3rd Canadian Parliament
By-elections

3rd Canadian Parliament

Section Title: By-elections
Table Section Text: None

By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party	Winner	Party	Cause	Retained

New Westminster	March 25, 1878	James Cunningham	Liberal	Thomas Robert McInnes	Independent	Resignation	No

Northumberland	February 5, 1878	Peter Mitchell	Independent	Peter Mitchell	Independent	Resignation to re-contest after being accused of violating the Independence of Parliament Act by leasing a building to the government while he was a senator.	Yes

Halifax	January 29, 1878	Alfred Gilpin Jones	Independent	Alfred Gilpin Jones	Independent	Resignation to re-contest because of an alleged breach of the Independence of Parliament Act.	Yes

Digby	January 19, 1878	William Berrian Vail	Liberal	John Chipman Wade	Conservative	Resignation to re-contest due to conflict of interest allegations.	No

Restigouche	January 12, 1878	George Moffat Sr.	Conservative	George Haddow	Independent	Resignation	No

Nicolet	December 18, 1877	Joseph Gaudet	Conservative	François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot	Independent Conservative	Appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec	No

Quebec East	November 28, 1877	Isidore Thibaudeau	Liberal	Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	Resignation to provide a seat for Laurier.	Yes

Quebec-Centre	November 3, 1877	Joseph Édouard Cauchon	Conservative	Jacques Malouin	Independent	Appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Manitoba.	No

Drummond—Arthabaska	October 27, 1877	Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	Désiré Olivier Bourbeau	Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Inland Revenue.	No

Gloucester	July 2, 1877	Timothy Anglin	Liberal	Timothy Anglin	Liberal	Resignation to re-contest after being found in violation of the Independence of Parliament Act for accepting government printing contracts, and being censured by the House of Commons Committee on Privilege.	Yes

Ottawa (City of)	May 9, 1877	Joseph Merrill Currier	Liberal-Conservative	Joseph Merrill Currier	Liberal-Conservative	Resignation to re-contest for having infringed the Independence of Parliament Act by conducting business dealings with the government while still a member.	Yes

Lincoln	May 9, 1877	James Norris	Liberal	James Norris	Liberal	Resigns in order to re-contest after acquiring a government contract.	Yes

Charlevoix	March 23, 1877	Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative	Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

Kamouraska	February 19, 1877	Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier	Liberal	Charles-François Roy	Conservative	Called to the Senate.	No

Jacques Cartier	December 28, 1876	Rodolphe Laflamme	Liberal	Rodolphe Laflamme	Liberal	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Inland Revenue.	Yes

Cardwell	December 14, 1876	John Hillyard Cameron	Conservative	Dalton McCarthy	Conservative	Death	Yes

Queen's County	November 22, 1876	David Laird	Liberal	James Colledge Pope	Conservative	Appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the North West Territories.	No

Bothwell	November 15, 1876	David Mills	Liberal	David Mills	Liberal	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of the Interior and Superintendent General of Indian Affairs.	Yes

Beauce	October 18, 1876	Christian Henry Pozer	Liberal	Joseph Bolduc	Conservative	Called to the Senate.	No

Victoria	September 21, 1876	Barclay Edmund Tremaine	Liberal	Charles James Campbell	Conservative	Appointed a County Court judge.	No

Glengarry	July 31, 1876	Archibald McNab	Liberal	Archibald McNab	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Ontario South	July 5, 1876	Malcolm Cameron	Liberal	Thomas Nicholson Gibbs	Liberal-Conservative	Death	No

Ontario North	July 5, 1876	Adam Gordon	Liberal	William Henry Gibbs	Conservative	Death	No

Wellington South	July 5, 1876	David Stirton	Liberal	Donald Guthrie	Liberal	Appointed Postmaster of Guelph.	Yes

Middlesex North	June 7, 1876	Thomas Scatcherd	Liberal	Robert Colin Scatcherd	Liberal	Death	Yes.

Two Mountains	March 11, 1876	Charles Auguste Maximilien Globensky	Independent	Jean-Baptiste Daoust	Conservative	Resignation	No

Charlevoix	January 22, 1876	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay	Liberal	Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative	Election declared void.	No

Renfrew North	January 21, 1876	William Murray	Liberal	Peter White	Conservative	Election declared void.	No

Chambly	January 7, 1876	Amable Jodoin	Liberal	Pierre Basile Benoit	Conservative	Election declared void.	No

Argenteuil	December 31, 1875	Lemuel Cushing, Jr.	Liberal	Thomas Christie	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Quebec-Centre	December 27, 1875	Joseph Édouard Cauchon	Conservative	Joseph Édouard Cauchon	Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as President of the Privy Council.	Yes

Dorchester	December 14, 1875	François Fortunat Rouleau	Liberal-Conservative	François Fortunat Rouleau	Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

Montreal Centre	November 26, 1875	Bernard Devlin	Liberal	Bernard Devlin	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Bellechasse	November 23, 1875	Télesphore Fournier	Liberal	Joseph Goderic Blanchet	Conservative	Appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.	No

West Toronto	November 6, 1875	Thomas Moss	Liberal	John Beverly Robinson	Conservative	Appointed to the Court of Appeal of Ontario	No

Montreal West	October 30, 1875	Frederick Mackenzie	Liberal	Thomas Workman	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Victoria North	September 17, 1875	James Maclennan	Liberal	Hector Cameron	Conservative	Court overturns result of 1874 by-election and declared Cameron seated.	No

Gaspé	July 10, 1875	Louis George Harper	Conservative	John Short	Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

Glengarry	July 7, 1875	Donald Alexander Macdonald	Liberal	Archibald McNab	Liberal	Appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario.	Yes

Perth North	July 7, 1875	Andrew Monteith	Conservative	Andrew Monteith	Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

York North	June 29, 1875	Alfred Hutchinson Dymond	Liberal	Alfred Hutchinson Dymond	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Monck	June 22, 1875	Lachlin McCallum	Liberal-Conservative	Lachlin McCallum	Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

Napierville	June 19, 1875	Sixte Coupal dit la Reine	Liberal	Sixte Coupal dit la Reine	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Bruce South	June 2, 1875	Edward Blake	Liberal	Edward Blake	Liberal	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Justice.	Yes

Toronto Centre	May 21, 1875	Robert Wilkes	Liberal	John Macdonald	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Hamilton	May 20, 1875	Andrew Trew Wood and Aemilius Irving	Liberal	Aemilius Irving and Andrew Trew Wood	Liberal	Double member constituency - elections declared void.	Yes

Victoria	April 28, 1875	Charles James Campbell	Conservative	Barclay Edmund Tremaine	Liberal	Campbell unseated by decision of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia., 28 February 1875; Tremaine declared duly elected by decision of Election Court, 28 April 1875	No

Provencher	March 31, 1875	Louis Riel	Independent	Andrew Bannatyne	Liberal	Unseated from the House of Commons and declared an outlaw, 25 February 1875	No

Wellington North	March 18, 1875	Nathaniel Higinbotham	Liberal	Nathaniel Higinbotham	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Berthier	February 27, 1875	Anselme-Homère Pâquet	Liberal	Edward Octavian Cuthbert	Conservative	Called to the Senate.	No

Two Mountains	February 26, 1875	Wilfrid Prévost	Liberal	Charles Auguste Maximilien Globensky	Independent	Election declared void	No

Renfrew South	February 20, 1875	John Lorn McDougall	Liberal	John Lorn McDougall	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

London	February 18, 1875	John Walker	Liberal	James Harshaw Fraser	Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void	No

Huron South	February 11, 1875	Malcolm Colin Cameron	Liberal	Thomas Greenway	Independent	Election declared void.	No

Middlesex East	January 28, 1875	Crowell Willson	Liberal-Conservative	Duncan Macmillan	Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

Halton	January 25, 1875	Daniel Black Chisholm	Liberal-Conservative	William McCraney	Liberal	Election declared void.	No

Toronto East	January 18, 1875	John O'Donohoe	Liberal-Conservative	Samuel Platt	Independent	Election declared void.	No

L'Assomption	January 16, 1875	Hilaire Hurteau	Liberal-Conservative	Hilaire Hurteau	Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

Montreal Centre	January 12, 1875	Michael Patrick Ryan	Liberal-Conservative	Bernard Devlin	Liberal	Election declared void.	No

Chambly	December 30, 1874	Pierre Basile Benoit	Conservative	Amable Jodoin	Liberal	Election declared void.	No

Kingston	December 29, 1874	John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

Simcoe North	December 26, 1874	Herman Henry Cook	Liberal	Herman Henry Cook	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Victoria North	December 22, 1874	James Maclennan	Liberal	James Maclennan	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Niagara	December 22, 1874	Josiah Burr Plumb	Conservative	Josiah Burr Plumb	Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

Victoria	December 17, 1874	William Ross	Liberal	Charles James Campbell	Conservative	Appointed to Collector of Customs at Halifax.	No

Colchester	December 17, 1874	Thomas McKay	Liberal-Conservative	Thomas McKay	Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

Leeds North and Grenville North	December 16, 1874	Charles Frederick Ferguson	Liberal-Conservative	Charles Frederick Ferguson	Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

Norfolk South	December 16, 1874	John Stuart	Liberal	William Wallace	Conservative	Election declared void.	No

Wellington Centre	December 13, 1874	George Turner Orton	Liberal-Conservative	George Turner Orton	Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

Northumberland East	December 12, 1874	James Lyons Biggar	Independent Liberal	James Lyons Biggar	Independent Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Joliette	December 10, 1874	Louis François Georges Baby	Conservative	Louis François Georges Baby	Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

Montreal West	December 10, 1874	Frederick Mackenzie	Liberal	Frederick Mackenzie	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Richmond—Wolfe	December 4, 1874	Henry Aylmer	Liberal	Henry Aylmer	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Northumberland West	November 17, 1874	William Kerr	Liberal	William Kerr	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Lincoln	November 17, 1874	James Norris	Liberal	James Norris	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Argenteuil	November 4, 1874	John Abbott	Liberal-Conservative	Lemuel Cushing, Jr.	Liberal	Election declared void.	No

Renfrew North	November 4, 1874	Peter White	Conservative	William Murray	Liberal	Election declared void.	No

Addington	October 28, 1874	Schuyler Shibley	Conservative	Schuyler Shibley	Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes

Digby	October 26, 1874	Edwin Randolph Oakes	Liberal-Conservative	William Berrian Vail	Liberal	Appointed to the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia.	No

Renfrew South	October 24, 1874	John Lorn McDougall	Liberal	John Lorn McDougall	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Essex	October 22, 1874	William McGregor	Liberal	William McGregor	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Cornwall	October 20, 1874	Alexander Francis Macdonald	Liberal	Alexander Francis Macdonald	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes

Provencher	September 3, 1874	Louis Riel	Independent	Louis Riel	Independent	Expelled from the House of Commons	Yes

Marquette	August 25, 1874	Robert Cunningham	Liberal	Joseph O'Connell Ryan	Liberal	Death, Ryan awarded seat upon re-examination of votes cast.	Yes

Elgin East	August 11, 1874	William Harvey	Liberal	Colin MacDougall	Liberal	Death	Yes

Napierville	August 4, 1874	Antoine Aimé Dorion	Liberal	Sixte Coupal dit la Reine	Liberal	Appointed Chief Justice of Quebec.	Yes

Verchères	July 25, 1874	Félix Geoffrion	Liberal	Félix Geoffrion	Liberal	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Inland Revenue.	Yes

Oxford South	May 23, 1874	Ebenezer Vining Bodwell	Liberal	James Atchison Skinner	Liberal	Appointed Superintendent of the Welland Canal.	Yes

Durham West	April 7, 1874	Edmund B. Wood	Liberal	Harvey William Burk	Liberal	Appointed Chief Justice of Manitoba.	Yes

Sentence(s)

John A. Macdonald was reelected in Kingston on December 29, 1874.

final_sentence: John A. Macdonald was reelected in Kingston on December 29, 1874.