Turnout stood at 44.63% as of 5:30 p.m. Monday, still a long way off the final percentage for the 2018 general election.
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When polling stations closed in 2018, 66.45% of Quebec voters had exercised their right to vote. It was the lowest percentage since Jean Charest’s Liberal government was elected in 2008.
The turnout record belongs to the 1976 Parti Québécois elections, when 85.27% of voters went to the polls.
The participation rate has been falling for 30 years:
- 2014: 71.44%
- 2012: 74.60%
- 2008: 57.43%
- 2007: 71.23%
- 2003: 70.42%
- 1998: 78.32%
- 1994: 81.58%
Voters have never been so numerous that they exercised their right to vote for the first time since it was founded in 1998, with a record 24.44%.
According to statistics from the latest polls, this approach is becoming increasingly popular among voters.
- 2022: 24.44%
- 2018: 17.93%
- 2014: 19.28%
- 2012: 16.61%
- 2008: 11.78%
- 2007: 10.23%
- 2003: 5.56%
- 1998: 5.37%
Remember, polling stations are open until 8 p.m. tonight in all Quebec ridings.