Mégantic (federal electoral district) - Canada

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Mégantic was a federal electoral district in the province of Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1935, and from 1949 to 1968.

Mégantic
Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1947
District abolished	1967
First contested	1949
Last contested	1965

History

It was created by the British North America Act, 1867. It was abolished in 1933 when it was redistributed into the Lotbinière and Mégantic—Frontenac electoral districts.

The riding was created again in 1947 from Lotbinière and Mégantic—Frontenac, was defined to consist of:

the county of Mégantic, (except the municipalities of Nelson, Ste-Anastasie-de-Nelson and the village of Lyster), the city of Thetford Mines and the town of Black Lake;
that part of the county of Frontenac included in the municipalities of Courcelles, St-Vital-de-Lambton, St-Evariste-de-Forsyth, St-Méthode-de-Frontenac and the villages of Lambton and St-Evariste-Station;
that part of the county of Wolfe included in the municipalities of Garthby, Stratford, Wolfestown, D'Israeli, Ste-Praxède and the villages of Beaulac and D'Israeli, together with that part of the municipality of Saints-Martyrs Canadiens included in the township of Garthby.

In 1952, it was redefined to consist of

the county of Mégantic, (except the township municipality of Nelson, the municipality of Sainte-Anastasie-de-Nelson and the village municipality of Lyster), the city of Thetford-Mines and the town of Black Lake;
that part of the county of Frontenac included in the municipalities of Lambton, Saint-Evariste-de-Forsyth, Sainte-Méthode-de-Frontenac, the parish municipality of Courcelles and the village municipalities of Lambton and La Guadeloupe;
that part of the county of Wolfe included in the township municipalities of Garthby, Stratford and Wolfestown, the municipality of Disraeli, the parish municipality of Sainte-Praxède, the village municipalities of Beaulac and Disraeli, together with that part of the parish municipality of Saints-Martyrs Canadiens included in the township of Garthby.

It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Compton, Frontenac and Richmond.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Mégantic
1st	1867–1872	George Irvine	Conservative
2nd	1872–1874	Édouard Richard	Liberal
3rd	1874–1878	Édouard Richard
4th	1878–1882	Louis-Éphrem Olivier
5th	1882–1884	Louis-Israël Côté dit Fréchette	Conservative
5th	1884–1887	François Langelier	Liberal
6th	1887–1891	Georges Turcot	Liberal
7th	1891–1896	Louis-Israël Côté dit Fréchette	Conservative
8th	1896–1900	Georges Turcot	Liberal
9th	1900–1904	Georges Turcot
10th	1904–1908	François-Théodore Savoie
11th	1908–1911	François-Théodore Savoie
12th	1911–1917	Lucien Turcotte Pacaud
13th	1917–1921		Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
14th	1921–1922		Liberal
14th	1922–1925	Eusèbe Roberge
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
Riding dissolved into Lotbinière and Mégantic—Frontenac
Riding re-created from Lotbinière and Mégantic—Frontenac
21st	1949–1953	Joseph Lafontaine	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962	Gabriel Roberge
25th	1962–1963	Raymond Langlois	Social Credit
26th	1963–1963		Social Credit
26th	1963–1965		Ralliement créditiste
27th	1965–1968		Ralliement créditiste
Riding dissolved into Compton, Frontenac and Richmond

Election results

Mégantic, 1867–1935

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	George Irvine	1,000
	Unknown	P. J. O. Triganne	733
Eligible voters			2,226
Source: Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1871[1]

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Édouard Richard	975
	Unknown	Triganne	857

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Édouard Richard	1,003
	Unknown	J. Reed	621
	Unknown	L.P.E. Crépeau	252

v t e 1878 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Louis-Éphrem Olivier	1,191
	Unknown	Jos E. Turgeon	881

v t e 1882 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Louis-Israël Côté dit Fréchette	1,204
	Unknown	L.O. Olivier	1,085

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 10 June 1884 On election being declared void, 1 April 1884
	Liberal	François Langelier	1,259
	Unknown	J.E. Turgeon	1,222

v t e 1887 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Georges Turcot	1,471
	Unknown	L.D. Larose	1,336

v t e 1891 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Louis-Israël Côté dit Fréchette	1,658
	Liberal	George Turcot	1,547

v t e 1896 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Georges Turcot	2,064
	Conservative	Louis-Israël Côté dit Fréchette	1,410

v t e 1900 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Georges Turcot	2,204
	Conservative	Louis-Israël Côté dit Fréchette	1,795

v t e 1904 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	François-Théodore Savoie	2,453
	Conservative	Louis-Israël Côté dit Fréchette	1,950

v t e 1908 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	François-Théodore Savoie	2,800
	Conservative	Louis-Israël Côté dit Fréchette	2,365

v t e 1911 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lucien Turcotte Pacaud	2,986
	Unknown	Louis Honoré Huard	2,619

v t e 1917 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Lucien Turcotte Pacaud	acclaimed

v t e 1921 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lucien Turcotte Pacaud	8,715
	Unknown	Alcide Alphonse Blondin	1,749

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 20 November 1922 On Pacaud's acceptance of an office of emolument under the Crown, 26 October 1922
	Liberal	Eusèbe Roberge	acclaimed

v t e 1925 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Eusèbe Roberge	6,929
	Conservative	Wilfrid Laliberté	3,262

v t e 1926 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Eusèbe Roberge	6,483
	Conservative	Camille Roberge	3,243

v t e 1930 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Eusèbe Roberge	7,609
	Conservative	Joseph-Théophile Beaudoin	5,757

Mégantic, 1949–1968

v t e 1949 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph Lafontaine	13,273
	Progressive Conservative	Oliva Cyr	6,791
	Union des électeurs	Joseph Gagné	2,230
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Émile Grenier	415

v t e 1953 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph Lafontaine	13,951
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Coté	8,420

v t e 1957 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph Lafontaine	15,378
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Gervais	8,300

v t e 1958 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Gabriel Roberge	13,486
	Progressive Conservative	C.-Benoît Chartier	13,030
	Independent Liberal	Gérard Sirois	246

v t e 1962 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Raymond Langlois	15,395
	Liberal	Gabriel Roberge	7,609
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Luc Dutil	5,822

v t e 1963 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Raymond Langlois	11,329
	Liberal	Luc Gilbert-Lessard,	9,140
	Progressive Conservative	Fernand Gagné	4,267
	New Democratic	Klaude Poulin	1,115

v t e 1965 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Ralliement créditiste	Raymond Langlois	11,195
	Liberal	Gaétan Théberge	9,486
	Progressive Conservative	Fernand Gagné	2,634
	New Democratic	Claude Lafleur	1,641

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament:

Federal ridings in Quebec

Central Quebec

Bécancour—Nicolet—Saurel
Berthier—Maskinongé
Joliette
Lévis—Lotbinière
Montcalm
Portneuf—Jacques-Cartier
Repentigny
Saint-Maurice—Champlain
Trois-Rivières

Côte-Nord and Saguenay

Beauport—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île d'Orléans—Charlevoix
Chicoutimi—Le Fjord
Jonquière
Manicouagan
Lac-Saint-Jean

Eastern Quebec

The Eastern Townships

The Laurentides, Outaouais
and Northern Quebec

Montreal
(East, West, North & Laval)

Laval	Alfred-Pellan Laval—Les Îles Marc-Aurèle-Fortin Vimy
Ahuntsic-Cartierville Bourassa Dorval—Lachine—LaSalle Hochelaga Honoré-Mercier Lac-Saint-Louis LaSalle—Émard—Verdun Laurier—Sainte-Marie Mount Royal Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Westmount Outremont Papineau Pierrefonds—Dollard La Pointe-de-l'Île Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie Saint-Laurent Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Sœurs

Montérégie

Quebec City

See also: Quebec provincial electoral districts

v t e Historical federal ridings in Quebec
Until 2015	Ahuntsic Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel Beauharnois—Salaberry Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour Brossard—La Prairie Chambly—Borduas Châteauguay—Saint-Constant Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine Haute-Gaspésie—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia Jeanne-Le Ber Jonquière—Alma LaSalle—Émard Laval Lévis—Bellechasse Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine Roberval—Lac-Saint-Jean Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert Saint-Lambert Saint-Laurent—Cartierville Terrebonne—Blainville Vaudreuil-Soulanges Verchères—Les Patriotes Westmount—Ville-Marie
Until 2006	Argenteuil—Mirabel Beauport Charlesbourg Charlevoix—Montmorency Laurier Nunavik—Eeyou Portneuf Richelieu Rivière-du-Loup—Montmagny Roberval
Until 2004	Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik Anjou—Rivière-des-Prairies Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour Beauport—Montmorency—Côte-de-Beaupré—Île-d'Orléans Bellechasse—Etchemins—Montmagny—L'Islet Berthier—Montcalm Bonaventure—Gaspé—Îles-de-la-Madeleine—Pabok Chambly Champlain Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier Charlevoix Châteauguay Frontenac—Mégantic Hochelaga—Maisonneuve Jonquière Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata—Les Basques Lac-Saint-Jean—Saguenay Laurentides Laurier—Sainte-Marie Laval Centre Laval East Laval West Lévis-et-Chutes-de-la-Chaudière Longueuil Lotbinière—L'Érable Matapédia—Matane Mercier Papineau—Saint-Denis Pontiac—Gatineau—Labelle Québec East Rimouski—Neigette-et-la Mitis Rosemont—Petite-Patrie Saint-Maurice Témiscamingue Verdun—Saint-Henri—Saint-Paul—Pointe-Saint-Charles
Until 2000	Abitibi Beauport—Montmorency—Orléans Charlesbourg Chicoutimi Lac-Saint-Jean Lévis Lotbinière Richelieu Rimouski—Mitis Rosemont Saint-Eustache—Sainte-Thérèse Verchères Verdun—Saint-Henri
Until 1997	Argenteuil—Papineau Bellechasse Blainville—Deux-Montagnes Bonaventure—Îles-de-la-Madeleine Frontenac Gaspé Gatineau—La Lièvre Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup Lachine—Lac-Saint-Louis La Prairie Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Papineau—Saint-Michel Richmond—Wolfe Rimouski—Témiscouata Saint-Denis Saint-Henri—Westmount Saint-Hubert Saint-Léonard Terrebonne Vaudreuil Verchères Verdun—Saint-Paul
Until 1993	Duvernay Langelier Laval Laval-des-Rapides Montmorency—Orléans Québec-Est Saint-Laurent
Until 1988	Berthier—Maskinongé—Lanaudière Dollard Gamelin Gatineau Labelle Lachine Lasalle Laurier Montreal—Mercier Montreal—Sainte-Marie Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine East Papineau Saint-Jacques Saint-Léonard—Anjou Saint-Michel—Ahuntsic
Until 1984	Argenteuil Berthier—Maskinongé Hull Mercier Missisquoi Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Rimouski Sainte-Marie Saint-Michel
Until 1980	Laprairie Montmorency Richmond Saint-Hyacinthe Verdun
Until 1979	Ahuntsic Argenteuil—Deux-Montagnes Berthier Brome—Missisquoi Compton Hochelaga Kamouraska Lachine—Lakeshore Lafontaine Lapointe Lasalle—Émard—Côte Saint-Paul Laval Maisonneuve—Rosemont Matane Montreal—Bourassa Pontiac Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata Sainte-Marie Saint-Henri Trois-Rivières Métropolitain Villeneuve Westmount
Until 1974	Lachine Lasalle
Until 1972	Argenteuil Beauharnois Bonaventure Bourassa Maisonneuve Missisquoi Témiscouata Trois-Rivières
Until 1968	Argenteuil—Deux-Montagnes Beauharnois—Salaberry Berthier—Maskinongé—Delanaudière Brome—Missisquoi Cartier Chambly—Rouville Chapleau Châteauguay—Huntingdon—Laprairie Compton—Frontenac Dorchester Drummond—Arthabaska Îles-de-la-Madeleine Jacques-Cartier—Lasalle Joliette—L'Assomption—Montcalm Matapédia—Matane Maisonneuve—Rosemont Mégantic Montmagny—L'Islet Nicolet—Yamaska Outremont—Saint-Jean Pontiac—Témiscamingue Quebec East Québec—Montmorency Quebec South Quebec West Richelieu—Verchères Richmond—Wolfe Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata Saguenay St. Ann Saint-Antoine—Westmount Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot Saint-Jean—Iberville—Napierville St. Lawrence—St. George Saint-Maurice—Laflèche Stanstead Vaudreuil—Soulanges
Until 1962	Témiscouata
Until 1953	Beauharnois Berthier—Maskinongé Jacques Cartier St. Antoine—Westmount St-Denis St-Henri St. James St. Mary Verdun—La Salle
Until 1949	Argenteuil Beauharnois—Laprairie Charlevoix—Saguenay Châteauguay—Huntingdon Compton Lake St-John—Roberval Laval—Two Mountains Mégantic—Frontenac Outremont Pontiac Quebec West and South St. Denis St. Henry St. Hyacinthe—Bagot St. Johns—Iberville—Napierville St-Maurice—Laflèche Three Rivers Verdun Wright
Until 1935	Bagot Beauharnois Chambly—Verchères Joliette Lake St. John Laprairie—Napierville L'Assomption—Montcalm Laurier—Outremont L'Islet Maisonneuve Matane Mégantic Montmagny Nicolet Quebec West Richelieu St. Antoine St. Henri St. Hyacinthe—Rouville St. Johns—Iberville Three Rivers—St. Maurice Yamaska
Until 1925	Berthier Brome Charlevoix—Montmorency Chicoutimi—Saguenay George-Étienne Cartier Maskinongé Missisquoi Quebec County Town of Sherbrooke Three Rivers and St. Maurice Westmount—St. Henri
Until 1917	Charlevoix Châteauguay Huntingdon L'Assomption Laval Montcalm Montmorency Quebec-Centre Rouville St. Anne St. Hyacinthe St. Lawrence Soulanges Two Mountains Vaudreuil
Before 1900	Chambly Iberville Laprairie Montreal Centre Montreal East Montreal West Napierville County of Ottawa St. John's Saint Maurice Three Rivers Verchères

"Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1871". Retrieved 27 June 2022.

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