{"id":940610,"date":"2026-10-20T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940610\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:22:10","slug":"the-pqs-referendum-pledge-cost-them-a-majority-in-the-quebec-election-poll-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940610\/","title":{"rendered":"The PQ&#8217;s referendum pledge cost them a majority in the Quebec election, poll suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Alberta seemed poised on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/results.elections.ab.ca\/8400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">to overwhelmingly reject<\/a> holding a referendum on that province\u2019s sovereignty, fear of a referendum in Quebec cost the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois the chance to become a majority government, a new survey suggests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The L\u00e9ger online poll, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvanouvelles.ca\/2026\/10\/20\/sondage-leger--la-promesse-de-tenir-un-referendum-a-prive-pspp-dun-gouvernement-majoritaire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">published by the TVA news network<\/a> and conducted a few days after the Oct. 5 general election, suggests that a pledge by party leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon that the PQ would hold a referendum on Quebec sovereignty in a first term confined it to minority status.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The survey found that worry over the prospect of a sovereignty referendum was a close second behind concerns over affordability for Quebec voters. The poll suggests that had the referendum plan been dropped, support for the PQ would have stood at 35 per cent \u2014 seven percentage points over what it won on Oct. 5 and well into majority territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The survey found also that even were the PQ to honour its pledge to wait until the departure of U.S. President Donald Trump from the White House before holding a referendum, more than two-thirds of Quebecers would oppose holding a vote on sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The online survey was conducted Oct. 9-12 and questioned 1,014 Quebec adults drawn at random from L\u00e9ger\u2019s online pool of respondents. Online polls do not carry a margin of error.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s Picks\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Alberta seemed poised on Tuesday to overwhelmingly reject holding a referendum on that province\u2019s sovereignty, fear of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,230663,50958,66],"class_list":["post-940610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-parti-quebecois-pq","tag-poll","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940610","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=940610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}