# 3rd Canadian Parliament

The 3rd Canadian Parliament was in session from March 26, 1874, until August 17, 1878. The membership was set by the 1874 federal election on January 22, 1874. It was dissolved prior to the 1878 election.
It was controlled by a Liberal Party majority under Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie and the 2nd Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Conservative/Liberal-Conservative, first led by Sir John A. Macdonald.
The Speaker was Timothy Warren Anglin. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1873-1882 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.
There were five sessions of the 3rd Parliament:
| Session | Start | End |
| 1st | March 26, 1874 | May 26, 1874 |
| 2nd | February 4, 1875 | April 8, 1875 |
| 3rd | February 10, 1876 | April 12, 1876 |
| 4th | February 8, 1877 | April 28, 1877 |
| 5th | February 7, 1878 | May 10, 1878 |

## List of members

Following is a full list of members of the third parliament listed first by province, then by electoral district. Party leaders are italicized. Cabinet ministers are in boldface. The Prime Minister is both. The Speaker is indicated by "(†)".
Electoral districts denoted by an asterisk (*) indicates that district was represented by two members.

### British Columbia

| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Cariboo | Joshua Spencer Thompson | Liberal-Conservative | 1871 |
| New Westminster | James Cunningham | Liberal | 1874 |
| New Westminster | Thomas Robert McInnes from March 25, 1878 | Independent | 1878 |
| Vancouver | Arthur Bunster | Liberal | 1874 |
| Victoria | Francis James Roscoe | Independent Liberal | 1874 |
| Victoria | Amor De Cosmos | Liberal | 1871 |
| Yale | Edgar Dewdney | Conservative | 1872 |

### Manitoba

| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Lisgar | John Christian Schultz | Conservative | 1871 |
| Marquette | Robert Cunningham, died 4 July 1874 | Liberal | 1872 |
| Marquette | Joseph O'Connell Ryan from August 25, 1874 | Liberal | 1874 |
| Provencher | Louis Riel, expelled from the House of Commons, reelected, reexpelled and banished from Canada | Independent | 1873 |
| Provencher | Andrew Bannatyne from March 31, 1875 | Liberal | 1875 |
| Selkirk | Donald A. Smith | Independent Conservative | 1871 |
One MP recontested his seat in a byelection, and was reelected.
* Louis Riel was reelected in Provencher on September 3, 1874, upon the passage of a motion expelling him from the House of Commons.

### New Brunswick

| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Albert | John Wallace | Liberal | 1867 |
| Carleton | Stephen Burpee Appleby | Liberal | 1872 |
| Charlotte | Arthur Hill Gillmor | Liberal | 1874 |
| City and County of St. John | Isaac Burpee | Liberal | 1872 |
| City and County of St. John | Acalus Lockwood Palmer | Liberal | 1872 |
| City of St. John | Jeremiah Smith Boies De Veber | Liberal | 1873 |
| Gloucester | Timothy Warren Anglin (†) | Liberal | 1867 |
| Kent | George McLeod | Independent | 1874 |
| King's | James Domville | Conservative | 1872 |
| Northumberland | Peter Mitchell | Independent | 1872 |
| Queen's | John Ferris | Liberal | 1867 |
| Restigouche | George Moffat | Conservative | 1870 |
| Restigouche | George Haddow from January 12, 1878 | Independent | 1878 |
| Sunbury | Charles Burpee | Liberal | 1867 |
| Victoria | John Costigan | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 |
| Westmorland | Albert James Smith | Liberal | 1867 |
| York | John Pickard | Independent Liberal | 1868 |
Two MPs recontested their seats in a byelection, and were reelected:
* Timothy Warren Anglin was reelected in Gloucester on July 2, 1877.
* Peter Mitchell was reelected in Northumberland on February 5, 1878.

### Nova Scotia

| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Annapolis | William Hallett Ray | Liberal | 1867 |
| Antigonish | Angus McIsaac | Liberal | 1873 |
| Cape Breton | Newton LeGayet Mackay | Liberal | 1872 |
| Cape Breton | William McDonald | Conservative | 1872 |
| Colchester | Thomas McKay | Liberal-Conservative | 1874 |
| Cumberland | Charles Tupper | Conservative | 1867 |
| Digby | Edwin Randolph Oakes | Liberal-Conservative | 1874 |
| Digby | William Berrian Vail from October 26, 1874 | Liberal | 1874 |
| Digby | John Chipman Wade from January 29, 1878 | Independent | 1878 |
| Guysborough | John Angus Kirk | Liberal | 1874 |
| Halifax | Alfred Gilpin Jones | Independent | 1867, 1874 |
| Halifax | Patrick Power | Independent Liberal | 1867, 1874 |
| Hants | Monson Henry Goudge | Liberal | 1873 |
| Inverness | Samuel McDonnell | Liberal | 1872 |
| Kings | Frederick William Borden | Liberal | 1874 |
| Lunenburg | Charles Edward Church | Liberal | 1872 |
| Pictou* | James William Carmichael | Liberal | 1867, 1874 |
| Pictou* | John A. Dawson | Liberal | 1874 |
| Queens | James Fraser Forbes | Liberal | 1867 |
| Richmond | Edmund Power Flynn | Liberal | 1874 |
| Shelburne | Thomas Coffin | Liberal | 1867 |
| Victoria | William Ross | Liberal | 1867 |
| Victoria | Charles James Campbell from December 17, 1874 | Conservative | 1874 |
| Victoria | Barclay Edmund Tremaine from April 28, 1875 | Liberal | 1875 |
| Victoria | Charles James Campbell from September 21, 1876 | Conservative | 1876 |
| Yarmouth | Frank Killam | Liberal | 1868 |
Two MPs recontested their seats in byelections, and were reelected.
* Thomas McKay was reelected in Colchester on December 17, 1874
* Alfred Gilpin Jones was reelected in Halifax on January 29, 1878, on being named Minister of Militia and Defence.

### Ontario

| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Addington | Schuyler Shibley | Liberal-Conservative | 1872 |
| Algoma | Edward Borron | Liberal | 1874 |
| Bothwell | David Mills | Liberal | 1867 |
| Brant North | Gavin Fleming | Liberal | 1872 |
| Brant South | William Paterson | Liberal | 1872 |
| Brockville | Jacob Dockstader Buell | Liberal | 1872 |
| Bruce North | John Gillies | Liberal | 1872 |
| Bruce South | Edward Blake | Liberal | 1872 |
| Cardwell | John Hillyard Cameron | Conservative | 1867 |
| Cardwell | Dalton McCarthy from December 14, 1876 | Liberal-Conservative | 1876 |
| Carleton | John Rochester | Conservative | 1872 |
| Cornwall | Alexander Francis Macdonald | Liberal | 1874 |
| Dundas | William Gibson | Independent Liberal | 1872 |
| Durham East | Lewis Ross | Liberal Reformer | 1872 |
| Durham West | Edmund Burke Wood | Liberal | 1867 |
| Durham West | Harvey William Burk from April 7, 1874 | Liberal | 1874 |
| Elgin East | William Harvey | Liberal | 1872 |
| Elgin East | Colin MacDougall from August 11, 1874 | Liberal | 1874 |
| Elgin West | George Elliott Casey | Liberal | 1872 |
| Essex | William McGregor | Liberal | 1874 |
| Frontenac | George Airey Kirkpatrick | Conservative | 1870 |
| Glengarry | Donald Alexander MacDonald | Liberal | 1867 |
| Glengarry | Archibald McNab from July 7, 1875 | Liberal | 1875 |
| Grenville South | William Henry Brouse | Liberal | 1872 |
| Grey East | William Kingston Flesher | Conservative | 1872 |
| Grey North | George Snider | Liberal | 1867 |
| Grey South | George Landerkin | Liberal | 1872 |
| Haldimand | David Thompson | Liberal | 1867 |
| Halton | Daniel Black Chisholm | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 |
| Halton | William McCraney from January 25, 1875 | Liberal | 1875 |
| Hamilton | Aemilius Irving | Liberal | 1874 |
| Hamilton | Andrew Trew Wood | Liberal | 1874 |
| Hastings East | John White | Conservative | 1871 |
| Hastings North | Mackenzie Bowell | Conservative | 1867 |
| Hastings West | James Brown | Conservative | 1867 |
| Huron Centre | Horace Horton | Liberal | 1872 |
| Huron North | Thomas Farrow | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 |
| Huron South | Malcolm Colin Cameron (election overturned in 1875) | Liberal | 1867 |
| Huron South | Thomas Greenway from 1875 | Independent | 1875 |
| Kent | Rufus Stephenson | Conservative | 1867 |
| Kingston | Sir John A. Macdonald | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 |
| Lambton | Alexander Mackenzie | Liberal | 1867 |
| Lanark North | Daniel Galbraith | Liberal | 1872 |
| Lanark South | John Graham Haggart | Conservative | 1872 |
| Leeds North and Grenville North | Charles Frederick Ferguson | Liberal-Conservative | 1874 |
| Leeds South | David Ford Jones | Conservative | 1874 |
| Lennox | Richard John Cartwright | Liberal | 1867 |
| Lincoln | James Norris | Liberal | 1874 |
| London | John Walker | Liberal | 1874 |
| London | James Harshaw Fraser from February 18, 1875 | Liberal-Conservative | 1875 |
| Middlesex East | Crowell Willson election successfully contested 1874 | Liberal-Conservative | 1874 |
| Middlesex East | Duncan Macmillan from January 28, 1875 | Liberal-Conservative | 1875 |
| Middlesex North | Thomas Scatcherd | Liberal | 1867 |
| Middlesex North | Robert Colin Scatcherd from June 7, 1876 | Liberal | 1876 |
| Middlesex West | George William Ross | Liberal | 1872 |
| Monck | Lachlin McCallum | Liberal-Conservative | 1874 |
| Muskoka | Alexander Peter Cockburn | Liberal | 1872 |
| Niagara | Josiah Burr Plumb | Conservative | 1874 |
| Norfolk North | John M. Charlton | Liberal | 1872 |
| Norfolk South | John Stuart | Liberal | 1874 |
| Norfolk South | William Wallace from December 16, 1874 | Conservative | 1874 |
| Northumberland East | James Lyons Biggar | Independent Liberal | 1874 |
| Northumberland West | William Kerr | Liberal | 1874 |
| Ontario North | Adam Gordon | Liberal | 1874 |
| Ontario North | William Henry Gibbs from July 5, 1876 | Conservative | 1874 |
| Ontario South | Malcolm Cameron | Liberal Party of Canada | 1874 |
| Ontario South | Thomas Nicholson Gibbs from July 5, 1876 | Liberal-Conservative | 1876 |
| Ottawa (City of)* | Pierre St. Jean | Liberal | 1874 |
| Ottawa (City of)* | Joseph Merrill Currier | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 |
| Oxford North | Thomas Oliver | Liberal | 1867 |
| Oxford South | Ebenezer Vining Bodwell until April 1874 when he became superintendent of the Welland Canal | Liberal | 1867 |
| Oxford South | James Atchison Skinner from May 23, 1874 | Liberal | 1874 |
| Peel | Robert Smith | Liberal | 1872 |
| Perth North | Andrew Monteith | Conservative | 1874 |
| Perth South | James Trow | Liberal | 1872 |
| Peterborough East | James Hall | Liberal | 1874 |
| Peterborough West | John Bertram | Liberal | 1874 |
| Prescott | Albert Hagar | Liberal | 1867 |
| Prince Edward | Walter Ross | Liberal | 1867 |
| Renfrew North | Peter White | Liberal-Conservative | 1874 |
| Renfrew North | William Murray from November 4, 1874 | Liberal | 1874 |
| Renfrew North | Peter White from January 21, 1876 | Liberal-Conservative | 1876 |
| Renfrew South | John Lorn McDougall | Liberal | 1867, 1874 |
| Russell | Robert Blackburn | Liberal | 1874 |
| Simcoe North | Hermon Henry Cook | Liberal | 1872 |
| Simcoe South | William Carruthers Little | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 |
| Stormont | Cyril Archibald | Liberal | 1872 |
| Toronto Centre | Robert Wilkes | Liberal | 1872 |
| Toronto Centre | John Macdonald (from May 21, 1875) | Independent Liberal | 1875 |
| Toronto East | John O'Donohoe | Liberal-Conservative | 1874 |
| Toronto East | Samuel Platt from January 18, 1875 | Independent | 1875 |
| Victoria North | James Maclennan | Liberal | 1874 |
| Victoria North | Hector Cameron from September 17, 1875 | Conservative | 1875 |
| Victoria South | Arthur McQuade | Conservative | 1874 |
| Waterloo North | Isaac Erb Bowman | Liberal | 1867 |
| Waterloo South | James Young | Liberal | 1867 |
| Welland | William Alexander Thomson | Liberal | 1872 |
| Wellington Centre | George Turner Orton | Liberal-Conservative | 1874 |
| Wellington North | Nathaniel Higinbotham | Liberal | 1872 |
| Wellington South | David Stirton | Liberal | 1867 |
| Wellington South | Donald Guthrie from July 5, 1876 | Liberal | 1876 |
| Wentworth North | Thomas Bain | Liberal | 1872 |
| Wentworth South | Joseph Rymal | Liberal | 1867 |
| West Toronto | Thomas Moss | Liberal | 1873 |
| West Toronto | John Beverley Robinson from November 6, 1875 | Conservative | 1875 |
| York East | James Metcalfe | Liberal | 1867 |
| York North | Alfred Hutchinson Dymond | Liberal | 1874 |
| York West | David Blain | Liberal | 1872 |
22 MPs recontested their seats in byelections, and were reelected
* William McGregor was reelected in Essex on October 22, 1874.
* John Lorn McDougall was reelected in Renfrew South on October 24, 1874, and again on February 20, 1875.
* Schuyler Shibley was reelected in Addington on October 28, 1874.
* William Kerr was reelected in Northumberland West on November 17, 1874.
* James Norris was reelected in Lincoln on November 17, 1874, and May 9, 1877.
* James Lyons Biggar was reelected in Northumberland East on December 12, 1874.
* George Turner Orton was reelected in Wellington Centre on December 13, 1874.
* Charles Frederick Ferguson was reelected in Leeds North and Grenville North on December 16, 1874.
* James MacLennan was reelected in Victoria North on December 22, 1874.
* Josiah Burr Plumb was reelected in Niagara on December 22, 1874.
* Herman Henry Cook was reelected in Simcoe North on December 26, 1874.
* Sir John A. Macdonald was reelected in Kingston on December 29, 1874.
* Nathaniel Higinbotham was reelected in Wellington North on March 18, 1875.
* Aemilius Irving was reelected in Hamilton on May 20, 1875.
* Andrew Trew Wood was reelected in Hamilton on May 20, 1875.
* Edward Blake was reelected in Bruce South on June 2, 1875, after being named Minister of Justice.
* Lachlan McCallum was reelected in Monck on June 22, 1875.
* Alfred Hutchison Dymond was reelected in York North on June 29, 1875.
* Andrew Monteith was reelected in Perth North on July 7, 1875.
* Archibald McNab was reelected in Glengarry on July 31, 1876.
* David Mills was reelected in Bothwell on November 15, 1876, after being named Minister of the Interior.
* Joseph Merrill Currier was reelected in Ottawa on May 9, 1877.

### Prince Edward Island

| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| King's County* | Daniel Davies | Conservative | 1873 |
| King's County* | Peter Adolphus McIntyre | Liberal | 1874 |
| Prince County* | Stanislaus Francis Perry | Liberal | 1874 |
| Prince County* | James Yeo | Liberal | 1873 |
| Queen's County* | David Laird | Liberal | 1873 |
| Queen's County* | Peter Sinclair | Liberal | 1873 |
| Queen's County* | James Colledge Pope from November 22, 1876 | Conservative | 1876 |

### Quebec

| Electoral district | Name | Party | First elected/previously elected |
| Argenteuil | John Abbott | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 |
| Argenteuil | Lemuel Cushing from November 4, 1874 | Liberal | 1874 |
| Argenteuil | Thomas Christie from December 31, 1875 | Liberal | 1875 |
| Bagot | Joseph-Alfred Mousseau | Conservative | 1874 |
| Beauce | Christian Pozer | Liberal | 1867 |
| Beauce | Joseph Bolduc from October 18, 1876 | Conservative | 1876 |
| Beauharnois | Ulysse-Janvier Robillard | Independent Conservative | 1872 |
| Bellechasse | Télesphore Fournier | Liberal | 1870 |
| Bellechasse | Joseph-Goderic Blanchet (from November 23, 1875) | Conservative | 1875 |
| Berthier | Anselme Homère Pâquet | Liberal | 1867 |
| Berthier | Edward Octavian Cuthbert from February 27, 1875 | Conservative | 1875 |
| Bonaventure | Théodore Robitaille | Conservative | 1867 |
| Brome | Nathaniel Pettes | Liberal | 1874 |
| Chambly | Amable Jodoin | Liberal | 1874 |
| Chambly | Pierre-Basile Benoit from January 7, 1876 | Conservative | 1876 |
| Champlain | Hippolyte Montplaisir | Liberal-Conservative | 1874 |
| Charlevoix | Pierre-Alexis Tremblay | Liberal | 1867 |
| Charlevoix | Hector-Louis Langevin from January 22, 1876 | Conservative | 1876 |
| Châteauguay | Luther Hamilton Holton | Liberal | 1867 |
| Chicoutimi—Saguenay | Ernest Cimon | Conservative | 1874 |
| Compton | John Henry Pope | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 |
| Dorchester | François Fortunat Rouleau | Conservative | 1874 |
| Drummond—Arthabaska | Wilfrid Laurier | Liberal | 1874 |
| Drummond—Arthabaska | Désiré Olivier Bourbeau from October 27, 1877 | Conservative | 1877 |
| Gaspé | Louis George Harper | Conservative | 1874 |
| Gaspé | John Short from July 10, 1875 | Conservative | 1875 |
| Hochelaga | Alphonse Desjardins | Conservative | 1874 |
| Huntingdon | Julius Scriver | Liberal | 1869 |
| Iberville | François Béchard | Liberal | 1867 |
| Jacques Cartier | Rodolphe Laflamme | Liberal | 1872 |
| Joliette | Louis François Georges Baby | Conservative | 1872 |
| Kamouraska | Charles Pelletier | Liberal | 1869 |
| Kamouraska | Charles-François Roy from February 19, 1877 | Conservative | 1877 |
| Laprairie | Alfred Pinsonneault | Conservative | 1867 |
| L'Assomption | Hilaire Hurteau | Liberal-Conservative | 1874 |
| Laval | Joseph-Aldric Ouimet | Liberal-Conservative | 1873 |
| Lévis | Louis-Honoré Fréchette | Liberal | 1874 |
| L'Islet | Philippe Baby Casgrain | Liberal | 1872 |
| Lotbinière | Henri Bernier | Liberal | 1874 |
| Maskinongé | Louis-Alphonse Boyer | Liberal | 1872 |
| Mégantic | Édouard-Émery Richard | Liberal | 1872 |
| Missisquoi | William Donahue | Liberal | 1874 |
| Montcalm | Firmin Dugas | Conservative | 1871 |
| Montmagny | Henri-Thomas Taschereau | Liberal | 1872 |
| Montmorency | Jean Langlois | Conservative | 1867 |
| Montreal Centre | Michael Patrick Ryan | Liberal-Conservative | 1872 |
| Montreal Centre | Bernard Devlin from November 26, 1875 | Liberal | 1875 |
| Montreal East | Louis-Amable Jetté | Liberal | 1872 |
| Montreal West | Frederick Mackenzie | Liberal | 1874 |
| Montreal West | Thomas Workman from October 30, 1875 | Liberal | 1875 |
| Napierville | Antoine-Aimé Dorion | Liberal | 1872 |
| Napierville | Sixte Coupal dit la Reine from August 4, 1874 | Liberal | 1874 |
| Nicolet | Joseph Gaudet | Conservative | 1867 |
| Nicolet | François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot from December 18, 1877 | Independent Conservative | 1877 |
| Ottawa (County of) | Alonzo Wright | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 |
| Pontiac | William McKay Wright | Liberal-Conservative | 1872 |
| Portneuf | Esdras Alfred de St-Georges | Liberal | 1872 |
| Quebec-Centre | Joseph-Édouard Cauchon | Conservative | 1872 |
| Quebec-Centre | Jacques Malouin from November 3, 1877 | Independent | 1877 |
| Quebec County | Joseph-Philippe-René-Adolphe Caron | Conservative | 1873 |
| Quebec East | Isidore Thibaudeau | Liberal | 1874 |
| Quebec East | Wilfrid Laurier from November 28, 1877 | Liberal | 1874 |
| Quebec West | Thomas McGreevy | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 |
| Richelieu | Georges Isidore Barthe | Independent Conservative | 1870, 1874 |
| Richmond—Wolfe | Henry Aylmer | Liberal | 1874 |
| Rimouski | Jean-Baptiste Romuald Fiset | Liberal | 1872 |
| Rouville | Guillaume Cheval dit St-Jacques | Liberal | 1867, 1874 |
| Saint Maurice | Charles Gérin-Lajoie | Liberal | 1874 |
| Shefford | Lucius Huntington | Liberal | 1867 |
| Town of Sherbrooke | Edward Towle Brooks | Conservative | 1872 |
| Soulanges | Jacques-Philippe Lanthier | Conservative | 1872 |
| St. Hyacinthe | Louis Delorme | Liberal | 1870 |
| St. John's | François Bourassa | Liberal | 1867 |
| Stanstead | Charles Carroll Colby | Liberal-Conservative | 1867 |
| Témiscouata | Jean-Baptiste Pouliot | Liberal | 1874 |
| Terrebonne | Louis Masson | Conservative | 1867 |
| Three Rivers | William McDougall | Conservative | 1868 |
| Two Mountains | Wilfrid Prévost | Liberal | 1872 |
| Two Mountains | Charles Auguste Maximilien Globensky from February 26, 1875 | Independent | 1875 |
| Two Mountains | Jean-Baptiste Daoust from March 11, 1876 | Conservative | 1876 |
| Vaudreuil | Robert Harwood | Liberal-Conservative | 1872 |
| Verchères | Félix Geoffrion | Liberal | 1867 |
| Yamaska | Charles Gill | Conservative | 1874 |
Twelve MPs recontested their seats in byelections, and were reelected:
* Félix Geoffrion was reelected in Verchères on July 25, 1874, after being named Minister of Inland Revenue.
* Henry Aylmer was reelected in Richmond—Wolfe on December 4, 1874, after being named Receiver-General.
* Louis François George Baby was reelected in Joliette on December 10, 1874.
* Frederick Mackenzie was reelected in Montreal West on December 10, 1874.
* Amable Jodoin was reelected in Chambly on December 30, 1874.
* Hilaire Hurteau was reelected in L'Assomption on January 16, 1875.
* Sixte Coupal dit la Reine was reelected in Napierville on June 19, 1875.
* Bernard Devlin was reelected in Montreal Centre on November 26, 1875.
* François Fortunat Rouleau was reelected in Dorchester on December 14, 1875.
* Joseph-Édouard Cauchon was reelected in Quebec Centre on December 27, 1875, after being named President of the Privy Council.
* Rodolphe Laflamme was reelected in Jacques Cartier on December 28, 1876, after being named Minister of Inland Revenue.
* Hector-Louis Langevin was reelected in Charlevoix on March 23, 1877.

## By-elections

| 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 |