In June, a Quebec poll from Pallas Data measured the favourability of four permanent provincial party leaders. The names tested in the questionnaire were Premier François Legault of the Coalition Avenir Québec, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon of the Parti Québécois, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois of Québec solidaire, and Éric Duhaime of the Conservative Party of Quebec. (The Quebec Liberal Party was not included in these questions since Marc Tanguay is an interim leader.)
I suspected that the premier’s image had taken a hit in the past year, since Legault’s once mighty CAQ has been trailing in the polls since last fall. Nevertheless, support for his party has been stabilizing since the New Year: polling from Pallas and Léger shows the CAQ oscillating between 20 and 25 percent in popular support—each time trailing the Parti Québécois by margins ranging from seven to thirteen points.
