The Parti Québécois recaptured a longtime stronghold northeast of Montreal, winning the riding of Terrebonne in a byelection Monday.
The PQ’s Catherine Gentilcore won by taking 52.74 percent of the votes cast, compared to 28.78 percent for the Coalition Avenir Québec’s Alex Gagné, the runner-up.
The Quebec Liberals, Québec Solidaire and the Conservative Party of Quebec were all well back.
As the first results came in, Gentilcore was in the lead, prompting cheers from PQ supporters gathered.
“We want a country!” they chanted, waving Quebec flags in a Terrebonne hotel room.
Voters went to the polls to replace former economy minister Pierre Fitzgibbon. The former high-profile cabinet minister in François Legault’s government quit politics in September 2024 and the riding had been vacant since….