{"id":607243,"date":"2026-04-16T04:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/607243\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T04:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:40:07","slug":"another-poll-puts-quebec-liberals-ahead-of-parti-quebecois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/607243\/","title":{"rendered":"Another poll puts Quebec Liberals ahead of Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Quebec Liberal Party has maintained its lead ahead of the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois in a new poll, indicating that the province\u2019s political race is tightening ahead of October\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n<p>Coming just days after <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/provincial-news\/quebecs-new-premier-will-be-chosen-today-at-caq-convention\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christine Fr\u00e9chette was chosen by members of the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec<\/a> to succeed Fran\u00e7ois Legault as Quebec premier, the survey by Pallas Data with Qc125 and L\u2019actualit\u00e9 placed the Liberals at 32 per cent among decided and leaning voters, up five points since February. The PQ, meanwhile, stands at 29 per cent, continuing a gradual slide that has seen its support fall seven points since December.<\/p>\n<p>That three-point gap falls within the poll\u2019s margin of error and is best understood as a statistical tie.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the result reinforces a trend that began to emerge in a L\u00e9ger survey published days earlier, which also showed the Liberals narrowly ahead. That was their first lead in years.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The ruling CAQ, despite the leadership change, remains mired in third place at 14 per cent, effectively unchanged from the previous Pallas poll. It is tied with the Conservative Party of Quebec. Qu\u00e9bec solidaire trails at 11 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The early numbers represent a subdued start to Fr\u00e9chette\u2019s tenure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her party, which has been in power since 2018, has plummeted in the polls over the past two years, putting the party now at levels that bring into question whether it will win many seats at all, if an election were held now.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the dynamics shift when isolating francophone voters. Among them, the PQ retains a lead with 34 per cent, despite a three-point drop since February, compared with 21 per cent for the Liberals and 18 per cent for the CAQ.<\/p>\n<p>That advantage could still translate into the largest number of seats for the PQ, even as its overall lead narrows.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the National Assembly are not due back at the legislature until May, giving the CAQ\u2019s incoming leadership some time to regroup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Voters will head to the polls in October.<\/p>\n<p>Methodology<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qc125.com\/proj\/2026-04-14-pallas.pdf\">The Pallas Data poll<\/a> was conducted Monday and Tuesday by interactive voice response telephone polling and received responses from 956 Quebec adults. The margin for error for the full sample is three percentage points, 19 times out of 20.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Quebec Liberal Party has maintained its lead ahead of the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois in a new poll, indicating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,50958,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-607243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-poll","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}