| Election Name: | 1897 Quebec general election |
| Country: | Quebec |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Party Colour: | no |
| Party Name: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1892 Quebec general election |
| Previous Year: | 1892 |
| Previous Mps: | 8th Quebec Legislature |
| Next Election: | 1900 Quebec general election |
| Next Year: | 1900 |
| Elected Members: | 9th Quebec Legislature |
| Seats For Election: | 74 seats in the 9th Legislative Assembly of Quebec 38 seats were needed for a majority |
| Election Date: | May 11, 1897 |
| Image1: | Félix-Gabriel Marchand.png |
| Image1 Size: | 180x180px |
| Leader1: | Félix-Gabriel Marchand |
| Leader Since1: | 1892 |
| Last Election1: | 21 seats, 43.65% |
| Seats1: | 51 |
| Seat Change1: | 30 |
| Popular Vote1: | 120,300 |
| Percentage1: | 53.28% |
| Swing1: | 9.63pp |
| Image2 Size: | 180x180px |
| Leader2: | Edmund James Flynn |
| Leader Since2: | 1896 |
| Leaders Seat2: | Gaspé |
| Last Election2: | 51 seats, 52.41% |
| Seats2: | 23 |
| Seat Change2: | 28 |
| Popular Vote2: | 98,941 |
| Percentage2: | 43.82% |
| Swing2: | 8.59pp |
| Premier | |
| Before Election: | Edmund James Flynn |
| After Election: | Félix-Gabriel Marchand |
| Posttitle: | Premier after election |
The 1897 Quebec general election was held on May 11, 1897, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The Quebec Liberal Party, led by Félix-Gabriel Marchand, defeated the incumbent Quebec Conservative Party, led by Edmund James Flynn.
This marked the start of over 39 consecutive years in power for the Liberals. The Conservative Party never held power again in Quebec, and ceased to exist in 1936 when it merged with the Action libérale nationale to form the Union Nationale, which formed a government later that year.
Marchand died in office in 1900, and was succeeded by Simon-Napoléon Parent as Liberal leader and premier.
An Act passed in 1895 provided for the Îles-de-la-Madeleine to be separated from Gaspé for the subsequent election, and thus elect their own MLA.[1]
| Party | Party leader |
| Seats | Popular Vote | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1892 | Elected | % Change | % | % Change | Félix-Gabriel Marchand | < | --cand--> | 21 < | --prev--> | 51 < | --elected--> | +143% < | --%ch.seats--> | 120,300 < | --vote--> | 53.28% < | --%vote--> | +9.63% < | --%ch.votes--> | < | --cand--> | 51 < | --prev--> | 23 < | --elected--> | -54.9% < | --%ch.seats--> | 98,941 < | --vote--> | 43.82% < | --%vote--> | -8.59% < | --%ch.votes--> | Other | < | --cand--> | 1 < | --prev--> | align="right" | - | align="right" | -100% | 6,538 < | --vote--> | 2.90% < | --%vote--> | align="right" | -1.0% | |||
| Total | < | --cand--> | 73 < | --prev--> | 74 < | --elected--> | +1.4% < | --%ch.seats--> | 225,779 < | --vote--> | 100% < | --%vote--> | < | --%ch.votes--> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||