Québécois general election of 1923

The Québécois general election of 1923 is held the February 5th 1923 in order to elect with the legislative Assemblée of the province of the Quebec (Canada) the deputies of the 16th legislature. It is about the 16th general election since the Canadian Confédération of 1867. The Liberal party of Quebec, directed by the Prime Minister Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, is deferred to the capacity, forming a majority Gouvernement again.

Context

The Prime Minister Lomer Gouin resigned in July 1920 and was replaced by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau. While remaining item 15 years and three months of them, Lomer Gouin held at this time, and by far, the record of longevity for a Prime Minister.

In March 1922, a bill aiming at granting the right to vote with the women was filed in, but was not adopted.

The number of seats passes from 81 to 85.

Important dates

January 11th 1923: Emission of the brief of election.
February 5th, 1923: poll
December 17th, 1923: opening of the session.

Results

Elected without opposition: 8 liberals

List deputies

Abitibi : Hector Authier (Liberal party)
Argenteuil : John Hay (Liberal party)
Arthabaska : Joseph-Edouard Perrault (Liberal party)
Bagot : Joseph-Émery Phaneuf (Liberal party)
Beauce : Joseph-Hughes Fortier (Liberal party)
Beauharnois : Arthur Plants (Conservative party)
Bellechasse : Antonin Galipeault (Liberal party)
Berthier : Siméon Lafrenière (Liberal party)
Bonaventure : Joseph-Fabien Bugeault (Liberal party)
Bromine : Carlton James Oliver (Liberal party)
Chambly : Alexandre Thurber (Liberal party)
Champlain : Bruno Bordeleau (Liberal party)
Charlevoix-Saguenay : Philippe Dufour (Liberal party)
Châteauguay : Honore Draper 2 (Liberal party)
Chicoutimi : Gustave Delisle (Liberal party)
Compton : Jacob Nicol (Liberal party)
Two-Mountains : Arthur Saved (Conservative party)
Dorchester : Charles-Ernest Ouellet (Liberal party)
Drummond : Hector Laferté (Liberal party)
Frontenac : Cyrille Baillargeon (Liberal party)
Gaspé : Gustave Lemieux (Liberal party)
Hull : Joseph-Romeo Lafond (Liberal party)
Huntingdon : Andrew Philps (Liberal party)
Iberville : Lucien Lamoureux (Liberal party)
Iles-de-la-Madeleine : Joseph-Edouard Charon (Liberal party)
Jacques-Cartier : Ésioff-Leon Patenaude (Conservative party)
Joliette : Pierre-Joseph Dufresne (Conservative party)
Kamouraska : Nérée Morin (Liberal party)
Labelle : Pierre Lortie (Liberal party)
Lake Midsummer's Day : Emile Moreau (Liberal party)
the Assumption : Walter Reed (Liberal party)
Bay-tree : Alfred Duranleau (Conservative 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 : Jean-Marie Pilgrim (Conservative party)
Maskinongé : Rodolphe Tourville (Liberal party)
Matane : Joseph-Arthur Bergeron (Liberal party)
Matapédia : Joseph Dufour (Liberal party)
Mégantic : Prize winner Lapierre (Liberal party)
Draper : Adolphe the Archbishop (Conservative 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-Dorion : Ernest Tétrault (Independent)
Montreal-Saint-Georges : Charles Ernest Gault (Conservative party)
Montreal-Saint-Laurent : Ernest Walter Sayer (Conservative party)
Montreal-Laprairie : Joseph-Euclide Charbonneau (Liberal party)
Nicolet : Joseph-Alcide Savoy (Liberal party)
Papineau : Wished Lahaie (Liberal party)
Pontiac : Wallace Reginald McDonald (Liberal party)
Portneuf : Edouard Hamel (Liberal party)
Quebec-Center : Pierre-Vincent To mow (Conservative party)
Quebec-County : Aurèle Leclerc (Liberal party)
Quebec-Is : Louis-Alfred Létourneau (Liberal party)
Quebec-West : Martin Madden (Liberal party)
Richelieu : Jean-Baptiste Lafrenière (Liberal party)
Richmond : Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais (Liberal party)
Rimouski : Louis-Joseph Moreault (Liberal party)
Rouville : Cyrille-Améric Bernard (Liberal party)
Holy-Anne : William James Hushion (Liberal party)
Sainte-Marie : Camillien Houde (Conservative party)
Saint-Henri : Joseph-Allan Bray (Liberal party)
Saint-Hyacinthe : Télesphore-Damien Bouchard (Liberal party)
Saint-Jacob : Ambroise-Eusèbe Beaudoin (Conservative party)
Midsummer's Day : Alexis Bouthillier (Liberal party)
Saint-Louis : Peter Bercovitch (Liberal party)
Saint-Maurice : Arthur Ricard (Liberal party)
Saint-Saver : Pierre Bertrand (Left working)
Shefford : William Stephens Bullock (Liberal party)
Sherbrooke : Brace O' Bready (Conservative party)
Soulanges : Joseph-Arthur Lortie (Conservative party)
Stanstead : Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet (Liberal party)
Témiscamingue : Télesphore Simard (Liberal party)
Témiscouata : Charles-Arthur Gauvreau (Conservative party)
Terrebonne : Athanase David (Liberal party)
Three-Rivers : Louis-Philippe Draper (Liberal party)
Vaudreuil : Hormisdas Rammer (Liberal party)
Verchères : Jean-Marie Richard (Liberal party)
Verdun : Pierre-Auguste Lafleur (Conservative party)
Westmount : Charles Allen Smart (Conservative party)
Wolfe : Pierre-Cyrénus Lemieux (Liberal party)
Yamaska : David Laperrière (Liberal party)
Zanzibar : Leon Baillargeon (Fanclub de Maude)

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 February 5th, 1923 — QuébecPolitique.com

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