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- ↑ Jean Chabot was elected in Bellechasse and Quebec City, choosing to represent the latter; Octave-Cyrille Fortier was elected in a by-election in October 1854.
- ↑ resigned for health reasons in January 1855; David Edward Price was elected in a by-election held in April 1855.
- ↑ formerly Montreal (county)
- ↑ formerly Leinster
- ↑ died in July 1857; George Bryson was elected in a by-election in October 1857.
- ↑ resigned his seat to accept an appointment; François Évanturel was elected in a by-election in August 1855.
- ↑ resigned to accept an appointment as judge; Georges-Honoré Simard was elected in a by-election in October 1856.
- ↑ resigned due to ill health in 1857; George Okill Stuart was elected in a by-election in April 1857.
- ↑ resigned his seat in 1857; Michel Guillaume Baby was elected in a by-election in February 1857.
- ↑ resigned his seat to run unsuccessfully for a seat on the Legislative Council; William Henry Chaffers was elected in a by-election in October 1856.
- ↑ resigned his seat in 1857 to allow Louis-Siméon Morin to be elected.
- ↑ David Christie appealed the election of Daniel McKerlie and was declared elected in March 1855.
- ↑ resigned; George Benjamin was elected to the seat in a by-election in 1856.
- ↑ Francis Hincks, elected in both South Oxford & Renfrew, chose to sit for Renfrew; Ephraim Cook elected in October 1854
- ↑ formerly West York
- ↑ resigned his seat to become auditor general; Wilson Seymour Conger was elected in a by-election held in 1856.
- ↑ resigned his seat in November 1855; John Supple was elected in a by-election in the following year.
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