{"id":639551,"date":"2026-10-07T22:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/639551\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T22:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T22:36:10","slug":"pq-requests-vote-recount-following-narrow-liberal-victory-in-quebec-riding-of-vachon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/639551\/","title":{"rendered":"PQ requests vote recount following narrow Liberal victory in Quebec riding of Vachon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A narrow victory in the Montreal-area riding of Vachon has led the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois (PQ) to officially request a vote recount, according to Radio-Canada.<\/p>\n

The Quebec Liberal Party’s Affine Lwalalika received 10,063 votes, just 10 more than the PQ’s candidate, Stephan Fogaing, according to \u00c9lections Qu\u00e9bec. <\/p>\n

The riding was one of several close races in the province.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Beno\u00eet Clermont with the Liberals narrowly beat out Guillaume Cliche-Rivard, the former Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire MNA in the riding of Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne, in Montreal. <\/p>\n

WATCH | How close what the call?:\"\"<\/p>\n

Just how close was the PQ to winning a majority in Quebec\u2019s election?<\/p>\n

CBC Montreal News at 6 host Debra Arbec spoke to polling analyst Philippe J. Fournier about how the Quebec Liberal Party impeded the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois from winning a majority government.<\/p>\n

Initially, Cliche-Rivard said there might be a legal challenge in hopes of overturning the result. But on Wednesday, in a social\u00a0media post published on Facebook, Cliche-Rivard congratulated Clermont on his victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The final vote count completed yesterday by the returning officer\u2026. revealed a major calculation error in the votes cast in favour of Beno\u00eet Clermont,” wrote Cliche-Rivard.<\/p>\n

“His lead is no longer 39, but rather 275 votes. In light of his new fact, the result is clear.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

He thanked the 13,066 electors who voted for him, but said he accepts this result.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-639551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}