# 1944 Quebec general election

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The 1944 Quebec general election was held on August 8, 1944 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The Union Nationale, led by former premier Maurice Duplessis, defeated the incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Adélard Godbout. This was the first Quebec provincial election in which women were allowed to vote, having been granted suffrage at the provincial level in 1941 (much later than what had been fully attained at the federal level in 1919).
This election marked Duplessis's comeback after having defeated Godbout in the 1936 election and having lost to him in the 1939 election. Unlike in the 1939 election, when the alcoholic Duplessis was clearly drunk at numerous campaign rallies, le chef had benefited from the time he had spent in an American sanatorium in 1942-43, where he had sobered up, and in the 1944 election, Duplessis refrained from drinking.
The biggest issue during this election was provincial autonomy. In order to appeal to nationalist voters, Duplessis attacked the incumbent premier, claiming that he was not taking a strong enough stand against Ottawa. He mainly criticized Godbout for agreeing to transfer unemployment insurance from the province to the federal government. He also criticized the Rowell-Sirois Commission for its stance on unemployment insurance and equalization payments.
Another reason Duplessis won the election was by appealing to anti-Semitic prejudices in Quebec by making the false claim in a violently anti-Semitic speech that the Dominion government together with the Godbout government had made a secret deal with the "International Zionist Brotherhood" to settle 100,000 Jewish refugees left homeless by the Holocaust in Quebec after the war in exchange for Jewish campaign contributions to both the federal and provincial Liberal parties. By contrast, Duplessis claimed that he was not taking any money from the Jews, and if he were elected Premier, he would stop this plan to bring Jewish refugees to Quebec. To further push on the message, the Union Nationale handed out campaign pamphlets warning about the alleged plan to bring 100,000 Jewish refugees to Quebec, which featured a cartoon of the standard stereotype of an evil-looking, hook-nosed Jew handing bags of money to Godbout while in the background a vast horde of dirty, disreputable-looking, hook-nosed Jewish refugees were ready to descend on la belle province. Through Duplessis's story about the plan to settle 100,000 Jewish refugees in Quebec was entirely false, his story was widely believed in Quebec, and ensured he won the election. Duplessis's biographer Conrad Black argued that Duplessis was in no way personally anti-Semitic, but because the majority of Quebecois were at the time, Duplessis had merely used antisemitism to win the 1944 election. Duplessis won another three elections in a row, for a total of five terms of office (four consecutive), before dying in office in 1959.
In this wartime election, Godbout's support for Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in the Conscription Crisis of 1944 may have contributed to his defeat.
The Bloc Populaire won four seats on an anti-conscription platform. More importantly, they siphoned off enough votes from the Liberals to deny them a second term. Even though the Liberals narrowly won the popular vote, massive vote-splitting with the Bloc Populaire allowed the Union Nationals to win a narrow majority of seats.
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (predecessor of the New Democratic Party) won one seat. Party member David Côté was elected to the legislature, but in July 1945, he decided to sit as an independent.

## Redistribution of ridings

An Act passed before the election increased the number of MLAs from 86 to 91 through the following changes:
| Abolished ridings | New ridings |
| Drawn from parts of other ridings ||
| | Rouyn-Noranda |
| Reorganization of ridings ||
| Châteauguay-Laprairie Saint-Jean–Napierville | Châteauguay Napierville-Laprairie Saint-Jean |
| Division of ridings ||
| Abitibi | Abitibi-Est Abitibi-Ouest |
| Kamouraska–Rivière-du-Loup | Kamouraska Rivière-du-Loup |
| Richelieu-Verchères | Richelieu Verchères |
* ↑ taken from part of Témiscamingue

## Campaign

Riding contests, by number of candidates (1944) :
| Candidates | UN | Lib | BP | CCF | UdE | Nat | Ind | I-Lib | Lab | Lab-Pr | I-UN | I-CCF | I-BP | CdP | Total |
| 2 | 5 | 4 | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | | 10 |
| 3 | 45 | 45 | 40 | 1 | | 2 | | 1 | | | | | | 1 | 135 |
| 4 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 10 | 7 | | 5 | 3 | | | 1 | | | | 100 |
| 5 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 3 | | 7 | | 1 | | 2 | 1 | 1 | | 60 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | | | 1 | | 1 | | | | | 6 |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | | 2 | | 1 | 2 | | | | | 14 |
| 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 2 | | | | | | | 8 |
| Total | 91 | 90 | 80 | 24 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 333 |

## Results

Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (1944) :
| Political party | Political party | Party leader | MLAs | MLAs | MLAs | MLAs | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes |
| Political party | Political party | Party leader | Candidates | 1939 | 1944 | ± | # | ± | % | ± (pp) |
| | Union Nationale | Maurice Duplessis | 91 | 15 | 48 | 33 | 505,661 | 285,259 | 38.02 | 1.11 |
| | Liberal | Adélard Godbout | 90 | 69 | 37 | 32 | 523,316 | 221,934 | 39.35 | 14.15 |
| | Bloc populaire | André Laurendeau | 80 | – | 4 | 4 | 191,564 | New | 14.40 | New |
| | Co-operative Commonwealth | Romuald-Joseph Lamoureux | 24 | – | 1 | 1 | 33,986 | 31,473 | 2.56 | 2.11 |
| | Union des électeurs | | 12 | – | – | – | 16,542 | New | 1.24 | New |
| | Action libérale nationale | | did not campaign | did not campaign | did not campaign | did not campaign | did not campaign | did not campaign | did not campaign | did not campaign |
| | Other candidates | Other candidates | Other candidates | Other candidates | Other candidates | Other candidates | Other candidates | Other candidates | Other candidates | Other candidates |
| | █ Independent | – | 16 | 1 | – | 1 | 12,766 | 6,485 | 0.96 | 0.03 |
| | █ Nationalist | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | | 8,711 | 5,637 | 0.65 | 0.10 |
| | █ Independent-Liberal | – | 7 | – | – | – | 8,656 | 7,868 | 0.65 | 0.51 |
| | █ Labour | – | 2 | – | – | – | 8,355 | 7,945 | 0.63 | 0.56 |
| | █ Labor–Progressive | – | 3 | – | – | – | 7,873 | 7,714 | 0.59 | 0.56 |
| | █ Independent-Unionist | – | 3 | – | – | – | 6,775 | 6,306 | 0.51 | 0.43 |
| | █ Independent-CCF | – | 1 | – | – | – | 3,015 | New | 0.23 | New |
| | █ Candidat du peuple | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2,583 | New | 0.19 | New |
| | █ Independent-Bloc | – | 1 | – | – | – | 156 | New | 0.01 | New |
| Total | Total | Total | 333 | 86 | 91 | 91 | 1,329,959 | 1,329,959 | 100% | 100% |
| Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | Rejected ballots | 15,552 | 8,218 | | |
| Voter turnout | Voter turnout | Voter turnout | Voter turnout | Voter turnout | Voter turnout | Voter turnout | 1,345,511 | 774,880 | 71.98 | 5.02 |
| Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 1,869,396 | 1,128,265 | | |
| Candidates returned by acclamation | Candidates returned by acclamation | Candidates returned by acclamation | Candidates returned by acclamation | Candidates returned by acclamation | – | 1 | | | | |
* ↑ 1939 includes Joseph-Philias Morin (Champlain), who was elected under the Conservative banner and served only one term
* ↑ Defeated in Montréal–Saint-Henri. David Côté was elected in Rouyn-Noranda.
* ↑ René Chaloult was elected in Québec-Comté
* ↑ results compared against performance under the Parti national banner in 1939
* ↑ formerly Communist
* ↑ Electorate expanded on adoption of An Act granting to women the right to vote and to be eligible as candidates, S.Q. 1940, c. 7
Popular vote
PLQ
39.35%
UN
38.02%
BP
14.40%
CCF
2.56%
Others
5.67% :
Seats summary
UN
52.75%
PLQ
40.66%
BP
4.40%
CCF
1.10%
Others
1.10% :

### Synopsis of results

Results by riding - 1944 Quebec general election :
| Riding | Winning party | Winning party | Winning party | Winning party | Winning party | Winning party | Winning party | Winning party | Turnout | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes | Votes |
| Name | 1939 | 1939 | Party | Party | Votes | Share | Margin # | Margin % | Turnout | UN | Lib | BP | CCF | UdE | Nat | Ind | I-Lib | Lab | LP | Other | Total |
| Abitibi-Est | New | New | | Lib | 5,410 | 38.24% | 1,434 | 10.14% | 79.76% | 3,976 | 5,410 | 2,010 | 889 | 1,862 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14,147 |
| Abitibi-Ouest | New | New | | UN | 3,729 | 38.82% | 1,174 | 12.22% | 86.03% | 3,729 | 2,555 | 1,494 | – | 1,828 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9,606 |
| Argenteuil | | Lib | | Lib | 6,084 | 61.84% | 3,791 | 38.53% | 77.87% | 1,461 | 6,084 | 2,293 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9,838 |
| Arthabaska | | Lib | | Lib | 5,511 | 40.80% | 33 | 0.24% | 86.01% | 5,478 | 5,511 | 2,519 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13,508 |
| Bagot | | Lib | | Lib | 3,781 | 47.78% | 127 | 1.60% | 83.39% | 3,654 | 3,781 | 479 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7,914 |
| Beauce | | Lib | | BP | 5,466 | 29.30% | 164 | 0.88% | 85.91% | 5,302 | 5,099 | 5,466 | – | 2,790 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 18,657 |
| Beauharnois | | UN | | BP | 7,186 | 45.87% | 1,266 | 8.08% | 83.18% | 5,920 | 2,560 | 7,186 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15,666 |
| Bellechasse | | Lib | | Lib | 4,762 | 49.72% | 545 | 5.69% | 79.16% | 4,217 | 4,762 | 599 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9,578 |
| Berthier | | Lib | | Lib | 5,138 | 49.96% | 823 | 8.00% | 85.38% | 4,315 | 5,138 | 832 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10,285 |
| Bonaventure | | Lib | | UN | 6,031 | 45.03% | 1,542 | 11.51% | 73.27% | 6,031 | 1,651 | 1,223 | – | – | – | – | 4,489 | – | – | – | 13,394 |
| Brome | | UN | | UN | 2,860 | 51.36% | 655 | 11.76% | 74.69% | 2,860 | 2,205 | 503 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5,568 |
| Chambly | | Lib | | Lib | 6,638 | 42.25% | 1,110 | 7.06% | 70.11% | 5,528 | 6,638 | 2,140 | 1,406 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15,712 |
| Champlain | | Con | | UN | 7,632 | 54.41% | 2,494 | 17.78% | 81.92% | 7,632 | 5,138 | 1,258 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14,028 |
| Charlevoix—Saguenay | | Lib | | UN | 11,173 | 79.17% | 8,234 | 58.35% | 59.07% | 11,173 | – | – | – | – | – | 2,939 | – | – | – | – | 14,112 |
| Châteauguay | New | New | | Lib | 3,128 | 44.55% | 839 | 11.95% | 82.05% | 2,289 | 3,128 | 1,604 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7,021 |
| Chicoutimi | | UN | | UN | 17,752 | 50.49% | 8,906 | 25.33% | 79.12% | 17,752 | 8,846 | 6,256 | – | 2,307 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 35,161 |
| Compton | | Lib | | Lib | 4,566 | 49.99% | 1,729 | 18.93% | 76.38% | 2,837 | 4,566 | 1,730 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9,133 |
| Deux-Montagnes | | UN | | UN | 3,599 | 50.78% | 1,509 | 21.29% | 79.15% | 3,599 | 2,090 | 1,313 | – | – | – | – | 86 | – | – | – | 7,088 |
| Dorchester | | UN | | UN | 6,887 | 52.95% | 2,215 | 17.03% | 81.21% | 6,887 | 4,672 | 1,447 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13,006 |
| Drummond | | Lib | | UN | 6,965 | 42.39% | 1,979 | 12.04% | 84.59% | 6,965 | 4,986 | 4,481 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16,432 |
| Frontenac | | Lib | | UN | 4,599 | 41.95% | 1,307 | 11.92% | 86.18% | 4,599 | 3,292 | 1,604 | – | 1,417 | – | 52 | – | – | – | – | 10,964 |
| Gaspé-Nord | | Lib | | UN | 3,198 | 47.31% | 539 | 7.97% | 89.13% | 3,198 | 2,659 | 150 | – | – | – | 753 | – | – | – | – | 6,760 |
| Gaspé-Sud | | UN | | UN | 6,090 | 53.64% | 2,600 | 22.90% | 79.13% | 6,090 | 3,490 | – | – | – | – | – | 1,773 | – | – | – | 11,353 |
| Gatineau | | Lib | | Lib | 5,471 | 49.27% | 1,592 | 14.34% | 72.78% | 3,879 | 5,471 | 942 | 813 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11,105 |
| Hull | | Lib | | UN | 9,051 | 55.49% | 4,084 | 25.04% | 76.66% | 9,051 | 4,967 | 2,293 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16,311 |
| Huntingdon | | Lib | | Lib | 2,865 | 54.26% | 1,114 | 21.10% | 74.22% | 1,751 | 2,865 | 664 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5,280 |
| Iberville | | Lib | | UN | 1,910 | 38.81% | 426 | 8.66% | 82.43% | 1,910 | 1,484 | 956 | – | – | – | – | 572 | – | – | – | 4,922 |
| Îles-de-la-Madeleine | | UN | | UN | 2,092 | 55.49% | 414 | 10.98% | 90.09% | 2,092 | 1,678 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3,770 |
| Jacques-Cartier | | Lib | | Lib | 13,349 | 52.04% | 5,208 | 20.30% | 66.89% | 8,141 | 13,349 | 4,163 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 25,653 |
| Joliette | | UN | | UN | 8,652 | 61.83% | 3,655 | 26.12% | 82.60% | 8,652 | 4,997 | 344 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13,993 |
| Kamouraska | New | New | | Lib | 5,175 | 52.04% | 695 | 6.99% | 77.88% | 4,480 | 5,175 | 289 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9,944 |
| L'Assomption | | Lib | | UN | 3,522 | 40.02% | 368 | 4.18% | 83.98% | 3,522 | 3,154 | – | – | – | 2,124 | – | – | – | – | – | 8,800 |
| L'Islet | | Lib | | Lib | 4,834 | 55.14% | 902 | 10.29% | 81.25% | 3,932 | 4,834 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8,766 |
| Labelle | | UN | | UN | 5,517 | 66.18% | 3,678 | 44.12% | 78.83% | 5,517 | 1,839 | 796 | – | – | – | 184 | – | – | – | – | 8,336 |
| Lac-Saint-Jean | | Lib | | Lib | 3,718 | 38.07% | 109 | 1.12% | 89.49% | 3,609 | 3,718 | 1,944 | – | 495 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9,766 |
| Laval | | Lib | | Lib | 11,642 | 35.22% | 2,511 | 7.60% | 62.20% | 7,648 | 11,642 | 9,131 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4,632 | 33,053 |
| Laviolette | | Lib | | UN | 7,455 | 55.04% | 3,342 | 24.67% | 79.48% | 7,455 | 4,113 | 1,785 | 192 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13,545 |
| Lévis | | Lib | | UN | 8,101 | 45.94% | 921 | 5.22% | 79.79% | 8,101 | 7,180 | 2,352 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 17,633 |
| Lotbinière | | Nat | | Lib | 4,472 | 41.74% | 812 | 7.58% | 83.46% | 3,660 | 4,472 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2,583 | 10,715 |
| Maisonneuve | | Lib | | UN | 10,584 | 32.50% | 51 | 0.16% | 65.05% | 10,584 | 10,533 | 8,245 | 1,380 | – | – | – | – | 1,824 | – | – | 32,566 |
| Maskinongé | | Lib | | UN | 4,475 | 54.98% | 1,340 | 16.46% | 85.85% | 4,475 | 3,135 | 530 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8,140 |
| Matane | | UN | | UN | 8,684 | 64.07% | 4,130 | 30.47% | 85.30% | 8,684 | 4,554 | 316 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13,554 |
| Matapédia | | Lib | | UN | 4,979 | 45.14% | 678 | 6.15% | 82.20% | 4,979 | 4,301 | 1,548 | – | – | – | 201 | – | – | – | – | 11,029 |
| Mégantic | | Lib | | UN | 9,713 | 57.22% | 2,450 | 14.43% | 87.36% | 9,713 | 7,263 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16,976 |
| Missisquoi | | Lib | | Lib | 5,515 | 57.25% | 3,044 | 31.60% | 77.26% | 2,471 | 5,515 | 1,647 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9,633 |
| Montcalm | | Lib | | UN | 3,079 | 45.30% | 926 | 13.62% | 81.66% | 3,079 | 2,153 | 1,565 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6,797 |
| Montmagny | | Lib | | Lib | 4,781 | 55.87% | 1,004 | 11.73% | 73.39% | 3,777 | 4,781 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8,558 |
| Montmorency | | Lib | | Lib | 3,764 | 48.42% | 1,052 | 13.53% | 80.89% | 2,712 | 3,764 | 168 | – | 1,130 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7,774 |
| Montréal–Jeanne-Mance | | Lib | | Lib | 11,662 | 36.45% | 1,570 | 4.91% | 64.25% | 6,859 | 11,662 | 10,092 | 2,897 | – | – | 485 | – | – | – | – | 31,995 |
| Montréal-Laurier | | Lib | | BP | 9,540 | 34.62% | 647 | 2.35% | 62.08% | 8,350 | 8,893 | 9,540 | 438 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 333 | 27,554 |
| Montréal-Mercier | | Lib | | Lib | 12,977 | 39.78% | 1,566 | 4.80% | 63.23% | 11,411 | 12,977 | 8,235 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 32,623 |
| Montréal–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | | Lib | | Lib | 20,140 | 78.13% | 17,709 | 68.70% | 56.62% | 699 | 20,140 | 1,070 | 2,431 | – | – | 1,437 | – | – | – | – | 25,777 |
| Montréal-Outremont | | Lib | | Lib | 17,704 | 77.18% | 15,540 | 67.74% | 56.32% | 1,417 | 17,704 | 2,164 | – | – | – | 1,654 | – | – | – | – | 22,939 |
| Montréal–Saint-Henri | | Lib | | UN | 9,569 | 36.34% | 288 | 1.09% | 61.13% | 9,569 | 9,281 | 4,752 | 2,732 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 26,334 |
| Montréal–Saint-Jacques | | Lib | | UN | 11,400 | 43.11% | 1,504 | 5.69% | 56.06% | 11,400 | 9,896 | 3,860 | 1,285 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 26,441 |
| Montréal–Saint-Louis | | Lib | | Lib | 9,754 | 40.72% | 2,881 | 12.03% | 60.04% | 2,890 | 9,754 | 2,421 | 1,241 | – | – | 773 | – | – | 6,873 | – | 23,952 |
| Montréal–Sainte-Anne | | Lib | | Lib | 13,180 | 56.61% | 8,711 | 37.42% | 53.68% | 4,469 | 13,180 | 1,659 | 3,974 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 23,282 |
| Montréal–Sainte-Marie | | Ind | | UN | 9,299 | 35.34% | 1,607 | 6.11% | 57.94% | 9,299 | 7,692 | 6,766 | 1,090 | – | – | – | 521 | – | 944 | – | 26,312 |
| Montréal-Verdun | | Lib | | Lib | 8,793 | 36.62% | 2,754 | 11.47% | 64.06% | 2,899 | 8,793 | 3,263 | 6,039 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3,015 | 24,009 |
| Napierville-Laprairie | New | New | | UN | 3,665 | 41.47% | 415 | 4.70% | 79.39% | 3,665 | 3,250 | 1,922 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8,837 |
| Nicolet | | Lib | | UN | 5,639 | 44.48% | 708 | 5.58% | 78.54% | 5,639 | 4,931 | 2,107 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12,677 |
| Papineau | | UN | | UN | 8,842 | 60.71% | 4,773 | 32.77% | 78.58% | 8,842 | 4,069 | 1,654 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14,565 |
| Pontiac | | Lib | | Lib | 3,667 | 48.29% | 882 | 11.62% | 71.40% | 2,785 | 3,667 | – | 1,141 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7,593 |
| Portneuf | | Lib | | UN | 6,489 | 39.04% | 1,550 | 9.32% | 80.70% | 6,489 | 4,879 | 4,939 | 160 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 156 | 16,623 |
| Québec-Centre | | Lib | | Lib | 8,755 | 52.47% | 2,817 | 16.88% | 69.10% | 5,938 | 8,755 | 1,487 | 290 | – | – | 216 | – | – | – | – | 16,686 |
| Québec-Comté | | Lib | | Nat | 6,587 | 34.79% | 363 | 1.92% | 79.17% | 6,120 | 6,224 | – | – | – | 6,587 | – | – | – | – | – | 18,931 |
| Québec-Est | | Lib | | Lib | 7,370 | 31.13% | 839 | 3.54% | 74.85% | 5,734 | 7,370 | 2,832 | 169 | 986 | – | – | – | 6,531 | 56 | – | 23,678 |
| Québec-Ouest | | Lib | | Lib | 6,006 | 54.35% | 2,505 | 22.67% | 69.70% | 3,501 | 6,006 | 1,365 | 179 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 11,051 |
| Richelieu | New | New | | Lib | 7,636 | 55.98% | 4,292 | 31.46% | 77.73% | 3,344 | 7,636 | 2,661 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13,641 |
| Richmond | | Lib | | UN | 5,626 | 45.03% | 282 | 2.26% | 81.48% | 5,626 | 5,344 | 1,525 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12,495 |
| Rimouski | | Lib | | UN | 7,437 | 51.73% | 1,417 | 9.86% | 79.93% | 7,437 | 6,020 | 920 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14,377 |
| Rivière-du-Loup | New | New | | Lib | 7,061 | 50.37% | 901 | 6.43% | 84.20% | 6,160 | 7,061 | 797 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14,018 |
| Roberval | | Lib | | UN | 6,071 | 42.86% | 708 | 5.00% | 85.57% | 6,071 | 5,363 | 1,509 | – | 1,222 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 14,165 |
| Rouville | | Lib | | UN | 3,529 | 45.46% | 17 | 0.22% | 84.13% | 3,529 | 3,512 | 722 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7,763 |
| Rouyn-Noranda | New | New | | CCF | 2,100 | 21.03% | 250 | 2.50% | 75.46% | 1,643 | 1,753 | 1,850 | 2,100 | 1,411 | – | 14 | 1,215 | – | – | – | 9,986 |
| Saint-Hyacinthe | | Lib | | UN | 5,962 | 44.97% | 995 | 7.50% | 70.64% | 5,962 | 4,967 | 1,716 | – | – | – | 614 | – | – | – | – | 13,259 |
| Saint-Jean | New | New | | UN | 5,525 | 55.33% | 1,804 | 18.07% | 79.91% | 5,525 | 3,721 | 739 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9,985 |
| Saint-Maurice | | Lib | | UN | 9,933 | 51.86% | 5,219 | 27.25% | 82.65% | 9,933 | 4,317 | 4,714 | 189 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 19,153 |
| Saint-Sauveur | | Lib | | Lib | 8,796 | 45.88% | 1,590 | 8.29% | 79.02% | 7,206 | 8,796 | 1,189 | 172 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1,810 | 19,173 |
| Shefford | | Lib | | UN | 6,473 | 42.85% | 1,297 | 8.59% | 80.97% | 6,473 | 5,176 | 2,916 | – | 541 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15,106 |
| Sherbrooke | | UN | | UN | 10,559 | 52.03% | 3,649 | 17.98% | 74.64% | 10,559 | 6,910 | 2,825 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 20,294 |
| Stanstead | | Lib | | BP | 3,522 | 29.16% | 404 | 3.34% | 75.40% | 3,118 | 2,785 | 3,522 | – | 553 | – | 2,100 | – | – | – | – | 12,078 |
| Témiscamingue | | Lib | | UN | 2,225 | 34.50% | 335 | 5.19% | 80.35% | 2,225 | 1,890 | 1,486 | 848 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6,449 |
| Témiscouata | | Lib | | UN | 4,326 | 48.88% | 734 | 8.29% | 83.40% | 4,326 | 3,592 | 933 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8,851 |
| Terrebonne | | Lib | | UN | 11,471 | 49.16% | 1,040 | 4.46% | 82.65% | 11,471 | 10,431 | 1,432 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 23,334 |
| Trois-Rivières | | UN | | UN | 12,576 | 66.74% | 7,258 | 38.52% | 80.41% | 12,576 | 5,318 | 950 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 18,844 |
| Vaudreuil-Soulanges | | Lib | | Lib | 4,714 | 46.00% | 351 | 3.43% | 79.46% | 4,363 | 4,714 | 1,170 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10,247 |
| Verchères | New | New | | Lib | 4,036 | 62.78% | 2,203 | 34.27% | 76.97% | 1,833 | 4,036 | 560 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6,429 |
| Westmount–Saint-Georges | | Lib | | Lib | 14,271 | 75.74% | 12,340 | 65.49% | 45.27% | 1,296 | 14,271 | – | 1,931 | – | – | 1,344 | – | – | – | – | 18,842 |
| Wolfe | | Lib | | UN | 3,478 | 46.74% | 61 | 0.82% | 88.07% | 3,478 | 3,417 | 546 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7,441 |
| Yamaska | | UN | | UN | 4,166 | 62.93% | 2,201 | 33.25% | 77.43% | 4,166 | 1,965 | 489 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6,620 |
* ↑ including spoilt ballots
* ↑ Affiliations without candidates gaining 1st or 2nd place results provincewide, or otherwise not receiving more than 1% of the total vote, are grouped under "Other"
    = open seat
    = turnout is above provincial average
    = winning candidate was in previous Legislature
    = incumbent had switched allegiance
    = not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature
    = incumbency arose from byelection gain
    = previously incumbent in another riding
    = other incumbents renominated
    = previously an MP in the House of Commons of Canada
    = multiple candidates

### Effect of redistribution

The reorganized ridings returned the following MLAs:
| 1939 | 1939 | 1944 | 1944 |
| Riding | Party | Riding | Party |
| Témiscamingue | █ Liberal | Témiscamingue | █ Union Nationale |
| Témiscamingue | █ Liberal | Rouyn-Noranda | █ Co-operative Commonwealth |
| Châteauguay-Laprairie █ Liberal Saint-Jean–Napierville █ Liberal | Châteauguay-Laprairie █ Liberal Saint-Jean–Napierville █ Liberal | Châteauguay | █ Liberal |
| Châteauguay-Laprairie █ Liberal Saint-Jean–Napierville █ Liberal | Châteauguay-Laprairie █ Liberal Saint-Jean–Napierville █ Liberal | Napierville-Laprairie | █ Union Nationale |
| Châteauguay-Laprairie █ Liberal Saint-Jean–Napierville █ Liberal | Châteauguay-Laprairie █ Liberal Saint-Jean–Napierville █ Liberal | Saint-Jean | █ Union Nationale |
| Abitibi | █ Liberal | Abitibi-Est | █ Liberal |
| Abitibi | █ Liberal | Abitibi-Ouest | █ Union Nationale |
| Kamouraska–Rivière-du-Loup | █ Liberal | Kamouraska | █ Liberal |
| Kamouraska–Rivière-du-Loup | █ Liberal | Rivière-du-Loup | █ Liberal |
| Richelieu-Verchères | █ Liberal | Richelieu | █ Liberal |
| Richelieu-Verchères | █ Liberal | Verchères | █ Liberal |

### Analysis

Party candidates in 2nd place :
| Party in 1st place | Party in 1st place | Party in 2nd place | Party in 2nd place | Party in 2nd place | Party in 2nd place | Party in 2nd place | Party in 2nd place | Party in 2nd place | Party in 2nd place | Total |
| Party in 1st place | Party in 1st place | UN | Lib | BP | CCF | Ind | I-Lib | Lab | LP | Total |
| | Union Nationale | | 44 | 2 | | 1 | 1 | | | 48 |
| | Liberal | 28 | | 4 | 3 | | | 1 | 1 | 37 |
| | Bloc populaire | 3 | 1 | | | | | | | 4 |
| | Co-operative Commonwealth | | | 1 | | | | | | 1 |
| | Nationalist | | 1 | | | | | | | 1 |
| Total | Total | 31 | 46 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 91 |
Candidates ranked 1st to 5th place, by party :
| Parties | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | Total |
| █ Union Nationale | 48 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 91 |
| █ Liberal | 37 | 46 | 7 | | | 90 |
| █ Bloc populaire | 4 | 7 | 60 | 9 | | 80 |
| █ Co-operative Commonwealth | 1 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 23 |
| █ Nationalist | 1 | | 1 | | | 2 |
| █ Independent | | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 13 |
| █ Independent Liberal | | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 4 |
| █ Labour | | 1 | | 1 | | 2 |
| █ Labor–Progressive | | 1 | | | 1 | 2 |
| █ Union des électeurs | | | 2 | 7 | 3 | 12 |
| █ Independent Unionist | | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| █ Candidat du peuple | | | 1 | | | 1 |
| █ Independent-CCF | | | | 1 | | 1 |
| █ Independent Bloc | | | | | 1 | 1 |
Resulting composition of the 22nd Quebec Legislative Assembly :
| Source | Source | Party | Party | Party | Party | Party | Party |
| Source | Source | UN | Lib | BP | CCF | Nat | Total |
| Seats retained | Incumbents returned | 13 | 24 | | | | 37 |
| Seats retained | Open seats held | 1 | 6 | | | | 7 |
| Seats changing hands | Incumbents defeated - by previous incumbent | 10 | | | | | 10 |
| Seats changing hands | Incumbents defeated - by new MLAs | 6 | | 4 | | | 10 |
| Seats changing hands | Open seats gained - previous incumbents returned | 7 | | | | | 7 |
| Seats changing hands | Open seats gained - new MLAs | 7 | 1 | | | | 8 |
| Seats changing hands | Byelection gains held | 1 | | | | | 1 |
| Seats changing hands | Incumbent switched riding | | | | | 1 | 1 |
| New ridings | Incumbent returned in new seat | 1 | 2 | | | | 3 |
| New ridings | Previous member of Legislature reelected | 1 | | | | | 1 |
| New ridings | MP migrated from Parliament of Canada | | 1 | | | | 1 |
| New ridings | New MLA elected | 1 | 3 | | 1 | | 5 |
| Total | Total | 48 | 37 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 91 |