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5th Quebec Legislature

The 5th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from December 2, 1881, to October 14, 1886. The Quebec Conservative Party led Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Joseph-Alfred Mousseau and John Jones Ross was the governing party. Chapleau was succeeded by Mousseau in 1882 while Ross succeeded Mousseau in 1884. It was the Conservatives last majority government.

The sixty-five members were each elected in a single-member district through First past the post.

Seats per political party

After the 1881 elections

Affiliation	Members
50
Liberal/Parti national	14
Conservative Independent	1
Total
65
Government Majority
36

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1881 election:

Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
William Owens	Conservative	Argenteuil	1881
Antoine Casavant	Conservative	Bagot	1881
Jean Blanchet	Conservative	Beauce	1881
Célestin Bergevin	Conservative	Beauharnois	1867, 1878
Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice	Conservative	Bellechasse	1881
Joseph Robillard	Conservative	Berthier	1878
Louis-Joseph Riopel	Conservative	Bonaventure	1881
William Warren Lynch	Conservative	Brome	1871
Michel-Dosithée-Stanislas Martel	Conservative	Chambly	1878, 1881
Robert Trudel	Conservative	Champlain	1881
Onésime Gauthier	Conservative	Charlevoix	1875
Édouard Laberge	Liberal	Châteauguay	1867
Élie Saint-Hilaire	Conservative Independent	Chicoutimi et Saguenay	1881
William Sawyer	Conservative	Compton	1871
Charles Champagne	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes	1876
Nicodème Audet	Conservative	Dorchester	1878
William John Watts	Liberal	Drummond et Arthabaska	1874
Edmund James Flynn	Conservative	Gaspé	1878
Louis Beaubien	Conservative	Hochelaga	1867
Alexander Cameron	Liberal	Huntingdon	1874
Alexis-Louis Demers	Liberal	Iberville	1881
Charles Marcotte	Conservative	Islet	1881
Narcisse Lecavalier	Conservative	Jacques Cartier	1867
Arthur Boyer (1884)	Liberal	1884
Vincent-Paul Lavallée	Conservative	Joliette	1867
Alfred McConville (1885)	Conservative	1885
Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon	Liberal	Kamouraska	1878
Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois	Conservative	Laprairie	1875
Joseph Marion	Conservative	L'Assomption	1880
Louis-Onésime Loranger	Conservative	Laval	1875
Pierre-Évariste Leblanc (1882)	Conservative	1882
Amédée Gaboury (1883)	Liberal	1883
Pierre-Évariste Leblanc (1884)	Conservative	1882, 1884
Étienne-Théodore Pâquet	Conservative	Lévis	1875
François-Xavier Lemieux (1883)	Liberal	1883
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière	Liberal	Lotbinière	1867
Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté (1886)	Liberal	1886
Édouard Caron	Conservative	Maskinongé	1878
George Irvine	Liberal	Mégantic	1867, 1878
John Whyte (1884)	Liberal	1884
Elijah Edmund Spencer	Conservative	Missisquoi	1881
Jean-Baptiste-Trefflé Richard	Conservative	Montcalm	1881
Louis-Napoléon Fortin	Liberal	Montmagny	1876
Nazaire Bernatchez (1883)	Independent Liberal	1883
Louis-Georges Desjardins	Conservative	Montmorency	1881
George Washington Stephens Sr.	Liberal	Montréal Centre	1881
Louis-Olivier Taillon	Conservative	Montréal Est	1875
James McShane	Liberal	Montreal Ouest	1878
François-Xavier Paradis	Conservative	Napierville	1881
Charles-Édouard Houde	Conservative	Nicolet	1876
Louis-Trefflé Dorais (1883)	Independent Conservative	1883
Louis Duhamel	Conservative	Ottawa (Outaouais)	1875
Thomas Bryson	Conservative	Pontiac	1881
Jean-Docile Brousseau	Conservative	Portneuf	1881
Pierre Garneau	Conservative	Québec-Comté	1873, 1881
Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret dit Malouin	Liberal	Québec-Centre	1874
Joseph Shehyn	Liberal	Québec-Est	1875
Félix Carbray	Conservative	Québec-Ouest	1881
Léon Leduc	Conservative	Richelieu	1881
Jacques Picard	Conservative	Richmond et Wolfe	1867
Louis-Napoléon Asselin	Conservative	Rimouski	1881
Étienne Poulin	Conservative	Rouville	1881
Honoré Mercier	Liberal	St. Hyacinthe	1879
Félix-Gabriel Marchand	Liberal	St. Jean	1867
François-Sévère Desaulniers	Conservative	St. Maurice	1878
Isidore Frégeau	Conservative	Shefford	1881
Joseph Gibb Robertson	Conservative	Sherbrooke	1867
William Duckett	Conservative	Soulanges	1878
John Thornton	Conservative	Stanstead	1875, 1881
Georges-Honoré Deschênes	Conservative	Témiscouata	1875
Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau	Conservative	Terrebonne	1867
Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (1882)	Conservative	1882
Sévère Dumoulin	Conservative	Trois-Rivières	1868, 1881
Henri-René-Arthur Turcotte (1886)	Independent Conservative	1876, 1886
Émery Lalonde, Sr.	Conservative	Vaudreuil	1871
François-Xavier Archambault (1882)	Conservative	1882
Alfred Lapointe (1884)	Conservative	1884
Abraham Bernard	Liberal	Verchères	1881
Jonathan Saxton Campbell Würtele	Conservative	Yamaska	1875

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during the term

William Joseph Poupore, Quebec Conservative Party, Pontiac, March 6, 1882
Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel, Quebec Conservative Party, Terrebonne, August 19, 1882
Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, Quebec Conservative Party, Jacques Cartier, August 26, 1882
Benjamin Beauchamp, Quebec Conservative Party, Deux-Montagnes, October 21, 1882
Pierre-Évariste Leblanc, Quebec Conservative Party, Laval, October 30, 1882 & July 14, 1884
François-Xavier Archambault, Quebec Conservative Party, Vaudreuil, October 30, 1882
Henri-Josué Martin, Quebec Conservative Party, Bonaventure, October 31, 1882
Louis-Trefflé Dorais, Conservative Independent, Nicolet, February 5, 1883
Amédée Gaboury, Quebec Liberal Party, Laval, June 13, 1883
François-Xavier Lemieux, Quebec Liberal Party, Lévis, November 16, 1883
Joseph-Émery Robidoux, Quebec Liberal Party, Châteauguay, March 26, 1884
Arthur Boyer, Quebec Liberal Party, Jacques Cartier, March 26, 1884
Henri-René-Arthur Turcotte, Conservative Independent, Trois-Rivières, March 26, 1884
Alfred Lapointe, Quebec Conservative Party, Vaudreuil, June 19, 1884
John Whyte, Quebec Liberal Party, Mégantic, October 29, 1884
Alfred McConville, Quebec Conservative Party, Joliette, September 25, 1885
Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté, Quebec Liberal Party, Lotbinière, January 30, 1886
Joseph-Éna Girouard, Quebec Liberal Party, Drummond et Arthabaska, March 24, 1886

Cabinet Ministers

Chapleau Cabinet (1881–1882)

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
Agriculture and public works: John Jones Ross (1881–1882), Elisée Dionne (1882)
Crown Lands: Edmund James Flynn
Railroad: John Jones Ross (1881–1882), William Warren Lych (1882)
Attorney General: Louis-Onésime Loranger
Secretary and Registry: Etienne-Théodore Pâquet
Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson (1881–1882), Jonathan Saxton Campbell Wurtele (1882)
Solicitor General: William Warren Lynch
Legislative Council President: John Jones Ross

Mousseau Cabinet (1882–1884)

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
Agriculture and public works: Elisée Dionne
Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
Railroad: Henry Starnes
Attorney General: Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
Treasurer: Jonathan Saxton Campbell Wurtele

Ross Cabinet (1884–1886)

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: John Jones Ross
Agriculture and public works: John Jones Ross
Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
Railroad: Edmund James Flynn
Attorney General: Louis-Olivier Taillon
Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson
Solicitor General: Edmund James Flynn (1885–1886)

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