BELLECHASSE (ELECTORAL DISTRICT)

:''For the provincial electoral district in Quebec see: Bellechasse (provincial electoral district)''
'Bellechasse' was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons 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.

Contents
Description
Members of Parliament
Electoral history
See also
External link

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 seigniories of Lauzon and Joliette in the municipality of Honfleur, and the townships of Langevin and Ware in the municipality of Ste. 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:
#Napoléon Casault, Conservative (1867-1870)
#Télesphore Fournier, Liberal (1870-1875)
#Joseph Goderic Blanchet, Conservative (1875-1878)
#Achille LaRue, Liberal (1878-1881)
#Guillame Amyot, Conservative/Nationalist (1881-1896)
#Onésiphore-Ernest Talbot, Liberal (1896-1911)
#Joseph-Octave LaVallee, Conservative (1911-1917)
#Charles-Alphonse Fournier, Liberal (1917-1926)
#Oscar L. Boulanger, Liberal (1926-1940)
#L.-Philippe Picard, Liberal (1940-1955)
#Ovide LaFlamme, Liberal (1955-1958)
#Noël Dorion, Progressive Conservative (1958-1962)
#Bernard DuMont, Social Credit (1962-1963)
#Herman LaVerdiere, Liberal (1963-1968)
#Adrien Lambert, Social Credit (1968-1980)
#Alain Grant, Liberal (1980-1984)
#Pierre Blais, Progressive Conservative (1984-1993)
#François Langlois, Bloc Québécois (1993-1997)

Electoral history


|-
|Conservative
|CASAULT, Napoléon
|align="right"| 983
|Unknown
|REMILLARD,
|align="right"| 671
By-Election: On Mr. Casault being appointed Puisne Judge of the Superior Court of Quebec:
|-
|Liberal
|FOURNIER, Télesphore
|align="right"| acclaimed
|-
|Liberal
|FOURNIER, Télesphore
|align="right"|1,219
|Conservative
|CARON, A.
|align="right"|638
By-Election: On Mr. Fournier being nominated Minister of Inland Revenue:
|-
|Liberal
|FOURNIER, Télesphore
|align="right"|acclaimed
|-
|Liberal
|FOURNIER, Hon. Télesphore
|align="right"| acclaimed
By-Election: On Mr. Fournier being appointed to the Supreme Court Bench:
|-
|Conservative
|BLANCHET, Joseph Goderic
|align="right"|698
|Liberal
| LARUE, Achille
|align="right"|443
|Unknown
| BOUTIN, Pierre
|align="right"|359
|-
|Liberal
|LARUE, Achille
|align="right"|1,042
|Conservative
|AMYOT, G.
|align="right"| 990
By-Election: On election being declared void:
|-
|Conservative
|AMYOT, Guillame
|align="right"|1,066
|Unknown
|BILODEAU,
|align="right"|1,035
|-
|Conservative
|AMYOT, Guillaume
|align="right"|1,186
|Liberal
|PACAUD, Ph. Ol. alias Ernest
|align="right"|1,044
|-
|Nationalist
|AMYOT, G.
|align="right"|1,515
|Conservative
|BELLEAU, J.N.
|align="right"|878
|-
|Nationalist Conservative
|AMYOT, Guillaume
|align="right"|1,271
|Conservative
|DE ST. MAURICE, Faucher
|align="right"| 1,165
|-
|Liberal
|TALBOT, Onésiphore-Ernest
|align="right"| 1,537
|Conservative
|ROY, Joseph-Edmond
|align="right"|1,227
|-
|Liberal
|TALBOT, Onésiphore-Ernest
|align="right"| 1,701
|Conservative
|GELLEY, Joseph-Emile
|align="right"|1,231
|-
|Liberal
|TALBOT, O.E.
|align="right"|1,819
|Conservative
|FRADETTE, J.B.
|align="right"| 957
|-
|Liberal
|TALBOT, Onésiphore-Ernest
|align="right"|1,988
|Conservative
|VEZINA, Charles
|align="right"|627
|-
|Conservative
|LAVALLEE, Joseph-Octave
|align="right"| 1,742
|Liberal
|TALBOT, Onésiphore-Ernest
|align="right"|1,696
|-
|Opposition
| FOURNIER, Charles-Alphonse
|align="right"|3,752
|Government
|GRENIER, Honoré
|align="right"|60
|Unknown
|MARCEAU, Thomas Wilfrid
|align="right"| 30
|-
|Liberal
|FOURNIER, Charles-Alphonse
|align="right"|5,195
|Progressive
| COTE, Joseph Cléophas
|align="right"|1,109
|-
|Liberal
|FOURNIER, Charles-Alphonse
|align="right"|4,596
|Conservative
|MCKENZIE, Murdock
|align="right"|1,917
|-
|Liberal
|BOULANGER, Oscar L.
|align="right"|4,897
|Conservative
|DUSSAULT, Eugène F.
|align="right"|1,902
|-
|Liberal
| BOULANGER, Oscar L.
|align="right"|4,786
|Conservative
|GAUDETTE, Joseph-Wilfrid
|align="right"|2,793
|-
|Liberal
|BOULANGER, Oscar L.
|align="right"|7,470
|Conservative
|GOSSELIN, H. Fanning
|align="right"| 1,720
|-
|Liberal
|PICARD, L.-Philippe
|align="right"|6,585
|Unknown
|MORRISSETTE, Edouard
|align="right"| 2,366
|-
|Liberal
|PICARD, L.-Philippe
|align="right"|6,928
|Bloc populaire canadien
|BONENFANT, Joseph-Albert
|align="right"|3,540
|-
|Liberal
|PICARD, L.-Philippe
|align="right"|7,395
|Independent
|BOUCHARD, Paul
|align="right"|4,798
|Union des électeurs
|FRENETTE, Donat
|align="right"|332
|Progressive Conservative
|ST-HILAIRE, Jean-Maurice
|align="right"|41
|-
|Liberal
|PICARD, L.-Philippe
|align="right"|7,124
|Progressive Conservative
|ROY, J.-Emile
|align="right"|4,866
By-Election: On Mr. Picard's resignation:
|-
|Liberal
|LAFLAMME, Ovide
|align="right"|5,945
|Progressive Conservative
|PARE, Jules
|align="right"|5,383
|-
|Liberal
|LAFLAMME, Ovide
|align="right"|7,960
|Progressive Conservative
|MIQUELON, Paul-Rodolphe
|align="right"|1,792
|Ind. Progressive Conservative
|PARE, Jules
|align="right"|1,026
|Ind. Progressive Conservative
|AUBIN, Allyre
|align="right"|139
|-
|Progressive Conservative
|DORION, Noël
|align="right"|6,861
|Liberal
|LAFLAMME, Ovide
|align="right"|6,255
|-
|Social Credit
|DUMONT, Bernard
|align="right"| 5,091
|Liberal
|LAFLAMME, Ovide
|align="right"|4,954
|Progressive Conservative
|DORION, Noël
|align="right"|2,953
|-
|Liberal
|LAVERDIERE, Herman
|align="right"|5,434
|Social Credit
|DUMONT, Bernard
|align="right"|5,367
|Progressive Conservative
|LALIBERTE, Maurice
|align="right"|1,291
|-
|Liberal
|LAVERDIERE, Herman
|align="right"|4,783
|Ralliement créditiste
|DUMONT, Bernard
|align="right"|4,432
|Progressive Conservative
|LA ROCHELLE, Jacques
|align="right"|2,264
|New Democratic Party
|LALONDE, Mariette
|align="right"| 170
|-
|Ralliement créditiste
|LAMBERT, Adrien
|align="right"|11,137
|Liberal
|CHOQUETTE, Auguste
|align="right"|9,793
|Progressive Conservative
|POULIN, Gérard
|align="right"|2,262
|New Democratic Party
| LALONDE, Marcel
|align="right"| 528
|-
|Social Credit
|LAMBERT, Adrien
|align="right"|12,999
|Liberal
|MERCIER, Pierre
|align="right"| 11,714
|Progressive Conservative
|ROY, Germain
|align="right"| 3,533
|New Democratic Party
|MARCEAU, Aurèle
|align="right"|776
|-
|Social Credit
|LAMBERT, Adrien
|align="right"|12,550
|Liberal
|PAQUIN, Louis
|align="right"|10,759
|Progressive Conservative
|GAUDREAU, Bertrand
|align="right"|3,210
|New Democratic Party
|LACHANCE, Marthe
|align="right"|604
|-
|Social Credit
|LAMBERT, Adrien
|align="right"|18,702
|Liberal
|RICHARD, Jean
|align="right"| 17,584
|Progressive Conservative
|DESCHENES, Jean
|align="right"| 2,924
|Rhinoceros
|CHENEVERT, Marie Claude
|align="right"| 523 Rhino
|New Democratic Party
|DUPUIS, Guy
|align="right"|354
|Union Populaire
| BEAUDOIN, Jean
|align="right"|195
|-
|Liberal
|GARANT, Alain
|align="right"| 20,636 Lib
|Social Credit
|LAMBERT, Adrien
|align="right"| 15,124
|Progressive Conservative
|DESCHENES, Jean
|align="right"|2,912
|Rhinoceros
|CHABOT, Andrée
|align="right"|815 Rhino
|New Democratic Party
| GOUPIL, Napoléon
|align="right"|730
|Union Populaire
|THEBERGE, France
|align="right"|141
|-
|Progressive Conservative
|BLAIS, Pierre
|align="right"|24,357
|Liberal
|GARANT, Alain
|align="right"|14,500
|New Democratic Party
|LEMOINE, Roger
|align="right"|1,666
|Rhinoceros
|CHABOT, Serge Au-Boutte
|align="right"| 1,070
|Nationaliste
|LIZOTTE, André
|align="right"| 518
|-
|Progressive Conservative
|BLAIS, Pierre
|align="right"| 27,621
|Liberal
|BEAULIEU, Claudette
|align="right"|11,120
|New Democratic Party
|PAPILLON, Gilles
|align="right"| 2,762
|Green
|RABY, Alain
|align="right"|1,010
|-
|Bloc Québécois
|LANGLOIS, François
|align="right"|17,098
|Progressive Conservative
|BLAIS, Pierre
|align="right"|15,952
|Liberal
|LEMIEUX, Eric
|align="right"|8,352
|New Democratic Party
| LECLERC, Robert
|align="right"|695

See also



List of Canadian federal electoral districts

Past Canadian electoral districts

External link



Bellechasse electoral results

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