Dorchester_(federal_electoral_district)

Dorchester
Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1966
First contested	1867
Last contested	1965
Communities	Saint-Prosper-de-Dorchester

Dorchester (federal electoral district)

Federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada

Dorchester was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1968.

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It was created by the British North America Act, 1867, which preserved the existing electoral districts in Lower Canada at the time. In 1966, it was redistributed into the Beauce, Bellechasse and Lévis electoral districts.

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Parliament	Years		Party
Dorchester
1st	1867–1872	Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative
2nd	1872–1874	Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative
3rd	1874–1875	François Fortunat Rouleau	Liberal–Conservative
3rd	1875–1878
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1887	Charles Alexander Lesage	Conservative
6th	1887–1887	Henri-Jules Juchereau Duchesnay	Nationalist Conservative
6th	1888–1891	Honoré Julien Jean-Baptiste Chouinard	Conservative
7th	1891–1896	Cyrille Émile Vaillancourt	Nationalist
8th	1896–1900	Jean-Baptiste Morin	Conservative
9th	1900–1904
10th	1904–1908
11th	1908–1911	Joseph Alfred Ernest Roy	Liberal
12th	1911–1917	Albert Sévigny	Conservative
12th	1917–1917	Albert Sévigny	Conservative
13th	1917–1921	Lucien Cannon	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
14th	1921–1925		Liberal
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935	Onésime Gagnon	Conservative
18th	1935–1940	Léonard Tremblay	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957	Robert Perron	Progressive Conservative
23rd	1957–1958	Joseph-Armand Landry	Liberal
24th	1958–1962	Noël Drouin	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	Pierre-André Boutin	Social Credit
26th	1963–1963		Social Credit
26th	1963–1965		Ralliement créditiste
27th	1965–1968	Gustave Côté	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Beauce, Bellechasse and Lévis

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Hector Langevin	acclaimed
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[1]

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Hector-Louis Langevin	1,044
	Unknown	E.H. Marceau	724
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[2]

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	François Fortunat Rouleau	895
	Unknown	E.H. Marceau	874

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 14 December 1875 Rouleau unseated on petition, 8 July 1875
	Liberal–Conservative	François Fortunat Rouleau	1,086
	Unknown	Alfred Morrisset	620

Dorchester (federal electoral district)

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 7 January 1888 Duchesnay's death, 6 July 1887
	Conservative	Honoré Julien Jean-Baptiste Chouinard	acclaimed

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 27 January 1917 Sévigny appointed Minister of Inland Revenue, 8 January 1917
	Conservative	Albert Sévigny	2,719
	Liberal	Lucien Cannon	2,445

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 2 November 1926 Cannon's acceptance of an office of emolument under the Crown, 5 October 1926
	Liberal	Lucien Cannon	acclaimed

v t e 1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Léonard-David Tremblay	5,149
	Independent	Emile Boiteau	4,291
	Social Credit	Joseph-Ernest Grégoire	1,843

v t e 1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Léonard-David Tremblay	6,983
	Progressive Conservative	Gérard Corriveau	6,762
	Union des électeurs	Louis-Philippe Bouchard	1,020