Québécois general election of 1919

The Québécois general election of 1919 is held the June 23rd 1919 in order to elect with the legislative Assemblée of the province of the Quebec (Canada) the Député S of the 15th legislature. It is about the 15th general election since the Canadian Confédération of 1867. The Liberal party of Quebec, directed by the Prime Minister Lomer Gouin, is again re-elected, forming a majority Gouvernement.

Context

As from November 1916, Arthur Sauvé was the chief of the opposition. The soubresaults of the First World War had their echoes with the legislative Assemblée, in particular in connection with the crisis of the Conscription . In particular, the liberal deputy Joseph-Napoleon Francoeur presented following motion in December 1917: “ That this Room thinks that the province of Quebec would be laid out to accept the rupture of the federative pact of 1867-1875 if, in the other provinces, one believes that it is an obstacle with the union, the progress and the development of Canada ”. This motion however was not voted on.

Before even the day of the poll, 43 liberal candidates were elected without opposition, ensuring the capacity the Liberal party before the first vote is deposited. The Prime Minister Lomer Gouin held already the record of longevity for a Prime Minister.

Lomer Gouin, with the capacity since 1905, resigns one year day for day after this election to yield the place to its successor Louis-Alexandre Taschereau.

Important dates

May 23rd 1919: Emission of the brief of election.
June 23rd, 1919: poll
December 10th, 1919: opening of the session.

Results

Elected without opposition: 43 liberals, 2 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 : Achilles Bergevin (Liberal party)
Bellechasse : Antonin Galipeault (Liberal party)
Berthier : Siméon Lafrenière (Liberal party)
Bonaventure : Joseph-Fabien Bugeaud (Liberal party)
Bromine : William Robert Oliver (Liberal party)
Chambly : Eugene-Merrill-Lesieur Desaulniers (Liberal party)
Champlain : Bruno Bordeleau (Liberal party)
Charlevoix-Saguenay : Philippe Dufour (Liberal party)
Châteauguay : Honore Draper 2 (Liberal party)
Chicoutimi : Joseph-Arthur Gaudreault (Liberal party)
Compton : Camille-Emile Desjarlais (Liberal party)
Two-Mountains : Arthur Saved (Conservative party)
Dorchester : Charles-Ernest Ouellet (Liberal party)
Dorion : Aurèle Lacombe (Left working)
Drummond : Hector Laferté (Liberal party)
Frontenac : Georges-Stanislas Gregoire (Liberal party)
Gaspé : Gustave Lemieux (Liberal party)
Hochelaga : Joseph-Hercules Bédard (Liberal party)
Hull : Joseph Charon (Liberal party)
Huntingdon : Andrew Philps (Liberal party)
Iberville : Adélard Forget (Liberal party)
Iles-de-la-Madeleine : Joseph-Edouard Charon (Liberal party)
Jacques-Cartier : Seraph-Aime Ashby (Liberal party)
Joliette : Pierre-Joseph Dufresne (Liberal party)
Kamouraska : Charles-Adolphe Stein (Liberal party)
Labelle : Honore Achim (Liberal party)
Lake Midsummer's Day : Emile Moreau (Liberal party)
Laprairie : Wilfrid Cédillot (Liberal party)
the Assumption : Walter Reed (Liberal party)
Bay-tree : Ernest Poulin (Liberal party)
Laval : Joseph-Olier Renaud (Conservative party)
Lévis : Alfred-Valère Roy (Liberal party)
Islet : Elisee Thériault (Liberal party)
Lotbinière : Joseph-Napoleon Francoeur (Liberal party)
Maisonneuve : Adélard Laurendeau (Left working)
Maskinongé : Rodolphe Tourville (Liberal party)
Matane : Joseph Dufour (Liberal party)
Mégantic : Prize winner Lapierre (Liberal party)
Missisquoi : Alexandre Saurette (Liberal party)
Montcalm : Joseph-Ferdinand Daniel (Liberal party)
Montmagny : Charles-Abraham Paquet (Liberal party)
Montmorency : Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (Liberal party)
Montreal-Saint-Georges : Charles Ernest Gault (Conservative party)
Montreal-Saint-Laurent : Henry Miles (Liberal party)
Napierville : Amédée Monet (Liberal party)
Nicolet : Joseph-Alcide Savoy (Liberal party)
Pontiac : Wallace Reginald McDonald (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 : Maurice Tessier (Liberal party)
Rouville : Joseph-Edmond Robert (Liberal party)
Holy-Anne : Bernard-Augustin Conroy (Liberal party)
Sainte-Marie : Napoleon Séguin Liberal party)
Saint-Hyacinthe : Armand Boisseau (Liberal party)
Saint-Jacob : Irenee Vautrin (Liberal party)
Midsummer's Day : Alexis Bouthillier (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 : Joseph-Henri Lemay (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 Beaudry (Liberal party)
Westmount : Charles Allen Smart (Conservative party)
Wolfe : Joseph-Eugene Rhéault (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 23rd, 1919 — QuébecPolitique

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