# 5th Quebec Legislature

The 5th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that existed from December 2, 1881, to October 14, 1886. The Quebec Conservative Party led Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, Joseph-Alfred Mousseau and John Jones Ross was the governing party. Chapleau was succeeded by Mousseau in 1882 while Ross succeeded Mousseau in 1884. It was the Conservatives last majority government.
The sixty-five members were each elected in a single-member district through First past the post.

## Seats per political party

* After the 1881 elections
| Affiliation | Affiliation | Members |
| | Conservative | 50 |
| | Liberal/Parti national | 14 |
| | Conservative Independent | 1 |
| Total | Total | 65 |
| Government Majority | Government Majority | 36 |

## Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1881 election:
| Name | Party | Riding | First elected / previously elected |
| William Owens | Conservative | Argenteuil | 1881 |
| Antoine Casavant | Conservative | Bagot | 1881 |
| Jean Blanchet | Conservative | Beauce | 1881 |
| Célestin Bergevin | Conservative | Beauharnois | 1867, 1878 |
| Édouard Faucher de Saint-Maurice | Conservative | Bellechasse | 1881 |
| Joseph Robillard | Conservative | Berthier | 1878 |
| Louis-Joseph Riopel | Conservative | Bonaventure | 1881 |
| Henri-Josué Martin (1882) | Conservative | Bonaventure | 1882 |
| William Warren Lynch | Conservative | Brome | 1871 |
| Michel-Dosithée-Stanislas Martel | Conservative | Chambly | 1878, 1881 |
| Robert Trudel | Conservative | Champlain | 1881 |
| Onésime Gauthier | Conservative | Charlevoix | 1875 |
| Édouard Laberge | Liberal | Châteauguay | 1867 |
| Joseph-Émery Robidoux (1884) | Liberal | Châteauguay | 1884 |
| Élie Saint-Hilaire | Conservative Independent | Chicoutimi et Saguenay | 1881 |
| William Sawyer | Conservative | Compton | 1871 |
| Charles Champagne | Conservative | Deux-Montagnes | 1876 |
| Benjamin Beauchamp (1882) | Conservative | Deux-Montagnes | 1882 |
| Nicodème Audet | Conservative | Dorchester | 1878 |
| William John Watts | Liberal | Drummond et Arthabaska | 1874 |
| Joseph-Éna Girouard (1886) | Liberal | Drummond et Arthabaska | 1886 |
| Edmund James Flynn | Conservative | Gaspé | 1878 |
| Louis Beaubien | Conservative | Hochelaga | 1867 |
| Alexander Cameron | Liberal | Huntingdon | 1874 |
| Alexis-Louis Demers | Liberal | Iberville | 1881 |
| Charles Marcotte | Conservative | Islet | 1881 |
| Narcisse Lecavalier | Conservative | Jacques Cartier | 1867 |
| Joseph-Alfred Mousseau (1882) | Conservative | Jacques Cartier | 1882 |
| Arthur Boyer (1884) | Liberal | Jacques Cartier | 1884 |
| Vincent-Paul Lavallée | Conservative | Joliette | 1867 |
| Alfred McConville (1885) | Conservative | Joliette | 1885 |
| Charles-Antoine-Ernest Gagnon | Liberal | Kamouraska | 1878 |
| Léon-Benoît-Alfred Charlebois | Conservative | Laprairie | 1875 |
| Joseph Marion | Conservative | L'Assomption | 1880 |
| Louis-Onésime Loranger | Conservative | Laval | 1875 |
| Pierre-Évariste Leblanc (1882) | Conservative | Laval | 1882 |
| Amédée Gaboury (1883) | Liberal | Laval | 1883 |
| Pierre-Évariste Leblanc (1884) | Conservative | Laval | 1882, 1884 |
| Étienne-Théodore Pâquet | Conservative | Lévis | 1875 |
| François-Xavier Lemieux (1883) | Liberal | Lévis | 1883 |
| Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière | Liberal | Lotbinière | 1867 |
| Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté (1886) | Liberal | Lotbinière | 1886 |
| Édouard Caron | Conservative | Maskinongé | 1878 |
| George Irvine | Liberal | Mégantic | 1867, 1878 |
| John Whyte (1884) | Liberal | Mégantic | 1884 |
| Elijah Edmund Spencer | Conservative | Missisquoi | 1881 |
| Jean-Baptiste-Trefflé Richard | Conservative | Montcalm | 1881 |
| Louis-Napoléon Fortin | Liberal | Montmagny | 1876 |
| Nazaire Bernatchez (1883) | Independent Liberal | Montmagny | 1883 |
| Louis-Georges Desjardins | Conservative | Montmorency | 1881 |
| George Washington Stephens Sr. | Liberal | Montréal Centre | 1881 |
| Louis-Olivier Taillon | Conservative | Montréal Est | 1875 |
| James McShane | Liberal | Montreal Ouest | 1878 |
| François-Xavier Paradis | Conservative | Napierville | 1881 |
| Charles-Édouard Houde | Conservative | Nicolet | 1876 |
| Louis-Trefflé Dorais (1883) | Independent Conservative | Nicolet | 1883 |
| Louis Duhamel | Conservative | Ottawa (Outaouais) | 1875 |
| Thomas Bryson | Conservative | Pontiac | 1881 |
| William Joseph Poupore (1882) | Conservative | Pontiac | 1882 |
| Jean-Docile Brousseau | Conservative | Portneuf | 1881 |
| Pierre Garneau | Conservative | Québec-Comté | 1873, 1881 |
| Rémi-Ferdinand Rinfret dit Malouin | Liberal | Québec-Centre | 1874 |
| Joseph Shehyn | Liberal | Québec-Est | 1875 |
| Félix Carbray | Conservative | Québec-Ouest | 1881 |
| Léon Leduc | Conservative | Richelieu | 1881 |
| Jacques Picard | Conservative | Richmond et Wolfe | 1867 |
| Louis-Napoléon Asselin | Conservative | Rimouski | 1881 |
| Étienne Poulin | Conservative | Rouville | 1881 |
| Honoré Mercier | Liberal | St. Hyacinthe | 1879 |
| Félix-Gabriel Marchand | Liberal | St. Jean | 1867 |
| François-Sévère Desaulniers | Conservative | St. Maurice | 1878 |
| Isidore Frégeau | Conservative | Shefford | 1881 |
| Joseph Gibb Robertson | Conservative | Sherbrooke | 1867 |
| William Duckett | Conservative | Soulanges | 1878 |
| John Thornton | Conservative | Stanstead | 1875, 1881 |
| Georges-Honoré Deschênes | Conservative | Témiscouata | 1875 |
| Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau | Conservative | Terrebonne | 1867 |
| Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (1882) | Conservative | Terrebonne | 1882 |
| Sévère Dumoulin | Conservative | Trois-Rivières | 1868, 1881 |
| Henri-René-Arthur Turcotte (1886) | Independent Conservative | Trois-Rivières | 1876, 1886 |
| Émery Lalonde, Sr. | Conservative | Vaudreuil | 1871 |
| François-Xavier Archambault (1882) | Conservative | Vaudreuil | 1882 |
| Alfred Lapointe (1884) | Conservative | Vaudreuil | 1884 |
| Abraham Bernard | Liberal | Verchères | 1881 |
| Jonathan Saxton Campbell Würtele | Conservative | Yamaska | 1875 |

## Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during the term
* William Joseph Poupore, Quebec Conservative Party, Pontiac, March 6, 1882
* Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel, Quebec Conservative Party, Terrebonne, August 19, 1882
* Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, Quebec Conservative Party, Jacques Cartier, August 26, 1882
* Benjamin Beauchamp, Quebec Conservative Party, Deux-Montagnes, October 21, 1882
* Pierre-Évariste Leblanc, Quebec Conservative Party, Laval, October 30, 1882 & July 14, 1884
* François-Xavier Archambault, Quebec Conservative Party, Vaudreuil, October 30, 1882
* Henri-Josué Martin, Quebec Conservative Party, Bonaventure, October 31, 1882
* Louis-Trefflé Dorais, Conservative Independent, Nicolet, February 5, 1883
* Amédée Gaboury, Quebec Liberal Party, Laval, June 13, 1883
* François-Xavier Lemieux, Quebec Liberal Party, Lévis, November 16, 1883
* Joseph-Émery Robidoux, Quebec Liberal Party, Châteauguay, March 26, 1884
* Arthur Boyer, Quebec Liberal Party, Jacques Cartier, March 26, 1884
* Henri-René-Arthur Turcotte, Conservative Independent, Trois-Rivières, March 26, 1884
* Alfred Lapointe, Quebec Conservative Party, Vaudreuil, June 19, 1884
* John Whyte, Quebec Liberal Party, Mégantic, October 29, 1884
* Alfred McConville, Quebec Conservative Party, Joliette, September 25, 1885
* Édouard-Hippolyte Laliberté, Quebec Liberal Party, Lotbinière, January 30, 1886
* Joseph-Éna Girouard, Quebec Liberal Party, Drummond et Arthabaska, March 24, 1886

## Cabinet Ministers
### Chapleau Cabinet (1881–1882)

* Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau
* Agriculture and public works: John Jones Ross (1881–1882), Elisée Dionne (1882)
* Crown Lands: Edmund James Flynn
* Railroad: John Jones Ross (1881–1882), William Warren Lych (1882)
* Attorney General: Louis-Onésime Loranger
* Secretary and Registry: Etienne-Théodore Pâquet
* Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson (1881–1882), Jonathan Saxton Campbell Wurtele (1882)
* Solicitor General: William Warren Lynch
* Legislative Council President: John Jones Ross

### Mousseau Cabinet (1882–1884)

* Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
* Agriculture and public works: Elisée Dionne
* Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
* Railroad: Henry Starnes
* Attorney General: Joseph-Alfred Mousseau
* Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
* Treasurer: Jonathan Saxton Campbell Wurtele

### Ross Cabinet (1884–1886)

* Prime Minister and Executive Council President: John Jones Ross
* Agriculture and public works: John Jones Ross
* Crown Lands: William Warren Lynch
* Railroad: Edmund James Flynn
* Attorney General: Louis-Olivier Taillon
* Secretary and Registry: Jean Blanchet
* Treasurer: Joseph Gibb Robertson
* Solicitor General: Edmund James Flynn (1885–1886)