CAQ remains popular among voters, sovereignty not dead
Posted March 1, 2023 11:00 am.
Last Updated March 1, 2023 11:01 am.
The Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government maintains its lead in the polls.
In a recent survey conducted by Léger and Le Devoir 40 per cent of respondents said they would vote for the CAQ if there was an election in the next few days. That’s one point lower than at the last provincial election on October 3, 2022.
Opposition parties were mainly neck-in-neck for second place: 18 per cent of respondents said they would vote for the Parti Québécois (PQ), 17 per cent chose Québec Solidaire (QS), 14 per cent said they would vote for the Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ), and 9 per cent said they would choose the Conservative Party of Quebec (PCQ). Those numbers represent a slight increase for the PQ and QS. The PLQ staying stable and a drop of four points for the PCQ. That’s the lowest support the party has seen since 2021.
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When it comes to how popular party leaders are 60 per cent of respondents said they had a good opinion of François Legault, 50 per cent said they had a good opinion of PQ leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, QS co-spokesperson Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois was slightly behind at 48 per cent. PCQ leader Éric Duhaime was far behind at 18 per cent and PLQ leader Marc Tanguay was sitting last at 13 per cent.
Almost half of PLQ supporters who responded (48 per cent) said that they do not know the party’s leader Marc Tanguay.
The survey also showed sovereignty is not dead in Quebec; 38 per cent of respondents said they would vote yes in a referendum. That’s a 6 point increase from the last survey on the topic conducted in 2018. The CAQ and QS each have approximately the same amount of supporters who responded that they are sovereigntist, 42 and 43 per cent, respectively.
The Leger-Le Devoir survey was filled out online between Feb. 24 and Feb. 26, 2023 by 1044 Quebecers who are eligible to vote.
