Election Name: | 1931 Quebec general election |
Country: | Quebec |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | no |
Party Name: | no |
Previous Election: | 1927 Quebec general election |
Previous Year: | 1927 |
Previous Mps: | 17th Quebec Legislature |
Next Election: | 1935 Quebec general election |
Next Year: | 1935 |
Elected Members: | 18th Quebec Legislature |
Seats For Election: | 90 seats in the 18th Legislative Assembly of Quebec 46 seats were needed for a majority |
Election Date: | August 24, 1931 |
Image1: | File:Louis-Alexandre Taschereau - 1930.png |
Image1 Size: | 180x180px |
Leader1: | Louis-Alexandre Taschereau |
Leader Since1: | 1920 |
Leaders Seat1: | Montmorency |
Last Election1: | 74 seats, 59.33% |
Seats1: | 79 |
Seat Change1: | 5 |
Percentage1: | 54.88% |
Swing1: | 4.45pp |
Image2 Size: | 180x180px |
Leader2: | Camillien Houde |
Leader Since2: | 1929 |
Leaders Seat2: | Ran in Montréal–Saint-Jacques (defeated) |
Last Election2: | 9 seats, 34.31% |
Seats2: | 11 |
Seat Change2: | 2 |
Percentage2: | 43.54% |
Swing2: | 9.23pp |
Premier | |
Before Election: | Louis-Alexandre Taschereau |
After Election: | Louis-Alexandre Taschereau |
Posttitle: | Premier after election |
The 1931 Quebec general election was held on August 24, 1931, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, was re-elected, defeating the Quebec Conservative Party, led by Camillien Houde.
It was the third general election victory in a row for Taschereau, who had held office since 1920.
An Act passed in 1930[1] increased the number of MLAs from 85 to 90 through the following changes:
Abolished ridings | New ridings | |
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Divisions of ridings | ||
Creation of riding from parts of others | ||
The Liberals and Conservatives contested all 90 ridings, with 74 being two-way contests, and the remainder were three-way affairs.
Candidates | align="center" | Lib | align="center" | Ind-G | align="center" | Con-G | align="center" | Con | align="center" | Lab-Opp | align="center" | Ind-Opp | align="center" | Ind-Lib | align="center" | Ind-Con | align="center" | Ind | align="center" | Lab | Total |
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2 | 74 | 74 | 148 | ||||||||||||||||||
3 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 48 | ||||||||||
Total | 90 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 196 |
The Conservatives initiated proceedings to attempt to quash up to 63 of the Liberal wins. In one of the hearings, Houde confessed that he had personally furnished $60,000 towards the effort, but did not disclose where he had gotten the funds from. In response, the Taschereau government passed the "Dillon Act",[6] which retroactively amended the laws governing the contesting of controverted elections, thus effectively gutting the ongoing actions. When the Union Nationale subsequently gained power after the 1936 election, one of its first measures was to repeal this Act and restore the law to what it was before its passage.[7]
This was the last election in which a candidate campaigned in multiple ridings. Camillien Houde was nominated in both Montréal–Saint-Jacques and Montréal–Sainte-Marie, and he lost both contests.[8]
[9] |-! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Political party! rowspan=2 | Party leader! colspan=4 | MPPs! colspan=4 | Votes|-! Candidates!1927!1931!±!#! ±!%! ± (pp)|-|rowspan="4" | |style="text-align:left;" colspan="10"|Government candidates|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"|Louis-Alexandre Taschereau|90|74|79|5|268,732|80,045|54.88|4.46|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |2| - | - | - |2,787|1,422|0.57|0.14|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |1| - | - | - |711||0.15||-|rowspan="4" | |style="text-align:left;" colspan="10"|Opposition candidates|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"|Camillien Houde|90|9|11|2|213,223|104,118|43.54|9.23|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |2|1| - |1|1,683|2,749|0.34|1.05|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |1| - | - | - |106|2,579|0.02|0.82|-|rowspan="5" | |style="text-align:left;" colspan="10"|Other candidates|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |2|1| - |1|1,065|8,280|0.22|2.72|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |4| - | - | - |584||0.12||-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |2| - | - | - |481|1,861|0.10|0.64|-|style="text-align:left;" ||style="text-align:left;"| - |2| - | - | - |323||0.06||-! colspan="3" style="text-align:left;" | Total| 196| 85! " colspan="2"| 90! " colspan="2"| 489,695! " colspan="2"| 100%|-| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Rejected ballots| 4,190| 1,347| colspan="2"||-| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Voter turnout| 493,885| 173,081| 77.01| 14.10|-| colspan="7" style="text-align:left;" | Registered electors (contested ridings only)| 641,324| 131,389| colspan="2"||-| colspan="5" style="text-align:left;" | Candidates returned by acclamation| - | 12| colspan="4"||}
Riding | Winning party | Turnout [11] | Votes | |||||||||||||
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Name | 1927 | Party | Votes | Share | Margin # | Margin % | Lib | Con | Total | |||||||
Abitibi | Lib | Lib | 2,685 | 63.42% | 1,309 | 30.92% | 76.12% | 2,685 | 1,376 | – | – | 173 | 4,234 | |||
Argenteuil | Lib | Lib | 2,130 | 55.70% | 436 | 11.40% | 80.43% | 2,130 | 1,694 | – | – | – | 3,824 | |||
Lib | Lib | 3,590 | 68.79% | 1,961 | 37.57% | 84.86% | 3,590 | 1,629 | – | – | – | 5,219 | ||||
Bagot | Lib | Lib | 1,878 | 52.96% | 210 | 5.92% | 89.07% | 1,878 | 1,668 | – | – | – | 3,546 | |||
Beauce | Lib | Lib | 3,847 | 53.77% | 1,250 | 17.47% | 82.82% | 3,847 | 2,597 | 711 | – | – | 7,155 | |||
Beauharnois | Lib | Lib | 2,311 | 51.65% | 148 | 3.31% | 82.58% | 2,311 | 2,163 | – | – | – | 4,474 | |||
Bellechasse | Lib | Lib | 2,839 | 67.82% | 1,492 | 35.64% | 84.44% | 2,839 | 1,347 | – | – | – | 4,186 | |||
Berthier | Lib | Lib | 2,479 | 57.45% | 643 | 14.90% | 87.94% | 2,479 | 1,836 | – | – | – | 4,315 | |||
Bonaventure | Lib | Lib | 3,933 | 58.91% | 1,190 | 17.83% | 91.58% | 3,933 | 2,743 | – | – | – | 6,676 | |||
Brome | Lib | Lib | 1,472 | 50.43% | 25 | 0.86% | 84.52% | 1,472 | 1,447 | – | – | – | 2,919 | |||
Chambly | Lib | Con | 2,834 | 55.72% | 582 | 11.44% | 73.15% | 2,252 | 2,834 | – | – | – | 5,086 | |||
Champlain | Lib | Lib | 3,125 | 53.91% | 453 | 7.81% | 87.18% | 3,125 | 2,672 | – | – | – | 5,797 | |||
Charlevoix—Saguenay | Lib | Lib | 4,223 | 59.29% | 1,323 | 18.57% | 81.96% | 4,223 | 2,900 | – | – | – | 7,123 | |||
Châteauguay | Lib | Lib | 1,661 | 58.73% | 494 | 17.47% | 80.99% | 1,661 | 1,167 | – | – | – | 2,828 | |||
Chicoutimi | Lib | Lib | 4,123 | 43.58% | 1,448 | 15.30% | 71.69% | 4,123 | 2,675 | 2,663 | – | – | 9,461 | |||
Compton | Lib | Lib | 2,658 | 54.84% | 469 | 9.68% | 83.63% | 2,658 | 2,189 | – | – | – | 4,847 | |||
Deux-Montagnes | Con | Con | 1,645 | 51.52% | 97 | 3.04% | 91.54% | 1,548 | 1,645 | – | – | – | 3,193 | |||
Dorchester | Lib | Lib | 3,253 | 55.67% | 663 | 11.35% | 85.53% | 3,253 | 2,590 | – | – | – | 5,843 | |||
Drummond | Lib | Lib | 2,848 | 56.28% | 636 | 12.57% | 82.06% | 2,848 | 2,212 | – | – | – | 5,060 | |||
Frontenac | Lib | Lib | 2,687 | 60.57% | 938 | 21.15% | 84.94% | 2,687 | 1,749 | – | – | – | 4,436 | |||
Gaspé-Nord | New | Lib | 1,330 | 60.40% | 458 | 20.80% | 88.72% | 1,330 | 872 | – | – | – | 2,202 | |||
Gaspé-Sud | New | Lib | 2,744 | 55.80% | 570 | 11.59% | 86.33% | 2,744 | 2,174 | – | – | – | 4,918 | |||
Gatineau | New | Lib | 2,906 | 54.87% | 759 | 14.33% | 79.80% | 2,906 | 2,147 | – | – | 243 | 5,296 | |||
Hull | Con | Con | 3,491 | 60.84% | 1,244 | 21.68% | 63.95% | 2,247 | 3,491 | – | – | – | 5,738 | |||
Huntingdon | Lib | Con | 1,361 | 53.29% | 168 | 6.58% | 81.54% | 1,193 | 1,361 | – | – | – | 2,554 | |||
Iberville | Lib | Lib | 1,303 | 71.16% | 775 | 42.33% | 79.02% | 1,303 | 528 | – | – | – | 1,831 | |||
Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Lib | Lib | 769 | 50.26% | 8 | 0.52% | 80.88% | 769 | 761 | – | – | – | 1,530 | |||
Jacques-Cartier | Lib | Lib | 4,147 | 51.34% | 216 | 2.67% | 77.62% | 4,147 | 3,931 | – | – | – | 8,078 | |||
Joliette | Lib | Lib | 3,089 | 54.70% | 531 | 9.40% | 88.46% | 3,089 | 2,558 | – | – | – | 5,647 | |||
Kamouraska | Lib | Lib | 2,630 | 59.44% | 835 | 18.87% | 82.21% | 2,630 | 1,795 | – | – | – | 4,425 | |||
Lib | Lib | 1,801 | 61.20% | 783 | 26.61% | 75.15% | 1,801 | 1,018 | 124 | – | – | 2,943 | ||||
L'Islet | Lib | Lib | 2,131 | 60.40% | 734 | 20.80% | 78.91% | 2,131 | 1,397 | – | – | – | 3,528 | |||
Labelle | Lib | Lib | 1,902 | 57.92% | 520 | 15.83% | 72.28% | 1,902 | 1,382 | – | – | – | 3,284 | |||
Lac-Saint-Jean | Lib | Lib | 2,055 | 52.75% | 214 | 5.49% | 80.84% | 2,055 | 1,841 | – | – | – | 3,896 | |||
Laval | Con | Lib | 8,696 | 52.39% | 792 | 4.77% | 72.43% | 8,696 | 7,904 | – | – | – | 16,600 | |||
Laviolette | New | Lib | 3,010 | 56.11% | 656 | 12.23% | 81.96% | 3,010 | 2,354 | – | – | – | 5,364 | |||
Lévis | Lib | Lib | 3,595 | 53.04% | 412 | 6.08% | 86.43% | 3,595 | 3,183 | – | – | – | 6,778 | |||
Lib | Lib | 2,955 | 67.24% | 1,515 | 34.47% | 81.85% | 2,955 | 1,440 | – | – | – | 4,395 | ||||
Maisonneuve | Lab | Lib | 7,538 | 49.67% | 1,530 | 10.08% | 68.38% | 7,538 | 6,008 | – | 1,630 | – | 15,176 | |||
Maskinongé | Lib | Lib | 1,912 | 61.24% | 702 | 22.49% | 81.47% | 1,912 | 1,210 | – | – | – | 3,122 | |||
Matane | Lib | Lib | 2,592 | 55.86% | 544 | 11.72% | 83.98% | 2,592 | 2,048 | – | – | – | 4,640 | |||
Matapédia | Lib | Lib | 2,813 | 62.57% | 1,130 | 25.13% | 79.83% | 2,813 | 1,683 | – | – | – | 4,496 | |||
Mégantic | Lib | Lib | 4,060 | 63.09% | 1,685 | 26.18% | 79.93% | 4,060 | 2,375 | – | – | – | 6,435 | |||
Missisquoi | Lib | Lib | 2,141 | 54.83% | 377 | 9.65% | 78.93% | 2,141 | 1,764 | – | – | – | 3,905 | |||
Montcalm | Lib | Lib | 1,765 | 56.07% | 382 | 12.13% | 91.29% | 1,765 | 1,383 | – | – | – | 3,148 | |||
Montmagny | Lib | Lib | 2,101 | 57.45% | 545 | 14.90% | 78.94% | 2,101 | 1,556 | – | – | – | 3,657 | |||
Montmorency | Lib | Lib | 1,949 | 58.25% | 581 | 17.36% | 89.28% | 1,949 | 1,368 | – | – | 29 | 3,346 | |||
Montréal-Dorion | Con | Lib | 4,831 | 52.80% | 512 | 5.60% | 70.50% | 4,831 | 4,319 | – | – | – | 9,150 | |||
Montréal-Laurier | Lib | Lib | 3,565 | 58.25% | 1,426 | 23.30% | 61.85% | 3,565 | 2,139 | – | – | 416 | 6,120 | |||
Montréal-Mercier | Lib | Lib | 9,513 | 59.45% | 3,202 | 20.01% | 69.44% | 9,513 | 6,311 | – | – | 177 | 16,001 | |||
Montréal–Saint-Georges | Con | Con | 1,553 | 51.37% | 83 | 2.75% | 55.27% | 1,470 | 1,553 | – | – | – | 3,023 | |||
Montréal–Saint-Henri | Lib | Lib | 3,956 | 59.91% | 1,455 | 22.04% | 74.77% | 3,956 | 2,501 | – | – | 146 | 6,603 | |||
Montreal–Saint-Jacques[12] | Lib | Lib | 3,583 | 56.34% | 806 | 12.67% | 73.83% | 3,583 | 2,777 | – | – | – | 6,360 | |||
Montréal–Saint-Laurent | Lib | Lib | 2,635 | 68.98% | 1,450 | 37.96% | 83.41% | 2,635 | 1,185 | – | – | – | 3,820 | |||
Montréal–Saint-Louis | Lib | Lib | 2,789 | 78.21% | 2,077 | 58.24% | 62.08% | 2,789 | 712 | – | – | 65 | 3,566 | |||
Montreal–Sainte-Anne | Lib | Lib | 2,069 | 54.38% | 683 | 17.95% | 70.89% | 2,069 | 1,386 | – | – | 350 | 3,805 | |||
Montréal–Sainte-Marie | Lib | Lib | 4,989 | 52.43% | 515 | 5.41% | 74.10% | 4,989 | 4,474 | – | 53 | – | 9,516 | |||
Montréal-Verdun | Con | Con | 7,074 | 51.12% | 1,132 | 8.18% | 64.60% | 5,942 | 7,074 | – | – | 822 | 13,838 | |||
Napierville-Laprairie | Lib | Lib | 2,337 | 58.67% | 691 | 17.35% | 86.81% | 2,337 | 1,646 | – | – | – | 3,983 | |||
Nicolet | Lib | Lib | 3,316 | 57.91% | 1,012 | 17.67% | 80.86% | 3,316 | 2,304 | – | 106 | – | 5,726 | |||
Papineau | Lib | Lib | 3,554 | 56.43% | 810 | 12.86% | 79.55% | 3,554 | 2,744 | – | – | – | 6,298 | |||
Pontiac | Lib | Lib | 2,164 | 52.44% | 201 | 4.87% | 75.40% | 2,164 | 1,963 | – | – | – | 4,127 | |||
Portneuf | Lib | Lib | 3,746 | 52.14% | 308 | 4.29% | 84.80% | 3,746 | 3,438 | – | – | – | 7,184 | |||
Québec-Centre | Lib | Lib | 3,522 | 54.95% | 635 | 9.91% | 76.59% | 3,522 | 2,887 | – | – | – | 6,409 | |||
Québec-Comté | Lib | Lib | 3,747 | 54.66% | 639 | 9.32% | 92.20% | 3,747 | 3,108 | – | – | – | 6,855 | |||
Québec-Est | Lib | Lib | 5,021 | 57.67% | 1,336 | 15.35% | 81.55% | 5,021 | 3,685 | – | – | – | 8,706 | |||
Québec-Ouest | Lib | Lib | 1,641 | 52.82% | 175 | 5.63% | 80.82% | 1,641 | 1,466 | – | – | – | 3,107 | |||
Richelieu | Lib | Lib | 2,685 | 55.13% | 532 | 10.92% | 87.51% | 2,685 | 2,153 | – | – | 32 | 4,870 | |||
Richmond | Lib | Lib | 2,915 | 59.81% | 956 | 19.61% | 79.93% | 2,915 | 1,959 | – | – | – | 4,874 | |||
Rimouski | Lib | Lib | 2,455 | 52.25% | 211 | 4.49% | 87.80% | 2,455 | 2,244 | – | – | – | 4,699 | |||
Rivière-du-Loup | New | Lib | 3,777 | 64.29% | 1,679 | 28.58% | 81.64% | 3,777 | 2,098 | – | – | – | 5,875 | |||
Roberval | New | Lib | 2,732 | 52.89% | 299 | 5.79% | 88.00% | 2,732 | 2,433 | – | – | – | 5,165 | |||
Rouville | Lib | Con | 1,562 | 50.23% | 14 | 0.45% | 88.06% | 1,548 | 1,562 | – | – | – | 3,110 | |||
Saint-Hyacinthe | Lib | Lib | 3,115 | 58.78% | 931 | 17.57% | 86.85% | 3,115 | 2,184 | – | – | – | 5,299 | |||
Saint-Jean | Lib | Lib | 2,387 | 74.02% | 1,549 | 48.03% | 74.72% | 2,387 | 838 | – | – | – | 3,225 | |||
Saint-Maurice | Lib | Lib | 3,571 | 57.36% | 916 | 14.71% | 82.38% | 3,571 | 2,655 | – | – | – | 6,226 | |||
Saint-Sauveur | Lib | Con | 3,911 | 50.16% | 25 | 0.32% | 85.89% | 3,886 | 3,911 | – | – | – | 7,797 | |||
Shefford | Lib | Lib | 2,989 | 52.94% | 332 | 5.88% | 83.21% | 2,989 | 2,657 | – | – | – | 5,646 | |||
Sherbrooke | Con | Lib | 4,114 | 52.51% | 394 | 5.03% | 76.69% | 4,114 | 3,720 | – | – | – | 7,834 | |||
Soulanges | Lib | Lib | 1,120 | 58.89% | 338 | 17.77% | 82.09% | 1,120 | 782 | – | – | – | 1,902 | |||
Stanstead | Lib | Lib | 2,907 | 58.59% | 852 | 17.17% | 80.69% | 2,907 | 2,055 | – | – | – | 4,962 | |||
Témiscamingue | Lib | Lib | 2,062 | 60.13% | 695 | 20.27% | 77.71% | 2,062 | 1,367 | – | – | – | 3,429 | |||
Témiscouata | Lib | Lib | 1,671 | 52.45% | 156 | 4.90% | 87.57% | 1,671 | 1,515 | – | – | – | 3,186 | |||
Terrebonne | Lib | Lib | 4,749 | 65.97% | 2,299 | 31.93% | 81.15% | 4,749 | 2,450 | – | – | – | 7,199 | |||
Trois-Rivières | Con | Con | 3,812 | 50.27% | 41 | 0.54% | 82.96% | 3,771 | 3,812 | – | – | – | 7,583 | |||
Vaudreuil | Lib | Lib | 1,385 | 55.22% | 262 | 10.45% | 83.83% | 1,385 | 1,123 | – | – | – | 2,508 | |||
Verchères | Lib | Lib | 1,623 | 60.04% | 543 | 20.09% | 88.51% | 1,623 | 1,080 | – | – | – | 2,703 | |||
Con | Con | 8,944 | 67.52% | 4,642 | 35.04% | 45.04% | 4,302 | 8,944 | – | – | – | 13,246 | ||||
Wolfe | Lib | Lib | 1,907 | 57.06% | 472 | 14.12% | 85.04% | 1,907 | 1,435 | – | – | – | 3,342 | |||
Yamaska | Lib | Con | 1,909 | 52.10% | 154 | 4.20% | 88.35% | 1,755 | 1,909 | – | – | – | 3,664 |
= open seat
= turnout is above provincial average
= winning candidate was in previous Legislature
= incumbent had switched allegiance
= not incumbent; was previously elected to the Legislature
= incumbency arose from byelection gain
= previously incumbent in another riding
= other incumbents renominated
= multiple candidates
None of the third parties achieved a 1st- or 2nd-place result.
Party | |||||
align="center" | Lib | align="center" | Con | Total | |
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Seats retained | Incumbents returned | 56 | 6 | 62 | |
Open seats held | 12 | 12 | |||
Byelection loss reversed | 1 | 1 | |||
Seats changing hands | Incumbents defeated | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
Open seats gained | 2 | 2 | |||
Byelection gain held | 1 | 1 | |||
New ridings | Incumbent returned in new seat | 2 | 2 | ||
New MPPs elected | 4 | 4 | |||
Total | 79 | 11 | 90 |