Maskinongé (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the provincial electoral district, see Maskinongé (provincial electoral district). For the pre-Confederation electoral district, see Maskinongé (Province of Canada electoral district).

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

Maskinongé

Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1924
First contested	1867
Last contested	1921

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

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Maskinongé
1st	1867–1872		George Caron	Conservative
2nd	1872–1874		Louis-Alphonse Boyer	Liberal
3rd	1874–1878
4th	1878–1882		Frédéric Houde	Nationalist Conservative
5th	1882–1884
	1884–1887		Alexis Lesieur Desaulniers	Conservative
6th	1887–1891		Charles Jérémie Coulombe
7th	1891–1896		Joseph-Hormisdas Legris	Liberal
8th	1896–1900
9th	1900–1903
	1903–1904		Hormidas Mayrand
10th	1904–1908
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917		Adélard Bellemare	Independent Conservative
13th	1917–1921		Hormidas Mayrand	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
14th	1921–1925		Eugène Desrochers	Liberal
Riding dissolved into Berthier—Maskinongé

Election results

1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	George Caron	702
	Unknown	Moïse Houde	564

By-election: On Mr. Houde's death, 15 November 1884

Canadian federal by-election, 22 November 1884
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Alexis Lesieur Desaulniers	607
	Unknown	Charles Jérémie Coulombe	570
	Unknown	D. L. Laflèche	310

1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Charles Jérémie Coulombe	1,003
	Nationalist	Alexis Lesieur Desaulniers	997

By-election: On Mr. Legris being called to the Senate, 10 February 1903

By-election on 3 March 1903
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Hormidas Mayrand	acclaimed

1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Hormidas Mayrand	1,480
	Conservative	J. Alphonse Comeau	1,188
	Unknown	T. Thisdel	22

1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Hormidas Mayrand	1,500
	Unknown	Joseph Foisy	1,167

1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Independent Conservative	Adélard Bellemare	1,507
	Liberal	Hormidas Mayrand	1,398

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Hormidas Mayrand	2,721
	Unknown	Adolphe-Joseph Thibodeau	219
	Unknown	George Lafontaine	165

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Eugène Desrochers	4,128
	Independent Conservative	Adélard Bellemare	1,991

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Mauricie
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament