18th Quebec Legislature

The 18th Quebec Legislature is the provincial legislature that existed in Quebec, Canada from August 24, 1931, to October 30, 1935. The Liberal Party led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau had a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and remained in power in the government.

Seats per political party

• After the 1931 elections

Affiliation		Members
	Liberal	79
	Conservative	11
Total		90
Government Majority		68

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1931 election:

	Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
	Hector Authier	Liberal	Abitibi	1923
	Georges-Étienne Dansereau	Liberal	Argenteuil	1927
	Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Liberal	Arthabaska	1925
	Joseph-Émery Phaneuf	Liberal	Bagot	1916
	Joseph-Edouard Fortin	Liberal	Beauce	1929
	Gontran Saint-Onge	Liberal	Beauharnois	1931
	Robert Taschereau	Liberal	Bellechasse	1930
	Cléophas Bastien	Liberal	Berthier	1927
	Pierre-Émile Côté	Liberal	Bonaventure	1924
	Ralph Frederick Stockwell	Liberal	Brome	1931
	Hortensius Béïque	Conservative	Chambly	1931
	William-Pierre Grant	Liberal	Champlain	1925
	Edgar Rochette	Liberal	Charlevoix et Saguenay	1927
	Honoré Mercier Jr.	Liberal	Châteauguay	1907, 1908
	Gustave Delisle	Liberal	Chicoutimi	1923
	William James Duffy	Liberal	Compton	1931
	Paul Sauvé	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes	1930
	Ernest Ouellet	Liberal	Dorchester	1931
	Hector Laferté	Liberal	Drummond	1916
	Henri-Louis Gagnon	Liberal	Frontenac	1931
	Thomas Côté	Liberal	Gaspé-Nord	1931
	Alexandre Chouinard	Liberal	Gaspé-Sud	1931
	Augustin-Armand Legault	Liberal	Gatineau	1931
	Aimé Guertin	Conservative	Hull	1927
	Martin Beattie Fisher	Conservative	Huntingdon	1930
	Lucien Lamoureux	Liberal	Iberville	1923
	Amédée Caron	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	1928
	Victor Marchand	Liberal	Jacques-Cartier	1925
	Joseph-Théodule Rhéaume (1933)	Liberal	1933
	Lucien Dugas	Liberal	Joliette	1927
	Pierre Gagnon	Liberal	Kamouraska	1927
	Pierre Lortie	Liberal	Labelle	1923
	Joseph-Ludger Fillion	Liberal	Lac-Saint-Jean	1931
	Walter Reed	Liberal	L'Assomption	1908
	Joseph Filion	Liberal	Laval	1931
	Joseph-Alphida Crête	Liberal	Laviolette	1931
	Arthur Bélanger	Liberal	Lévis	1931
	Adélard Godbout	Liberal	L'Islet	1929
	Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur	Liberal	Lotbinière	1908
	Charles-Joseph Arcand	Liberal	Maisonneuve	1931
	Louis-Joseph Thisdel	Liberal	Maskinongé	1930
	Joseph-Arthur Bergeron	Liberal	Matane	1923
	Joseph Dufour	Liberal	Matapédia	1919
	Lauréat Lapierre	Liberal	Mégantic	1916
	Alexandre Saurette	Liberal	Missisquoi	1919
	Médéric Duval	Liberal	Montcalm	1931
	Charles-Abraham Paquet	Liberal	Montmagny	1919
	Louis-Alexandre Taschereau	Liberal	Montmorency	1900
	Joseph-Achille Francoeur	Liberal	Montréal-Dorion	1931
	Ernest Poulin	Liberal	Montréal-Laurier	1919, 1927
	Anatole Plante	Liberal	Montréal-Mercier	1927
	Joseph Henry Dillon	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Anne	1927
	Gaspard Fauteux	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Marie	1931
	Charles Ernest Gault	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Georges	1907
	Joseph-Maurice Gabias	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Henri	1931
	Irénée Vautrin	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Jacques	1919, 1927
	Joseph Cohen	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Laurent	1927
	Peter Bercovitch	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Louis	1916
	Pierre-Auguste Lafleur	Conservative	Montréal-Verdun	1923
	Joseph-Euclide Charbonneau	Liberal	Napierville-Laprairie	1923
	Joseph-Alcide Savoie	Liberal	Nicolet	1923
	Alexandre Gaudet (1933)	Liberal	1933
	Désiré Lahaie	Liberal	Papineau	1922
	Wallace McDonald	Liberal	Pontiac	1919
	Pierre Gauthier	Liberal	Portneuf	1927
	Joseph-Ephraim Bédard	Liberal	Québec-Comté	1927
	Joseph Samson	Liberal	Québec-Centre	1927
	Oscar Drouin	Liberal	Québec-Est	1928
	Joseph Ignatius Power	Liberal	Québec-Ouest	1927
	Avila Turcotte	Liberal	Richelieu	1929
	Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais	Liberal	Richmond	1923
	Louis-Joseph Moreault	Liberal	Rimouski	1923
	Léon Casgrain	Liberal	Rivière-du-Loup	1927
	Émile Moreau	Liberal	Roberval	1919
	Laurent Barré	Conservative	Rouville	1931
	Télesphore-Damien Bouchard	Liberal	Saint-Hyacinthe	1912, 1923
	Alexis Bouthillier	Liberal	Saint-Jean	1919
	Joseph-Auguste Frigon	Liberal	Saint-Maurice	1927
	Pierre Bertrand	Conservative[a]	Saint-Sauveur	1923, 1931
	Robert-Raoul Bachand	Liberal	Shefford	1931
	Émery-Hector Fortier	Liberal	Sherbrooke	1931
	Avila Ferland	Liberal	Soulanges	1916, 1927
	Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet	Liberal	Stanstead	1913
	Joseph-Édouard Piché	Liberal	Témiscamingue	1927
	Joseph-Wilfrid Morel	Liberal	Témiscouata	1931
	Athanase David	Liberal	Terrebonne	1916
	Maurice Duplessis	Conservative	Trois-Rivières	1927
	Elzéar Sabourin	Liberal	Vaudreuil	1931
	Félix Messier	Liberal	Verchères	1927
	Charles Allan Smart	Conservative	Westmount	1912
	Cyrénus Lemieux	Liberal	Wolfe	1921
	Thomas Hercule Lapointe (1933)	Liberal	1933
	Antonio Élie	Conservative	Yamaska	1931

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during the term

• Alexandre Gaudet, Liberal Party, Nicolet, November 7, 1933^[1]
• Thomas Hercule Lapointe, Liberal Party, Wolfe, November 14, 1933^[2]
• Joseph-Théodule Rhéaume, Liberal Party, Jacques-Cartier, November 21, 1933^[3]

Cabinet Ministers

• Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Agriculture: Adélard Godbout
• Colonization, Hunting and Fishing: Hector Laferté (1931–1934)
• Public Works and Labor: Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur (1931)
  • Labour: Charles-Joseph Arcand (1931–1935)
  • Colonization: Irénée Vautrin (1934–1935)
  • Public Works, Hunting and Fishing: Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur (1934–1935)
    • Public Works: Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur (1931–1934)
• Mines:Joseph-Édouard Perrault
• Lands and Forests: Honoré Mercier Jr
• Roads: Joseph-Édouard Perrault
• Municipal Affairs: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1931–1935)
  • Municipal Affairs, Industry and Commerce: Télesphore-Damien Bouchard (1935)
• Attorney General: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
• Provincial secretary: Athanase David
• Treasurer: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1931–1932), Ralph Frederick Stockwell (1932–1935)
• Members without portfolios: George Bryson Jr. (1931–1935), Irénée Vautrin (1934), John Hall Kelly (1935)

Notes

1. First elected as Labour