A remarkable year: Loto-Québec awarded a flurry of jackpots in 2025

MONTRÉAL, Dec. 23, 2025 /CNW/ - Quebecers have once again enjoyed a remarkable year in the lottery: 16 jackpots of $5,000,000 or more have been won here! Loto-Québec has already awarded more than $1.7 billion in prizes to winners since January, an increase over the record year of 2024. In addition, nearly 20 lifetime annuities have been won--an unprecedented number!

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Jacques Deschamps and Wilhelmina Van Leeuwen shared a $70M jackpot. (CNW Group/Loto-Québec)

Isabelle Jean, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Lotteries, presented the shares of the $50M jackpot won by 14 people from a community in the Lower North Shore. (CNW Group/Loto-Québec)

A $50M jackpot was won in a Lower North Shore Community. (CNW Group/Loto-Québec)

A group of 19 won $5M a few days before the holidays. (CNW Group/Loto-Québec)

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"The year 2025 has been marked by groups of winners sharing major jackpots in 10 Québec regions. I saw the joy expressed by many families and friends all the way to the Basse-Côte-Nord region. It has been a memorable year!" said Isabelle Jean, Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of Lottery Games at Loto-Québec.

The year in numbers

• Over $1.7 billion in prizes have already been awarded, breaking the record set in 2024.
• The Lotto 6/49 Classic Jackpot has been won 10 times in Québec.
• In all, 19 lucky winners have claimed the Grande Vie and Gagnant à vie jackpots--a record!
• The lottery has already created over 100 new millionaires.

Biggest jackpots won in Québec

• In July, a Montérégie entrepreneur and a Montréal retiree shared $70,000,000 in Lotto Max.
• In September, 14 residents of the Bonne-Espérance community in the Côte-Nord region won the $50,000,000 Lotto Max jackpot with a Formule groupe ticket.
• At the start of the school year, an employee at Cégep de Victoriaville in the Centre-du-Québec region won the Lotto 6/49 Gold Ball Jackpot worth $46,000,000.
• In June, 15 coworkers in Trois-Rivières in the Mauricie region won the $20,000,000 Lotto Max jackpot with a Formule groupe ticket.

SOURCE Loto-Québec