25th Quebec Legislature

The 25th Legislative Assembly of Quebec was the Quebec, Canada, provincial political legislature that existed from June 20, 1956, and June 22, 1960. The Union Nationale was the governing party for the fourth consecutive mandate. It was also Maurice Duplessis last term as Premier of Quebec. He died in office in 1959 and was succeeded in less than a year by Paul Sauvé and former cabinet Minister Antonio Barrette after Sauvé died less than four months after being sworn as Premier.

Seats per political party

After the 1956 elections

Affiliation		Members
	Union Nationale	72
	Liberal	20
	Independent	1
Total		93
Government Majority		52

Member list

This was the list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec that were elected in the 1956 election:

Name	Party	Riding	First elected / previously elected
Jacques Miquelon	Union Nationale	Abitibi-Est	1948
Alcide Courcy	Libéral	Abitibi-Ouest	1956
William McOuat Cottingham	Union Nationale	Argenteuil	1948
Wilfrid Labbé	Union Nationale	Arthabaska	1948
Daniel Johnson	Union Nationale	Bagot	1946
Georges-Octave Poulin	Union Nationale	Beauce	1945
Edgar Hébert	Union Nationale	Beauharnois	1948
Alphée Poirier	Union Nationale	Bellechasse	1952
Azellus Lavallée	Union Nationale	Berthier	1948
Gérard D. Levesque	Libéral	Bonaventure	1956
Glendon Brown	Libéral	Brome	1956
Robert Théberge	Libéral	Chambly	1956
Maurice Bellemare	Union Nationale	Champlain	1944
Arthur Leclerc	Union Nationale	Charlevoix	1936, 1944
Arthur Laberge	Union Nationale	Châteauguay	1948
Joseph-Maurice Laberge (1957)	Union Nationale	Châteauguay	1957
Antonio Talbot	Union Nationale	Chicoutimi	1938
Fabien Gagnon	Libéral	Compton	1956
Claude-Gilles Gosselin (1957)	Union Nationale	Compton	1957
Paul Sauvé	Union Nationale	Deux-Montagnes	1930, 1936
Joseph-Damase Bégin	Union Nationale	Dorchester	1935
Robert Bernard	Union Nationale	Drummond	1944, 1956
Éloi Guillemette	Union Nationale	Frontenac	1956
Alphonse Couturier	Union Nationale	Gaspé-Nord	1952
Camille-Eugène Pouliot	Union Nationale	Gaspé-Sud	1936
Gérard Desjardins	Union Nationale	Gatineau	1948
Oswald Parent	Libéral	Hull	1956
Henry Somerville	Union Nationale	Huntingdon	1952
Yvon Thuot	Union Nationale	Iberville	1944
Hormisdas Langlais	Union Nationale	Îles-de-la-Madeleine	1936
Charles-Aimé Kirkland	Libéral	Jacques-Cartier	1939
Antonio Barrette	Union Nationale	Joliette	1936
Léonce Ouellet	Union Nationale	Jonquière-Kénogami	1956
Alfred Plourde	Union Nationale	Kamouraska	1948
Albiny Paquette	Union Nationale	Labelle	1935
Pierre Bohémier (1958)	Union Nationale		1958
Fernand Lafontaine (1959)	Union Nationale		1959
Antonio Auger	Union Nationale	Lac-Saint-Jean	1948
Jean-Paul Levasseur (1959)	Union Nationale	Lac-Saint-Jean	1959
Victor-Stanislas Chartrand	Union Nationale	L'Assomption	1944
Léopold Pouliot	Union Nationale	Laval	1956
Charles Romulus Ducharme	Union Nationale	Laviolette	1935, 1944
Albert Samson	Union Nationale	Lévis	1949, 1956
Fernand Lizotte	Union Nationale	L'Islet	1948
René Bernatchez	Union Nationale	Lotbinière	1948
Lucien Tremblay	Union Nationale	Maisonneuve	1956
Germain Caron	Union Nationale	Maskinongé	1944
Onésime Gagnon	Union Nationale	Matane	1936
Benoît Gaboury (1958)	Union Nationale	Matane	1958
J-Clovis Gagnon	Union Nationale	Matapédia	1953
Tancrède Labbé	Union Nationale	Mégantic	1935, 1940
Joseph-Émile Fortin (1957)	Union Nationale	Mégantic	1957
Jean-Jacques Bertrand	Union Nationale	Missisquoi	1948
Maurice Tellier	Union Nationale	Montcalm	1936, 1944
Antoine Rivard	Union Nationale	Montmagny	1948
Yves Prévost	Union Nationale	Montmorency	1948
Maurice-Tréflé Custeau	Union Nationale	Montréal–Jeanne-Mance	1956
Arsène Gagné	Union Nationale	Montréal-Laurier	1955
Gérard Thibeault	Union Nationale	Montréal-Mercier	1936, 1948
Paul Earl	Libéral	Montréal–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce	1948
Georges-Émile Lapalme	Libéral	Montréal-Outremont	1953
Francis Hanley	Independent	Montréal–Sainte-Anne	1948
Edgar Charbonneau	Union Nationale	Montréal–Sainte-Marie	1956
Philippe Lalonde	Libéral	Montréal–Saint-Henri	1952
Paul Dozois	Union Nationale	Montréal–Saint-Jacques	1956
Dave Rochon	Libéral	Montréal–Saint-Louis	1948
Dave Rochon	Independent	Montréal–Saint-Louis	1948
Lionel-Alfred Ross	Libéral	Montréal-Verdun	1944
Lionel-Alfred Ross	Independent	Montréal-Verdun	1944
Hercule Riendeau	Union Nationale	Napierville-Laprairie	1944
Camille Roy	Union Nationale	Nicolet	1952
Roméo Lorrain	Union Nationale	Papineau	1935
Raymond Thomas Johnston	Union Nationale	Pontiac	1948
Rosaire Chalifour	Union Nationale	Portneuf	1953
Maurice Cloutier	Union Nationale	Québec-Centre	1952
Émilien Rochette	Union Nationale	Québec-Comté	1956
Armand Maltais	Union Nationale	Québec-Est	1956
Jean-Paul Galipeault	Libéral	Québec-Ouest	1956
Bernard Gagné	Union Nationale	Richelieu	1948, 1956
Émilien Lafrance	Libéral	Richmond	1952
Albert Dionne	Libéral	Rimouski	1956
Alphonse Couturier	Libéral	Rivière-du-Loup	1956
Paul-Henri Spence	Union Nationale	Roberval	1956
Jean-Joseph Turcotte (1958)	Union Nationale	Roberval	1958
Laurent Barré	Union Nationale	Rouville	1931, 1944
Edgar Turpin	Libéral	Rouyn-Noranda	1956
Pierre Ouellet	Union Nationale	Saguenay	1948
René Saint-Pierre	Libéral	Saint-Hyacinthe	1956
Jean-Paul Beaulieu	Union Nationale	Saint-Jean	1941
René Hamel	Libéral	Saint-Maurice	1952
Francis Boudreau	Union Nationale	Saint-Sauveur	1948
Armand Russell	Union Nationale	Shefford	1956
John Samuel Bourque	Union Nationale	Sherbrooke	1935
Léon-Denis Gérin	Union Nationale	Stanstead	1948
Joseph-André Larouche	Union Nationale	Témiscamingue	1956
Antoine Raymond	Union Nationale	Témiscouata	1952
Joseph-Léonard Blanchard	Union Nationale	Terrebonne	1944
Maurice Duplessis	Union Nationale	Trois-Rivières	1927
Joseph-Édouard Jeannotte	Union Nationale	Vaudreuil-Soulanges	1948
Loyola Schmidt (1957)	Union Nationale	Vaudreuil-Soulanges	1957
Clodomir Ladouceur	Union Nationale	Verchères	1956
John Richard Hyde	Libéral	Westmount–Saint-Georges	1955
Henri Vachon	Union Nationale	Wolfe	1936, 1944, 1956
Antonio Élie	Union Nationale	Yamaska	1931

Other elected MLAs

Other MLAs were elected in by-elections during this mandate

Joseph-Maurice Laberge, Union Nationale, Chateauguay, September 18, 1957 [1]
Claude-Gilles Gosselin, Union Nationale, Compton, September 18, 1957 [2]
Joseph-Émile Fortin, Union Nationale, Mégantic, September 18, 1957 [3]
Loyola Schmidt, Union Nationale, Vaudreuil-Soulanges, September 18, 1957 [4]
Benoît Gaboury, Union Nationale, Matane, July 2, 1958 [5]
Pierre Bohémier, Union Nationale, Labelle, October 15, 1958 [6]
Jean-Joseph Turcotte, Union Nationale, Roberval, October 15, 1958 [7]
Fernand Lafontaine, Union Nationale, Labelle, September 16, 1959 [8]
Jean-Paul Levasseur, Union Nationale, Lac-Saint-Jean, September 16, 1959 [9]

Cabinet Ministers

Duplessis Cabinet (1956-1959)

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Maurice Duplessis
Agriculture: Laurent Barrée
Colonization: Joseph-Damase Begin
Labour: Antonio Barrette
Public Works: Roméo Lorrain
Social Welfare and Youth: Paul Sauvé
Health: Albiny Paquette (1956–1958), Arthur Leclerc (1958–1959)
Lands and Forests: John Samuel Bourque (1956–1958), Jean-Jacques Bertrand (1958–1959)
Hunting and Coastal Fisheries: Camille-Eugène Pouliot (1956–1958)
- Fisheries and Hunting: Camille-Eugene Pouliot (1958–1959)
Mines: William McOuat Cottingham
Hydraulic resources: John Samuel Bourque (1956–1958), Daniel Johnson Sr. (1958–1959)
Roads: Antonio Talbot
Transportation and Communications: Antoine Rivard
Municipal Affairs: Yves Prevost (1956), Paul Dozois (1956–1959)
Industry and Commerce: Jean-Paul Beaulieu
Attorney General: Maurice Duplessis
Provincial Secretary: Romeo Lorrain (1956), Yves Prevost (1956–1959)
Solicitor General: Antoine Rivard
Finances: Onésime Gagnon (1956), John Samuel Bourque (1958–1959)
State Ministers: Gerard Thibeault (1958–1959)

Sauve Cabinet (1959-1960)

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Paul Sauve
Agriculture: Laurent Barrée
Colonization: Joseph-Damase Begin
Labour: Antonio Barrette
Public Works: Roméo Lorrain
Social Welfare and Youth: Paul Sauvé
Health: Arthur Leclerc
Lands and Forests: Jean-Jacques Bertrand
Fisheries and Hunting: Camille-Eugène Pouliot
Mines: William McOuat Cottingham
Hydraulic resources: Daniel Johnson Sr.
Roads: Antonio Talbot
Transportation and Communications: Antoine Rivard
Municipal Affairs: Paul Dozois
Industry and Commerce: Jean-Paul Beaulieu
Attorney General: Antoine Rivard
Provincial Secretary: Yves Prevost
Solicitor General: Jacques Miquelon (1959–1960)
Finances: John Samuel Bourque
State Ministers: Gerard Thibeault, Antonio Elie, Maurice Bellemare, Wilfrid Labbe, Robert Bernard, Jacques Miquelon (1959)

Barrette Cabinet (1960)

Prime Minister and Executive Council President: Antonio Barrette
Agriculture: Laurent Barrée
Colonization: Joseph-Damase Begin
Labour: Antonio Barrette
Public Works: Roméo Lorrain
Social Welfare and Youth: Jean-Jacques Bertrand
Health: Arthur Leclerc
Lands and Forests: Jacques Miquelon
Fisheries and Hunting: Camille-Eugène Pouliot
Mines: William McOuat Cottingham
Hydraulic resources: Daniel Johnson Sr.
Roads: Antonio Talbot
Transportation and Communications: Antoine Rivard
Municipal Affairs: Paul Dozois
Industry and Commerce: Jean-Paul Beaulieu
Attorney General: Antoine Rivard
Provincial Secretary: Yves Prévost
Solicitor General: Jacques Miquelon
Finances: John Samuel Bourque
State Ministers: Gerard Thibeault, Antonio Élie, Maurice Bellemare, Wilfrid Labbe, Robert Bernard, Maurice-Tréfflé Custeau, Armand Maltais

New electoral districts

The electoral map was slightly modified in 1960 with the creation of the Duplessis riding from parts of Saguenay just before the elections later that year. In addition, Bourget was created from parts of Laval. [10]

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