Quebec byelection: Electors head to polls in Terrebonne riding – Montreal

Voters will go to the polls right this moment in a driving northeast of Montreal to switch former economic system minister Pierre Fitzgibbon.

The previous high-profile cupboard minister in François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec stop politics in September 2024.

The Terrebonne driving had been held by Fitzgibbon because the Coalition Avenir Québec shaped authorities in 2018, but it surely had beforehand been a stronghold of the sovereigntist Parti Québécois going again to 1976.

Get breaking Nationwide information

For information impacting Canada and world wide, join breaking information alerts delivered on to you once they occur.

The PQ has been atop the polls in Quebec, and chief Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has been campaigning arduous to reclaim the driving along with his candidate, occasion president Catherine Gentilcore.

Legault’s occasion is placing up Alex Gagné, president of a Quebec group preventing for scholar success.

The poll features a complete of 9 candidates to fill the one vacant seat on the 125-seat legislature.

The race for the empty seat takes place amid commerce tensions between Canada and america.

The byelection was known as when Legault was in Washington in an try to dissuade U.S. President Donald Trump from imposing tariffs on Canadian merchandise.

Legault’s occasion holds 86 seats within the legislature, adopted by the Quebec Liberals at 19, Québec Solidaire at 12, the PQ at 4 seats and three Independents.