Québécois general election of 1908

The Québécois general election of 1908 is held the June 8th 1908 in order to elect with the legislative Assemblée of the province of the Quebec (Canada) the Député S of the 12th legislature. The Liberal party of Quebec, to the capacity and directed by the Prime Minister Lomer Gouin, is again deferred to the capacity and form a majority Gouvernement.

Context

Following a movement of opposition inside his party, the Prime Minister Simon-Napoleon Parent resigned the March 21st 1905 and was replaced by Lomer Gouin. Side of the Conservative party, the new chief of the party, also selected in 1905, is Pierre-Évariste Leblanc, which succeeds Edmund James Flynn.

A new party is in string at the time of this election, that is to say the Canadian nationalist League of Henri Bourassa.

The conservatives obtain a result slightly better than in 1904 but they are far from threatening the liberals. The nationalists of Henri Bourassa carry out a good performance while making elect three deputies of which Bourassa itself, which beats Lomer Gouin in its own district of Montreal. However Gouin was also candidate in Portneuf; it can thus continue to sit at the Parliament.

Important dates

May 6th 1908: Emission of the brief of election.
June 8th, 1908: poll
March 2nd, 1909: opening of the session.

Results

Note:

^* did not introduce candidates at the time of the preceding election.

Elected without opposition: 6 liberals

List deputies

Argenteuil : William Alexander Weir (Liberal party)
Arthabaska : Paul Tourigny (Liberal party)
Bagot : Frederick Hector Daigneault (Liberal party)
Beauce : Arthur Godbout (Liberal party)
Beauharnois : Arthur Plants (Conservative party)
Bellechasse : Adélard Turgeon (Liberal party)
Berthier : Joseph Lafontaine (Liberal party)
Bonaventure : John Hall Kelly (Liberal party)
Bromine : William Frederick Villas (Liberal party)
Chambly : Maurice Perreault (Liberal party)
Champlain : Pierre-Calixte Neault (Liberal party)
Charlevoix : Pierre D' Auteuil (Conservative party)
Châteauguay : Honore Draper 2 (Liberal party)
Chicoutimi-Saguenay : Small Honore (Liberal party)
Compton : Allen Wright Giard (Conservative party)
Two-Mountains : Arthur Saved (Conservative party)
Dorchester : Alfred Morriset (Liberal party)
Drummond : Joseph Laferté (Liberal party)
Gaspé : Louis-Joseph Lemieux (Liberal party)
Hochelaga : Jérémie-Louis Décarie (Liberal party)
Huntingdon : William H. Walker (Liberal party)
Iberville : Joseph-Aldéric Benoit (Liberal party)
Iles-de-la-Madeleine : Louis-Albin Thériault (Liberal party)
Jacques-Cartier : Philémon Cousineau (Left coservator)
Joliette : Joseph-Mathias Tellier (Conservative party)
Kamouraska : Louis-Rodolphe Roy (Liberal party)
Lake Midsummer's Day : Theodore-Louis-Antoine Broët (Liberal party)
Laprairie : Ésioff-Leon Patenaude (Conservative party)
the Assumption : Walter Reed (Liberal party)
Laval : Joseph-Wenceslas Lévesque (Liberal party)
Lévis : Jean-Cléophas Blouin (Liberal party)
Islet : Joseph-Edouard Charon (Liberal party)
Lotbinière : Joseph-Napoleon Francoeur (Liberal party)
Maskinongé : Georges Lafontaine (Conservative party)
Matane : Donat Charon (Liberal party)
Mégantic : David Henry Pennington (Conservative party)
Missisquoi : Jean-Baptiste Gosselin (Conservative party)
Montcalm : Joseph Sylvestre (Conservative party)
Montmagny : Armand Lavergne (nationalist League)
Montmorency : Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (Liberal party)
Montreal 1 : Napoleon Séguin (Liberal party)
Montreal 2 : Henri Bourassa (nationalist League)
Montreal 3 : Godfroy Langlois (Liberal party)
Montreal 4 : John Thomas Finished (Liberal party)
Montreal 5 : Charles Ernest Gault (Conservative party)
Montreal 6 : Michael James Walsh (Conservative party)
Napierville : Cyprien Dorris (Liberal party)
Nicolet : Charles Ramsay Devlin (Liberal party)
Ottawa : Ferdinand-Ambroise Gendron (Liberal party)
Pontiac : Tancrède-Charles Gaboury (Liberal party)
Portneuf : Lomer Gouin (Liberal party)
Quebec-Center : Eugene Leclerc (Liberal party)
Quebec-County : Cyrille-Fraser Delage (Liberal party)
Quebec-Is : Louis-Alfred Létourneau (Liberal party)
Quebec-West : John Charles Kaine (Liberal party)
Richelieu : Louis-Pierre-Paul Cardin (Liberal party)
Richmond : Peter Samuel George Mackenzie (Liberal party)
Rimouski : Pierre-Emile Of Anjou (Liberal party)
Rouville : Joseph-Edmond Robert (Liberal party)
Saint-Hyacinthe : Henri Bourassa (nationalist League)
Midsummer's Day : Commercial Gabriel (Liberal party)
Saint-Maurice : Georges-Isidore Delisle (Left libral)
Saint-Saver : Charles-Eugene Side (Liberal party)
Shefford : Ludger-Pierre Bernard (Conservative party)
Sherbrooke : Joseph-Pantaléon Furrier (Liberal party)
Soulanges : Joseph-octave Mousseau (Liberal party)
Stanstead : Prosper-Alfred Bissonnet (Liberal party)
Témiscouata : Napoleon Dion (Liberal party)
Terrebonne : Jean-Benoit Prévost (Liberal party)
Three-Rivers : Joseph-Adolphe Tessier (Liberal party)
Vaudreuil : Hormisdas Rammer (Liberal party)
Verchères : Amédée Geoffrion (Liberal party)
Wolfe : Napoleon-Pierre Tanguay (Liberal party)
Yamaska : Edouard Ouellette (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 June 8th, 1908 — QuébecPolitique.com

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