Bellechasse (federal electoral district)

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

Bellechasse (French pronunciation: [bɛlʃas]) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada. It was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867, until the 1997 election, when it became Bellechasse—Etchemins—Montmagny—L'Islet. After redistribution prior to the 2004 election, that riding became Lévis—Bellechasse. Currently, the only riding which includes the name "Bellechasse" is Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis.

Bellechasse

Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1996
First contested	1867
Last contested	1993

Description

In 1867, Bellechasse was defined to consist of the Parishes of St. Valier, Saint Raphael, Saint Michel, Beaumont, Saint Charles, Saint Gervais, Saint Lazare, the south-west part of the Township of Armagh, the north-east part of the Township of Buckland, and the Townships of Mailloux, Roux, Bellechasse and Daaquam.

In 1882, the north-eastern part of the Township of Armagh in the County of Bellechasse, and the north-east part of the township of Mailloux were detached from Bellechasse and annexed to Montmagny.

In 1924, Bellechasse was re-defined to consist of the County of Bellechasse, except for the seigneuries of Lauzon and Joliette in the municipality of Honfleur, and the townships of Langevin and Ware in the municipality of Sainte-Sabine.

In 1933, Bellechasse was re-defined to consist of the county of Bellechasse (except the seigniories of Lauzon and Joliette, and the township of Langevin et Ware), the municipalities of Rivière-Boyer, St-Henri-de-Lauzon, St-Jean-Chrysostôme, and St-Henri Village in the county of Lévis, the parish municipality of St-Luc-de-Dijon in the county of Dorchester, and the municipalities of Berthier and St-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud in the county of Montmagny.

In 1947, Bellechasse was re-defined to consist of the county of Bellechasse, the municipalities of Rivière-Boyer, St. Henri-de-Lauzon and the village of St. Henri in the county of Lévis, the municipality of St. Luc-de-Dijon the county of Dorchester, and the municipalities of Berthier and St. François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud in the county of Montmagny.

In 1966, Bellechasse was re-defined to consist of the Town of Montmagny, the County of Bellechasse, parts of the County of Dorchester, and the County of Montmagny (except the municipality of Cap-Saint-Ignace).

In 1976, Bellechasse was re-defined to consist of the City of Montmagny, the Towns of Lac-Etchemin, L'Islet and Saint-Pamphile, the County of Montmagny, the County of L'Islet (except the parish municipality of Sainte-Louise and the municipality of Saint-Roch-des-Aulnets), parts of the Counties of Bellechasse and Dorchester.

In 1987, Bellechasse was re-defined to consist of the towns of Lac-Etchemin, L'Islet, Montmagny and Saint-Pamphile, the counties of Bellechasse and Montmagny, the County of L'Islet (excluding the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Louise), the Municipality of Saint-Rochdes-Aulnaies, and parts of the County of Dorchester.

The electoral district was abolished in 1996, and was incorporated into Bellechasse—Etchemins—Montmagny—L'Islet.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Bellechasse
1st	1867–1870		Louis-Napoléon Casault	Conservative
	1870–1872		Télesphore Fournier	Liberal
2nd	1872–1873
	1873–1874
3rd	1874–1875
	1875–1878		Joseph-Goderic Blanchet	Conservative
4th	1878–1881		Achille Larue	Liberal
	1881–1882		Guillaume Amyot	Conservative
5th	1882–1887
6th	1887–1891			Nationalist
7th	1891–1896			Nationalist Conservative
8th	1896–1900		Onésiphore-Ernest Talbot	Liberal
9th	1900–1904
10th	1904–1908
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917		Joseph-Octave Lavallée	Conservative
13th	1917–1921		Charles-Alphonse Fournier	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
14th	1921–1925			Liberal
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930		Joseph Oscar Lefebre Boulanger
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940
19th	1940–1945		Louis-Philippe Picard
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1955
	1955–1957		Ovide Laflamme
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962		Noël Dorion	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963		Bernard Dumont	Social Credit
26th	1963–1965		Herman Laverdière	Liberal
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1971		Adrien Lambert	Ralliement créditiste
	1971–1972			Social Credit
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984		Alain Garant	Liberal
33rd	1984–1988		Pierre Blais	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1997		François Langlois	Bloc Québécois
Riding dissolved into Bellechasse—Etchemins—Montmagny—L'Islet

Election results

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Louis-Napoléon Casault	983
	Unknown	Édouard Rémillard	671
Source: Canadian Elections Database[1]

By-election on 27 May 1870 Casault appointed Puisne Judge of the Superior Court of Quebec
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Télesphore Fournier	acclaimed

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Télesphore Fournier	1,219
	Conservative	A. Caron	638
Source: Canadian Elections Database[2]

By-election on 27 November 1873 Fournier nominated Minister of Inland Revenue
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Télesphore Fournier	acclaimed

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Télesphore Fournier	acclaimed[3]
Source: Parliament of Canada

By-election on 23 November 1875 Fournier appointed to the Supreme Court Bench
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Joseph Goderic Blanchet	698
	Liberal	Achille Larue	443
	Unknown	Pierre Boutin	359

v t e 1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Achille Larue	1,042
	Conservative	Guillaume Amyot	990
Source: Canadian Elections Database[4]

By-election on 19 March 1881 Election declared void
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Guillaume Amyot	1,066
	Unknown	Mr. Bilodeau	1,035

v t e 1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Guillaume Amyot	1,186
	Liberal	Ph. Ol. (alias Ernest) Pacaud	1,044

v t e 1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Nationalist	Guillaume Amyot	1,515
	Conservative	Isidore-Noël Belleau	878

v t e 1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Nationalist Conservative	Guillaume Amyot	1,271
	Conservative	Faucher de St. Maurice	1,165

v t e 1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Onésiphore-Ernest Talbot	1,537
	Conservative	Joseph-Edmond Roy	1,227

v t e 1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Onésiphore-Ernest Talbot	1,701
	Conservative	Joseph-Emile Gelley	1,231

v t e 1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Onésiphore-Ernest Talbot	1,819
	Conservative	J.B. Fradette	957

v t e 1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Onésiphore-Ernest Talbot	1,988
	Conservative	Charles Vezina	627

v t e 1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Joseph Octave Lavallée	1,742
	Liberal	Onésiphore-Ernest Talbot	1,696

v t e 1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Charles-Alphonse Fournier	3,752
	Conservative	Honoré Grenier	60
	Unknown	Thomas Wilfrid Marceau	30

v t e 1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles-Alphonse Fournier	5,195
	Progressive	Joseph Cléophas Cote	1,109

v t e 1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles-Alphonse Fournier	4,596
	Conservative	Murdock McKenzie	1,917

v t e 1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Oscar Boulanger	4,897
	Conservative	Eugène F. Dussault	1,902

v t e 1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Oscar Boulanger	4,786
	Conservative	Joseph-Wilfrid Gaudette	2,793
Source: lop.parl.ca

v t e 1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Oscar Boulanger	7,470
	Conservative	H. Fanning Gosselin	1,720

v t e 1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Louis-Philippe Picard	6,585
	Conservative	Edouard Morrissette	2,366

v t e 1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Louis-Philippe Picard	6,928
	Bloc populaire	Joseph-Albert Bonenfant	3,540

v t e 1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Louis-Philippe Picard	7,395
	Independent	Paul Bouchard	4,798
	Union des électeurs	Donat Frenette	332
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Maurice St-Hilaire	41

v t e 1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Louis-Philippe Picard	7,124
	Progressive Conservative	J.-Emile Roy	4,866

By-election on 26 September 1955 Picard's resignation
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ovide Laflamme	5,945
	Progressive Conservative	Jules Pare	5,383

v t e 1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ovide Laflamme	7,960
	Progressive Conservative	Paul-Rodolphe Miquelon	1,792
	Independent Progressive Conservative	Jules Pare	1,026
	Independent Progressive Conservative	Allyre Aubin	139

v t e 1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Noël Dorion	6,861
	Liberal	Ovide Laflamme	6,255

v t e 1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Bernard Dumont	5,091
	Liberal	Ovide Laflamme	4,954
	Progressive Conservative	Noël Dorion	2,953

v t e 1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Herman Laverdiere	5,434
	Social Credit	Bernard Dumont	5,367
	Progressive Conservative	Maurice Laliberte	1,291

v t e 1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Herman Laverdiere	4,783
	Ralliement créditiste	Bernard Dumont	4,432
	Progressive Conservative	Jacques La Rochelle	2,264
	New Democratic	Mariette Lalonde	170

v t e 1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Ralliement créditiste	Adrien Lambert	11,137
	Liberal	Auguste Choquette	9,793
	Progressive Conservative	Gérard Poulin	2,262
	New Democratic	Marcel Lalonde	528

v t e 1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Adrien Lambert	12,999
	Liberal	Pierre Mercier	11,714
	Progressive Conservative	Germain Roy	3,533
	New Democratic	Aurèle Marceau	776

v t e 1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Adrien Lambert	12,550
	Liberal	Louis Paquin	10,759
	Progressive Conservative	Bertrand Gaudreau	3,210
	New Democratic	Marthe Lachance	604

v t e 1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Adrien Lambert	18,702	46.43
	Liberal	Jean Richard	17,584	43.65
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Deschênes	2,924	7.26
	Rhinoceros	Marie Claude Chênevert	523	1.30	–
	New Democratic	Guy Dupuis	354	0.88
	Union populaire	Jean Beaudoin	195	0.48
Total valid votes			40,282	100.00
Total rejected ballots			360
Turnout			40,642	72.17
Electors on the lists			56,317
Source: Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, Thirty-first General Election, 1979.

v t e 1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alain Garant	20,636	51.13	+7.48
	Social Credit	Adrien Lambert	15,124	37.47	−8.96
	Progressive Conservative	Jean Deschênes	2,912	7.22	−0.04
	Rhinoceros	Andrée Chabot	815	2.02	+0.72
	New Democratic	Napoléon Goupil	730	1.81	+0.93
	Union populaire	France Théberge	141	0.35	−0.13
Total valid votes			40,358	100.00
Total rejected ballots			274
Turnout			40,632	70.86	−1.31
Electors on the lists			57,339
Source: Report of the Chief Electoral Officer, Thirty-second General Election, 1980.
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v t e 1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Pierre Blais	24,357
	Liberal	Alain Garant	14,500
	New Democratic	Roger Lemoine	1,666
	Rhinoceros	Serge Au-Boutte Chabot	1,070
	Parti nationaliste	André Lizotte	518

v t e 1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Pierre Blais	27,621
	Liberal	Claudette Beaulieu	11,120
	New Democratic	Gilles Papillon	2,762
	Green	Alain Raby	1,010

v t e 1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Bloc Québécois	François Langlois	17,098
	Progressive Conservative	Pierre Blais	15,952
	Liberal	Eric Lemieux	8,352
	New Democratic	Robert Leclerc	695

See also

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

References

1. Sayers, Anthony M. "1867 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on 22 January 2024.
2. Sayers, Anthony M. "1872 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on 3 February 2024.
3. "The Hon. Télesphore Fournier, P.C., M.P." lop.parl.ca. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
4. Sayers, Anthony M. "1878 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on 22 January 2024.

External links

• Bellechasse electoral results

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