4th Quebec Legislature

The 4th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from May 1, 1878 to December 2, 1881. The Quebec Liberal Party led by Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière formed the minority government in the first year of the term but lost a confidence vote in 1879. The Quebec Conservative Party led by Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau then formed a minority government for the remainder of the mandate with the support of two Conservative Independent MLA's.

Seats per political party

Affiliation Members
     Conservative Party 32
     Liberal Party 31
     Conservative Independent 2
 Total
65
 Government Majority
1

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1878 election:

Name Party Riding
     Robert Greenshields Meikle Libéral Argenteuil
     Narcisse Blais Libéral Bagot
     Joseph Poirier Libéral Beauce
     Célestin Bergevin Conservative Beauharnois
     Pierre Boutin Libéral Bellechasse
     Joseph Robillard Conservative Berthier
     Joseph-Israël Tarte Conservative Bonaventure
     William Warren Lynch Conservative Brome
     Michel-Dosithée-Stanislas Martel Conservative Chambly
     Dominique-Napoléon Saint-Cyr Conservative Champlain
     Onésime Gauthier Conservative Charlevoix
     Édouard Laberge Libéral Châteauguay
     William Evan Price Conservative Independent Chicoutimi et Saguenay
     Willian Sawyer Conservative Compton
     Charles Champagne Conservative Deux-Montagnes
     Nicodème Audet Conservative Dorchester
     William John Watts Libéral Drummond et Arthabaska
     Edmund James Flynn Libéral Gaspé
     Louis Beaubien Conservative Hochelaga
     Alexander Cameron Libéral Huntingdon
     Louis Molleur Libéral Iberville
     Jean-Baptiste Couillard Dupuis Libéral Islet
     Narcisse Lecavalier Conservative Jacques Cartier
     Vincent-Paul Lavallée Conservative Joliette
     Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon Libéral Kamouraska
     Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois Conservative Laprairie
     Onuphe Peltier Conservative L'Assomption
     Louis-Onésime Loranger Conservative Laval
     Étienne-Théodore Pâquet Conservative Lévis
     Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière Libéral Lotbinière
     Édouard Caron Conservative Maskinongé
     George Irvine Libéral Mégantic
     Ernest Racicot Libéral Missisquoi
     Octave Magnan Conservative Montcalm
     Louis-Napoléon Fortin Libéral Montmagny
     Charles Langelier Libéral Montmorency
     Horatio Admiral Nelson Libéral Montréal Centre
     Louis-Olivier Taillon Conservative Montréal Est
     James McShane Libéral Montreal Ouest
     Laurent-David Lafontaine Libéral Napierville
     Charles-Édouard Houde Conservative Nicolet
     Louis Duhamel Conservative Ottawa
     Levi Ruggles Church Conservative Pontiac
     François Langelier Libéral Portneuf
     David Alexander Ross Libéral Québec-Comté
     Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret dit Malouin Libéral Québec-Centre
     Joseph Shehyn Libéral Québec-Est
     Arthur H. Murphy Libéral Québec-Ouest
     Michel Mathieu Conservative Richelieu
     Jacques Picard Conservative Richmond et Wolfe
     Alexandre Chauveau Libéral Rimouski
     Solime Bertrand Conservative Rouville
     Pierre Bachand Libéral St. Hyacinthe
     Félix-Gabriel Marchand Libéral St. Jean
     François-Sévère Desaulniers Conservative St. Maurice
     Joseph Lafontaine Libéral Shefford
     Joseph Gibb Robertson Conservative Sherbrooke
     William Duckett Conservative Soulanges
     Henry Lovell Libéral Stanstead
     Georges-Honoré Deschênes Conservative Témiscouata
     Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau Conservative Terrebonne
     Henri-René-Arthur Turcotte Conservative Independent Trois-Rivières
     Émery Lalonde, Sr. Conservative Vaudreuil
     Jean-Baptiste Brousseau Libéral Verchères
     Jonathan Saxton Campbell Würtele Conservative Yamaska

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during the term

Cabinet Ministers

Joly de Lotbinière Cabinet (1878-1879)

Chauveau Cabinet (1879-1881)

References

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