Outremont/Vercheres Byelections

[August1991]

Next Monday, there will be two provincial byelections in Quebec of which one, the Outremont byelection is of particular significance for the federal election. The provincial Outremont riding overlaps the federal Outremont riding of Jean Lapierre. Outremont is a tony French neighbourhood with immigrant neighbourhoods added.

The PQ candidate is just a guy, Farouk Karim. (The choice should be clear.)

The Liberal candidate is Raymond Bachand, once Chief of Staff to Rene Levesque. Bachand argues that Quebec no longer needs sovereignty since it has solved all the major injustices of the past. (There's also my favourite Quebec Noam Chomsky guy - Omar Aktouf - running for a splinter leftist group. Since he's a university professor, your tax money is working hard.)

Bachand will probably win. (God knows what this means for the Charest Liberals.) But if Karim wins, there will be a huge noise in Quebec.

In the 2003 provincial election, the Libs got 54% (with Yves Seguin, who became Finance minister and then resigned) while the PQ got 31%.

In this élection partielle, if the PQ gets over 45%, there will still be alot of noise.

[tml12]

Next Monday, there will be two provincial byelections in Quebec of which one, the Outremont byelection is of particular significance for the federal election.  The provincial Outremont riding overlaps the federal Outremont riding of Jean Lapierre.  Outremont is a tony French neighbourhood with immigrant neighbourhoods added.

The PQ candidate is just a guy, Farouk Karim.  (The choice should be clear.)

The Liberal candidate is Raymond Bachand, once Chief of Staff to Rene Levesque.  Bachand argues that Quebec no longer needs sovereignty since it has solved all the major injustices of the past.  (There's also my favourite Quebec Noam Chomsky guy - Omar Aktouf - running for a splinter leftist group.  Since he's a university professor, your tax money is working hard.)

Bachand will probably win.  (God knows what this means for the Charest Liberals.)  But if Karim wins, there will be a huge noise in Quebec.

In the 2003 provincial election, the Libs got 54% (with Yves Seguin, who became Finance minister and then resigned) while the PQ got 31%.

In this élection partielle, if the PQ gets over 45%, there will still be alot of noise.

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I don't live in Outremont August but occasionally I drive along Avenue du Parc and see all the lovely campaign signs. Bachand, for all logical purposes, SHOULD win. If he does, it will be no shock. If not, Charest will not last long. Really, if the Quebec Liberals cannot win in Outremont it will be a shock to both the provincial party and their strained federal counterparts. It will also look VERY bad for Lapierre in the upcoming election.

I still give Bachand a 10-15 point edge...

[Bakunin]

That would be too funny , it would be like if the NDP win a seat in alberta

[August1991]

Lors des dernières élections dans Outremont en 2003, le PLQ avait obtenu 54 % des voix, contre 31 % pour le PQ, 6,9 % pour l'UFP et 6,5 % pour l'Action démocratique.

R-C

Those numbers are the benchmarks.

[August1991]

Le libéral Raymond Bachand a été élu avec 47 % des voix. Son rival du Parti québécois, Farouk Karim, a récolté pour sa part 39 % des suffrages.

R-C

Noteworthy, but no catastrophe.

Lapierre is breathing a sigh of relief tonight.

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PS. What will Charest do with Bachand?