Prescott (electoral district)

Prescott
Ontario electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1952
First contested	1867
Last contested	1949

Prescott was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1953. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867, and consisted of the County of Prescott.

The electoral district was abolished in 1952 when it was merged into Glengarry—Prescott riding.

Members of Parliament[]

This riding elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years		Party
1st	1867–1872	Albert Hagar	Liberal
2nd	1872–1874
3rd	1874–1878
4th	1878–1882	Félix Routhier	Conservative
5th	1882–1887	Simon Labrosse	Liberal
6th	1887–1891	Simon Labrosse
7th	1891–1891	Isidore Proulx
7th	1891–1896
8th	1896–1900
9th	1900–1904
10th	1904–1908	Edmond Proulx
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917
13th	1917–1921		Opposition (Laurier Liberals)
14th	1921–1922	Joseph Binette	Progressive
14th	1922–1925	Joseph Binette	Liberal
15th	1925–1926	Gustave Évanturel	Liberal
16th	1926–1929	Louis-Mathias Auger	Independent Liberal
16th	1929–1930	Élie-Oscar Bertrand	Liberal
17th	1930–1935
18th	1935–1940
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
21st	1949–1953	Raymond Bruneau	Independent Liberal
Riding dissolved into Glengarry—Prescott

Election results[]

1867 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Albert Hagar	1,205
	Unknown	Thomas Higginson	130

1872 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Albert Hagar	acclaimed

1874 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Albert Hagar	665
	Unknown	T. White Jr.	659
	Unknown	J. Boyd	292

1878 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Félix Routhier	875
	Liberal	Albert Hagar	870
	Unknown	Angus Urquhart	661

1882 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Simon Labrosse	1,322
	Conservative	Félix Routhier	1,021

1887 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Simon Labrosse	1,414
	Conservative	Félix Routhier	1,223

1891 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Isidore Proulx	1,269
	Conservative	Félix Routhier	608
	Unknown	E. A. Johnson	532
	Unknown	David Bertrand	335

By-election: On Mr. Proulx being unseated, 15 December 1891: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Isidore Proulx	acclaimed

1896 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Isidore Proulx	1,334
	Patrons of Industry	Henry Joseph Cloran	996
	Conservative	Dosithé Sabourin	902

1900 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Isidore Proulx	1,596
	Liberal	Henry Joseph Cloran	1,177
	Conservative	Dosithé Sabourin	1,049

1904 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Edmond Proulx	2,388
	Conservative	L. Charbonneau	1,323

1908 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Edmond Proulx	2,527
	Independent	Eugène-Grégoire Quesnel	1,070

1911 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Edmond Proulx	2,532
	Nationalist Conservative	Eugène-Grégoire Quesnel	1,220

1917 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Edmond Proulx	3,743
	Government (Unionist)	Andrew Richard Metcalfe	1,439

1921 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive	Joseph Binette	3,661
	Independent Liberal	Edmond Proulx	2,764
	Liberal	Amédée Sabourin	2,359

1925 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Gustave Évanturel	4,198
	Independent Liberal	Joseph-Napoléon Coupal	2,519
	Conservative	Hiram Horton Kirby	2,387

1926 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent Liberal	Louis-Mathias Auger	3,846
	Liberal	Gustave Évanturel	3,134
	Conservative	Hiram Horton Kirby	2,504
	Independent	Raoul Labrosse	635

By-election: On Mr. Auger's resignation, 29 August 1929: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Élie-Oscar Bertrand	5,152
	Independent Liberal	Gustave Gustave Évanturel	3,562

1930 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Élie-Oscar Bertrand	6,572
	Conservative	Edmund Alexander Mooney	2,326

1935 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Élie-Oscar Bertrand	6,034
	Independent Liberal	Louis-Mathias Auger	3,620
	Conservative	Joseph Saint-Denis	1,614

1940 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Élie-Oscar Bertrand	6,431
	Independent Liberal	Léandre Maisonneuve	2,028
	National Government	Parnell Tierney	1,819

1945 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Élie-Oscar Bertrand	6,623
	Progressive Conservative	Louis-Pierre Cécile	1,753
	Bloc populaire	Léandre Maisonneuve	1,500
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Bernard Dupuis	408

1949 Canadian federal election: Prescott
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Independent Liberal	Raymond Bruneau	5,380
	Liberal	Élie-Oscar Bertrand	4,148
	Progressive Conservative	Joseph Saint-Denis	1,928

External links[]

Website of the Parliament of Canada

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Prescott (electoral district)

Contents

Members of Parliament[]

Election results[]

See also[]

External links[]