Dorchester (provincial electoral district)

This article is about the provincial electoral district. For the federal electoral district, see Dorchester (federal electoral district). For the pre-Confederation electoral district, see Dorchester (Province of Canada electoral district). For other uses, see Champlain.

Dorchester was a provincial electoral district in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of the province of Quebec, Canada.

Dorchester

Quebec electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	National Assembly of Quebec
District created	1867
District abolished	1972
First contested	1867
Last contested	1970
Communities	Saint-Prosper-de-Dorchester

It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada). Its final election was in 1970. It disappeared in the 1973 election and its successor electoral districts were Bellechasse, Beauce-Nord, and Beauce-Sud.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

• Hector-Louis Langevin, Conservative Party (1867–1871)
• Louis-Napoléon Larochelle, Conservative Party (1871–1878)
• Nicodème Audet, Conservative Party (1878–1886)
• Louis-Napoléon Larochelle, Conservative Party – Nationalist (1886–1888)
• Louis-Philippe Pelletier, Nationalist Conservative – Conservative Party (1888–1904)
• Alfred Morisset, Liberal (1904–1913)
• Lucien Cannon, Liberal (1913–1917)
• Joseph-Charles-Ernest Ouellet, Liberal (1917–1935)
• Joseph-Damase Bégin, Action liberale nationale – Union Nationale (1935–1962)
• Joseph-Armand Nadeau, Union Nationale (1962–1963)
• Francis O'Farrell, Liberal (1964–1966)
• Paul-Henri Picard, Union Nationale (1966–1970)
• Florian Guay, Ralliement créditiste du Québec (1970–1973)

References

• Election results (National Assembly)
• Election results (QuebecPolitique.com)