Elections As Party Leader
In the 1997 Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada won 20 seats under Charest's leadership, an improvement on its previous two.
In the 1998 Quebec election, the Quebec Liberal Party won 48 seats in the National Assembly, forming the official opposition to the Parti Québécois government. Mr. Charest won his own riding of Sherbrooke with a majority of 907 votes.
In the 2003 election, Charest's Liberals won 76 seats, forming a majority government. Mr. Charest won his own riding of Sherbrooke with a majority of 2597 votes.
In the 2007 election, the Liberals won 48 seats, forming a minority government in a near three-way split of votes and seats. (PLQ: 48 seat, ADQ: 41 seats, PQ: 36 seats) Mr. Charest won his own riding of Sherbrooke with a majority of 1332 votes.
In the 2008 election, the Liberals won 66 seats, again forming a majority government.
In the 2012 election, the Liberals won 50 seats, allowing the Parti Québécois a minority government. Charest lost his own Sherbrooke riding in the election, and subsequently announced his resignation as party leader the following day.
Read more about this topic: Jean Charest
Famous quotes containing the words elections, party and/or leader:
“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.”
—Desmond Tutu (b. 1931)