Brome (federal electoral district)

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Brome
Flag of Quebec.svg Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature House of Commons
District created 1867
District abolished1924
First contested 1867
Last contested 1921

Brome was a federal electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1925.

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It was created by the British North America Act, 1867, and was amalgamated into the Brome—Missisquoi electoral district in 1924.

The County of Brome consisted of the Townships of Bolton, Potton, Sutton, Brome and the eastern part of the Township of Farnham.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

ParliamentYearsMemberParty
Brome
1st  1867–1869   Christopher Dunkin Conservative
 1869–1871
 1871–1872 Edward Carter
2nd  1872–1874
3rd  1874–1878   Nathaniel Pettes Liberal
4th  1878–1880 Edmund Leavens Chandler
 1880–1882   David Ames Manson Liberal–Conservative
5th  1882–1887   Sydney Arthur Fisher Liberal
6th  1887–1891
7th  1891–1892   Eugène Alphonse Dyer Conservative
 1892–1896
8th  1896–1896   Sydney Arthur Fisher Liberal
 1896–1900
9th  1900–1904
10th  1904–1908
11th  1908–1911
12th  1911–1916   George Harold Baker Conservative
13th  1917–1921   Andrew Ross McMaster Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
14th  1921–1925   Liberal
Riding dissolved into Brome—Missisquoi

Election results

1867 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Conservative Christopher Dunkin acclaimed

By-election: On Mr. Dunkin being called to the Privy Council and appointed Minister of Agriculture, 16 November 1869

By-election on 29 November 1869
PartyCandidateVotes
Conservative Christopher Dunkin acclaimed

By-election: On Mr. Dunkin being appointed Puisne Judge, Superior Court of Quebec, 25 October 1871

By-election on 17 November 1871
PartyCandidateVotes
Conservative Edward Carter acclaimed
1872 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Conservative Edward Carter 1,037
UnknownJ.A. Perkins602
1874 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Nathaniel Pettes acclaimed
1878 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Edmund Leavens Chandler 1,272
UnknownS.L. Foster991

By-election: On Mr. Chandler's death, 21 August 1880

By-election on 18 October 1880
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal–Conservative David Ames Manson 1,217
Liberal Sydney Arthur Fisher 1,099
1882 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Sydney Arthur Fisher 1,399
UnknownS.N. Boright1,240
1887 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Sydney Arthur Fisher 1,570
Conservative James Burnett1,191
1891 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Conservative Eugène Alphonse Dyer 1,456
Liberal Sydney Arthur Fisher 1,453

By-election: On Mr. Dyer being unseated

By-election on 10 March 1892
PartyCandidateVotes
Conservative Eugène Alphonse Dyer acclaimed
1896 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Sydney Arthur Fisher 1,677
Conservative George Green Foster1,344

By-election: Mr. Fisher appointed Minister of Agriculture, 11 July 1896

By-election on 30 July 1896
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Sydney Arthur Fisher acclaimed
1900 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Sydney Arthur Fisher 1,805
Conservative Frederick England1,249
1904 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Sydney Arthur Fisher 1,821
Conservative E.P. Stevens941
1908 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Sydney Arthur Fisher 1,674
Conservative Frederick Albyn Olmstead1,233
Independent William Ulric Cotton37
1911 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Conservative George Harold Baker 1,520
Liberal Sydney Arthur Fisher 1,496
1917 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Opposition (Laurier Liberals) Andrew Ross McMaster 1,926
Government (Unionist) Dennis Colburn Draper1,488
1921 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes
Liberal Andrew Ross McMaster 3,768
Conservative Joseph Boulay2,163

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