This was Godbout's second (nonconsecutive term of office), and his only victory out of four consecutive general elections opposing Duplessis.
This election saw the return of the re-formed Action libérale nationale under Paul Gouin, who had split with Duplessis soon after the formation of the Union Nationale. However they obtained only 4.5% of the vote and no seats, and disappeared from history. Also, a rump Election results
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Conflict between Quebec's provincial government and the Dominion Government raged almost without ceasing in the months prior to the outbreak of the war.
Quebec shared with the rest of Canada a high degree of prosperity in its mining industry.
The Quebec Bureau of Mines estimated the gold production of the Province for the first nine months of the year at 720,285 ounces, worth $25,487,865, as against 641,365 ounces valued at $22,447,775 in the corresponding period of 1938.
In Quebec, the longest-serving government of modern times was that of the Union Nationale which, under Maurice Duplessis and two short-lived successors, ruled the province from 1944 to 1960.
While it is certainly true that virtually all Quebecers who want a sovereign Quebec vote PQ, a sizable number vote for the party despite the independence hook, simply because they like its social democratic platform, or just can't stand the other parties or their leaders.
Who knows, the worst case scenario for the PQ may be that it emerges from the April 14 election still in a position to challenge the next government one or two elections down the road.
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