The Quebec general election of 1886 on October 14, 1886 to elect members of the 6th Legislative Assembly for the Province of Quebec, Canada. The Parti libéral du Québec, led by Honoré Mercier, won a majority of seats against the Parti conservateur du Québec, led by John Jones Ross.
The Conservatives hung on in a minority government until Mercier became premier on January 27, 1887.
Mercier actually ran under the name Parti national, but that name was soon abandoned, and the traditional "Liberal" name was retained. The Parti national got a large boost when Liberals and dissident Conservatives rallied in reaction to the hanging of Louis Riel in 1885, for which the federal Conservatives were held responsible by Quebec voters.
| Party | Party Leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular Vote | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1881 | Elected | % Change | # | % | % Change | ||||
| Liberal | Honoré Mercier | 15 | 33 | +120% | 58 389 | 39.54% | +0.6% | ||
| Conservative | John Jones Ross | 49 | 26 | -46.9% | 68 141 | 46.19% | -4.2% | ||
| Independent Conservative | 1 | 3 | +200% | 20 994 | 14.23% | +3.2% | |||
| Parti national | - | 3 | - | ||||||
| Other | - | - | - | ||||||
| Total | 65 | 65 | - | 100% | |||||
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