Québécois general election of 1900

The Québécois general election of 1900 is held on December 7th 1900 in order to elect with the legislative Assemblée Quebec the Député S of the 10th legislature. It is about the 10th general election in this province of the Canada since the confederation of 1867. The Liberal party of Quebec, directed by the Prime Minister Simon-Napoleon Relative, is deferred to the capacity and form a majority Gouvernement.

Context

The Prime Minister Felix-Gabriel Marchand died in function on September 25th, 1900. He is replaced by Simon-Napoleon Parent, which starts shortly after anticipated elections.

Relative further increases the majority obtained by Marchand in 1897, gaining 67 seats out of the 74 with the legislative Parliament. The Conservative party is in full rout: not only they make elect only seven deputies, but they do not even manage to propose a candidate in 36 districts.

Important dates

  • November 15th 1900: Emission of the brief of election.

  • December 7th, 1900: poll
  • February 14th, 1901: opening of the session.

Results

Elected without opposition: 36 liberals

List deputies

  • Argenteuil : William Alexander Weir (Liberal party)

  • Arthabaska : Paul Tourigny (Liberal party)
  • Bagot : Frederic-Hector Daigneault (Liberal party)
  • Beauce : Henri-Severin Béland (Liberal party)
  • Beauharnois : Achilles Bergevin (Liberal party)
  • Bellechasse : Adélard Turgeon (Liberal party)
  • Berthier : Cuthbert-Alphonse Chênevert (Liberal party)
  • Bonaventure : William Henry Clapperton (Liberal party)
  • Bromine : Henry Thomas Duffy (Liberal party)
  • Chambly : Maurice Perreault (Liberal party)
  • Champlain : Pierre-Calixte Neault (Liberal party)
  • Charlevoix : Joseph Morin (Liberal party)
  • Châteauguay : François-Xavier Dupuis (Liberal party)
  • Chicoutimi-Saguenay : Small Honore (Liberal party)
  • Compton : Allen Wright Giard (Conservative party)
  • Two-Mountains : Hector Champagne (Liberal party)
  • Dorchester : Louis-Philippe Furrier (Conservative party)
  • Drummond : William John Watts (Liberal party)
  • Gaspé : Xavier Kennedy (Liberal party)
  • Hochelaga : Jérémie-Louis Décarie (Liberal party)
  • Huntingdon : William H. Walker (Liberal party)
  • Iberville : François Gosselin (Liberal party)
  • Iles-de-la-Madeleine : Patrick Peter Delaney (Liberal party)
  • Jacques-Cartier : Joseph-Adolphe Chouret (Liberal party)
  • Joliette : Joseph-Mathias Tellier (Conservative party)
  • Kamouraska : Louis-Rodolphe Roy (Liberal party)
  • Lake Midsummer's Day : Georges Tanguay (Liberal party)
  • Laprairie : Like-seraph Cherrier (Liberal party)
  • the Assumption : Joseph-Edouard Duhamel (Liberal party)
  • Laval : Pierre-Évariste Leblanc (Conservative party)
  • Lévis : Charles Langelier (Liberal party)
  • Islet : François-Gilbert Miville-Dechêne (Liberal party)
  • Lotbinière : Napoleon Lemay (Conservative party)
  • Maskinongé : Hector Charon (Liberal party)
  • Matane : Donat Charon (Liberal party)
  • Mégantic : George Robert Smith (Liberal party)
  • Missisquoi : Jean-Baptiste Gosselin (Liberal party)
  • Montcalm : Pierre-Julien-Léonidas Bissonnette (Liberal party)
  • Montmagny : Ernest Roy (Liberal party)
  • Montmorency : Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (Liberal party)
  • Montreal 1 : Georges-Albini Lacombe (Liberal party)
  • Montreal 2 : Lomer Gouin (Liberal party)
  • Montreal 3 : Henri-Benjamin Rainville (Liberal party)
  • Montreal 4 : James Cochrane (Liberal party)
  • Montreal 5 : Mathew Hutchinson (Liberal party)
  • Montreal 6 : James John Guerin (Liberal party)
  • Napierville : Cyprien Dorris (Liberal party)
  • Nicolet : Edmund James Flynn (Conservative party)
  • Ottawa : Charles-Beautron Major (Liberal party)
  • Pontiac : David Gillies (Liberal party)
  • Portneuf : Jules Tessier (Liberal party)
  • Quebec-Center : Amédée Robitaille (Liberal party)
  • Quebec-County : Némèse Garneau (Liberal party)
  • Quebec-Is : Jules-Alfred Lane (Liberal party)
  • Quebec-West : John Gabriel Hearn (Liberal party)
  • Richelieu : Louis-Pierre-Paul Cardin (Liberal party)
  • Richmond : Peter Samuel George Mackenzie (Liberal party)
  • Rimouski : Auguste Tessier (Liberal party)
  • Rouville : Alfred Girard (Liberal party)
  • Saint-Hyacinthe : Joseph Morin (Liberal party)
  • Midsummer's Day : Philippe-Honore Roy (Liberal party)
  • Saint-Maurice : Louis-Philippe Fiset (Liberal party)
  • Saint-Saver : Simon-Napoleon Relative (Liberal party)
  • Shefford : Tancrède Butcher of Grosbois (Liberal party)
  • Sherbrooke : Joseph-Pantaléon Furrier (Liberal party)
  • Soulanges : Avila-Gonzague Bourbonnais (Liberal party)
  • Stanstead : Moodie Brock Lovell (Liberal party)
  • Témiscouata : Napoleon Dion (Liberal party)
  • Terrebonne : Jean-Benoit Prévost (Liberal party)
  • Three-Rivers : Richard-Stanislas Cooke (Liberal party)
  • Vaudreuil : Émery Lalonde 2 (Liberal party)
  • Verchères : Etienne Blanchard (Liberal party)
  • Wolfe : Joseph-Adolphe Chicoyne (Conservative party)
  • Yamaska : Jules Allard (Liberal party)

Sources

  • historical Section of the site of the National Assembly of Quebec
  • Jacques Lacoursière, popular History of Quebec , volume 4, editions of North, Sillery (Quebec), 1997
  • General election December 7th, 1900 — QuébecPolitique.com

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