Quebec Votes Oct 1

Quebecers anxious about having a new party in power for the first time in 42 years can already draw some clues about what the next four years will look like.

It was supposed to be a close election, but instead Franois Legault's CAQ won a decisive majority with the collapse of the Liberal and Parti Qubcois vote.

On Monday night, Quebec politics underwent its most significant realignment in the last half-century. Two parties that had been relegated to the margins the centre-right Coalition Avenir Qubec and left-wing Qubec Solidaire entered the mainstream.