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- ↑ resigned his seat to accept a post in 1862; Christopher Dunkin was elected in a by-election in March 1862.
- ↑ gave up his seat to allow Antoine-Aimé Dorion to be elected in a by-election in June 1862.
- ↑ was appointed judge in 1863; Alfred Pinsonneault was elected in a by-election in April 1863.
- ↑ resigned his seat to accept an appointment as superintendent of Public Works; Louis-Siméon Morin was elected in a by-election in September 1861.
- ↑ died in 1861 without taking his seat; Joseph Dufresne was elected to the seat in a by-election in February 1862.
- ↑ resigned November 1862 when elected to represent Lorimier in Legislative Council.
- ↑ election was declared invalid; Charles-François Painchaud was awarded the seat in May 1863.
- ↑ unseated in February 1863; John Scoble was awarded the seat.
- ↑ election declared invalid in March 1863; John O'Connor was declared elected.
- ↑ resigned to accept an appointment as judge in 1863; George Brown was elected in a by-election in March 1863.
- 1 2 elected in both Perth & North Waterloo; Foley chose the Perth seat; when he was appointed to cabinet, he was forced to seek re-election and was elected in Waterloo North; Thomas Mayne Daly was elected in Perth in a by-election in 1862.
- Upper Canadian politics in the 1850s, Underhill (and others), University of Toronto Press (1967)