1923 Quebec general election

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1923 Quebec general election

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February 5, 1923

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85 seats in the 16th Legislative Assembly of Quebec
43 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party

Leader	Louis-Alexandre Taschereau	Arthur Sauvé
Party	Liberal	Conservative
Leader since	1920	1915
Leader's seat	Montmorency	Deux-Montagnes
Last election	74 seats, 51.91%	5 seats, 16.96%
Seats won	64	20
Seat change	10	15
Popular vote	149,730	114,285
Percentage	51.52%	39.32%
Swing	0.39pp	22.36pp

Premier before election

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Liberal

Premier after election

Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
Liberal

The 1923 Quebec general election was held on February 5, 1923, to elect members of the 16th Legislative Assembly of Quebec, Canada. The incumbent Quebec Liberal Party, led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, was re-elected, defeating the Quebec Conservative Party, led by Arthur Sauvé.

It was the first of four election victories in a row for Taschereau. However, he had held office since 1920, following the resignation of the previous premier, Lomer Gouin.

Redistribution of ridings

An Act passed prior to the election^[1] increased the number of MLAs from 81 to 85 through the following changes:

Abolished ridings	New ridings
Divisions of ridings
Labelle^{[a 1]}	Labelle Papineau
Témiscaming^{[a 1]}	Abitibi Témiscaming
Creation of riding from parts of others
	Matapédia^{[a 2]}
	Montréal-Mercier^{[a 3]}
	Montréal-Verdun^{[a 4]}
Merger of ridings
Laprairie Napierville	Napierville-Laprairie
Change of name
Montréal-Hochelaga	Montréal–Saint-Henri

^ ^a ^b Protected seat under British North America Act 1867, s. 80. Successor seats had same status.
^ formed from part of Matane
^ formed from parts of Montréal-Dorion and Montréal-Laurier
^ formed from part of Jacques-Cartier

Results

This was the last Quebec election in which a candidate won in multiple ridings. Joseph-Édouard Perrault took both Abitibi and Arthabaska, and he would later resign from Abitibi to allow Hector Authier to be elected in a byelection later that year.^[2]

Elections to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec (1923)^[3]
Political party		Party leader	MLAs				Votes
Political party		Party leader	Candidates	1919	1923	±	#	±	%	± (pp)
	Government candidates
	█ Liberal	Louis-Alexandre Taschereau	83	74	64	10	149,730	82,438	51.52	0.39
	█ Labour	–	3	2	–	2	5,554	6,952	1.91	7.74
	Opposition candidates
	█ Conservative	Arthur Sauvé	66	5	20	15	114,285	92,295	39.32	22.36
	█ Liberal	–	3	–	1	1	3,684	New	1.27	New
	█ Independent	–	6	–	–	–	4,931	New	1.70	New
	█ Farmer	–	3	–	–	–	3,180	New	1.09	New
	█ Labour	–	3	–	–	–	2,439	New	0.84	New
	Other candidates
	█ Independent-Liberal	–	10	–	–	–	5,586	16,316	1.92	14.96
	█ Labour	–	1	–	–	–	925	New	0.32	New
	█ Independent-Conservative	–	1	–	–	–	335	New	0.11	New
Total			179	81	85		290,649		100%
Rejected ballots							3,808	2,360
Voter turnout							294,457	163,273	62.02	6.91
Registered electors (contested ridings only)							474,794	236,742
Candidates returned by acclamation					8	37

Popular vote

PLQ			51.52%
PCQ			39.32%
Others			9.16%

Seats summary

PLQ			75.29%
PCQ			23.53%
Others			1.18%

Eight Liberal MLAs were returned by acclamation:^[4]

How nominated	Riding	Member returned
One candidate only	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	Joseph-Édouard Caron
	Lotbinière	Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur
	Québec-Comté	Aurèle Leclerc
	Québec-Est	Louis-Alfred Létourneau
Two candidates, but one withdrew	Bellechasse	Antonin Galipeault
	Gaspé	Gustave Lemieux
	Matapédia	Joseph Dufour
	Saint-Jean	Alexis Bouthillier

References

^ An Act to amend the Revised Statutes, 1909, respecting the territorial division of the Province, S.Q. 1922 (2nd session), c. 13, ss. 1, 5. Although 86 electoral districts were constituted, it was previously provided in 1912 that Charlevoix and Saguenay were united for the purpose of returning one MLA only.
^ Morin, Jacques Carl (Winter 2008–2009). "A Note on Simultaneous Candidacies in the Québec Legislature" (PDF). Canadian Parliamentary Review. 31 (4): 20–23.
^ Drouilly, Pierre (November 7, 2017). "Élections québécoises de 1923". donneesquebec.ca. Atlas des élections au Québec.
^ Hopkins 1924, p. 606.

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See also: List of Quebec by-elections

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