In a federal by-election held on 31 March 1947 in the riding of Cartier in Quebec, Canada, Paul Massé ran as a left-wing Autonomist candidate. The by-election was called after the former MP, CommunistFred Rose, had been expelled from Parliament after being convicted of espionage under the Official Secrets Act.
Massé placed second, with 6,929 of the 24,704 votes cast (28% of the popular vote) to Liberal Party of Canada candidate Maurice Hartt, who won with 9,649 votes.
The election is now over, and the winner was a candidate with a clear history of support for expanding government.
The fact that these two candidates paid nothing more than lip service to this principle is bad; that the vast majority of my countrymen appeared not to notice is equally troubling.
Maybe trying to form political parties and elect political candidates is a waste of time at this point.
The Autonomists desired self-government for Puerto Rico in internal matters while maintaining Puerto Rico’s close association with Spain.
The Autonomist Party decided to try to align itself with the Spanish Liberal Party, one of Spain’s two mainstream parties, to achieve Puerto Rican self-government.
Largely because of these economic problems, the PPD candidate was defeated, and the candidate of the New Progressive Party (PNP), Carlos Romero Barceló, was elected governor in 1976.
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