L'Assomption (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal district. For the provincial district, see L'Assomption (provincial electoral district).

L'Assomption was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1917.

L'Assomption

Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1914
First contested	1867
Last contested	1911

It was created by the British North America Act, 1867. It was amalgamated into the L'Assomption—Montcalm electoral district in 1914.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
L'Assomption
1st	1867–1872		Louis Archambeault	Liberal–Conservative
2nd	1872–1874
3rd	1874–1874		Hilaire Hurteau
	1875–1878
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1887
6th	1887–1888		Joseph Gauthier	Liberal
	1888–1891
7th	1891–1892
	1892–1896		Hormidas Jeannotte	Conservative
8th	1896–1900		Joseph Gauthier	Liberal
9th	1900–1904		Romuald-Charlemagne Laurier
10th	1904–1906
	1907–1908		Ruben Charles Laurier
11th	1908–1911		Paul-Arthur Séguin
12th	1911–1917
Riding dissolved into L'Assomption—Montcalm

Election results

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal–Conservative	Louis Archambeault	898	Y
	Unknown	Pierre-Urgel Archambault	665
Source: Canadian Elections Database[1]

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Louis Archambeault	905
	Unknown	A. Archambault	757
Source: Canadian Elections Database[2]

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Hilaire Hurteau	879
	Unknown	L. Forrest	818

By-election: On Mr. Hurteau being unseated on petition, 24 November 1874

By-election on 16 January 1875
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Hilaire Hurteau	acclaimed

v t e 1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Hilaire Hurteau	1,021
	Unknown	L. Forest	852

v t e 1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	Hilaire Hurteau	1,019
	Liberal	Joseph Gauthier	852

v t e 1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph Gauthier	1,117
	Conservative	Barthélémi Rocher	1,096

By-election: On Mr. Gauthier being unseated, 3 March 1888

By-election on 3 April 1888
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph Gauthier	1,162
	Unknown	Barthélémi Rocher	1,075

v t e 1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph Gauthier	1,239
	Conservative	Hormidas Jeannotte	1,161

By-election: On election being declared void, 6 February 1892

By-election on 31 May 1892
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Hormidas Jeannotte	acclaimed

v t e 1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph Gauthier	1,335
	Conservative	Hormidas Jeannotte	1,216

v t e 1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Romuald-Charlemagne Laurier	1,486
	Conservative	Horace Honoré Éthier	1,138

v t e 1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Romuald-Charlemagne Laurier	acclaimed

By-election: On Mr. Laurier's death, 28 December 1906

By-election on 7 March 1907
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Ruben Charles Laurier	1,276
	Conservative	E. Lemire dit Marsolais	1,106

v t e 1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Paul-Arthur Séguin	1,524
	Conservative	Joseph Misael Fortier	942

v t e 1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Paul-Arthur Séguin	1,508
	Conservative	Louis Joseph Siméon Morin	1,209

See also

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