The World - News from June 4, 1985

Liberals in Canada’s Quebec province won four special legislative elections as voters rejected Parti Quebecois candidates in the party’s former strongholds. The Liberal victories were a blow to the already weakened political fortunes of the Parti Quebecois and Premier Rene Levesque, who has been under pressure to resign. Liberal Robert Bourassa, a former premier defeated by the Parti Quebecois almost a decade ago, won in Bertrand, on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The election leaves the Parti Quebecois with a one-seat majority in the province’s assembly.