Saint-Maurice (Province of Canada)

Infobox Canada electoral district
name = Saint-Maurice
province = Province of Canada
prov-status = defunct
prov-created = 1841
prov-abolished = 1867
prov-election-first = 1841
prov-election-last = 1863

Under the Union regime (1841-1867), the district of Saint-Maurice was re-established. Its boundaries, which roughly covered the current Mauricie area except for the city of Trois-Rivières, were reduced when the district of Maskinongé was created in 1853. [ [http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/en/history_electoral_map.asp History of the electoral map of Québec, Chief Electoral Officer of Québec] .]

Saint-Maurice was represented by one Member at the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.

Members for Saint-Maurice (1841-1867)

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Name
Party
Election [By-elections are indicated with "Italic font".]

Joseph-Édouard Turcotte [Turcotte resigned in 1842.] Moderate Reformer1841
"Joseph-Édouard Turcotte" [Turcotte lost the 1844 election.] "Moderate Reformer""1842"
François Lesieur DesaulniersModerate Reformer1844
Louis-Joseph Papineau [Papineau lost the 1851 election.] Radical Reformer1848
Joseph-Édouard TurcotteModerate Reformer1851
Louis-Léon Lesieur DesaulniersParti bleu1854
Louis-Léon Lesieur DesaulniersParti bleu1858
Louis-Léon Lesieur Desaulniers [Desaulniers lost the 1863 election.] Parti bleu1861
Charles Gérin-LajoieParti rouge1863

Footnotes

ee also

*History of Canada
*History of Quebec
*List of elections in the Province of Canada
*Mauricie
*Politics of Canada
*Politics of Quebec
*Saint-Maurice—Champlain Federal Electoral District
*Saint-Maurice Provincial Electoral District
*Shawinigan