The 1994 Quebec general election was held on September 12, 1994, to elect members to the National Assembly of Quebec in the province of Quebec, Canada. The Parti Québécois, led by hard soverignist Jacques Parizeau, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Premier Daniel Johnson Jr.

Johnson had succeeded Robert Bourassa as Liberal leader and Premier. Both his father, Daniel Sr., and brother, Pierre-Marc, had previously served as premiers of Quebec as leaders of different parties.

The election set the stage for the 1995 Quebec referendum on independence for Quebec from Canada. The referendum would see the PQ government's proposals for sovereignty very narrowly defeated.

Mario Dumont, a former president of the Liberal party's youth wing, and then leader of the newly formed Action démocratique du Québec, won his own seat, but no other members of his party were elected.

In Saint-Jean, there was a tie between incumbent Liberal candidate Michel Charbonneau and PQ candidate Roger Paquin. A new election was held on October 24 and was won by Paquin by a margin of 532 votes.

1992 redistribution of ridings The Commission de la représentation électorale performed a redistribution in 1992, which maintained the number of seats in the National Assembly at 125 for the next general election, making the following alterations:

Abolished ridings New ridingsDrawn from parts of other ridings Bertranddrawn from parts of Labelle, Prévost and Rousseau Blainvilledrawn from parts of Groulx and Terrebonne Borduasdrawn from parts of Verchères and IbervilleMerger of ridings Dorion Laurier Laurier-Dorion Sainte-Anne Saint-Henri Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne Saint-Louis Westmount Westmount–Saint-LouisRenaming of ridings Bertrand Marguerite-D'Youville Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière Chutes-de-la-Chaudière

Polls

Candidates Party for the Commonwealth of Canada The Party for the Commonwealth of Canada (also known as the Party for the Republic of Canada) fielded eighteen candidates, none of whom were elected.

Mercier Julie Laliberté received 173 votes (0.56%), finishing seventh against Parti Québécois candidate Robert Perreault., accessed 23 June 2011.

Rosemont Normand Bélanger ran for the Commonwealth Party in two federal and two provincial elections. In addition to supporting Lyndon LaRouche's theories, he also called for classical music to be taught starting at the primary grades in the Quebec public school system.André Pratte, "Scandale!" La Presse, 1 October 1993, B1.

+ Electoral record Election Division Party Votes % Place Winner 1988 federal Papineau Commonwealth 174 0.44 9/9 André Ouellet, LiberalReport of the Chief Electoral Officer, Thirty-fourth General Election, 1988. 1989 provincial Rosemont Commonwealth 134 0.48 7/10 Guy Rivard, LiberalOfficial Results (Rosemont, 1989), Le Directeur général des élections du Québec, accessed 23 June 2011. 1993 federal Saint-Henri—Westmount Commonwealth 131 0.31 8/12 David Berger, LiberalThirty-fifth General Election, 1993: Official Voting Results, Published by the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. 1994 provincial Rosemont Commonwealth 149 0.50 6/6 Rita Dionne-Marsolais, Parti QuébécoisOfficial Results (Rosemont, 1994), Le Directeur général des élections du Québec, accessed 23 June 2011.

Results

! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party ! rowspan=2 | Party leader ! colspan=4 | MNAs ! colspan=4 | Votes |- ! Candidates !1989 !1994 !± !# ! ± !% ! ± (pp)

|style="text-align:left;"|Jacques Parizeau | 125 || 29 || 77 || 48 || 1,751,442 || 382,375 || 44.75% || 4.59

|style="text-align:left;"|Daniel Johnson Jr. | 125 || 92 || 47 || 45 || 1,737,698 || 34,890 || 44.40% || 5.55

|style="text-align:left;"|Mario Dumont | 80 || – || 1 || 1 || 252,721 || 252,721 || 6.46% ||New Results of Unity Party included in 1989 for comparative purposes. |style="text-align:left;"|Keith Henderson | 17 || 4 || – || 4 || 11,526 || 148,062 || 0.29% || 4.39

| || 68 || – || – || – || 66,221 || 42,470 || 1.69% || 0.99

|style="text-align:left;"|Jean-François Sirois | 41 || – || – || – || 33,269 || 8,235 || 0.85% || 0.37

|style="text-align:left;"|Allen Faguy | 102 || – || – || – || 33,206 || 33,206 || 0.85% ||New

| || 19 || – || – || – || 5,566 || 5,566 || 0.14% ||New

|style="text-align:left;"| | 11 || – || – || – || 5,499 || 62,176 || 0.14% || 1.85

|style="text-align:left;"| | 10 || – || – || – || 4,087 || 3,463 || 0.10% || 0.12

|style="text-align:left;"|Tony Kondaks | 10 || – || – || – || 2,567 || 2,567 || 0.07% ||New

| || 18 || – || – || – || 2,258 || 459 || 0.06% || 0.01

| || 11 || – || – || – || 1,876 || 1,876 || 0.05% ||New

| || 11 || – || – || – || 1,861 || 1,861 || 0.05% ||New

| || 9 || – || – || – || 1,759 || 1,759 || 0.04% ||New

|style="text-align:left;"| | 13 || – || – || – || 1,171 || 3,074 || 0.03% || 0.09

|style="text-align:left;"| | 10 || – || – || – || 1,062 || 254 || 0.03% || 0.01 |- ! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total |680||125 ! " colspan="2"|125 ! " colspan="2"|3,913,789 ! " colspan="2"| 100.00% |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Rejected ballots | 78,239 | 13,920 | colspan="2"| |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Voter turnout | 3,992,028 | 490,960 | 81.58 | 5.89 |- | colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Registered electors | 4,893,465 | 202,775 | colspan="2"|

Vote and seat summaries

+ Seats and popular vote by party Party Seats Votes Change (pp)

Synopsis of results