TheParti progressiste conservateur du Québec (Eng: Progressive Conservative Party of Quebec) was formed in 1982 withDenis Carignan as leader but was rebuffed byfederal Progressive Conservative leaderJoe Clark who told them to keep their distance.

The party was dormant until January 1985 when Carignan stepped aside to allowAndré Asselin, a lawyer and the mayor of the small town ofSte-Émilie-de-l'Énergie, and president of the Quebec Union of Regional Municipal Councils, to become the party leader. However, Prime MinisterBrian Mulroney told the press following a meeting with theQuebec Liberal Party leaderRobert Bourassa that he did not support the creation of a provincial Progressive Conservative Party. By the 1980s, the conservativeUnion Nationale was no longer a contender for office and in terminal decline, but it rebuffed an offer by Asselin for a merger with his Progressive Conservative Party.

After making an impression in a June 1985 by-election in which Asselin placed second with 30% of the vote inL'Assomption, the party nominated 48 candidates for theDecember 1985 provincial election but failed to make a major impact, receiving 1.03% popular vote. Asselin blamed the party's poor showing on what he called deliberate sabotage by federal officials who discouragedProgressive Conservative Party of Canada from giving money or otherwise being identified with the provincial group.

Asselin resigned as party leader in 1989 leavingRobert Coppenrath to lead the party into the1989 election where it ran 12 candidates and received 0.14% of the vote. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, the party disbanded shortly afterward.

• Denis Carignan 1982–1985
• André Asselin 1985–1989
• Robert Coppenrath 1989

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• Conservative Party of Quebec (2009–present)

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