Saguenay (federal electoral district)

Saguenay was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1949 to 1968.

Saguenay

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 parts of Charlevoix—Saguenay riding. It consisted of:

• the county of Saguenay, (except the municipality of St. Firmin and the township of Sagard), and the towns of Baie Comeau and Forestville;
• Anticosti Island; and
• the territory of New-Quebec.

It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Abitibi, Charlevoix and Manicouagan ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Saguenay Riding created from Charlevoix—Saguenay
21st	1949–1953		Lomer Brisson	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962		Perrault LaRue	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963		Lauréat Maltais	Social Credit
26th	1963–1965		Gustave Blouin	Liberal
27th	1965–1968
Riding dissolved into Abitibi, Charlevoix and Manicouagan

Election results

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lomer Brisson	6,113
	Progressive Conservative	Frédéric Dorion	5,651
	Union des électeurs	Madame Victor Gladu	889

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lomer Brisson	7,815
	Progressive Conservative	Wilbrod Langlais	7,464

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Lomer Brisson	11,408
	Progressive Conservative	Wilbrod Langlais	8,191

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Perrault LaRue	13,194
	Liberal	Lomer Brisson	11,330

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Lauréat Maltais	15,992
	Liberal	Réal Therrien	10,210
	Progressive Conservative	Bernard Flynn	6,168

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Gustave Blouin	13,896
	Social Credit	Lauréat Maltais	13,261
	Progressive Conservative	Louis-Edmond St-Laurent	3,240
	New Democratic	Raymond Lapointe	2,036

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Gustave Blouin	15,062
	Ralliement créditiste	Jean-Nil Jean	8,478
	New Democratic	Roger Collin	5,019
	Progressive Conservative	Bernard Coté	4,348

See also

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