In the Quebec general election on October 29, 1973, the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party under Robert Bourassa won re-election, defeating the Parti Québécois under René Lévesque and the Union Nationale.

The Liberals won a huge majority of seats (102 out of 110). The once-mighty Union Nationale, which had held power up until the previous 1970 general election was wiped off the electoral map, winning no seats. However, UN candidate Maurice Bellemare later won a seat in a 1974 by-election. The Parti Québécois held its own, dropping only one seat (from seven to six) and despite its small number of seats became the official Opposition.

The popular vote was not as lopsided as the distribution of seats would indicate. The Parti Québécois, for instance, won 30% of the popular vote, a steady improvement over their previous showing of 23% in the 1970 election.

• Election results

See also

• List of Quebec premiers
• Politics of Quebec
• Timeline of Quebec history

External link

• CBC TV video clip (http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-73-651-3573/politics_economy/quebec_elections/clip5)