Survey suggests CAQ’s popularity has declined since Quebec elections

tomtidgewellNovember 8, 2022

The poll also suggests that respondents favor former Montreal mayor Denis Corder, who leads Quebec’s Liberal Party.

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According to an online poll conducted November 4-6, François Legault’s CAQ poll was at 36%, five points down from the 41% of the election result. Photo by Jacques Boassino /canadian press

The coalition-Avenir Quebec tsunami that swept 90 candidates into the National Assembly in the Oct. 3 general election appeared to have lost some momentum over the past four weeks, with CAQ’s popularity dropping to 5.5%, according to a Léger poll. Decreased by percentage points. As Le Journal de Montréal suggests.

In an online poll conducted November 4-6, the CAQ poll was 36%. He is five points down from 41% in the election results, but sent Congress his MNA of 11, well ahead of second-place Quebec Solidaire. It scored 19% in the latest poll.

The Quebec Liberal Party forms the official opposition party in the National Assembly with 19 seats, but has only 14% support, behind the third largest Quebec Party (18%), which successfully elected three candidates. 4 points difference.

Led by Eric Duheim, the Conservative Party of Quebec, which saw a significant surge in popularity before and after the election campaign, did not field a candidate, but finished fifth in the polls with 11%, and from 1 October 2 points down. 3.

The recent shift in support suggests that some voters have recalibrated their political allegiances now that the CAQ government is virtually guaranteed for the next four years. The most dramatic change has been PQ, hovering in the single digits or around 10% in polls for most of this year. With an 18% result in the poll, PQ has increased its burgeoning popularity by 3 percentage points since the election. For Québec solidaire, the increase in support over the past month is 4 points.

Liberals have seen no change in their approval ratings over the past four weeks. The investigation period ended just one day before Liberal Party leader Dominique Anglaed announced he was leaving politics.

Asking who would be the most fit to lead the Liberal Party of Quebec, pollsters presented respondents with a list of potential replacements in the event of Anglade’s then-supposed departure. .

That list included the names of former and current liberal MNAs, Sophie Broche, President of Hydro-Québec, and François-Philippe Champagne, a federal liberal minister, but the first place chosen by the respondents who provided their answers was , was a former liberal MP and former Montrealer. Mayor Dennis Cordele.

Having twice lost a bid to return to Montreal City Hall after serving one term, Caudert topped the list with a 9% approval rating, with 17% of respondents who identified themselves as supporters of Quebec’s Liberal Party. I got

Polls note that two-thirds of the survey’s 1,028 respondents refused to choose from a list of potential alternatives.