St. James (federal electoral district)

For the provincial electoral district in Manitoba, see St. James (provincial electoral district).

St. James was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1892 to 1952.

St. James

Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1892
District abolished	1952
First contested	1896
Last contested	1949

The riding was created in 1892 from parts of Montreal Centre and Montreal East ridings. It consisted initially of St. James's Ward and the East Ward in the city of Montreal. In 1914, it was expanded to include Lafontaine Ward of the city of Montreal. After 1924, it was defined with reference to streets in Montreal.

In 1947, the riding was abolished when it was redistributed into a new St. James riding, and the ridings of Lafontaine, Laurier, Papineau and St. Mary.

The new St. James electoral district was abolished in 1952 when it was redistributed into Laurier and Saint-Jacques ridings.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
St. James Riding created from Montreal Centre and Montreal East
8th	1896–1900		Odilon Desmarais	Liberal
9th	1900–1901
	1902–1902		Joseph Brunet
	1904–1904		Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais
10th	1904–1908
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917		Louis-Audet Lapointe
13th	1917–1920			Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
	1920–1921		Fernand Rinfret	Liberal
14th	1921–1925
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1926
	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1939
	1939–1940		Eugène Durocher
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949		Roland Beaudry
21st	1949–1953
Riding dissolved into Laurier and Saint-Jacques

Election results

1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Odilon Desmarais	3,423
	Conservative	Louis-Arsène Lavallée	2,054

1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Odilon Desmarais	3,256
	Conservative	Tancrède Pagnuelo	1,615
	Independent	Joseph-Homère Migneron	74

By-election: On Mr. Desmarais being appointed Puisne Judge of the Superior Court of Quebec, 25 June 1901

By-election on 15 January 1902
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph Brunet	2,899
	Conservative	Joseph-Gédéon-Horace Bergeron	2,252

By-election: On election being declared void, 22 December 1902

By-election on 16 February 1904
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais	3,269
	Conservative	Joseph-Gédéon-Horace Bergeron	2,591

1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais	3,648
	Conservative	J. T. Cardinal	2,291

1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Honoré Hippolyte Achille Gervais	3,995
	Conservative	Napoléon Giroux	2,468

1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Louis-Audet Lapointe	4,653
	Nationalist Conservative	Olivar Asselin	3,179

1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Louis-Audet Lapointe	acclaimed

By-election: On Mr. Lapointe's death, 7 February 1920

By-election on 7 April 1920
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Rinfret	3,413
	Labour	Alphetus Mathieu	1,856

1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Rinfret	11,216
	Conservative	André Rémi Odilon Léon Gauthier	968
	Independent	Ubald Paquin	625

1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Rinfret	12,080
	Liberal Protectionist	Ruben Charles Laurier	4,076

1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Rinfret	12,740
	Conservative	Georges-Avila Marsan	2,192

By-election: On Mr. Rinfret's acceptance of an office of emolument under the Crown, 5 October 1926

By-election on 2 November 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Rinfret	acclaimed

1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Rinfret	13,299
	Conservative	Joseph-Paul Lamarche	6,208

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Fernand Rinfret	22,298
	Reconstruction	Louis Francœur	10,242
	Conservative	Joseph-Paul Lamarche	2,953
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Jean-Désiré De Peron	1,147
	Independent	Emma Gendron	241

By-election: On Mr. Rinfret's death, 12 July 1939

By-election on 18 December 1939
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Eugène Durocher	16,986
	Unknown	Paul Bouchard	6,368

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Eugène Durocher	27,219
	National Government	Joseph-Édouard Jeannotte	5,777
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Hector Rochon	1,091
	Independent Liberal	Achille Mathieu	864

1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Roland Beaudry	23,970
	Bloc populaire	Roger Duhamel	12,932
	Independent	J.-Édouard Jeannotte	2,040
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Hector Rochon	619
	Independent Liberal	Émile Mathieu	585
	Social Credit	Rosaire Coté	549
	Independent Liberal	Georges-Étienne Loiselle	342
	Independent	Jean-Hubert Dugas	186

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Roland Beaudry	18,705
	Progressive Conservative	Jacques Auger	9,349
	Union des électeurs	Jean Grenier	720

See also

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