Québécois general election of 1916

The Québécois general election of 1916 is held the May 22nd 1916 in order to elect with the legislative Assemblée of the province of the Quebec (Canada) the deputies of the 14th legislature. It is about the 14th general election since the Canadian Confédération of 1867. The Liberal party of Quebec, directed by the Prime Minister Lomer Gouin, is again re-elected and forms a majority Gouvernement.

Context

The February 16th 1915, the chief of the opposition Joseph-Mathias Tellier resigned and was replaced by Philémon Cousineau, which directs the Conservative party of Quebec at the time of the general election.

The liberals are once again deferred to the capacity, while increasing their majority in way is essential, as much in terms of the popular vote that seats with the legislative Parliament. The conservatives are reduced to six deputies, not having been able to introduce candidates in several districts. Philémon Cousineau resigns following its defeat at the polls; it is replaced by Arthur Sauvé as chief of the opposition.

Important dates

April 14th 1916: Emission of the brief of election.
May 22nd, 1916: poll
November 7th, 1916: opening of the session.

Results

Elected without opposition: 23 liberals, 3 conservatives

List deputies

Argenteuil : John Hay (Liberal party)
Arthabaska : Joseph-Edouard Perrault (Liberal party)
Bagot : Joseph-Émery Phaneuf (Liberal party)
Beauce : Arthur Godbout (Liberal party)
Beauharnois : Edmund Arthur Robert (Liberal party)
Bellechasse : Antonin Galipeault (Liberal party)
Berthier : Joseph Lafontaine (Liberal party)
Bonaventure : Joseph-Fabien Bugeaud (Liberal party)
Bromine : William Frederick Villas (Liberal party)
Chambly : Eugene Merrill Lesieur Desaulniers (Liberal party)
Champlain : Bruno Bordeleau (Liberal party)
Charlevoix-Saguenay : Pierre D' Auteuil (Conservative party)
Châteauguay : Honore Draper 2 (Liberal party)
Chicoutimi : Small Honore (Liberal party)
Compton : George Nathaniel Scott (Liberal party)
Two-Mountains : Arthur Saved (Conservative party)
Dorchester : Lucien Canon (Liberal party)
Dorion : Georges Mayrand (Liberal party)
Drummond : Hector Laferté (Liberal party)
Frontenac : Georges-Stanislas Gregoire (Liberal party)
Gaspé : Gustave Lemieux (Liberal party)
Hochelaga : Severin Létourneau (Liberal party)
Huntingdon : Andrew Philps (Liberal party)
Iberville : Joseph-Aldéric Benoit (Liberal party)
Iles-de-la-Madeleine : Joseph-Edouard Charon (Liberal party)
Jacques-Cartier : Seraph-Aime Ashby (Liberal party)
Joliette : Ernest Hébert (Liberal party)
Kamouraska : Charles-Adolphe Stein (Liberal party)
Labelle : Hyacinthe-Adélard Fortier (Liberal party)
Lake Midsummer's Day : Sylvio-Narcisse Turcotte (Conservative party)
Laprairie : Wilfrid Cédillot (Liberal party)
the Assumption : Walter Reed (Liberal party)
Bay-tree : Napoleon Turcot (Liberal party)
Laval : Joseph-Wenceslas Lévesque (Liberal party)
Lévis : Alfred-Valère Roy (Liberal party)
Islet : Elisee Thériault (Liberal party)
Lotbinière : Joseph-Napoleon Francoeur (Liberal party)
Maisonneuve : Jérémie-Louis Décarie (Liberal party)
Maskinongé : Rodolphe Tourville (Liberal party)
Matane : Donat Charon (Liberal party)
Mégantic : Prize winner Lapierre (Liberal party)
Missisquoi : Jean-Baptiste Gosselin (Liberal party)
Montcalm : Joseph-Alcide Dupuis (Liberal party)
Montmagny : Joseph-Elzéar Masson (Liberal party)
Montmorency : Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (Liberal party)
Montreal-Saint-Georges : Charles Ernest Gault (Conservative party)
Montreal-Saint-Laurent : John Thomas Finished (Liberal party)
Napierville : Cyprien Dorris (Liberal party)
Nicolet : Arthur Trahan (Liberal party)
Ottawa : Ferdinand-Ambroise Gendron (Liberal party)
Pontiac : William Hodgins (Liberal party)
Portneuf : Lomer Gouin (Liberal party)
Quebec-Center : Lawrence Arthur Canon (Liberal party)
Quebec-County : Aurèle Leclerc (Liberal party)
Quebec-Is : Louis-Alfred Létourneau (Liberal party)
Quebec-West : Martin Madden (Liberal party)
Richelieu : Maurice-Louis Péloquin (Liberal party)
Richmond : Walter George Mitchell (Liberal party)
Rimouski : Auguste-Maurice Tessier (Liberal party)
Rouville : Joseph-Edmond Robert (Liberal party)
Holy-Anne : Denis Tansey (Conservative party)
Sainte-Marie : Napoleon Séguin (Liberal party)
Saint-Hyacinthe : Télesphore-Damien Bouchard (Liberal party)
Saint-Jacob : Clement Robillard (Liberal party)
Midsummer's Day : Robert Marcellin (Liberal party)
Saint-Louis : Peter Bercovitch (Liberal party)
Saint-Maurice : Georges-Isidore Delisle (Liberal party)
Saint-Saver : Arthur Package (Liberal party)
Shefford : William Stephen Bullock (Liberal party)
Sherbrooke : Calixte-Emile Therrien (Liberal party)
Soulanges : Avila Farand (Liberal party)
Stanstead : Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet (Liberal party)
Témiscamingue : Télesphore Simard (Liberal party)
Témiscouata : Louis-Eugene Parrot (Liberal party)
Terrebonne : Athanase David (Liberal party)
Three-Rivers : Joseph-Adolphe Tessier (Liberal party)
Vaudreuil : Hormisdas Rammer (Liberal party)
Verchères : Adrien Beaudrien (Liberal party)
Westmount : Charles Allen Smart (Conservative 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 May 22nd, 1916 — QuébecPolitique.com

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