Lesage sought a mandate for the Nationalization of the electricity industry, with the slogan Maîtres chez nous (Masters in Our Own Home), declaring it a single issue important enough to stake his political career on it.

The Liberals claimed this was proof of lingering corruption dating from the Maurice Duplessis era, but the UN cried foul and was vindicated after the election.

The Liberal Party won an increased number of seats and a higher percentage of the popular vote, and the nationalization program was carried out.

Future Parti Québécois founder René Lévesque served as a cabinet minister in the Lesage government and spearheaded the nationalization of power utilities for a great expansion of Hydro-Québec.

Action provinciale, a new group founded by Hertel Larocque (a former secretary of Camillien Houde),[1] fielded 11 candidates in the election but failed to gather a significant number of votes.