Party Standings
| Party | Party leader | Candidates | Seats | Popular vote | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Dissol. | 2012 | Change | % | Number | % | Change (pp) | ||||
| Parti Québécois | Pauline Marois | 125 | 51 | 47 | 54 | +3 | 43.20% | 1,393,703 | 31.95% | -3.22 | |
| Liberal | Jean Charest | 125 | 66 | 64 | 50 | -16 | 40.00% | 1,360,968 | 31.20% | -10.88 | |
| Coalition Avenir Québec | François Legault | 125 | 7† | 9 | 19 | +12† | 15.20% | 1,180,235 | 27.05% | +10.68† | |
| Québec solidaire | Françoise David, Amir Khadir†† | 124 | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1.60% | 263,111 | 6.03% | +2.25 | |
| Option nationale | Jean-Martin Aussant | 120 | * | 1 | — | * | — | 82,539 | 1.89% | * | |
| Green | Claude Sabourin | 66 | — | — | — | — | — | 43,394 | 0.99% | -1.18 | |
| Independent | 46 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 11,578 | 0.27% | +0.07 | ||
| Conservative | Luc Harvey | 27 | * | — | — | * | — | 7,654 | 0.18% | * | |
| Coalition pour la constituante | Marc Fafard | 29 | * | — | — | * | — | 5,197 | 0.12% | * | |
| Parti nul | Renaud Blais | 10 | * | — | — | * | — | 2,743 | 0.06% | * | |
| Autonomist Team | Guy Boivin | 17 | * | — | — | * | — | 2,182 | 0.05% | * | |
| Quebec Citizens' Union | Alexis St-Gelais | 20 | * | — | — | * | — | 2,089 | 0.05% | * | |
| Middle Class | Jean Lavoie | 7 | * | — | — | * | — | 2,053 | 0.05% | * | |
| Marxist–Leninist | Pierre Chénier | 25 | — | — | — | — | — | 1,969 | 0.05% | -0.03 | |
| Parti indépendantiste | Michel Lepage | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | 1,244 | 0.03% | -0.10 | |
| Unité Nationale | Paul Biron | 12 | * | — | — | * | — | 1,227 | 0.03% | * | |
| Bloc Pot | Hugô St-Onge | 2 | * | — | — | * | — | 420 | 0.01% | * | |
| Quebec – Democratic Revolution | Robert Genesse | 1 | * | — | — | * | — | 256 | 0.01% | * | |
| Equitable | Yvan Rodrigue | 1 | * | — | — | * | — | 126 | 0.00% | * | |
| Independent Option nationale | * | 1 | |||||||||
| Vacant | 1 | ||||||||||
| Total | 892 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 0 | 100.00% | 4,362,688 | 100.00% | |||
| Valid ballots | 4,362,688 | 98.78% | +0.28 | ||||||||
| Rejected ballots | 53,749 | 1.22% | -0.28 | ||||||||
| Voter turnout | 4,416,437 | 74.60% | +17.17 | ||||||||
| Registered electors | 5,919,778 | ||||||||||
Notes:
- † Results change is compared to the Action démocratique du Québec in 2008.
- †† The party avoids formally designating David and Khadir as co-leaders, relying instead on internal direct democracy during general assembly meetings; the de jure leader recognized by the Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec (DGE) is Régent Séguin.
- * Party did not nominate candidates in the previous election.
^1 Results change is compared to the Action démocratique du Québec in 2008.
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