Wright (electoral district)
Defunct federal electoral district | |
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Legislature | House of Commons |
District created | 1892 |
District abolished | 1947 |
First contested | 1896 |
Last contested | 1945 |
Wright was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 1948.
This riding was created in 1892 from parts of the County of Ottawa riding. The electoral district was abolished in 1947 when it was merged into Gatineau riding.
Geography
In 1892, it consisted of the city of Hull, the town of Aylmer, the township of Templeton, including the village of Pointe-à-Gatineau, the townships of Hull, Eardley, Masham, Wakefield, Lowe, Denholm, Aylwin, Hincks, Bowman, Bigelow, Blake, Northfield, Wright, Bouchette, Cameron, Wabasse, Bouthillier, Kensington, Maniwaki, Egan, Lytton, Sicotte, Aumond, Robertson, and all the unorganized territories west of the River du Lièvre to the southern boundary of the county of Montcalm.
In 1903, it was redefined to consist of:
- the townships of Aylwin, Aumond, Baskatong, Bouchette, Cameron, Denholm, Eardley, Egan, Hincks, Hull, Kensington, Low, Lytton, Maniwaki, Masham, Northfield, Sicotte, Templeton, Wakefield and Wright,
- the villages and other municipal subdivisions of those townships,
- the city of Hull,
- the town of Aylmer, and
- all of the unorganized territory bounded on the north-east by the county of Montcalm and on the east by a line formed by the production northwards of the eastern boundary line of the township of Baskatong.
In 1915, it was redefined to exclude Hull City, East and West Hull, Gatineau Point, East, West and North Templeton, and the municipality of South Hull, which were transferred to the new electoral district of Hull.
In 1924, it was redefined to consist of the part of the County of Hull not included in the electoral district of Hull, together with that part of the County of Labelle included in the township of Blake.
In 1933, it was redefined to consist of:
- the county of Gatineau; and
- that part of the county of Labelle included in the township of Blake.
Members of Parliament
This riding elected the following Members of Parliament:
Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
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Wright Riding created from County of Ottawa |
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8th | 1896–1897 | Charles Ramsay Devlin | Liberal | |
1897–1900 | Louis Napoléon Champagne | |||
9th | 1900–1904 | |||
10th | 1904–1905 | Wilfrid Laurier | ||
1905–1908 | Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin | |||
11th | 1908–1911 | |||
12th | 1911–1917 | |||
13th | 1917–1921 | Opposition (Laurier Liberals) | ||
14th | 1921–1925 | Romuald Montézuma Gendron | Liberal | |
15th | 1925–1926 | Fizalam-William Perras | ||
16th | 1926–1930 | |||
17th | 1930–1935 | |||
18th | 1935–1936 | |||
1936–1940 | Rodolphe Leduc | |||
19th | 1940–1945 | |||
20th | 1945–1949 | Léon Raymond | ||
Riding dissolved into Gatineau |
Election results
Canadian federal election, 1896 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | DEVLIN, C.R. | 2,975 | ||||||
Conservative | MCDOUGALL, J.M. | 2,593 |
By-election: On Mr. Devlin being appointed trade commissioner to Ireland, 15 March 1897
By-election on 23 March 1897 | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
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Liberal | CHAMPAGNE, L.N. | 2,842 | |||
Conservative | MCDOUGALL, J.M. | 2,067 |
Canadian federal election, 1900 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | CHAMPAGNE, L.N. | 2,953 | ||||||
Conservative | MCDOUGALL, J.M. | 2,074 |
Canadian federal election, 1904 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | LAURIER, Sir Wilfrid | 3,250 | ||||||
Conservative | LABELLE, F.-A.-A. | 2,044 |
By-election: Mr. Laurier elected to sit for Quebec East, 20 January 1905
Canadian federal by-election, 13 February 1905 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | DEVLIN, E.B. | 1,857 | ||||||
Conservative | MCDOUGALL, J.M. | 1,685 | ||||||
Independent Conservative | COUSINEAU, Louis | 655 |
Canadian federal election, 1908 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | DEVLIN, Emmanuel B. | 3,562 | ||||||
Conservative | LABELLE, François Amable Albert | 2,851 |
Canadian federal election, 1911 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | DEVLIN, Emmanuel Berchmans | 4,003 | ||||||
Conservative | COUSINEAU, Louis | 2,819 |
Canadian federal election, 1917 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Opposition (Laurier Liberals) | DEVLIN, Emmanuel Berchmans | 2,860 | ||||||
Government (Unionist) | PRITCHARD, Andrew | 1,318 |
Canadian federal election, 1921 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | GENDRON, Romuald-Montézuma | 4,510 | ||||||
Progressive | ELLARD, Herbert Miller | 1,590 | ||||||
Conservative | LABELLE, François-Albert | 1,551 |
Canadian federal election, 1925 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | PERRAS, Fizalane William | 4,685 | ||||||
Conservative | LABELLE, François-Albert | 3,973 |
Canadian federal election, 1926 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | PERRAS, Fizalam William | 5,950 | ||||||
Conservative | LABELLE, François-Albert | 5,105 |
Canadian federal election, 1930 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | PERRAS, Fizalam-William | 6,015 | ||||||
Conservative | COUSINEAU, Louis | 4,932 |
Canadian federal election, 1935 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | PERRAS, Fizalam-William | 5,945 | ||||||
Conservative | BEAUCHAMP, Jean-Noël | 2,540 | ||||||
Reconstruction | LAVIGNE, Wilfrid-Jean | 1,296 | ||||||
Independent | CROSS, Freeman Thomas | 825 |
By-election: On Mr. Perras' death, 28 June 1936
By-election on 3 August 1936 | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
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Liberal | LEDUC, Rodolphe | acclaimed |
Canadian federal election, 1940 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | LEDUC, Rodolphe | 7,260 | ||||||
National Government | BELL, Halliday | 2,310 | ||||||
Independent Liberal | HUBERT, Augustin | 1,172 |
Canadian federal election, 1945 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | RAYMOND, Joseph-Léon | 6,460 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | LOGUE, John Charles | 2,634 | ||||||
Co-operative Commonwealth | DESJARDINS, Jean-Paul | 1,067 | ||||||
Bloc populaire | LÉCUYER, Ludger | 1,019 | ||||||
Independent PC | LAVIGNE, Alphée | 352 | ||||||
Independent Liberal | FAVIER, Gérald | 174 |
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