6th Quebec Legislature

The 6th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from October 14, 1886, to June 17, 1890. During most of the term, the Quebec Liberal Party, also known as the Parti national as that period, was the governing party. However, the Quebec Conservative Party despite losing the election tried to form a minority government with John Jones Ross and Louis-Olivier Taillon as Premiers but only managed to last a few months before the Liberals led by Honoré Mercier, the founder of the Parti National, formed a narrow majority government with 33 of the 65 seats of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

Seats per political party

After the 1886 elections

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Affiliation		Members
	Parti libéral du Québec/Parti national	33
Conservative Party	27
Conservative Independent	3
	Nationalistes/Parti National	2
Total		65
Government Majority		6

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1886 election:

	Name	Party	Riding
William Owens	Conservative	Argenteuil
Joseph Pilon	Libéral	Bagot
Jean Blanchet	Conservative	Beauce
Élie-Hercule Bisson	Libéral	Beauharnois
Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice	Conservative	Bellechasse
Louis Sylvestre	Libéral	Berthier
Henri-Josué Martin	Conservative	Bonaventure
William Warren Lynch	Conservative	Brome
Antoine Rocheleau	Libéral	Chambly
	Ferdinand Trudel	Parti national	Champlain
Joseph Morin	Libéral	Charlevoix
Joseph-Émery Robidoux	Libéral	Châteauguay
Élie Saint-Hilaire	Conservative Independent	Chicoutimi et Saguenay
John McIntosh	Conservative	Compton
Benjamin Beauchamp	Conservative Independent	Deux-Montagnes
Louis-Napoléon Larochelle	Conservative	Dorchester
Joseph-Éna Girouard	Libéral	Drummond et Arthabaska
Edmund James Flynn	Conservative	Gaspé
Joseph-Octave Villeneuve	Conservative	Hochelaga
Alexander Cameron	Libéral	Huntingdon
Alexis-Louis Demers	Libéral	Iberville
François-Gilbert Miville Dechêne	Libéral	Islet
Arthur Boyer	Libéral	Jacques Cartier
Louis Basinet	Libéral	Joliette
Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon	Libéral	Kamouraska
Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois	Conservative	Laprairie
Ludger Forest	Libéral	L'Assomption
Pierre-Évariste Leblanc	Conservative	Laval
François-Xavier Lemieux	Libéral	Lévis
Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté	Libéral	Lotbinière
Édouard Caron	Conservative	Maskinongé
Andrew Stuart Johnson	Conservative	Mégantic
Elijah Edmund Spencer	Conservative	Missisquoi
Jean-Baptiste-Tréfflé Richard	Conservative	Montcalm
Nazaire Bernatchez	Libéral	Montmagny
Louis-Georges Desjardins	Conservative	Montmorency
James McShane	Libéral	Montréal Centre
Laurent-Olivier David	Libéral	Montréal Est
John Smythe Hall	Conservative	Montreal Ouest
Eugène Lafontaine	Libéral	Napierville
Louis-Tréfflé Dorais	Conservative Independent	Nicolet
Narcisse-Édouard Cormier	Conservative	Ottawa (Outaouais)
William Joseph Poupore	Conservative	Pontiac
Jules Tessier	Libéral	Portneuf
Thomas Chase Casgrain	Conservative	Québec-Comté
Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret dit Malouin	Libéral	Québec-Centre
Joseph Shehyn	Libéral	Québec-Est
Owen Murphy	Libéral	Québec-Ouest
Louis-Pierre-Paul Cardin	Libéral	Richelieu
Jacques Picard	Conservative	Richmond et Wolfe
Édouard-Onésiphore Martin	Libéral	Rimouski
Edmond Lareau	Libéral	Rouville
Honoré Mercier	Libéral	St. Hyacinthe
Félix-Gabriel Marchand	Libéral	St. Jean
Nérée Duplessis	Conservative	St. Maurice
Thomas Brassard	Libéral	Shefford
Joseph Gibb Robertson	Conservative	Sherbrooke
	Avila-Gonzague Bourbonnais	Parti national	Soulanges
Ozro Baldwin	Conservative	Stanstead
Georges-Honoré Deschênes	Conservative	Témiscouata
Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel	Conservative	Terrebonne
Henri-René-Arthur Turcotte	Libéral	Trois-Rivières
Alfred Lapointe	Conservative	Vaudreuil
Albert-Alexandre Lussier	Libéral	Verchères
Victor Gladu	Libéral	Yamaska

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected during by-elections or in another district between the two general elections

Georges Duhamel, Parti national, Iberville, December 11, 1886 [1]
Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec Conservative Party, Montcalm, December 11, 1886 [2]
Odilon Goyette, Parti national, St. Hyacinthe, July 30, 1887, [3]
Alfred Rochon, Quebec Liberal Party, Ottawa (Outaouais), September 14, 1887 [4]
Louis-Phillippe Pelletier, Nationalist Conservative, Dorchester, December 20, 1888 [5]
Charles Champagne, Quebec Liberal Party, Hochelaga, April 28, 1888 [6]
Joseph-Hormidas Legris, Parti national, Maskinongé, April 28, 1888 [7]
Tancrède Boucher de Grosbois, Quebec Liberal Party, Shefford, May 18, 1888 [8]
Séverin Dumais, Parti national, Chicoutimi et Saguenay, June 18, 1888 [9]
Honoré Brunelle Tourigny, Quebec Conservative Party, Nicolet, July 17, 1888 [10]
William Rhodes, Quebec Liberal Party, Mégantic, December 27, 1888 [11]
Rufus Nelson England, Quebec Conservative Party, Brome, November 28, 1889 [12]
Auguste Tessier, Quebec Liberal Party, Rimouski, December 4, 1889, [13]
Omer Dostaler, Quebec Liberal Party, Berthier, Janvier 15, 1890 [14]

New provincial ridings

The electoral map was reformed in 1890 just a few months prior to the elections later that year. [15]

Drummond et Arthabaska was split into two ridings: Drummond and Arthabaska
Lac-Saint-Jean was created from parts of Chicoutimi et Saguenay.
Matane was created from parts of Rimouski.
Montréal-Est was split into three districts called Montréal division no. 1, Montréal division no. 2 and Montréal division no. 3
Montréal-Ouest was split into two districts called Montréal division no. 4 and Montréal division no. 5.
Montréal-Centre was renamed Montréal division no. 6.
Richmond et Wolfe was split into two new riding: Richmond and Wolfe
Saint-Sauveur was created from parts of Québec-Est.

Cabinet Ministers

Ross Cabinet (1886-1887)

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: John Jones Ross
Agriculture and public works: John Jones Ross
Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
Attorney General: Louis-Olivier Taillon
Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson
Solicitor General: Edmund James Flynn

Taillon Cabinet (1887)

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Louis-Olivier Taillon
Agriculture and public works: Henry Starnes
Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
Attorney General: Louis-Olivier Taillon
Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson
Solicitor General: Edmund James Flynn

Mercier Cabinet (1887-1890)

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Honoré Mercier
Agriculture and public works: James McShane (1887-1888)
- Agriculture and Colonization: Honoré Mercier (1888), William Rhodes (1888-1890)
- Public Works: Pierre Garneau (1888-1890)
Crown Lands: Pierre Garneau (1887-1888), Georges Duhamel (1888-1890)
Attorney General: Honoré Mercier (1887-1888), Arthur Turcotte (1888-1890)
Secretary and Registry: Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon (1887-1890), Joseph-Émery Robidoux (1890)
Treasurer: Joseph Shehyn
Solicitor General: Georges Duhamel (1887-1888)
Members without portfolios: David Alexander Ross, Arthur Turcotte (1887-1888), Arthur Boyer (1890)

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