Secessionist party wins Quebec election in Canada

Parti Quebecois returns to power, promising a third referendum on Quebec’s independence from Canada.

A supporter of the Parti Québécois cheers as party candidates are elected in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on October 5, 2026 [Andrej Ivanov/AFP]

The secessionist Parti Quebecois has won the most seats in Quebec’s election and will form the next government in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province, according to media reports.

The result on Monday revives the question of whether the province should leave Canada, testing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s message of national unity.

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Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, the party’s leader, is set to become premier.

During the campaign, he promised a third referendum on leaving Canada during his first term, although he said he would wait until US President Donald Trump leaves office in January 2029.

It was not yet clear whether the party had reached the 64 seats needed for a majority in the 127-seat National Assembly.

If it falls short, it would lead a minority government and need support from opposition lawmakers to pass major legislation and survive confidence votes.

The Parti Quebecois, or PQ, last governed the province from 2012 to 2014.

Monday’s victory marks a sharp recovery for the PQ, which won just three seats in the 2022 provincial election.

Its return also ends eight years in power for the Coalition Avenir Quebec, or CAQ, a centre-right Quebec nationalist party that does not support independence.

Daniel Beland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal, told The Associated Press news agency that the victory reflects Quebec’s multiparty system, where support is divided among several parties, rather than a surge in secessionist sentiment.

Support for independence remains at about 30 percent, low by historical standards, he said.

Still, Beland said a secessionist government in Quebec represents a new national-unity challenge for Carney, particularly with another independence-related vote approaching in Alberta.

“Seeing that a pro-independence party won in Quebec barely two weeks before an independence-related referendum takes place in Alberta might suggest to the Trump administration that national unity remains a major issue in Canada despite the popularity of Mark Carney,” Beland said.

Quebec held two previous referendums on independence, in 1980 and 1995, and voters rejected secession both times.

The second vote was decided by a narrow margin, but there has been no further referendum in the three decades since.

魁北克人党重新执政，承诺就魁北克是否脱离加拿大举行第三次全民公投。

2026年10月5日，在加拿大魁北克省蒙特利尔，魁北克党的一名支持者在党内候选人当选时欢呼雀跃。[Andrej Ivanov/AFP]

据媒体报道，魁北克分离主义政党魁北克人党在魁北克省选举中赢得最多席位，并将组建该加拿大法语区下一届政府。

周一的选举结果再次引发了该省是否应该脱离加拿大的讨论，考验着总理马克·卡尼所宣扬的国家团结理念。

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该党领袖保罗·圣皮埃尔·普拉蒙东即将出任省长。

在竞选期间，他承诺在其第一个任期内举行第三次脱离加拿大的全民公投，尽管他表示要等到美国总统唐纳德·特朗普于 2029 年 1 月卸任后才会举行。

目前还不清楚该党是否已获得在拥有 127 个席位的国民议会中获得多数席位所需的 64 个席位。

如果失败，它将组建少数派政府，需要反对党议员的支持才能通过重大立法并通过信任投票。

魁北克人党（Parti Quebecois，简称PQ）上一次执政是在2012年至2014年。

周一的胜利标志着魁北克人党的强势复苏，该党在2022年省选中仅赢得三个席位。

它的回归也结束了魁北克未来联盟（CAQ）八年的执政，CAQ 是一个中右翼的魁北克民族主义政党，不支持独立。

蒙特利尔麦吉尔大学政治学教授丹尼尔·贝兰德告诉美联社，此次胜利反映了魁北克的多党制，支持者分散在几个政党之间，而不是分裂主义情绪高涨。

他说，支持独立的人数仍然只有30%左右，按历史标准来看很低。

不过，贝兰德表示，魁北克的分裂主义政府对卡尼来说是一个全新的国家团结挑战，尤其是在阿尔伯塔省即将举行另一次与独立相关的投票之际。

“魁北克省一个支持独立的政党在阿尔伯塔省举行独立公投前不到两周就赢得了选举，这可能会让特朗普政府认为，尽管马克·卡尼很受欢迎，但国家团结仍然是加拿大的一个重大问题，”贝兰德说。

魁北克此前曾于 1980 年和 1995 年举行过两次独立公投，两次选民都否决了脱离联邦的提议。

第二次投票结果以微弱优势决定，但此后三十年间再未举行过全民公投。