L'Islet (federal electoral district)

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the provincial electoral district, see L'Islet (provincial electoral district). For the pre-Confederation electoral district, see L'Islet (Province of Canada electoral district).

L'Islet (French pronunciation: [lilɛ]) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1935.

L'Islet

Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1933
First contested	1867
Last contested	1930

It was created by the British North America Act, 1867 and consisted of the County of L'Islet. It was amalgamated into the Kamouraska and Montmagny—L'Islet electoral districts in 1933.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
L'Islet
1st	1867–1869		Barthélemy Pouliot	Conservative
	1869–1872
2nd	1872–1874		Philippe Baby Casgrain	Liberal
3rd	1874–1878
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1887
6th	1887–1891
7th	1891–1892		Louis-Georges Desjardins	Conservative
	1893–1896		Joseph-Israël Tarte	Independent
8th	1896–1900		Alphonse-Arthur Miville Déchêne	Liberal
9th	1900–1901
	1902–1904		Onésiphore Carbonneau
10th	1904–1908		Eugène Paquet	Conservative
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917
13th	1917–1921		Joseph-Fernand Fafard	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
14th	1921–1925			Liberal
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
Riding dissolved into Kamouraska and Montmagny—L'Islet

Election results

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Conservative	Barthélemy Pouliot	464	Y
	Unknown	Louis-Bonaventure Caron	40
Source: Canadian Elections Database[1]

By-election: On Mr. Pouliot being unseated on petition

By-election on 14 July 1869
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Barthélemy Pouliot	697
	Unknown	Louis-Bonaventure Caron	460

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Philippe Baby Casgrain	646
	Conservative	Barthélemy Pouliot	599
Source: Canadian Elections Database[2]

By-election: On Mr. Desjardin's resignation, 30 September 1892

By-election on 5 January 1893
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent	Joseph-Israël Tarte	acclaimed

v t e 1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Alphonse-Arthur Miville Déchêne	1,038
	Conservative	A. Dionne	1,032

v t e 1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Alphonse-Arthur Miville Déchêne	1,111
	Conservative	Jos. Ed. Caron	1,011

By-election: On Mr. Déchêne being called to the Senate, 13 May 1901

By-election on 15 January 1902
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Onésiphore Carbonneau	953
	Conservative	Jos. Ed. Caron	932

v t e 1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Eugène Paquet	1,195
	Liberal	Onésiphore Carbonneau	1,038

v t e 1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Eugène Paquet	1,349
	Liberal	Jean-Baptiste-Thomas Caron	1,184

v t e 1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Eugène Paquet	1,578
	Liberal	Armand Bourgault	1,144

v t e 1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Joseph-Fernand Fafard	acclaimed

v t e 1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-Fernand Fafard	3,720
	Conservative	Eugène Paquet	2,132

v t e 1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-Fernand Fafard	3,516
	Conservative	Joseph-Adhémar Gagnon	2,436

v t e 1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-Fernand Fafard	3,619
	Conservative	Joseph-Adhémar Gagnon	2,795

See also

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