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Quebec general election, 1981

The Quebec general election of 1981 was held on April 13, 1981, to elect members of the National Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Claude Ryan.

The PQ won re-election despite having lost the 1980 Quebec referendum on sovereignty-association, the party's proposal for political independence for Quebec in an economic union with the rest of Canada. To some extent, they were helped by Claude Ryan's old-fashioned campaign style: he refused to tailor sound bites for the evening news and ran a generally TV-unfriendly campaign.

The Union Nationale, which had won 11 seats in a modest comeback in the 1976 general election, was wiped off the map in this election, and never won another seat in any subsequent election. It is now disbanded. The party were not helped by the fact that its leader in the 1976 election, Rodrigue Biron, had resigned from the party and joined the Parti Québécois.

Results

PartyParty leader# of
candidates
SeatsPopular vote
1976Elected% Change#%% Change
Parti QuébécoisRené Lévesque1227180+12.7%1,773,237 49.26%+7.9%
LiberalClaude Ryan1222642+53.8%1,658,753 46.07% +12.9%
Union NationaleRoch LaSalle12111- -100%144,070 4.00% -14.2%
Workers Communist 33*-*4,956 0.14%
Freedom of Choice 12*-*4,955 0.14%
Marxist-Leninist 40*-*3,299 0.09%
Libertarian 10*-*3,178 0.09%
United Social Credit 16---1,284 0.04%-4.6%
Workers 10*-*1,027 0.03%
Communist 10*-*7680.02%
Independents/no designation 29   4,570 0.12% 
Total525110122+10.9%3,600,097100% 
Source: Elections Quebec
Note:

* Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election of information not available.

See also

* List of Quebec premiers
* Politics of Quebec
* Timeline of Quebec history
*List of Quebec political parties{{sequence| prev=1976| list=List of Quebec general elections| next=1985

External link

* CBC TV video clip



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