Quebeckers have delivered a strong message to their politicians that they have grown weary of the decades-old debate on secession from Canada.

Voters in the French-speaking province’s elections on Monday punished the two traditional parties, relegating the ruling Liberals to a minority government and giving the separatist Parti Québécois (PQ) its lowest share of the vote since the 1970s. The big winner was the Action Démocratique du Québec (ADQ), a right-of-centre, populist group that focused on bread-and-butter issues. The ADQ grew from five to 41 seats in the National Assembly and becomes the official opposition.