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Dorchester (federal electoral district)

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Dorchester
Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1966
First contested	1867
Last contested	1965
Communities	Saint-Prosper-de-Dorchester

Dorchester was a federal electoral districtinQuebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1968.

It was created by the British North America Act, 1867, which preserved the existing electoral districts in Lower Canada at the time. In 1966, it was redistributed into the Beauce, Bellechasse and Lévis electoral districts.

Members of Parliament[edit]

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Dorchester
1st	1867–1872	Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative
2nd	1872–1874	Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative
3rd	1874–1875	François Fortunat Rouleau	Liberal–Conservative
3rd	1875–1878
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1887	Charles Alexander Lesage	Conservative
6th	1887–1887	Henri-Jules Juchereau Duchesnay	Nationalist Conservative
6th	1888–1891	Honoré Julien Jean-Baptiste Chouinard	Conservative
7th	1891–1896	Cyrille Émile Vaillancourt	Nationalist
8th	1896–1900	Jean-Baptiste Morin	Conservative
9th	1900–1904
10th	1904–1908
11th	1908–1911	Joseph Alfred Ernest Roy	Liberal
12th	1911–1917	Albert Sévigny	Conservative
12th	1917–1917	Albert Sévigny	Conservative
13th	1917–1921	Lucien Cannon	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
14th	1921–1925		Liberal
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935	Onésime Gagnon	Conservative
18th	1935–1940	Léonard Tremblay	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957	Robert Perron	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1957–1958	Joseph-Armand Landry	Liberal
24th	1958–1962	Noël Drouin	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	Pierre-André Boutin	Social Credit
26th	1963–1963		Social Credit
26th	1963–1965		Ralliement créditiste
27th	1965–1968	Gustave Côté	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Beauce, Bellechasse and Lévis

Election results[edit]

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Hector Langevin	acclaimed
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[1]

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Hector-Louis Langevin	1,044
	Unknown	E.H. Marceau	724
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[2]

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	François Fortunat Rouleau	895
	Unknown	E.H. Marceau	874

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 14 December 1875 Rouleau unseated on petition, 8 July 1875
	Liberal–Conservative	François Fortunat Rouleau	1,086
	Unknown	Alfred Morrisset	620

v t e 1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	François Fortunat Rouleau	1,081
	Unknown	H. Marceau	362

v t e 1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Charles Alexander Lesage	acclaimed

v t e 1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Nationalist Conservative	Henri Jules Juchereau Duchesnay	1,565
	Conservative	Charles Alexander Lesage	1,089

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 7 January 1888 Duchesnay's death, 6 July 1887
	Conservative	Honoré Julien Jean-Baptiste Chouinard	acclaimed

v t e 1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Nationaliste	Cyrille Émile Vaillancourt	acclaimed

v t e 1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Jean-Baptiste Morin	1,480
	Nationaliste	C.E. Vaillancourt	1,150

v t e 1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Jean-Baptiste Morin	1,691
	Liberal	J.S. Ouellet	1,322
	Independent	F.X. Guay	90
	Unknown	F.F. Rouleau	27

v t e 1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Jean-Baptiste Morin	1,773
	Parti nationaliste	C.E. Vaillancourt	1,429

v t e 1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ernest Roy	2,084
	Conservative	Edmund James Flynn	1,921

v t e 1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Albert Sévigny	2,506
	Liberal	Ernest Roy	2,164

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 27 January 1917 Sévigny appointed Minister of Inland Revenue, 8 January 1917
	Conservative	Albert Sévigny	2,719
	Liberal	Lucien Cannon	2,445

v t e 1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Lucien Cannon	4,228
	Government (Unionist)	Albert Sévigny	497

v t e 1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lucien Cannon	5,744
	Conservative	Philomon Vallière	2,703

v t e 1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lucien Cannon	5,167
	Conservative	Louis Joseph Gauthier	3,666

v t e 1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lucien Cannon	5,627
	Conservative	Robert Coté	3,640

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 2 November 1926 Cannon's acceptance of an office of emolument under the Crown, 5 October 1926
	Liberal	Lucien Cannon	acclaimed

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v t e 1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Onésime Gagnon	5,771
	Liberal	Lucien Cannon	5,433

v t e 1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Léonard-David Tremblay	5,186
	Conservative	Onésime Gagnon	5,098
	Unknown	J.-Adalbert Guay	154

v t e 1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Léonard-David Tremblay	5,573
	Independent	Emmett O'Farrel	4,721

v t e 1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Léonard-David Tremblay	5,149
	Independent	Emile Boiteau	4,291
	Social Credit	Joseph-Ernest Grégoire	1,843

v t e 1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Léonard-David Tremblay	6,983
	Progressive Conservative	Gérard Corriveau	6,762
	Union des électeurs	Louis-Philippe Bouchard	1,020

v t e 1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Perron	7,762
	Liberal	Joseph-Armand Landry	7,656

v t e 1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-Armand Landry	8,054
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Perron	7,702

v t e 1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Noël Drouin	8,766
	Liberal	Joseph-Armand Landry	7,111

v t e 1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Pierre-André Boutin	7,701
	Liberal	Francis O'Farrell	3,939
	Progressive Conservative	Noël Drouin	3,582

v t e 1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Pierre-André Boutin	5,830
	Liberal	Francis O'Farrell	4,801
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Perron	3,597

v t e 1965 Canadian federal election: Dorchester
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Gustave Côté	4,602
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Rioux	3,802
	Ralliement créditiste	Pierre-André Boutin	3,786
	New Democratic	Henri Lessard	494

References[edit]

^ Sayers, Anthony M. "1867 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on 22 January 2024.

^ Sayers, Anthony M. "1872 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on 3 February 2024.

External links[edit]

Riding history from the Library of Parliament

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Until 1997	Argenteuil—Papineau Bellechasse Blainville—Deux-Montagnes Bonaventure—Îles-de-la-Madeleine Frontenac Gaspé Gatineau—La Lièvre Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup Lachine—Lac-Saint-Louis La Prairie Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Papineau—Saint-Michel Richmond—Wolfe Rimouski—Témiscouata Saint-Denis Saint-Henri—Westmount Saint-Hubert Saint-Léonard Terrebonne Vaudreuil Verchères Verdun—Saint-Paul
Until 1993	Duvernay Langelier Laval Laval-des-Rapides Montmorency—Orléans Québec-Est Saint-Laurent
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Until 1980	Laprairie Montmorency Richmond Saint-Hyacinthe Verdun
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Until 1974	Lachine Lasalle
Until 1972	Argenteuil Beauharnois Bonaventure Bourassa Maisonneuve Missisquoi Témiscouata Trois-Rivières
Until 1968	Argenteuil—Deux-Montagnes Beauharnois—Salaberry Berthier—Maskinongé—Delanaudière Brome—Missisquoi Cartier Chambly—Rouville Chapleau Châteauguay—Huntingdon—Laprairie Compton—Frontenac Dorchester Drummond—Arthabaska Îles-de-la-Madeleine Jacques-Cartier—Lasalle Joliette—L'Assomption—Montcalm Matapédia—Matane Maisonneuve—Rosemont Mégantic Montmagny—L'Islet Nicolet—Yamaska Outremont—Saint-Jean Pontiac–Témiscamingue Quebec East Québec—Montmorency Quebec South Quebec West Richelieu—Verchères Richmond—Wolfe Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata Saguenay St. Ann Saint-Antoine—Westmount Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot Saint-Jean—Iberville—Napierville St. Lawrence—St. George Saint-Maurice—Laflèche Stanstead Vaudreuil—Soulanges
Until 1962	Témiscouata
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