Québec-Comté (provincial electoral district)

Québec-Comté (or Quebec County) was a former provincial electoral district in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. It was located in the general area of Quebec County, one of the historic counties of Quebec. It elected members to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

This article is about the former provincial electoral district. For the former Canadian federal electoral district, see Quebec County (electoral district). For the pre-Confederation electoral district, see Quebec County (Province of Canada electoral district).

Québec-Comté

Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
District created	1867
District abolished	1965
First contested	1867
Last contested	1962

It was created for the 1867 election. Its final election was in 1962. It disappeared in the 1966 election and its successor electoral district was Chauveau.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

• Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Conservative Party (1867–1873)
• Pierre Garneau, Conservative Party (1873–1878)
• David Alexander Ross, Liberal (1878–1881)
• Pierre Garneau, Conservative Party (1881–1886)
• Thomas Chase Casgrain, Conservative Party (1886–1890)
• Charles Fitzpatrick, Liberal (1890–1896)
• Némèse Garneau, Liberal (1897–1901)
• Cyril Fraser Delâge, Liberal (1901–1916)
• Aurèle Leclerc, Liberal (1916–1923)
• Ludger Bastien, Conservative Party (1924–1927)
• Joseph-Ephraim Bedard, Liberal (1927–1935)
• Francis Byrne, Liberal (1935–1936)
• Adolphe Marcoux, Union Nationale (1936–1939)
• François-Xavier Bouchard, Liberal (1939–1944)
• René Chaloult, Nationaliste - Independent (1944–1952)
• Jean-Jacques Bédard, Liberal (1952–1956)
• Émilien Rochette, Union Nationale (1956–1960)
• Jean-Jacques Bédard, Liberal (1960–1966)

Election results

1931 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Joseph-Ephraim Bedard	3,747	54.66
	Conservative	Ludger Bastien	3,108	45.34
Total valid votes			6,855	100.00

1935 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Francis Byrne	3,987	48.07
	Action libérale nationale	Joseph-Oliva-Horace Philippon	3,753	45.25
	Independent Liberal	Joseph-Albert Auclair	554	6.68
Total valid votes			8,294	100.00

1936 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Union Nationale	Adolphe Marcoux	4,651	55.15
	Liberal	Francis Byrne	3,632	43.85
Total valid votes			8,283	100.00

1939 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	François-Xavier Bouchard	3,539	47.17
	Union Nationale	Émile Delâge	2,663	35.49
	Action libérale nationale	J.-Arthur Dion	1,052	14.02
	Liberal	Albert Chrétien	249	3.32
Total valid votes			7,503	100.00

1944 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	René Chaloult	6,587	34.79
	Liberal	Joseph Pagé	6,224	32.88
	Union Nationale	Ludger Bastien	6,120	32.33
Total valid votes			18,931	100.00

1948 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Independent	René Chaloult	11,807	49.49
	Liberal	Joseph-Oliva-Horace Philippon	7,546	31.63
	Social Credit	J.-Adélard Bélair	4,503	18.88
Total valid votes			23,856	100.00

1952 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Jean-Jacques Bédard	11,230	39.67
	National	René Chaloult	9,734	34.39
	Independent Union Nationale	Léopold Larochelle	7,344	25.94
Total valid votes			28,308	100.00

1956 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Union Nationale	Émilien Rochette	21,272	56.22
	Liberal	Jean-Jacques Bédard	16,225	42.88
	Independent Union Nationale	Lorenzo Alain	280	0.74
	Labor–Progressive	Georges Boisvert	63	0.17
Total valid votes			37,840	100.00

1960 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Jean-Jacques Bédard	27,839	55.95
	Union Nationale	Émilien Rochette	20,686	41.57
	Independent	Léopold Larochelle	1,232	2.48
Total valid votes			49,757	100.00

1962 Quebec general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Jean-Jacques Bédard	34,090	57.80
	Union Nationale	Gaston Tremblay	24,894	42.20
Total valid votes			58,894	100.00

References

Election results

• Election results (National Assembly)
• Election results (QuebecPolitique.com)