Stanstead (provincial electoral district)

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Stanstead
Flag of Quebec.svg Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature National Assembly of Quebec
District created1867
District abolished1972
First contested 1867
Last contested 1970

Stanstead was a provincial electoral district in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada.

It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada). Its final election was in 1970. It disappeared in the 1973 election and its successor electoral district was Orford.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

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