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- ↑ Ged Martin, John A. Macdonald: Canada's first prime minister (Toronto: Dundurn, 2013), p. 19
- ↑ Double Shuffle https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/double-shuffle
- ↑ Parliamentary Guide
- ↑ election was declared invalid after an appeal; John Joseph Caldwell Abbott was declared elected in March 1860 after an inquiry by a committee of the Legislative Assembly.
- ↑ election was declared invalid; Charles-François Fournier was declared elected in June 1858.
- ↑ election was declared invalid; Lewis Thomas Drummond was elected in a by-election in October 1858.
- ↑ died in office in 1858; George Caron was elected in a by-election in December 1858.
- ↑ election was declared invalid in April 1860; Pierre-Gabriel Huot was elected in a by-election in May 1860.
- ↑ formerly Sherbrooke (county) and Wolfe
- ↑ defeated in a by-election in Shefford in September 1858 after he was appointed to cabinet; Asa Belknap Foster was elected to the seat.
- ↑ resigned his seat to run for a seat on the Legislative Council; Jean-Baptiste Mongenais was elected in a by-election in November 1860.
- ↑ resigned after being elected to the Legislative Council in 1858; Hugh Finlayson was elected in a by-election in 1858.
- ↑ missing from 1 December 1859; body discovered in Don River. He was murdered.
- ↑ resigned his seat in August 1858; Michael Harcourt was elected in an October 1858 by-election
- ↑ resigned after being elected to the Legislative Council in 1860; Hope Fleming Mackenzie was elected to the seat in a by-election in 1860.
- ↑ died in 1858; Ogle Robert Gowan was elected in a by-election later that year.
- ↑ resigned after being elected to the Legislative Council in 1860; J.C. Rykert was elected to the seat in a by-election in 1860.
- ↑ died in March 1860; Robert Craik was elected to his seat in 1860.
- ↑ died in June 1858; Angus Peter McDonald was elected to his seat in 1858.
- ↑ George Brown, elected in both North Oxford and Toronto, chose to sit for Toronto; William McDougall elected in a May 1858 by-election
- ↑ resigned his seat to allow William Cayley to be elected in a by-election held in March 1858.
- ↑ election declared fraudulent in October 1859; John W Loux elected in a December 1859 by-election.
- ↑ election appealed;James Ross was elected in an 1859 by-election.
- ↑ died in November 1859; Adam Wilson was elected to his seat in 1860.
- ↑ formerly South York; prior to that, 1st York
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