Parti Québécois
General election Leader # of seats won Change +/- % of popular vote Result
1970 René Lévesque 7 / 108 7 23.06% No status
1973 René Lévesque 6 / 110 1 30.22% Official Opposition
1976 René Lévesque 71 / 110 65 41.37% Majority government
1981 René Lévesque 80 / 122 9 49.26% Majority government
1985 Pierre-Marc Johnson 23 / 122 57 38.69% Official Opposition
1989 Jacques Parizeau 29 / 125 6 40.16% Official Opposition
1994 Jacques Parizeau 77 / 125 48 44.75% Majority government
1998 Lucien Bouchard 76 / 125 1 42.87% Majority government
2003 Bernard Landry 45 / 125 29 33.24% Official Opposition
2007 André Boisclair 36 / 125 9 28.35% Third Party
2008 Pauline Marois 51 / 125 15 35.17% Official Opposition
2012 Pauline Marois 54 / 125 3 31.95% Minority government
2014 Pauline Marois 30 / 125 24 25.38% Official Opposition
2018 Jean-François Lisée 10 / 125 20 17.06% Third Party
General election results
The Parti Québécois (pronounced [paʁti kebekwa]; French for Quebec Party; PQ) is a sovereignist and social democratic provincial political party in Quebec, Canada. The PQ advocates national sovereignty for Quebec involving independence of the province of Quebec from Canada and establishing a sovereign state. The PQ has also promoted the possibility of maintaining a loose political and economic sovereignty-association between Quebec and Canada. The party traditionally has support from the labour movement, but unlike most other social democratic parties, its ties with organized labour are informal. Members and supporters of the PQ are called péquistes (Quebec French pronunciation: [pekɪst] (listen);), a French word derived from the pronunciation of the party's initials. The party is an associate member of COPPPAL. The party has strong informal ties to the Bloc Québécois (BQ, whose members are known as Bloquistes), the federal party that has also advocated for the secession of Quebec from Canada, but the two are not linked organizationally. As with its federal counterpart, the Parti Québécois has been supported by a wide range of voters in Quebec, from large sections of organized labour to more conservative rural voters.