# 18th Quebec Legislature

The 18th Quebec Legislature is the provincial legislature that existed in Quebec, Canada from August 24, 1931, to October 30, 1935. The Liberal Party led by Louis-Alexandre Taschereau had a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec and remained in power in the government.

## Seats per political party

* After the 1931 elections
| Affiliation | Affiliation | Members |
| | Liberal | 79 |
| | Conservative | 11 |
| Total | Total | 90 |
| Government Majority | Government Majority | 68 |

## Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1931 election:
| Name | Party | Riding | First elected / previously elected |
| Hector Authier | Liberal | Abitibi | 1923 |
| Georges-Étienne Dansereau | Liberal | Argenteuil | 1927 |
| Joseph-Édouard Perrault | Liberal | Arthabaska | 1925 |
| Joseph-Émery Phaneuf | Liberal | Bagot | 1916 |
| Joseph-Edouard Fortin | Liberal | Beauce | 1929 |
| Gontran Saint-Onge | Liberal | Beauharnois | 1931 |
| Robert Taschereau | Liberal | Bellechasse | 1930 |
| Cléophas Bastien | Liberal | Berthier | 1927 |
| Pierre-Émile Côté | Liberal | Bonaventure | 1924 |
| Ralph Frederick Stockwell | Liberal | Brome | 1931 |
| Hortensius Béïque | Conservative | Chambly | 1931 |
| William-Pierre Grant | Liberal | Champlain | 1925 |
| Edgar Rochette | Liberal | Charlevoix et Saguenay | 1927 |
| Honoré Mercier Jr. | Liberal | Châteauguay | 1907, 1908 |
| Gustave Delisle | Liberal | Chicoutimi | 1923 |
| William James Duffy | Liberal | Compton | 1931 |
| Paul Sauvé | Conservative | Deux-Montagnes | 1930 |
| Ernest Ouellet | Liberal | Dorchester | 1931 |
| Hector Laferté | Liberal | Drummond | 1916 |
| Henri-Louis Gagnon | Liberal | Frontenac | 1931 |
| Thomas Côté | Liberal | Gaspé-Nord | 1931 |
| Alexandre Chouinard | Liberal | Gaspé-Sud | 1931 |
| Augustin-Armand Legault | Liberal | Gatineau | 1931 |
| Aimé Guertin | Conservative | Hull | 1927 |
| Martin Beattie Fisher | Conservative | Huntingdon | 1930 |
| Lucien Lamoureux | Liberal | Iberville | 1923 |
| Amédée Caron | Liberal | Îles-de-la-Madeleine | 1928 |
| Victor Marchand | Liberal | Jacques-Cartier | 1925 |
| Joseph-Théodule Rhéaume (1933) | Liberal | Jacques-Cartier | 1933 |
| Lucien Dugas | Liberal | Joliette | 1927 |
| Pierre Gagnon | Liberal | Kamouraska | 1927 |
| Pierre Lortie | Liberal | Labelle | 1923 |
| Joseph-Ludger Fillion | Liberal | Lac-Saint-Jean | 1931 |
| Walter Reed | Liberal | L'Assomption | 1908 |
| Joseph Filion | Liberal | Laval | 1931 |
| Joseph-Alphida Crête | Liberal | Laviolette | 1931 |
| Arthur Bélanger | Liberal | Lévis | 1931 |
| Adélard Godbout | Liberal | L'Islet | 1929 |
| Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur | Liberal | Lotbinière | 1908 |
| Charles-Joseph Arcand | Liberal | Maisonneuve | 1931 |
| Louis-Joseph Thisdel | Liberal | Maskinongé | 1930 |
| Joseph-Arthur Bergeron | Liberal | Matane | 1923 |
| Joseph Dufour | Liberal | Matapédia | 1919 |
| Lauréat Lapierre | Liberal | Mégantic | 1916 |
| Alexandre Saurette | Liberal | Missisquoi | 1919 |
| Médéric Duval | Liberal | Montcalm | 1931 |
| Charles-Abraham Paquet | Liberal | Montmagny | 1919 |
| Louis-Alexandre Taschereau | Liberal | Montmorency | 1900 |
| Joseph-Achille Francoeur | Liberal | Montréal-Dorion | 1931 |
| Ernest Poulin | Liberal | Montréal-Laurier | 1919, 1927 |
| Anatole Plante | Liberal | Montréal-Mercier | 1927 |
| Joseph Henry Dillon | Liberal | Montréal–Sainte-Anne | 1927 |
| Gaspard Fauteux | Liberal | Montréal–Sainte-Marie | 1931 |
| Charles Ernest Gault | Conservative | Montréal–Saint-Georges | 1907 |
| Joseph-Maurice Gabias | Liberal | Montréal–Saint-Henri | 1931 |
| Irénée Vautrin | Liberal | Montréal–Saint-Jacques | 1919, 1927 |
| Joseph Cohen | Liberal | Montréal–Saint-Laurent | 1927 |
| Peter Bercovitch | Liberal | Montréal–Saint-Louis | 1916 |
| Pierre-Auguste Lafleur | Conservative | Montréal-Verdun | 1923 |
| Joseph-Euclide Charbonneau | Liberal | Napierville-Laprairie | 1923 |
| Joseph-Alcide Savoie | Liberal | Nicolet | 1923 |
| Alexandre Gaudet (1933) | Liberal | Nicolet | 1933 |
| Désiré Lahaie | Liberal | Papineau | 1922 |
| Wallace McDonald | Liberal | Pontiac | 1919 |
| Pierre Gauthier | Liberal | Portneuf | 1927 |
| Joseph-Ephraim Bédard | Liberal | Québec-Comté | 1927 |
| Joseph Samson | Liberal | Québec-Centre | 1927 |
| Oscar Drouin | Liberal | Québec-Est | 1928 |
| Joseph Ignatius Power | Liberal | Québec-Ouest | 1927 |
| Avila Turcotte | Liberal | Richelieu | 1929 |
| Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais | Liberal | Richmond | 1923 |
| Louis-Joseph Moreault | Liberal | Rimouski | 1923 |
| Léon Casgrain | Liberal | Rivière-du-Loup | 1927 |
| Émile Moreau | Liberal | Roberval | 1919 |
| Laurent Barré | Conservative | Rouville | 1931 |
| Télesphore-Damien Bouchard | Liberal | Saint-Hyacinthe | 1912, 1923 |
| Alexis Bouthillier | Liberal | Saint-Jean | 1919 |
| Joseph-Auguste Frigon | Liberal | Saint-Maurice | 1927 |
| Pierre Bertrand | Conservative | Saint-Sauveur | 1923, 1931 |
| Robert-Raoul Bachand | Liberal | Shefford | 1931 |
| Émery-Hector Fortier | Liberal | Sherbrooke | 1931 |
| Avila Ferland | Liberal | Soulanges | 1916, 1927 |
| Alfred-Joseph Bissonnet | Liberal | Stanstead | 1913 |
| Joseph-Édouard Piché | Liberal | Témiscamingue | 1927 |
| Joseph-Wilfrid Morel | Liberal | Témiscouata | 1931 |
| Athanase David | Liberal | Terrebonne | 1916 |
| Maurice Duplessis | Conservative | Trois-Rivières | 1927 |
| Elzéar Sabourin | Liberal | Vaudreuil | 1931 |
| Félix Messier | Liberal | Verchères | 1927 |
| Charles Allan Smart | Conservative | Westmount | 1912 |
| Cyrénus Lemieux | Liberal | Wolfe | 1921 |
| Thomas Hercule Lapointe (1933) | Liberal | Wolfe | 1933 |
| Antonio Élie | Conservative | Yamaska | 1931 |

## Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during the term
* Alexandre Gaudet, Liberal Party, Nicolet, November 7, 1933
* Thomas Hercule Lapointe, Liberal Party, Wolfe, November 14, 1933
* Joseph-Théodule Rhéaume, Liberal Party, Jacques-Cartier, November 21, 1933

## Cabinet Ministers

* Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
* Agriculture: Adélard Godbout
* Colonization, Hunting and Fishing: Hector Laferté (1931–1934)
* Public Works and Labor: Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur (1931)
** Labour: Charles-Joseph Arcand (1931–1935)
** Colonization: Irénée Vautrin (1934–1935)
** Public Works, Hunting and Fishing: Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur (1934–1935)
*** Public Works: Joseph-Napoléon Francoeur (1931–1934)
* Mines:Joseph-Édouard Perrault
* Lands and Forests: Honoré Mercier Jr
* Roads: Joseph-Édouard Perrault
* Municipal Affairs: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1931–1935)
** Municipal Affairs, Industry and Commerce: Télesphore-Damien Bouchard (1935)
* Attorney General: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau
* Provincial secretary: Athanase David
* Treasurer: Louis-Alexandre Taschereau (1931–1932), Ralph Frederick Stockwell (1932–1935)
* Members without portfolios: George Bryson Jr. (1931–1935), Irénée Vautrin (1934), John Hall Kelly (1935)