5th Quebec Legislature

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The 5th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from December 2, 1881, to October 14, 1886. The Quebec Conservative Party led Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Joseph-Alfred Mousseau and John Jones Ross was the governing party. Chapleau was succeeded by Mousseau in 1882 while Ross succeeded Mousseau in 1884. It was the Conservatives last majority government.

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The sixty-five members were each elected in a single-member district through First past the post.

Seats per political party

AffiliationMembers
Conservative 50
  Liberal/Parti national 14
 Conservative Independent1
 Total
65
 Government Majority
36

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1881 election:

NamePartyRiding
  William Owens Conservative Argenteuil
  Antoine Casavant Conservative Bagot
  Jean Blanchet Conservative Beauce
  Célestin Bergevin Conservative Beauharnois
  Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice Conservative Bellechasse
  Joseph Robillard Conservative Berthier
  Louis-Joseph Riopel Conservative Bonaventure
  William Warren Lynch Conservative Brome
  Michel-Dosithée-Stanislas Martel Conservative Chambly
  Robert Trudel Conservative Champlain
  Onésime Gauthier Conservative Charlevoix
  Édouard Laberge Liberal Châteauguay
  Élie Saint-Hilaire Conservative Independent Chicoutimi et Saguenay
  William Sawyer Conservative Compton
  Charles Champagne Conservative Deux-Montagnes
  Nicodème Audet Conservative Dorchester
  William John Watts Liberal Drummond et Arthabaska
  Edmund James Flynn Conservative Gaspé
  Louis Beaubien Conservative Hochelaga
  Alexander Cameron Liberal Huntingdon
  Alexis-Louis Demers Liberal Iberville
  Charles Marcotte Conservative Islet
  Narcisse Lecavalier Conservative Jacques Cartier
  Vincent-Paul Lavallée Conservative Joliette
  Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon Liberal Kamouraska
  Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois Conservative Laprairie
  Joseph Marion Conservative L'Assomption
  Louis-Onésime Loranger Conservative Laval
  Étienne-Théodore Pâquet Conservative Lévis
  Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière Liberal Lotbinière
  Édouard Caron Conservative Maskinongé
  George Irvine Liberal Mégantic
  Elijah Edmund Spencer Conservative Missisquoi
  Jean-Baptiste-Tréfflé Richard Conservative Montcalm
  Louis-Napoléon Fortin Liberal Montmagny
  Louis-Georges Desjardins Conservative Montmorency
  George Washington Stephens Sr. Liberal Montréal Centre
  Louis-Olivier Taillon Conservative Montréal Est
  James McShane Liberal Montreal Ouest
  François-Xavier Paradis Conservative Napierville
  Charles-Édouard Houde Conservative Nicolet
  Louis Duhamel Conservative Ottawa (Outaouais)
  Thomas Bryson Conservative Pontiac
  Jean-Docile Brousseau Conservative Portneuf
  Pierre Garneau Conservative Québec-Comté
  Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret dit Malouin Liberal Québec-Centre
  Joseph Shehyn Liberal Québec-Est
  Félix Carbray Conservative Québec-Ouest
  Léon Leduc Conservative Richelieu
  Jacques Picard Conservative Richmond et Wolfe
  Louis-Napoléon Asselin Conservative Rimouski
  Étienne Poulin Conservative Rouville
  Honoré Mercier Liberal St. Hyacinthe
  Félix-Gabriel Marchand Liberal St. Jean
  François-Sévère Desaulniers Conservative St. Maurice
  Isidore Frégeau Conservative Shefford
  Joseph Gibb Robertson Conservative Sherbrooke
  William Duckett Conservative Soulanges
  John Thornton Conservative Stanstead
  Georges-Honoré Deschênes Conservative Témiscouata
  Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau Conservative Terrebonne
  Sévère Dumoulin Conservative Trois-Rivières
  Émery Lalonde, Sr. Conservative Vaudreuil
  Abraham Bernard Liberal Verchères
  Jonathan Saxton Campbell Würtele Conservative Yamaska

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during the term

Cabinet Ministers

Chapleau Cabinet (1881-1882)

Mousseau Cabinet (1882-1884)

Ross Cabinet (1884-1886)

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