Québécois general election of 1927

The Québécois general election of 1927 is held the May 16th 1927 in order to elect with the legislative Assemblée Quebec the Député S of the 17 {{E}} legislature. It is about the 17th general election in this province of the Canada since the confederation 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 and demolishing the Conservative party Arthur Sauvé. The Liberal party increases its majority with the legislative Parliament appreciably and gains a greater part of the popular vote in comparison with the preceding election, while the conservatives lose more half of their seats like 5% of the popular vote.

In front of the new retreat of his party, the conservative leader Arthur Sauvé announces that it will leave his station at the time of a congress to the cheffery envisaged for 1929; at the time of this congress, Camillien Houde is selected to succeed Sauvé.

Starting from April 1st 1927, a deputy who is named minister is more obliged to resign like deputy to represent in front of his voters in a by-election.

Important dates

April 19th 1927: Emission of the brief of election.
May 16th, 1927: poll
January 10th, 1928: opening of the session.

Results

Elected without opposition: 12 liberals

List deputies

Abitibi : Hector Authier (Liberal party)
Argenteuil : Georges Dansereau (Liberal party)
Arthabaska : Joseph-Edouard Perrault (Liberal party)
Bagot : Joseph-Émery Phaneuf (Liberal party)
Beauce : Joseph-Hughes Fortier (Liberal party)
Beauharnois : Louis-Joseph Papineau (Liberal party)
Bellechasse : Antonin Galipeault (Liberal party)
Berthier : Cléophas Bastien (Liberal party)
Bonaventure : Pierre-Emile Side (Liberal party)
Bromine : Carlton James Oliver (Liberal party)
Chambly : Alexandre Thurber (Liberal party)
Champlain : William Pierre Grant (Liberal party)
Charlevoix-Saguenay : Edgar Rochette (Liberal party)
Châteauguay : Honore Draper II (Liberal party)
Chicoutimi : Gustave Delisle (Liberal party)
Compton : Jacob Nicol (Liberal party)
Two-Mountains : Arthur Saved (Conservative party)
Dorchester : Charles-Ernest Ouellet (Liberal party)
Dorion : Aldéric Blain (Conservative party)
Drummond : Hector Laferté (Liberal party)
Frontenac : Cyrille Baillargeon (Liberal party)
Gaspé : Gustave Lemieux (Liberal party)
Hull : Aime Guertin (Conservative party)
Huntingdon : Andrew Philps (Liberal party)
Iberville : Lucien Lamoureux (Liberal party)
Iles-de-la-Madeleine : Joseph-Edouard Charon (Liberal party)
Jacques-Cartier : Commercial Victor (Liberal party)
Joliette : Lucien Dugas (Liberal party)
Kamouraska : Pierre Gagnon (Liberal party)
Labelle : Pierre Lortie (Liberal party)
Lake Midsummer's Day : Emile Moreau (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 : William Tremblay (Left working)
Maskinongé : Joseph-William Gagnon (Liberal party)
Matane : Joseph-Arthur Bergeron (Liberal party)
Matapédia : Joseph Dufour (Liberal party)
Mégantic : Prize winner Lapierre (Liberal party)
Draper : Anatole Plante (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 - the St. Lawrence : Joseph Cohen (Liberal 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 : Pierre Gauthier (Liberal party)
Quebec-Center : Joseph-Octave Samson (Liberal party)
Quebec-County : Joseph-Éphraïm Bédard (Liberal party)
Quebec-Is : Oscar Drouin (Liberal party)
Quebec-West : Joseph Ignatius Power (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 : Joseph-Henry Dillon (Liberal party)
Sainte-Marie : Joseph Gauthier (Liberal party
Saint-Henri : Alfred Leduc (Liberal party)
Saint-Hyacinthe Télesphore-Damien Bouchard (Liberal party)
Saint-Jacob : Irenee Vautrin (Liberal party)
Midsummer's Day : Alexis Bouthillier (Liberal party)
Saint-Louis : Peter Bercovitch (Liberal party)
Saint-Maurice : Joseph-Auguste Frigon (Liberal party)
Saint-Saver : Charles-Edouard Cantin (Liberal party)
Shefford : William Stephen Bullock (Liberal party)
Sherbrooke : Armand-Charles Crépeau (Left coservator)
Soulanges : Avila Farand (Liberal party)
Stanstead : Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet (Liberal party)
Témiscamingue : Joseph-Edouard Piché (Liberal party)
Témiscouata : Leon Casgrain (Liberal party)
Terrebonne : Athanase David (Liberal party)
Three-Rivers : Maurice Duplessis (Conservative party)
Vaudreuil : Hormisdas Rammer (Liberal party)
Verchères : Felix Messier (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)

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 16th, 1927 — QuébecPolitique.com

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