Talk:1867 Canadian federal election
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[edit]I reverted vandalism, and I also reverted a change from "the election was held on" to "the election ended on". In my view, and election is the choosing of officials through casting ballots, which happens in Canada generally on one day (with exceptions for advance voting). The period leading up to election day is the campaign. So the campaign ends on a particular day, but the election itself is held on that day. Ground Zero 17:35, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
I think there should be mention of the vacancy in Kamouraska due to rioting so therefore there were 181 seats with 65 in Quebec. Shipguy
A book I have just looked through shows some different results. It divided the results into "Government" and "Opposition", giving the government 134,269 votes and the opposition 131,364 votes and 2,584 votes for "other". It also give breakdown by province. I'm wondering if this may be more useful. I'm guessing what they have done is assigned the uknowns with the opposite party of the winner. -- Earl Andrew - talk 19:33, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
There seem to be errors on this page: According to the Canadian government's website, George Brown ran in the riding of Yarmouth, not Oxford South. 72.12.138.2 (talk) 20:45, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
- @User:72.12.138.28212.138.2
- different George Brown. George Stayley Brown was in the Nova Scotia Assembly at the same time. I suspect he also ran as a Liberal, however. 2607:FEA8:6C5B:B200:B977:CA57:D220:429A (talk) 22:45, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Unsurity re Map
[edit]The present map has a legend which states orange as designating the Anti-Confederates, and depicts Nova Scotia in orange with an orange bar of 18 of the 19 seats. The article states that the Anti-Confederates won 18 of 19 seats in Nova Scotia. However, the orange bar on the map is labeled LIB. Is there a rationale for this, or is it a mistake in need of remedy? 75.154.84.94 (talk) 11:01, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
Results
[edit]I made these templates a while ago, might as well put them here in case I ever finish them.
Western Nova Scotia
[edit]Eastern Nova Scotia
[edit]| Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner up | Other | ||||||
| Antigonish | Hugh McDonald (A Conf) 1,238 |
William Alexander Henry (Cons.) 390 |
William Alexander Henry & John McKinnon | |||||
| Cape Breton | James McKeagney (A Conf.) Accl. |
Thomas Caldwell & John George Bourinot | ||||||
| Guysborough | Stewart Campbell (A Conf.) Accl. |
William O. Heffernan & Stewart Campbell | ||||||
| Inverness | Hugh Cameron (A Conf) 1,186 |
Samuel McDonnell (Cons.) 601 |
Hiram Blanchard, Peter Smyth & Samuel McDonnell | |||||
| Pictou | James William Carmichael (A Conf) 2,011 |
James McDonald (Cons.) 1,653 |
James Fraser, James McDonald, Donald Fraser & Alexander MacKay | |||||
| Richmond | William Joseph Croke (A Conf) 545 |
Donovan 279 |
Isaac LeVesconte & William Miller | |||||
| Victoria | William Ross (A Conf.) Accl. |
William Ross & Charles James Campbell | ||||||
Northern New Brunswick
[edit]| Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner up | Other | ||||||
| Gloucester | Timothy Anglin (Lib) 1,061 |
John Meahan 671 |
Robert Young & John Meahan | |||||
| Kent | Auguste Renaud (Lib) 876 |
Lestock P. W. DesBrisay 757 |
Owen McInerney 485 Robert Barry Cutler 4 |
William Shand Caie & Owen McInerney | ||||
| Northumberland | John Mercer Johnson (Lib) 1,226 |
Thomas F. Gillespie 757 |
John Mercer Johnson, Edward Williston, Richard Sutton, George Kerr | |||||
| Restigouche | John McMillan (Lib) 370 |
John Phillips 259 |
John McMillan & Alexander C. DesBrisay | |||||
| Victoria | John Costigan (Lib-Cons) 778 |
William Blackwood Beveridge 549 |
James Workman 16 |
Benjamin Beveridge & Vital Hébert | ||||
Southern New Brunswick
[edit]Eastern Quebec
[edit]| Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner up | Other | ||||||
| Bonaventure | Théodore Robitaille (Cons) 1,018 |
M. Tremblay 444 |
Théodore Robitaille (Bleu) | |||||
| Dorchester | Hector Louis Langevin (Cons) acclaimed |
Hector Louis Langevin (Bleu) | ||||||
| Gaspé | Pierre-Étienne Fortin (Cons) acclaimed |
John Le Boutillier (Bleu) | ||||||
| Kamouraska | No election due to rioting | Jean-Charles Chapais (Bleu) | ||||||
| Lévis | Joseph-Goderic Blanchet (Lib-Cons) acclaimed |
Joseph-Goderic Blanchet (Bleu) | ||||||
| L'Islet | Barthélemy Pouliot (Cons) 464 |
Louis-Bonaventure Caron 40 |
Louis-Bonaventure Caron (Rouge) | |||||
| Montmagny | Joseph-Octave Beaubien (Cons) acclaimed |
Joseph-Octave Beaubien (Bleu) | ||||||
| Rimouski | George Sylvain (Cons) 1,152 |
Augustin Michaud 697 |
George Sylvain (Bleu) | |||||
| Témiscouata | Charles Bertrand (Cons) acclaimed |
Jean-Baptiste Pouliot (Rouge) | ||||||
Quebec City area and Saguenay
[edit]| Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner up | Other | ||||||
| Charlevoix | Simon-Xavier Cimon (Cons) 999 |
Adolphe Gagnon 911 |
Adolphe Gagnon (Rouge) | |||||
| Chicoutimi—Saguenay | Pierre-Alexis Tremblay (Liberal) acclaimed |
Pierre-Alexis Tremblay (Liberal) | ||||||
| Montmorency | Joseph-Édouard Cauchon (Cons) acclaimed |
Joseph-Édouard Cauchon (Bleu) | ||||||
| Quebec County | Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau (Cons) acclaimed |
François Évanturel (Liberal) | ||||||
| Quebec East | Pierre-Gabriel Huot (Liberal) acclaimed |
Pierre-Gabriel Huot (Rouge) | ||||||
| Quebec West | Thomas McGreevy (Lib-Cons) acclaimed |
Charles Joseph Alleyn (Cons) | ||||||
| Quebec-Centre | Georges-Honoré Simard (Cons) 1,291 |
P. Garneau 5 |
Blanchet 2 |
Isidore Thibaudeau (Rouge) | ||||
Central Quebec
[edit]Eastern Townships
[edit]Montérégie Est
[edit]| Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner up | Other | ||||||
| Chambly | Pierre Basile Benoit (Cons) 691 |
V. P. W. Dorion 526 |
Charles Boucher de Boucherville (Bleu) | |||||
| Iberville | François Béchard (Lib) 1,035 |
Alexandre Dufresne 504 |
Alexandre Dufresne (Rouge) | |||||
| Richelieu | Thomas McCarthy (Cons) 777 |
Joseph-Xavier Perrault 625 |
P. Gélinas 450 |
Joseph-Xavier Perrault (Rouge) | ||||
| Rouville | Guillaume Cheval dit St-Jacques (Lib) 1,236 |
Joseph-Napoléon Poulin 824 |
Joseph-Napoléon Poulin (Bleu) | |||||
| St. Hyacinthe | Alexandre-Édouard Kierzkowski (Lib) 1,107 |
Rémi Raymond 929 |
Rémi Raymond (Bleu) | |||||
| St. John's | François Bourassa (Lib) 696 |
Charles Laberge 600 |
François Bourassa (Rouge) | |||||
| Verchères | Félix Geoffrion (Lib) 831 |
L. H. Massuee 740 |
Félix Geoffrion (Rouge) | |||||
Vallée-du-Haut-Saint-Laurent
[edit]| Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner up | Other | ||||||
| Beauharnois | Michael Cayley (Cons) 724 |
Paul Denis 691 |
Paul Denis (Bleu) | |||||
| Châteauguay | Luther Hamilton Holton (Lib) 1,013 |
Thomas Kennedy Ramsay 586 |
Luther Hamilton Holton (Rouge) | |||||
| Huntingdon | John Rose (Lib-Cons) 1,280 |
W. H. Kerr 468 |
Robert Brown Somerville (Ind) | |||||
| Laprairie | Alfred Pinsonneault (Cons) 750 |
M. Normandeau 293 |
Alfred Pinsonneault (Bleu) | |||||
| Napierville | Sixte Coupal dit la Reine (Lib) 878 |
M. Laviolette 344 |
Sixte Coupal dit la Reine (Rouge) | |||||
| Soulanges | Luc-Hyacinthe Masson (Cons) 729 |
M. Guindon 470 |
William Duckett (Cons) | |||||
| Vaudreuil | Donald McMillan (Cons) acclaimed |
Antoine Chartier de Lotbinière Harwood (Cons) | ||||||
Hochelaga Archipelago
[edit]| Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner up | Other | ||||||
| Hochelaga | Antoine-Aimé Dorion (Lib) 1,312 |
J. Lanouette 1,289 |
Antoine-Aimé Dorion (Rouge) | |||||
| Jacques Cartier | Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher (Cons) 659 |
M. Brunet 542 |
Guillaume Gamelin Gaucher (Bleu) | |||||
| Laval | Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose (Cons) acclaimed |
Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose (Bleu) | ||||||
| Montreal Centre | Thomas Workman (Lib) acclaimed |
John Rose (Cons) | ||||||
| Montreal East | George-Étienne Cartier (Lib-Cons) 2,431 |
M. Lanctot (Lib) 2,085 |
George-Étienne Cartier (Bleu) | |||||
| Montreal West | Thomas D'Arcy McGee (Lib-Cons) 2,675 |
Bernard Devlin (Lib) 2,478 |
Thomas D'Arcy McGee (Cons) | |||||
Laurentides & Outaouais
[edit]| Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner up | Other | ||||||
| Argenteuil | John Abbott (Lib-Cons) 693 |
B. Hutchins 595 |
John Abbott (Lib) | |||||
| Ottawa (County of) | Alonzo Wright (Lib-Cons) acclaimed |
Alonzo Wright (Cons) | ||||||
| Pontiac | Edmund Heath (Cons) acclaimed |
John Poupore (Bleu) | ||||||
| Terrebonne | Louis-Rodrigue Masson (Cons) acclaimed |
Louis Labrèche-Viger (Lib) | ||||||
| Two Mountains | Jean-Baptiste Daoust (Cons) acclaimed |
Jean-Baptiste Daoust (Reformer) | ||||||
Ottawa Valley
[edit]| Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner up | Other | ||||||
| Carleton | John Holmes (Lib-Cons) 1,087 |
John Rochester (Cons) 1,006 |
William Frederick Powell (Cons) | |||||
| Lanark North | William McDougall (Lib-Cons) acclaimed |
William McDougall (Reformer) | ||||||
| Lanark South | Alexander Morris (Cons) acclaimed |
Alexander Morris (Cons) | ||||||
| Ottawa (City of) | Joseph Merrill Currier (Lib-Cons) 974 |
Edward McGillivray 5 [retired from contest] |
Joseph Merrill Currier (Cons) | |||||
| Prescott | Albert Hagar (Lib) 1,205 |
Thomas Higginson 130 |
Thomas Higginson (Cons) | |||||
| Renfrew North | John Rankin (Cons) 613 |
Thomas Murray 527 |
Robert McIntyre (Reformer) Renfrew | |||||
| Renfrew South | Daniel McLachlin (Lib) acclaimed |
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| Russell | James Alexander Grant (Cons) 1,293 |
Robert Bell 695 |
Robert Bell (Cons) | |||||
St. Lawrence Valley
[edit]Central Ontario
[edit]| Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner up | Other | ||||||
| Hastings East | Robert Read (Cons) 1,110 |
J. J. Farley 457 |
New district | |||||
| Hastings North | Mackenzie Bowell (Cons) 928 |
Thomas Campbell Wallbridge 636 |
McLean 1 |
Thomas Campbell Wallbridge (Reformer) | ||||
| Hastings West | James Brown (Cons) 773 |
Holden 313 |
Lewis Wallbridge (Reformer) South Hastings | |||||
| Northumberland East | Joseph Keeler (Lib-Cons) 1,607 |
Kenneth McKenzie 827 |
James Lyons Biggar (Reformer) | |||||
| Northumberland West | James Cockburn (Cons) acclaimed |
James Cockburn (Lib-Cons) | ||||||
| Peterborough East | Peregrine Maitland Grover (Cons) 956 |
James Anderson 644 |
Frederick W. Haultain (Cons) Peterborough | |||||
| Peterborough West | Charles Perry (Cons) 681 |
J. Gordon 652 |
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| Prince Edward | Walter Ross (Lib) 1,779 |
James Simeon McCuaig (Cons) 942 |
Walter Ross (Reformer) | |||||
| Victoria North | John Morison (Lib) 687 |
Hector Cameron 403 |
James Dunsford (Reformer) Victoria | |||||
| Victoria South | George Kempt (Lib) 1,001 |
Hector Cameron 801 |
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Greater Toronto Area
[edit]Georgian Bay
[edit]| Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner up | Other | ||||||
| Algoma | Wemyss Mackenzie Simpson (Cons.) 250 |
William Beatty 241 |
A. MacDonell 38 |
New district | ||||
| Bruce North | Alexander Sproat (Cons) 862 |
R. Douglas 852 |
New district | |||||
| Bruce South | Francis Hurdon (Cons) 1,777 |
W. Rastall 1,624 |
Hall 5 |
New district | ||||
| Cardwell | Thomas Roberts Ferguson (Cons) 1,155 |
Philips 1,078 |
New district | |||||
| Grey North | George Snider (Lib) 1,399 |
D'Arcy Boulton 1,143 |
George Jackson (Cons) Grey | |||||
| Grey South | George Jackson (Cons) 1,560 |
R. Dalgleish 1,547 |
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| Simcoe North | Thomas David McConkey (Lib) Acclaimed |
Thomas David McConkey (Reformer) | ||||||
| Simcoe South | William Carruthers Little (Lib-Cons) 1,411 |
Thomas Saunders 1,055 |
Thomas Roberts Ferguson (Cons) | |||||
Niagara Peninsula
[edit]Midwestern Ontario
[edit]| Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner up | Other | ||||||
| Huron North | Joseph Whitehead (Lib) 1,940 |
J. Holmes 1,318 |
Sloan 675 |
James Dickson (Reform) Huron & Bruce | ||||
| Huron South | Malcolm Colin Cameron (Lib) 1,624 |
G. H. Ritchie 1,453 |
D. L. Sills 1 | |||||
| Oxford North | Thomas Oliver (Lib) Acclaimed |
Thomas Oliver (Reformer) | ||||||
| Oxford South | Ebenezer Vining Bodwell (Lib) Acclaimed |
George Brown (Reformer) | ||||||
| Perth North | James Redford (Lib) 1,515 |
Thomas Mayne Daly (Lib-Cons) 1,307 |
Robert MacFarlane (Reform) Perth | |||||
| Perth South | Robert MacFarlane (Lib) 1,490 |
T. B. Guest 1,393 |
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| Waterloo North | Isaac Erb Bowman (Lib) Acclaimed |
Isaac Erb Bowman (Reformer) | ||||||
| Waterloo South | James Young (Lib) 1,324 |
James Cowan 958 |
James Cowan (Reformer) | |||||
| Wellington Centre | Thomas Sutherland Parker (Lib) Acclaimed |
Thomas Sutherland Parker (Reform) North Wellington | ||||||
| Wellington North | George Alexander Drew (Lib-Cons) 1,493 |
Michael Hamilton Foley 1,271 |
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| Wellington South | David Stirton (Lib) 963 |
F. W. Stone 652 |
David Stirton (Reformer) | |||||
Southwestern Ontario
[edit]| Electoral District | Candidates | Incumbent | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Runner up | Other | ||||||
| Bothwell | David Mills (Lib) 1,333 |
David Glass (Cons) 1,224 |
New district | |||||
| Elgin East | Thomas William Dobbie (Cons) 1,492 |
Leonidas Burwell 1,382 |
Leonidas Burwell (Reformer) | |||||
| Elgin West | John H. Munroe (Cons) 970 |
C. McDougall 766 |
John Scoble (Reformer) | |||||
| Essex | John O'Connor (Cons) 1,439 |
Arthur Rankin 1,432 |
Arthur Rankin (Reformer) | |||||
| Kent | Rufus Stephenson (Cons) 1,524 |
Archibald McKellar 1,427 |
Archibald McKellar (Reformer) | |||||
| Lambton | Alexander Mackenzie (Lib) 1,999 |
Alexander Vidal (Cons) 1,311 |
Alexander Mackenzie (Reformer) | |||||
| London | John Carling (Lib-Cons) 1,114 |
James Peacock 266 |
John Carling (Lib-Cons) | |||||
| Middlesex East | Crowell Willson (Lib-Cons) 1,896 |
D. McFie 1,756 |
Crowell Willson (Reformer) | |||||
| Middlesex North | Thomas Scatcherd (Lib) 1,605 |
Watson 874 |
Thomas Scatcherd (Reformer) West Middlesex | |||||
| Middlesex West | Angus Peter McDonald (Cons) 1,063 |
G. Billington 1,044 |
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"Unknown"
[edit]I see that 33% of the vote is attributed to "unknown", and a bunch of seats in one diagram are left a dark grey. What does this mean? Are these votes that we no longer know who they went to, or ballots that were declared illegible at the time, or are they votes that we know didn't go to any of the major parties, but we don't know who they did go to? Or something else altogether? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.103.109.141 (talk) 21:45, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hi there. Your question refers to two different parts of the article. First, the "unknown" votes refer to candidates who's political party was unknown/lost to history; the Elections Canada websites lists many of the candidates who weren't elected as such. In a first-past-the-post voting system, this happens: a party (or lack thereof) can have a large share of the overall vote, but not wind up with any seats.
- On the diagram, however, the dark grey seats refer to seats in the House that weren't yet built. Today's chamber has 338 seats but in 1867 there was 181. TGHL ↗ 🍁 17:26, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
- @TheGoodAndHolyLord This is a major gap in the scholarship, IMO. I can understand the Library of Parliament being unable to discern a party affiliation from the sources it has,since the political party as a legal entity did not exist yet,and there would have been no official reasons to record it. still, many of the unknowns should be reasonable to surmise (if they were previous incumbents, say) and so I'm slowly going through newspaper archives to see what can be filled in from primary sources. 2607:FEA8:6C5B:B200:B977:CA57:D220:429A (talk) 23:07, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- Good luck! I've tried myself. It's pretty difficult trying to find anything from 1867 that outright mentions parties.-- Earl Andrew - talk 03:25, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
- @TheGoodAndHolyLord This is a major gap in the scholarship, IMO. I can understand the Library of Parliament being unable to discern a party affiliation from the sources it has,since the political party as a legal entity did not exist yet,and there would have been no official reasons to record it. still, many of the unknowns should be reasonable to surmise (if they were previous incumbents, say) and so I'm slowly going through newspaper archives to see what can be filled in from primary sources. 2607:FEA8:6C5B:B200:B977:CA57:D220:429A (talk) 23:07, 21 October 2024 (UTC)