17th Quebec Legislature

The 17th Quebec Legislature was the provincial legislature that existed in Quebec, Canada from May 16, 1927, to July 30, 1931. The Liberal Party, led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau as Premier of Quebec had a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and was the governing party.

Seats per political party[]

After the 1927 elections

Affiliation		Members
	Liberal	75
	Conservative	9
	Labour	1
Total		85
Government Majority		66

Member list[]

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1927 election:

Name	Party	Riding
Hector Authier	Liberal	Abitibi
Georges-Étienne Dansereau	Liberal	Argenteuil
Joseph-Édouard Perrault	Liberal	Arthabaska
Joseph-Émery Phaneuf	Liberal	Bagot
	Liberal	Beauce
Louis-Joseph Papineau	Liberal	Beauharnois
Antonin Galipeault	Liberal	Bellechasse
Cléophas Bastien	Liberal	Berthier
Pierre-Émile Côté	Liberal	Bonaventure
	Liberal	Brome
Alexandre Thurber	Liberal	Chambly
William-Pierre Grant	Liberal	Champlain
Edgar Rochette	Liberal	Charlevoix et Saguenay
Honoré Mercier Jr.	Liberal	Châteauguay
	Liberal	Chicoutimi
Jacob Nicol	Liberal	Compton
Arthur Sauvé	Conservative	Deux-Montagnes
Ernest Ouellet	Liberal	Dorchester
Hector Laferté	Liberal	Drummond
	Liberal	Frontenac
Gustave Lemieux	Liberal	Gaspé
Aimé Guertin	Conservative	Hull
Andrew Philps	Liberal	Huntingdon
	Liberal	Iberville
Joseph-Édouard Caron	Liberal	Îles-de-la-Madeleine
	Liberal	Jacques-Cartier
Lucien Dugas	Liberal	Joliette
	Liberal	Kamouraska
	Liberal	Labelle
Émile Moreau	Liberal	Lac-Saint-Jean
Walter Reed	Liberal	L'Assomption
	Conservative	Laval
Alfred-Valère Roy	Liberal	Lévis
Élisée Thériault	Liberal	L'Islet
Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur	Liberal	Lotbinière
William Tremblay	Labour	Maisonneuve
Joseph-William Gagnon	Liberal	Maskinongé
	Liberal	Matane
Joseph Dufour	Liberal	Matapédia
	Liberal	Mégantic
	Liberal	Missisquoi
Joseph-Ferdinand Daniel	Liberal	Montcalm
	Liberal	Montmagny
Louis-Alexandre Taschereau	Liberal	Montmorency
	Conservative	Montréal-Dorion
	Liberal	Montréal-Laurier
	Liberal	Montréal-Mercier
	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Anne
Joseph Gauthier	Liberal	Montréal–Sainte-Marie
Charles Ernest Gault	Conservative	Montréal–Saint-Georges
Alfred Leduc	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Henri
Irénée Vautrin	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Jacques
Joseph Cohen	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Laurent
Peter Bercovitch	Liberal	Montréal–Saint-Louis
Pierre-Auguste Lafleur	Conservative	Montréal-Verdun
	Liberal	Napierville-Laprairie
Joseph-Alcide Savoie	Liberal	Nicolet
	Liberal	Papineau
Wallace Reginald McDonald	Liberal	Pontiac
	Liberal	Portneuf
	Liberal	Québec-Comté
Joseph Samson	Liberal	Québec-Centre
	Liberal	Québec-Est
Joseph Ignatius Power	Liberal	Québec-Ouest
	Liberal	Richelieu
	Liberal	Richmond
	Liberal	Rimouski
	Liberal	Rouville
Télesphore-Damien Bouchard	Liberal	Saint-Hyacinthe
	Liberal	Saint-Jean
Joseph-Auguste Frigon	Liberal^[1]	Saint-Maurice
	Liberal	Saint-Sauveur
William Stephen Bullock	Liberal	Shefford
	Conservative	Sherbrooke
	Liberal	Soulanges
	Liberal	Stanstead
	Liberal	Témiscamingue
Léon Casgrain	Liberal	Témiscouata
Athanase David	Liberal	Terrebonne
Maurice Duplessis	Conservative	Trois-Rivières
Hormisdas Pilon	Liberal	Vaudreuil
	Liberal	Verchères
Charles Allan Smart	Conservative	Westmount
	Liberal	Wolfe
	Liberal	Yamaska

Other elected MLAs[]

Other MLAs were elected during by-elections in this term

, Liberal Party, Kamouraska, October 31, 1927^[2]
Pierre Gauthier, Liberal Party, Portneuf, October 31, 1927^[3]
, Liberal Party, Iles-de-la-Madeleine, July 14, 1928^[3]
Oscar Drouin, Liberal Party, Québec-Est, October 24, 1928^[3]
Camillien Houde, Conservative Party, Montréal-Sainte-Marie, October 24, 1928^[2]
Adélard Godbout, Liberal Party, L'Islet, May 13, 1929^[2]
Andrew Ross McMaster, Liberal Party, Compton, September 30, 1929^[2]
, Liberal Party, Richelieu, October 28, 1929^[2]
, Liberal Party, Montcalm, November 16, 1929^[3]
Joseph-Édouard Fortin, Liberal Party, Beauce, December 9, 1929^[2]
Robert Taschereau, Liberal Party, Bellechasse, October 20, 1930^[3]
Paul Sauvé, Conservative Party, Deux-Montagnes, November 4, 1930^[2]
Martin Beattie Fisher, Conservative Party, Huntingdon, November 4, 1930^[3]
Louis-Joseph Thisdel, Liberal Party, Maskinongé, November 4, 1930^[3]

Cabinet Ministers[]

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Agriculture: Joseph-Édouard Caron (1927-1929), Joseph-Léonide Perron (1929-1930), Adélard Godbout (1930-1931)
Colonization, Mines and Fishing: Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1927-1929), Hector Laferté (1929-1930)
- Colonization, Hunting and Fishing: Hector Laferté (1929-1930)
- Mines: Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1930-1931)
Public Works and Labour: Antonin Galipeault (1927-1930), Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur (1930-1931)
Lands and Forests: Honoré Mercier Jr
Roads: Joseph-Léonide Perron (1927-1929), Joseph-Édouard Perrault (1929-1931)
Municipal Affairs: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Attorney General: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Provincial secretary: Athanase David
Treasurer: Jacob Nicol (1927-1929), Andrew Ross McMaster (1929-1930), Gordon Wallace Scott (1930), Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1930-1931)
Members without portfolios: Joseph-Charles-Ernest Ouellet (1929-1931), Narcisse Pérodeau (1929-1931), Gordon Wallace Scott (1930-1931)

New electoral districts[]

The electoral map was reformed in 1930 and the new map was first used in the general election of August 24, 1931.^[3]

Gaspé was split into two ridings: Gaspé-Nord and Gaspé-Sud.
Gatineau was created from parts of Hull.
Laviolette was created from parts of Champlain.
Roberval was created from parts of Lac-Saint-Jean
Rivière-du-Loup was created from parts of Témiscouata.

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