By-elections to the 10th Canadian Parliament

By-elections to the 10th Canadian Parliament were held to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada between the 1904 federal election and the 1908 federal election. The Liberal Party of Canada led a majority government for the 10th Canadian Parliament.

The list includes Ministerial by-elections which occurred due to the requirement that Members of Parliament recontest their seats upon being appointed to Cabinet. These by-elections were almost always uncontested. This requirement was abolished in 1931.

Alberta and Saskatchewan entered Confederation in 1905. Unlike in the case of other provinces that joined after 1867, the new provinces were already represented by ridings originally drawn for the Northwest Territories, and the members elected in 1904 continued to sit as representatives of the old NWT ridings (some of which straddled the new border), except where they resigned as indicated below.

By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause	Retained
Stanstead	January 22, 1908	Henry Lovell		Liberal	Charles Henry Lovell		Liberal	Death	Yes
Huron South	January 22, 1908	Benjamin B. Gunn		Conservative	Murdo Young McLean		Liberal	Death	No
Nicolet	December 30, 1907	Charles Ramsay Devlin		Liberal	Gustave-Adolphe-Narcisse Turcotte		Liberal	Resignation upon appointment to the provincial cabinet of Quebec	Yes
City of Ottawa	December 23, 1907	Napoléon Antoine Belcourt		Liberal	William H. Hutchison		Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
Labelle	December 23, 1907	Henri Bourassa		Liberal	Charles Beautron Major		Liberal	Resignation to enter provincial politics	Yes
York Centre	December 23, 1907	Archibald Campbell		Liberal	Peter Douglas McLean		Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
Colchester	November 28, 1907	Frederick Andrew Laurence		Liberal	John Stanfield		Conservative	Appointed a judge	No
London	October 29, 1907	C. S. Hyman		Liberal	Thomas Beattie		Conservative	Resignation	No
Northumberland East	October 29, 1907	Edward Cochrane		Conservative	Charles Lewis Owen		Conservative	Death	Yes
Wellington North	October 29, 1907	Thomas Martin		Liberal	Alexander Munro Martin		Liberal	Death	Yes
Brockville	September 18, 1907	Daniel Derbyshire		Liberal	George Perry Graham		Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
City and County of St. John	September 18, 1907	Alfred Stockton		Conservative	William Pugsley		Liberal	Death	No
Richelieu	March 7, 1907	Arthur-Aimé Bruneau		Liberal	Adélard Lanctôt		Liberal	Appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec	Yes
L'Assomption	March 7, 1907	Romuald-Charlemagne Laurier		Liberal	Ruben Charles Laurier		Liberal	Death	Yes
Victoria	March 5, 1907	John Costigan		Liberal	Pius Michaud		Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
Three Rivers and St. Maurice	February 28, 1907	Jacques Bureau		Liberal	Jacques Bureau		Liberal	Recontested upon appointment as Solicitor General	Yes
Nicolet	December 29, 1906	Rodolphe Lemieux		Liberal	Charles Ramsay Devlin		Liberal	Chose to sit for Gaspé	Yes
St. Ann	November 21, 1906	Daniel Gallery		Liberal	Joseph Charles Walsh		Liberal	Election declared void	Yes
St. Mary	November 21, 1906	Camille Piché		Liberal	Médéric Martin		Liberal	Appointed Police Magistrate in Montreal.	Yes
Shelburne and Queen's	October 31, 1906	William Stevens Fielding		Liberal	William Stevens Fielding		Liberal	Election declared void	Yes
Bruce North	October 30, 1906	Leonard Thomas Bland		Liberal-Conservative	John Tolmie		Liberal	Death	No
Quebec County	October 23, 1906	Charles Fitzpatrick		Liberal	Lorenzo Robitaille		Independent Liberal	Appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada	No
St. Johns—Iberville	October 16, 1906	Louis Philippe Demers		Liberal	Marie Joseph Demers		Liberal	Appointed Puisne Judge of the Superior Court of Quebec	Yes
Elgin East	October 14, 1906	Andrew B. Ingram		Liberal-Conservative	David Marshall		Conservative	Appointed Vice Chairman of the Ontario Railway and Municipal Commission	Yes
Renfrew North	October 9, 1906	Peter White		Conservative	Gerald Verner White		Conservative	Death	Yes
Strathcona	April 5, 1906	Peter Talbot		Liberal	Wilbert McIntyre		Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
Cape Breton North and Victoria	March 14, 1906	Daniel Duncan McKenzie		Liberal	Alexander Charles Ross		Liberal	Appointed a judge	Yes
Victoria City	March 6, 1906	George Riley		Liberal	William Templeman		Liberal	Resignation to provide a seat for Templeman	Yes
Maisonneuve	February 23, 1906	Raymond Préfontaine		Liberal	Alphonse Verville		Labour	Death	No
Assiniboia West	February 6, 1906	Thomas Walter Scott		Liberal	William Erskine Knowles		Liberal	Resignation to enter provincial politics in Saskatchewan	Yes
Saskatchewan	February 6, 1906	John Henderson Lamont		Liberal	George Ewan McCraney		Liberal	Resignation to enter provincial politics in Saskatchewan	Yes
Town of Sherbrooke	February 6, 1906	Arthur Norreys Worthington		Conservative	Arthur Norreys Worthington		Conservative	Election declared void	Yes
Compton	January 4, 1906	Aylmer Byron Hunt		Liberal	Aylmer Byron Hunt		Liberal	Election declared void	Yes
York North	November 22, 1905	William Mulock		Liberal	Allen Bristol Aylesworth		Liberal	Appointed a judge	Yes
Antigonish	November 22, 1905	Colin McIsaac		Liberal	William Chisholm		Liberal	Appointed a Railway Commissioner	Yes
Lambton West	November 22, 1905	Thomas George Johnston		Liberal	Frederick Forsyth Pardee		Liberal	Death	Yes
Wentworth	November 22, 1905	E. D. Smith		Conservative	Peter Douglas McLean		Conservative	Election declared void	Yes
London	June 13, 1905	C. S. Hyman		Liberal	C. S. Hyman		Liberal	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Public Works	Yes
Oxford North	June 13, 1905	James Sutherland		Liberal	George Smith		Liberal	Death	Yes
Lévis	June 6, 1905	Louis Julien Demers		Liberal	Louis Auguste Carrier		Liberal	Death	Yes
Edmonton	April 25, 1905	Frank Oliver		Liberal	Frank Oliver		Liberal	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of the Interior.	Yes
Toronto Centre	April 11, 1905	Edward Frederick Clarke		Conservative	Edmund James Bristol		Conservative	Death	Yes
Wright	February 13, 1905	Wilfrid Laurier		Liberal	Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin		Liberal	Chose to sit for Quebec East	Yes
Carleton	February 4, 1905	Edward Kidd		Conservative	Robert L. Borden		Conservative	Resignation to provide a seat for Borden	Yes
Quebec-Centre	January 19, 1905	Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin		Liberal	Arthur Lachance		Liberal	Appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec	Yes

See also

• List of federal by-elections in Canada

Sources

• Parliament of Canada–Elected in By-Elections