Survey | Marked drop in support for QS, the PQ still far in the lead

The internal crisis at Québec Solidaire is reflected in the party’s voting intentions, which have been in marked decline for two months, according to a Léger–Québecor poll published Tuesday evening.

During this period, the party lost a third of its support, reveals the survey conducted from May 10 to 13, approximately two weeks after the sudden departure of the party’s co-spokesperson, Émilise Lessard Therrien.

While the left-wing party recorded 18% of voting intentions last March, still according to the same polling house, its support fell to 12%.

This is the worst score for Québec solidaire since February 2022 according to The Quebec Journala few months before the last general election where he recorded 15.43% of the votes.

The slide of the party led by Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is even worse among the female electorate with a loss of 12 points in two months in this category, according to the figures presented Tuesday. The survey also reveals a decline of 12 percentage points among 18 to 34 year olds for Québec solidaire.

These results will not fail to be talked about at the next National Council of the party, scheduled for May 24 to 26, at the Jonquière CEGEP.

The members of Québec solidaire will be called upon to decide whether they adopt, in full or in a modified form, the “Saguenay declaration”. This is a first step which is part of the “pragmatic” vision of parliamentary leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois announced after the sudden departure of Émilise Lessard-Therrien.

The PQ falls back, but remains far in the lead

Meanwhile, support for the Parti Québécois (PQ), far in the lead, fell by 2 percentage points compared to the previous month to stand at 32%.

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s party thus supplants François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) by 10 percentage points, which also lost two percentage points to regain the 22% voting intention it held in March. 2024.

This figure is, however, far from the 50% voting intentions that the government could boast of at the zenith of its popularity, during the first summer of the pandemic, in 2020.

Even if we still do not know who will lead the Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) during the next electoral campaign, the political party regains a few percentage points, to settle at 17% in voting intentions.

Tied with Québec solidaire, Éric Duhaime’s Conservative Party of Quebec also received 12%.

Léger-Québécor specifies that its survey was conducted among 1,031 Quebecers aged 18 or over. For comparison, the maximum margin of error for a sample of 1031 respondents. es is ± 3.05%, 19 times out of 20.