1927 Quebec general election

← 1923 May 16, 1927 1931 →
← outgoing members elected members →
85 seats in the17th Legislative Assembly of Quebec 43 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party   Leader Louis-Alexandre Taschereau Arthur Sauvé Party Liberal Conservative Leader since 1920 1915 Leader's seat Montmorency Deux-Montagnes Last election 64 seats, 51.52% 20 seats, 39.32% Seats won 74 9 Seat change 10 11 Popular vote 188,687 109,105 Percentage 59.33% 34.31% Swing 7.81pp 5.01pp
Premier before election Louis-Alexandre Taschereau Liberal Premier after election Louis-Alexandre Taschereau Liberal

The1927 Quebec general election was held on May 16, 1927, to elect members of theLegislative Assembly of the Province ofQuebec, Canada. The incumbentQuebec Liberal Party, led byLouis-Alexandre Taschereau, was re-elected, defeating theQuebec Conservative Party, led byArthur Sauvé.

It was the second general election victory in a row forLouis-Alexandre Taschereau, who had held office since 1920.

Twelve Liberal MLAs were returned byacclamation, including one on the Island of Montreal.^[1] Taschereau himself was acclaimed inMontmorency, because of the alleged technical rejection of the Conservative candidate Lucien Drolet's nomination papers. Drolet would later sue the returning officer over this.^[2]

The Liberals won back six of the Montreal seats they had lost in 1923.^[1] There was a controversy inMontréal–Saint-Louis, where the Conservative candidate Louis Fitch claimed that he had been subject tofalse arrest on Election Day.^[3]

Polling was deferred to May 23 inGaspé.^[3] This was because weather conditions caused the closure of many roads in the area.^[4]

Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (1927)^[5]

Political party		Party leader	MLAs				Votes
			Candidates	1923	1927	±	#	±	%	± (pp)
	Government candidates
	█ Liberal	Louis-Alexandre Taschereau	85	64	74	10	188,687	38,957	59.34	7.82
	█ Independent	–	3	–	–	–	1,365	New	0.43	New
	Opposition candidates
	█ Conservative	Arthur Sauvé	67	20	9	11	109,105	92,295	34.31	5.01
	█ Liberal	–	–	1	–	1	Did not campaign[a 1]
	█ Independent	–	3	–	–	–	2,685	2,246	0.84	0.86
	█ Labour	–	1	–	1	1	4,432	1,993	1.39	0.55
	Other candidates
	█ Independent-Liberal	–	7	–	1	1	9,345	3,759	2.94	1.02
	█ Labour	–	1	–	–	–	2,342	1,417	0.74	0.42
Total			167	85			317,961		100%
Rejected ballots							2,843	965
Voter turnout							320,804	26,347	62.91	0.89
Registered electors (contested ridings only)							509,935	35,141
Candidates returned byacclamation					12	4

• List of Quebec premiers
• Politics of Quebec
• Timeline of Quebec history
• List of Quebec political parties
• 17th Legislative Assembly of Quebec

• Hopkins, J. Castell, ed. (1927).The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1926–27. Toronto: The Annual Review Company.

• 1927 elections in Canada
• Elections in Quebec
• 1927 in Quebec
• May 1927 in Canada

• CS1 French-language sources (fr)
• Articles with short description
• Short description matches Wikidata
• Use mdy dates from September 2023
• Pages using bar box without float left or float right