20th Quebec Legislature

The 20th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from August 17, 1936, to October 25, 1939. The Union Nationale led by Maurice Duplessis was the governing party for the first time ever.

Seats per political party

• After the 1936 elections

Affiliation		Members
	Union Nationale	76
	Parti libéral du Québec	14
Total		90
Government Majority		62

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1936 election:

	Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
	Émile Lesage	Union Nationale	Abitibi	1936
	Georges-Étienne Dansereau	Libéral	Argenteuil	1935
	Joseph-David Gagné	Union Nationale	Arthabaska	1936
	Cyrille Dumaine	Libéral	Bagot	1935
	Philippe Adam (1938)	Union Nationale	1938
	Raoul Poulin	Union Nationale	Beauce	1936
	Joseph-Emile Perron (1937)	Union Nationale	1937
	Delpha Sauvé	Union Nationale	Beauharnois	1935
	Émile Boiteau	Union Nationale	Bellechasse	1936
	Cléophas Bastien	Libéral	Berthier	1927
	Henri Jolicoeur	Union Nationale	Bonaventure	1936
	Jonathan Robinson	Union Nationale	Brome	1936
	Hortensius Béïque	Union Nationale	Chambly	1931, 1936
	Ulphée-Wilbrod Rousseau	Union Nationale	Champlain	1935
	Arthur Leclerc	Union Nationale	Charlevoix—Saguenay	1936
	Auguste Boyer	Union Nationale	Châteauguay	1936
	Arthur Larouche	Union Nationale	Chicoutimi	1935
	Antonio Talbot (1938)	Union Nationale	1938
	Payson Sherman	Union Nationale	Compton	1935
	Paul Sauvé	Union Nationale	Deux-Montagnes	1930, 1936
	Joseph-Damase Bégin	Union Nationale	Dorchester	1935
	Joseph Marier	Union Nationale	Drummond	1936
	Patrice Tardif	Union Nationale	Frontenac	1935
	Joseph-Alphonse Pelletier	Union Nationale	Gaspé-Nord	1936
	Camille-Eugène Pouliot	Union Nationale	Gaspé-Sud	1936
	Georges-Adélard Auger	Union Nationale	Gatineau	1936
	Alexandre Taché	Union Nationale	Hull	1936
	Martin Fisher	Union Nationale	Huntingdon	1930
	Lucien Lamoureux	Libéral	Iberville	1923
	Hormisdas Langlais	Union Nationale	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	1936
	Anatole Carignan	Union Nationale	Jacques-Cartier	1936
	Antonio Barrette	Union Nationale	Joliette	1936
	René Chaloult	Union Nationale	Kamouraska	1936
		Parti National
	Albiny Paquette	Union Nationale	Labelle	1935
	Joseph-Léonard Duguay	Union Nationale	Lac-Saint-Jean	1935
	Adhémar Raynault	Union Nationale	L'Assomption	1936
	François Leduc	Union Nationale	Laval	1935
	Libéral
	Charles Romulus Ducharme	Union Nationale	Laviolette	1935
	Joseph-Théophile Larochelle	Union Nationale	Lévis	1935
	Joseph Bilodeau	Union Nationale	L'Islet	1936
	Maurice Pelletier	Union Nationale	Lotbinière	1936
	William Tremblay	Union Nationale[a]	Maisonneuve	1927, 1935
	Joseph-Napoléon Caron	Union Nationale	Maskinongé	1936
	Onésime Gagnon	Union Nationale	Matane	1936
	Ferdinand Paradis	Union Nationale	Matapédia	1936
	Tancrède Labbé	Union Nationale	Mégantic	1935
	François A. Pouliot	Union Nationale	Missisquoi	1935
	Maurice Tellier	Union Nationale	Montcalm	1936
	Joseph-Ernest Grégoire	Union Nationale	Montmagny	1935
		Parti National
	Joseph-Félix Roy	Union Nationale	Montmorency	1936
	Grégoire Bélanger	Union Nationale	Montréal-Dorion	1935
	Action libérale nationale
	Charles-Auguste Bertrand	Libéral	Montréal-Laurier	1936
	Gérard Thibeault	Union Nationale	Montréal-Mercier	1936
	Francis Lawrence Connors	Libéral	Montréal–Sainte-Anne	1935
	Candide Rochefort	Union Nationale	Montréal–Sainte-Marie	1935
	Gilbert Layton	Union Nationale	Montréal–Saint-Georges	1936
	Independent
	René Labelle	Union Nationale	Montréal–Saint-Henri	1936
	Henry Lemaître Auger	Union Nationale	Montréal–Saint-Jacques	1935
	Thomas Joseph Coonan	Union Nationale	Montréal–Saint-Laurent	1936
	Peter Bercovitch	Libéral	Montréal–Saint-Louis	1916
	Louis Fitch (1938)	Union Nationale	1938
	Pierre-Auguste Lafleur	Union Nationale	Montréal-Verdun	1923
	Philippe Monette	Union Nationale	Napierville-Laprairie	1936
	Émery Fleury	Union Nationale	Nicolet	1936
	Roméo Lorrain	Union Nationale	Papineau	1935
	Edward Charles Lawn	Libéral	Pontiac	1935
	Bona Dussault	Union Nationale	Portneuf	1935
	Adolphe Marcoux	Union Nationale	Québec-Comté	1936
		Parti National
	Philippe Hamel	Union Nationale	Québec-Centre	1935
		Parti National
	Oscar Drouin	Union Nationale[b]	Québec-Est	1928
		Parti National
	Charles Delagrave	Libéral	Québec-Ouest	1935
	Avila Turcotte	Libéral	Richelieu	1929
	Albert Goudreau	Union Nationale	Richmond	1935
	Alfred Dubé	Union Nationale	Rimouski	1936
	Léon Casgrain	Libéral	Rivière-du-Loup	1927
	Antoine Castonguay	Union Nationale	Roberval	1935
	Laurent Barré	Union Nationale	Rouville	1931
	Télesphore-Damien Bouchard	Libéral	Saint-Hyacinthe	1912, 1923
	Alexis Bouthillier	Libéral	Saint-Jean	1919
	Marc Trudel	Union Nationale	Saint-Maurice	1935
	Pierre Bertrand	Union Nationale	Saint-Sauveur	1923, 1931
	Hector Choquette	Union Nationale	Shefford	1935
	John Samuel Bourque	Union Nationale	Sherbrooke	1935
	Édouard Leduc	Union Nationale	Soulanges	1936
	Rouville Beaudry	Union Nationale	Stanstead	1935
	Henri Gérin (1938)	Union Nationale	1938
	Nil-Élie Larivière	Union Nationale	Témiscamingue	1935
	Louis-Felix Dubé	Union Nationale	Témiscouata	1936
	Hermann Barrette	Union Nationale	Terrebonne	1936
	Maurice Duplessis	Union Nationale	Trois-Rivières	1927
	Dionel Bellemare	Union Nationale	Vaudreuil	1936
	Félix Messier	Libéral	Verchères	1927
	William Ross Bulloch	Union Nationale	Westmount	1936
	Henri Vachon	Union Nationale	Wolfe	1936
	Antonio Élie	Union Nationale	Yamaska	1931

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected during the term in by-elections

• Joseph-Emile Perron, Union Nationale, Beauce, March 17, 1937 ^[1]
• Philippe Adam, Union Nationale, Bagot, February 16, 1938 ^[2]
• Antonio Talbot, Union Nationale, Chicoutimi, May 25, 1938 ^[3]
• Louis Fitch, Union Nationale, Montréal-Saint-Louis, November 2, 1938 ^[4]
• Henri Gérin, Union Nationale, Stanstead, November 2, 1938 ^[5]

Cabinet Ministers

• Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Maurice Duplessis
• Agriculture: Bona Dussault
• Mines, Hunting and Fishing: Onésime Gagnon (1936)
  • Mines and Fishing: Onésime Gagnon (1936–1939)
• Colonization: Henri Lemaître Auger
• Labour: William Tremblay
• Public Works: John Samuel Bourque
• Lands and Forests: Oscar Drouin (1936–1937), Maurice Duplessis (1937–1938), John Samuel Bourque (1938–1939)
• Health: Albiny Paquette (1936–1939)
• Roads: François-Joseph Leduc (1936–1938), Maurice Duplessis (1938), Anatole Carignan (1938–1939)
• Municipal Affairs, Industry and Commerce: Joseph Bilodeau
• Attorney General: Maurice Duplessis
• Provincial Secretary: Albiny Paquette
• Treasurer: Martin Beattie Fisher
• Members without portfolios: Antonio Élie, Thomas Chapais (1936–1939), Gilbert Layton, Thomas Joseph Coonan

New electoral districts

The electoral map was reformed in 1939 just prior to the elections later that year.^[6]

• Châteauguay and Laprairie were merged to form Châteauguay-Laprairie while Napierville which was merged with Laprairie was merged with Saint-Jean to form Saint-Jean-Napierville.
• Kamouraska and Rivière-du-Loup were merged to form Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup
• Westmount was split into two new ridings: Montréal-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Montréal-Outremont.
• Montréal-Jeanne-Mance was formed from parts of Maisonneuve, Montréal-Mercier and Montréal-Dorion.
• Montréal-Saint-Georges was renamed Westmount-Saint-Georges.
• Richelieu and Verchères was merged to form Richelieu-Vercheres
• Vaudreuil and Soulanges were merged to form Vaudreuil-Soulanges.

Notes

1. First elected as a Labour candidate
2. First Elected as a Liberal