6th Quebec Legislature

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The 6th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from October 14, 1886, to June 17, 1890. During most of the term, the Quebec Liberal Party, also known as the Parti national as that period, was the governing party. However, the Quebec Conservative Party despite losing the election tried to form a minority government with John Jones Ross and Louis-Olivier Taillon as Premiers but only managed to last a few months before the Liberals led by Honoré Mercier, the founder of the Parti National, formed a narrow majority government with 33 of the 65 seats of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

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Seats per political party

AffiliationMembers
  Liberal/Parti national 33
Conservative 27
 Conservative Independent3
Nationalistes/Parti National2
 Total
65
 Government Majority
6

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1886 election:

NamePartyRiding
  William Owens Conservative Argenteuil
  Joseph Pilon Liberal Bagot
  Jean Blanchet Conservative Beauce
  Élie-Hercule Bisson Liberal Beauharnois
  Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice Conservative Bellechasse
  Louis Sylvestre Liberal Berthier
  Henri-Josué Martin Conservative Bonaventure
  William Warren Lynch Conservative Brome
  Antoine Rocheleau Liberal Chambly
Ferdinand Trudel Parti national Champlain
  Joseph Morin Liberal Charlevoix
  Joseph-Émery Robidoux Liberal Châteauguay
  Élie Saint-Hilaire Conservative Independent Chicoutimi et Saguenay
  John McIntosh Conservative Compton
  Benjamin Beauchamp Conservative Independent Deux-Montagnes
  Louis-Napoléon Larochelle Conservative Dorchester
  Joseph-Éna Girouard Liberal Drummond et Arthabaska
  Edmund James Flynn Conservative Gaspé
  Joseph-Octave Villeneuve Conservative Hochelaga
  Alexander Cameron Liberal Huntingdon
  Alexis-Louis Demers Liberal Iberville
  François-Gilbert Miville Dechêne Liberal Islet
  Arthur Boyer Liberal Jacques Cartier
  Louis Basinet Liberal Joliette
  Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon Liberal Kamouraska
  Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois Conservative Laprairie
  Ludger Forest Liberal L'Assomption
  Pierre-Évariste Leblanc Conservative Laval
  François-Xavier Lemieux Liberal Lévis
  Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté Liberal Lotbinière
  Édouard Caron Conservative Maskinongé
  Andrew Stuart Johnson Conservative Mégantic
  Elijah Edmund Spencer Conservative Missisquoi
  Jean-Baptiste-Tréfflé Richard Conservative Montcalm
  Nazaire Bernatchez Liberal Montmagny
  Louis-Georges Desjardins Conservative Montmorency
  James McShane Liberal Montréal Centre
  Laurent-Olivier David Liberal Montréal Est
  John Smythe Hall Conservative Montreal Ouest
  Eugène Lafontaine Liberal Napierville
  Louis-Tréfflé Dorais Conservative Independent Nicolet
  Narcisse-Édouard Cormier Conservative Ottawa (Outaouais)
  William Joseph Poupore Conservative Pontiac
  Jules Tessier Liberal Portneuf
  Thomas Chase Casgrain Conservative Québec-Comté
  Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret dit Malouin Liberal Québec-Centre
  Joseph Shehyn Liberal Québec-Est
  Owen Murphy Liberal Québec-Ouest
  Louis-Pierre-Paul Cardin Liberal Richelieu
  Jacques Picard Conservative Richmond et Wolfe
  Édouard-Onésiphore Martin Liberal Rimouski
  Edmond Lareau Liberal Rouville
  Honoré Mercier Liberal St. Hyacinthe
  Félix-Gabriel Marchand Liberal St. Jean
  Nérée Duplessis Conservative St. Maurice
  Thomas Brassard Liberal Shefford
  Joseph Gibb Robertson Conservative Sherbrooke
Avila-Gonzague Bourbonnais Parti national Soulanges
  Ozro Baldwin Conservative Stanstead
  Georges-Honoré Deschênes Conservative Témiscouata
  Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel Conservative Terrebonne
  Henri-René-Arthur Turcotte Liberal Trois-Rivières
  Alfred Lapointe Conservative Vaudreuil
  Albert-Alexandre Lussier Liberal Verchères
  Victor Gladu Liberal Yamaska

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected during by-elections or in another district between the two general elections

New provincial ridings

The electoral map was reformed in 1890 just a few months prior to the elections later that year.

Cabinet Ministers

Ross Cabinet (1886-1887)

Taillon Cabinet (1887)

Mercier Cabinet (1887-1890)

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