Quebec general election, 1973

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October 29, 1973

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110 seats in the 30th National Assembly of Quebec
56 seats were needed for a majority

Turnout

80.39%

	First party	Second party

Leader	Robert Bourassa	René Lévesque
Party	Liberal	Parti Québécois
Leader since	January 17, 1970	October 14, 1968
Leader's seat	Mercier	Lost election in Dorion
Last election	72 seats, 45.40%	7 seats, 23.06%
Seats won	102	6
Seat change	30	1
Popular vote	1,623,734	897,809
Percentage	54.65%	30.22%
Swing	9.25%	7.16%

	Third party	Fourth party
	PC
Leader	Yvon Dupuis	Gabriel Loubier
Party	Parti créditiste	Union Nationale
Leader since	February 4, 1973	June 19, 1971
Leader's seat	Lost election in Saint-Jean	Bellechasse (lost re-election)
Last election	12 seats, 11.19%	17 seats, 19.65%
Seats won	2	0
Seat change	10	17
Popular vote	294,706	146,209
Percentage	9.92%	4.92%
Swing	1.27%	14.73%

Premier before election

Robert Bourassa
Quebec Liberal Party

Premier-designate

Robert Bourassa
Quebec Liberal Party

The Quebec general election of 1973 was held on October 29, 1973 to elect members to National Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Robert Bourassa, won re-election, defeating the Parti Québécois, led by René Lévesque, and the Union Nationale (UN).

The Liberals won a large majority of the seats (102 out of 110). The Union Nationale, which had held power until the previous 1970 general election, was wiped off the electoral map, winning no seats. However, UN candidate Maurice Bellemare later won a seat in a 1974 by-election. The Parti Québécois held its own, dropping only one seat (from seven to six), and despite having fewer seats, became the official Opposition, although PQ leader René Lévesque failed to win a seat in the Assembly.

The popular vote was not lopsided as the distribution of seats would indicate. The Parti Québécois, for instance, won 30% of the popular vote, a significant improvement over their previous showing of 23% in the 1970 election. However, Quebec elections have historically produced significant disparities in party seat counts.

The overall results were:

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