Polls are open in Marie-Victorin byelection

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It’s the first by election since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a test for the Coalition Avenir Québec and Parti Québécois.

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Apr 11, 2022 • 31 minutes ago • 1 minute read • Join the conversation

Candidates, from left, Pierre Nantel of the Parti Québécois, Florent Portron of Équipe Autonomiste, Climat Québec's Martine Ouellet, Green Party of Quebec's Alex Tyrrell, Anne Casabonne of the Parti conservateur du Québec, Liberal Émilie Nollet and Shophika Vaithyanathasarma of Québec solidaire prior to a debate in Longueuil on March 30, 2022, ahead of the byelection in Marie-Victorin. Coalition Avenir Québec candidate Shirley Dorismond appears via video at rear right.
Candidates, from left, Pierre Nantel of the Parti Québécois, Florent Portron of Équipe Autonomiste, Climat Québec’s Martine Ouellet, Green Party of Quebec’s Alex Tyrrell, Anne Casabonne of the Parti conservateur du Québec, Liberal Émilie Nollet and Shophika Vaithyanathasarma of Québec solidaire prior to a debate in Longueuil on March 30, 2022, ahead of the byelection in Marie-Victorin. Coalition Avenir Québec candidate Shirley Dorismond appears via video at rear right. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette

Voters in Quebec’s Marie-Victorin riding will go to the polls Monday in the province’s first by election since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a potential preview of the next general election in October.

The race is seen by experts to be a two-way battle between the Parti Québécois, which held the Longueuil-area riding for many years, and the Coalition Avenir Québec, which has seen its popularity grow under Premier François Legault.

The PQ candidate is Pierre Nantel, former NDP MP, while the CAQ is running Shirley Dorismond, a former nurses’ union vice-president. Political watchers will also have their eye on the Conservative Party candidate, actress Anne Casabonne, to see if the emerging party can translate anger at pandemic restrictions into votes at the polls.

The seat was vacated when Catherine Fournier, who was elected with the PQ in 2018, but then left the party to sit as an independent, was elected mayor of Longueuil in November.

Polls are open from 9:30 am to 8 pm For more information, go to electionsquebec.qc.ca.


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