Americas / Canada · Politics

Quebec poised to elect separatist party in election

Rank
Running: 13h
Updated: 2h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 5
Regions: 3
Countries: 5
Languages: 3

The Guardian United Kingdom · English 5 Oct, 09:30 UTC

The earliest of 3 English reports

Read it also in Português (1) · +1 language

Read at The Guardian

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: The Guardian, 5 Oct, 09:30 UTC.
Second country: Brazil, with Estadão.
Second region: Americas, with Estadão.
Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

20%40%40%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 20%
Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 40%
Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 40%

First movers

The Guardian 5 Oct, 09:30 UTC
Estadão +6h 8m
Liberty Times +7h 15m
South China Morning Post +8h 51m
France 24 +12h 6m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Separatists poised to win Quebec election, promise referendum, 3 to 4 Oct 2026, 3 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 5 countries, across 3 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 1 public-service, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: Brazil. Asia-Pacific 2: Hong Kong, Taiwan. Europe 2: France, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: English, Portuguese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article The Guardian, 5 Oct 2026, 09:30 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 09:50 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 21:36 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Americas, Canada. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 2.59, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continues Separatists poised to win Quebec election, promise referendum. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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How this was measured

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Started 5 Oct, 09:50 UTC · Updated 21:36 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Americas 1 outlet

Estadão Brazil 5 Oct, 15:38 UTC
Quebec vai às urnas e deve eleger partido separatista pela primeira vez em mais de uma década

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

Europe 2 outlets

France 24 France 5 Oct, 21:36 UTC
Quebec votes as separatist surge poses test for Canada PM
The Guardian United Kingdom 5 Oct, 09:30 UTC
Quebec poised to elect separatists to power for first time more than decade