{"id":61517,"date":"2025-08-11T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61517\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T13:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:22:13","slug":"voters-head-to-polls-in-arthabaska-by-election-with-quebec-conservative-leader-vying-for-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/61517\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters head to polls in Arthabaska by-election, with Quebec Conservative leader vying for seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/PCV6P4WEBFGIJA3NXYHZQYKGDQ.jpg?auth=68cabc205a37d642310ee3842faececae517d130a8ccec275e6ac990443df423&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">Provincial Conservative Leader \u00c9ric Duhaime is among the candidates running in the by-election, after his party failed to win a seat in the 2022 election.Christinne Muschi\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Voters are heading to the polls today for a closely watched Quebec by-election in which the leader of the provincial Conservative party is vying to win his first legislature seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Conservative Leader \u00c9ric Duhaime appears to be in a close two-way race with the sovereigntist Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois candidate in the Quebec riding of Arthabaska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The by-election was triggered after Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec member \u00c9ric Lefebvre resigned to run successfully for the Conservative Party of Canada in the last federal election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The governing Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec has held the riding since 2012 but appears poised to lose its third-straight by-election in less than two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/opinion\/article-francois-legault-caq-coalition-avenir-quebec-trudeau\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Konrad Yakabuski: Fran\u00e7ois Legault is following in Justin Trudeau\u2019s footsteps<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text mv-16 l-inset text-pb-8\" data-sophi-feature=\"interstitial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-pq-defends-candidate-in-hotly-contested-arthabaska-riding-over-leftist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PQ defends candidate in hotly contested Arthabaska riding over leftist past, arrest<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Duhaime is hoping to enter the national assembly after his party failed to win a seat in the 2022 election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">He\u2019s facing off against nine other people including Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois candidate Alex Boissonneault and the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Keven Brasseur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Provincial Conservative Leader \u00c9ric Duhaime is among the candidates running in the 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