This article is about the federal district. For the provincial district, see Chapleau (provincial electoral district) .
Chapleau Quebec electoral district Legislature House of Commons District created 1933 District abolished 1967 First contested 1935 Last contested 1965
Chapleau was a federal electoral district in Quebec , Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1968. It is currently a Quebec provincial riding that includes the majority of the Gatineau region.
This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Berthier—Maskinongé , Champlain , Joliette , L'Assomption—Montcalm , Pontiac , and Three Rivers and St. Maurice ridings.
It was abolished in 1967 when it was redistributed into Abitibi , Berthier , Champlain , Portneuf and Villeneuve ridings.
A different Chapleau riding existed from 1987-1988 in a different part of Quebec. It was renamed in 1988 to Gatineau—La Lièvre .
History [ ]
It consisted of:
the towns of Buckingham, Gatineau, Masson and Thurso;
in the County of Labelle: the Municipality of Notre-Dame-du-Laus;
in the County of Papineau: the township municipalities of Lochaber and Lochaber-Partie-Ouest; the united townships municipality of Mulgrave-et-Derry; the municipalities of Ange-Gardien, Bowman, Mayo, Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, Saint-Sixte, Val-des-Bois et Val-des-Monts.
Members of Parliament [ ]
This riding elected the following Members of Parliament :
Election results [ ]
1940 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Liberal
Hector Authier
9,402
National Government
J.-Alphonse Turgeon
3,073
1945 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Liberal
David Gourd
6,230
Social Credit
Joseph-Louis Brunet
3,878
Independent Conservative
Frank Blais
2,653
Bloc populaire
Lucien-Alfred Ladouceur
1,680
1949 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Liberal
David Gourd
11,304
Union des électeurs
Jean-Robert Ouellet
6,318
Progressive Conservative
J.-Edmond Lepage
1,822
1953 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Liberal
David Gourd
10,495
Progressive Conservative
Hilaire Leblanc
6,280
Independent
Raoul Duchesne
4,305
1962 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Social Credit
Gérard Laprise
15,430
Liberal
Lilianne Mercier
5,545
Progressive Conservative
Jean-Jacques Martel
5,213
New Democratic
Jean-Paul Element
551
1965 Canadian federal election
Party
Candidate
Votes
Ralliement créditiste
Gérard Laprise
15,402
Liberal
Gaston Labreche
6,816
Progressive Conservative
Claude Bigue
2,320
New Democratic
Arthur Bouchard
872
Independent
A.-Léo Larocque
338
See also [ ]
External links [ ]
Riding history from the Library of Parliament
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