in Quebec, a provincial political party, long under the leadership of Maurice Duplessis, 1890-1959, and identified with conservative French-Canadian nationalism.
1946  During the Quebec provincial election of the summer of 1944 the Union Nationale and Bloc Populaire had deluged the province with flysheets . . . .
1957  Union Nationale candidates won handily over Liberals in Compton, Chateauguay and Megantic.
1966  Opposition Leader Daniel Johnson of the Union Nationale calls it [an election] for April.