Îles-de-la-Madeleine (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the provincial electoral district, see Îles-de-la-Madeleine (provincial electoral district).

Îles-de-la-Madeleine (French pronunciation: [il də la madlɛn]) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1949 to 1968.

Îles-de-la-Madeleine

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

This riding was created in 1947 from Gaspé riding. It consisted of the county of Iles-de-la-Madeleine. The electoral district was abolished in 1966 when it was merged into Bonaventure riding.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Îles-de-la-Madeleine Riding created from Gaspé
21st	1949–1953		Charles Cannon	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962		Russell Keays	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963		Maurice Sauvé	Liberal
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Bonaventure

Election results

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles Cannon	2,203
	Independent PC	Joseph-Pierre-Albert Sévigny	2,145

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles Cannon	2,337
	Progressive Conservative	Albert Sylvain	1,937

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles Cannon	2,472
	Independent	Raymond Maher	2,145
	Independent Liberal	Jacques Pinault	31

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Russell Keays	2,471
	Liberal	Charles Cannon	2,115
	Independent PC	Félix-Armand Painchaud	146

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Maurice Sauvé	2,765
	Progressive Conservative	Russell Keays	2,230
	Social Credit	Alexandre Bertrand	67

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Maurice Sauvé	3,053
	Social Credit	Fernand Turbide	1,568
	Progressive Conservative	Gérard Mecteau	183

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Maurice Sauvé	2,860
	Progressive Conservative	Marc Arsenault	2,468
	Ralliement créditiste	Jacques-O. Lévesque	38
	New Democratic	Maurice Giguère	20

See also

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