Ottawa (County of) (electoral district)
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Defunct federal electoral district | |
Legislature | House of Commons |
District created | 1867 |
District abolished | 1892 |
First contested | 1867 |
Last contested | 1891 |
Ottawa (County of) (French: Ottawa (Compté d')) was a federal electoral district in Quebec in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1892. It was based in the Outaouais region of Quebec, across the Ottawa River from the city of Ottawa, Ontario.
The electoral district was created by the British North America Act, 1867, based on the former electoral district of Ottawa in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. The district was redistributed into the new electoral districts of Wright and Labelle in 1892.
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada
This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada:
- Philemon Wright (1830–1834)
- Theodore Davis (1832–1834) (second member added)
- James Blackburn & Baxter Bowman (1834–1838)
Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada:
- Charles Dewey Day, (1841–1842)
- Denis-Benjamin Papineau, (1842–1848)
- John Egan, {1848-1854)
- Alanson Cooke, (1854–1858)
- Denis-Émery Papineau, (1858–1861)
- William McDonell Dawson, (1861-1863}
- Alonzo Wright, (1863–1867)
Members of Parliament
This riding elected the following Members of Parliament:
Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
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County of Ottawa | ||||
1st | 1867–1872 | Alonzo Wright | Liberal–Conservative | |
2nd | 1872–1874 | |||
3rd | 1874–1878 | |||
4th | 1878–1882 | |||
5th | 1882–1887 | |||
6th | 1887–1891 | |||
7th | 1891–1896 | Charles Ramsay Devlin | Liberal | |
Riding dissolved into Wright and Labelle |
Election results
1867 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal–Conservative | Alonzo Wright | acclaimed |
1872 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal–Conservative | Alonzo Wright | acclaimed |
1874 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal–Conservative | Alonzo Wright | 2,569 | ||||||
Unknown | F. S. MacKay | 716 |
1878 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal–Conservative | Alonzo Wright | 3,025 | ||||||
Unknown | J. A. Cameron | 1,385 |
1882 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal–Conservative | Alonzo Wright | acclaimed |
1887 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal–Conservative | Alonzo Wright | 2,630 | ||||||
Liberal | A. S. C. Papineau | 1,784 |
1891 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Liberal | Charles Ramsay Devlin | 2,993 | ||||||
Conservative | J. M. McDougall | 2,579 |
See also
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