Q./G.P.Q.)   442   3,32 %   
Dénommée Pigeon, Tristan (IND)   111   0,83 %   
Beuzart, Francis (B.P.)   102   0,77 %

[minionofmidas]

What's B.P.? oglu is a Turkish name ending.

[Bacon King]

What's B.P.? oglu is a Turkish name ending.

IIRC, BP is Bloc Pot- Quebec's Marijuana Party.

[Hatman 🍁]

What's B.P.? oglu is a Turkish name ending.

IIRC, BP is Bloc Pot- Quebec's Marijuana Party.

Correct. Speaking of them, IIRC those are bad numbers for them.