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1948 Quebec general election
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July 28, 1948
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92 seats in the 23rd Legislative Assembly of Quebec 47 seats were needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Third party
UdÉ
Leader
Maurice Duplessis
Adélard Godbout
P. Ernest Grégoire
Party
Union Nationale
Liberal
Union des électeurs
Leader since
June 20, 1936
June 11, 1936
June 11, 1936
Leader's seat
Trois-Rivières
L'Islet (defeated)
Last election
48 seats, 38.02%
37 seats, 39.35%
New
Seats won
82
8
0
Seat change
34
29
Popular vote
775,747
547,478
123,508
Percentage
51.24%
36.17%
9.25%
Swing
13.22%
3.18%
New
Premier before election
Maurice Duplessis
Union Nationale
Premier after election
Maurice Duplessis
Union Nationale
This article is part of a series about
Maurice Duplessis
Family
Law career
Pre-premiership politics (1923-1935)
Conservative Party of Quebec
1923 campaign
1927 election
1931 election
1935 election
First premiership (1936-1939)
1936 election
Union Nationale (Action libérale nationale)
Great Depression in Canada
Padlock Law (Switzman v Elbling)
1939 election (opposition to conscription)
Return to the Official Opposition
Second premiership (1944-1959)
Politics
Elections (1944, 1948, 1952, 1956)
Flag of Quebec
Autonomism in Quebec (Fight for provincial autonomy, Tremblay Commission)
Censorship
Natural gas scandal [fr] (Salvas Commission [fr])
Harassment of Jehovah's Witnesses (R v Boucher, Roncarelli v Duplessis)
Economy
Post-World War II economic expansion
Baby boom
Labour strikes (Montreal Cottons, Asbestos, Louiseville [fr], Murdochville)
Investments (Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway, Office de l'électrification rurale [fr], Manicouagan, Autoroutes of Quebec)
Legacy and cultural references
Grande Noirceur
Opposition press (Le Devoir (The Negro-King theory [fr]), Cité Libre)
The 1948 Quebec general election was held on July 28, 1948, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Union Nationale, led by Maurice Duplessis, won re-election, defeating the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Adélard Godbout.
This was the third time (and the second in a row) that Duplessis led his party to a general election victory.
It was Godbout's third (and final) loss to Duplessis in a general election, and the second in a row. He had won one victory against Duplessis years earlier in the 1939 election. In this election, the Liberals fared particularly poorly, reduced to only 8 seats, although their share of the popular vote was around 36%.
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