5th Canadian Parliament

5th Parliament of Canada
Majority parliament
8 February 1883 – 15 January 1887
Parliament leaders
Prime Minister	Rt. Hon. Sir John A. Macdonald 17 Oct 1878 – 6 Jun 1891
Cabinet	3rd Canadian Ministry
Leader of the Opposition	Edward Blake 4 May 1880 – 2 June 1887
Party caucuses
Government	Conservative Party & Liberal-Conservative
Opposition	Liberal Party
House of Commons
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the Commons	Joseph-Goderic Blanchet 13 February 1879 – 7 February 1883
	George Airey Kirkpatrick 8 February 1883 – 12 July 1887
Members	242 seats MP seats List of members
Senate
Speaker of the Senate	The Hon. Sir David Lewis Macpherson 19 April 1880 – 16 October 1883
	The Hon. William Miller 17 October 1883 – 3 April 1887
Government Senate Leader	Alexander Campbell 18 October 1878 – 26 January 1887
Opposition Senate Leader	Sir Richard William Scott 8 October 1878 – 27 April 1896
Senators	97 seats senator seats List of senators
Sovereign
Monarch	Victoria 1 July 1867 – 22 Jan. 1901
Governor General	The Duke of Argyll 25 Nov. 1878 – 23 Oct. 1883
	The Marquess of Lansdowne 23 Oct. 1883 – 11 June 1888
Sessions
1st session 8 February 1883 – 27 May 1883
2nd session 17 January 1884 – 19 April 1884
3rd session 29 January 1885 – 20 July 1885
4th session 25 February 1886 – 2 June 1886
← 4th → 6th

The 5th Canadian Parliament was in session from 8 February 1883, until 15 January 1887. The membership was set by the 1882 federal election on 20 June 1882. It was dissolved prior to the 1887 election. The 5th Canadian Parliament was controlled by a Conservative/Liberal-Conservative majority under Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald and the 3rd Canadian Ministry. The Official Opposition was the Liberal Party, led by Edward Blake.

The Speaker was George Airey Kirkpatrick. See also List of Canadian electoral districts 1882-1887 for a list of the ridings in this parliament.

There were four sessions of the 5th Parliament:

Session	Start	End
1st	February 8, 1883	May 27, 1883
2nd	January 17, 1884	April 19, 1884
3rd	January 29, 1885	July 20, 1885
4th	February 25, 1886	June 2, 1886

Notable legislation

This term was notable for passing the Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 which imposed a head tax on Chinese immigrants to Canada.

List of members

Following is a full list of members of the fifth 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		James Reid	Liberal-Conservative	1881
New Westminster		Joshua Homer	Liberal-Conservative	1882
Vancouver		David William Gordon	Liberal-Conservative	1882
Victoria*		Edgar Crow Baker	Conservative	1882
		Noah Shakespeare	Conservative	1882
Yale		Francis Jones Barnard	Conservative	1879

Manitoba

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Lisgar		Arthur Wellington Ross	Liberal-Conservative	1882
Marquette		Robert Watson	Liberal	1882
Provencher		Joseph Royal	Conservative	1879
Selkirk		Hugh McKay Sutherland	Liberal	1882
Winnipeg		Thomas Scott	Conservative	1880

New Brunswick

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Albert		John Wallace (unseated 1883)	Liberal	1867, 1882
		John Wallace (by-election of 1883-07-10)	Liberal-Conservative	1883
Carleton		David Irvine	Liberal	1881
Charlotte		Arthur Hill Gillmor	Liberal	1874
City and County of St. John*		Isaac Burpee (died 1 March 1885)	Liberal	1872
		Charles Wesley Weldon	Liberal	1878
		Charles Arthur Everett (by-election of 1885-10-20)	Conservative	1885
City of St. John		Samuel Leonard Tilley (appointed New Brunswick's Lieutenant-Governor 12 November 1885)	Liberal-Conservative	1873, 1878
		Frederick Eustace Barker (by-election of 1885-11-24)	Conservative	1885
Gloucester		Kennedy Francis Burns	Conservative	1882
Kent		Gilbert Anselme Girouard	Liberal-Conservative	1878
		Pierre Amand Landry (by-election of 1883-09-22)	Conservative	1883
King's		George Eulas Foster (election voided 1882)	Conservative	1882
		George Eulas Foster (by-election of 1882-11-07, until Ministerial appointment)	Conservative
		George Eulas Foster (by-election of 1885-12-31)	Conservative
Northumberland		Peter Mitchell	Independent	1872, 1882
Queen's		George Gerald King	Liberal	1878
Restigouche		Robert Moffat	Conservative	1882
Sunbury		Charles Burpee	Liberal	1867
Victoria		John Costigan	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Westmorland		Josiah Wood	Conservative	1882
York		John Pickard	Independent Liberal	1868
		Thomas Temple (by-election of 1884-06-29)	Conservative	1884

Nova Scotia

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Annapolis		William Hallett Ray	Liberal	1867, 1882
Antigonish		Angus McIsaac	Liberal	1874
		John Thompson (by-election of 1885-10-16)	Liberal-Conservative	1885
Cape Breton*		Murray Dodd	Conservative	1882
		William McDonald (until 1884 Senate appointment)	Conservative	1872
		Hector Francis McDougall (by-election of 1884-07-03)	Liberal-Conservative	1884
Colchester		Archibald McLelan	Conservative	1881
Cumberland		Charles Tupper (until 1884 High Commission appointment)	Conservative	1867
		Charles James Townshend (by-election of 1884-06-26)	Liberal-Conservative	1884
Digby		William Berrian Vail	Liberal	1874, 1882
Guysborough		John Angus Kirk	Liberal	1874, 1882
Halifax*		Malachy Bowes Daly	Liberal-Conservative	1878
		Matthew Henry Richey (until 1883 Lieutenant-Governor appointment)	Liberal-Conservative	1878
		John Fitzwilliam Stairs (by-election of 1883-07-24)	Conservative	1883
Hants		William Henry Allison	Conservative	1878
Inverness		Hugh Cameron	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1882
Kings		Douglas Benjamin Woodworth	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Lunenburg		Thomas Twining Keefler (until 1883 voiding of election)	Liberal	1882
		Charles Edwin Kaulbach (by-election of 1883-10-10)	Conservative	1883
Pictou*		John McDougald	Liberal-Conservative	1881
		Charles Hibbert Tupper	Conservative	1882
Queens		James Fraser Forbes	Liberal	1867, 1882
Richmond		Henry Nicholas Paint	Conservative	1874, 1887
Shelburne		Thomas Robertson	Liberal	1878
Victoria		Charles James Campbell	Conservative	1874, 1875, 1882
Yarmouth		Joseph Robbins Kinney	Liberal	1882

Ontario

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Addington		John William Bell	Conservative	1882
Algoma		Simon James Dawson	Conservative	1878
Bothwell		John Joseph Hawkins (until 1884 voiding of election)	Liberal-Conservative	1882
		David Mills (by-election of 1884-02-25)	Liberal	1884
Brant North		James Somerville	Liberal	1882
Brant South		William Paterson	Liberal	1872
Brockville		John Fisher Wood	Liberal-Conservative	1882
Bruce East		Rupert Mearse Wells	Liberal	1882
Bruce North		Alexander McNeill	Liberal-Conservative	1882
Bruce West		James Somerville	Liberal	1882
Cardwell		Thomas White (until 1885 ministerial nomination)	Conservative	1878
		Thomas White (by-election of 1885-08-27)
Carleton		John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Cornwall and Stormont		Darby Bergin	Liberal-Conservative	1872, 1878
Dundas		Charles Erastus Hickey	Conservative	1882
Durham East		Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams (died 4 July 1885)	Conservative	1878
		Henry Alfred Ward (by-election of 1885-08-24)	Conservative	1885
Durham West		Edward Blake	Liberal	1879
Elgin East		John Henry Wilson	Liberal	1882
Elgin West		George Elliott Casey	Liberal	1872
Essex North		James Colebrooke Patterson	Conservative	1878
Essex South		Lewis Wigle	Conservative	1882
Frontenac		George Airey Kirkpatrick (†)	Conservative	1870
Glengarry		Donald Macmaster	Conservative	1882
Grenville South		William Thomas Benson (died 8 June 1885)	Conservative	1882
		Walter Shanly (by-election of 1885-07-04)	Conservative	1885
Grey East		Thomas Simpson Sproule	Conservative	1878
Grey North		Benjamin Allen	Liberal	1882
Grey South		George Landerkin	Liberal	1872, 1882
Haldimand		David Thompson (died 18 April 1886)	Liberal	1867
		Charles Wesley Colter (by-election of 1886-09-08)	Liberal	1886
Halton		William McCraney	Liberal	1875, 1882
Hamilton		Francis Edwin Kilvert	Conservative	1878
		Thomas Robertson	Liberal	1878
Hastings East		John White	Conservative	1871
Hastings North		Mackenzie Bowell	Conservative	1867
Hastings West		Alexander Robertson	Conservative	1882
Huron East		Thomas Farrow	Conservative	1878
Huron South		John McMillan (resigned 1883)	Liberal	1882
		Richard John Cartwright (by-election of 1883-12-10)	Liberal	1883
Huron West		Malcolm Colin Cameron	Liberal	1867, 1878
Kent		Henry Smyth (until election voided 31 December 1883)	Conservative	1882
		Henry Smyth (by-election of 1884-01-29)	Conservative
Kingston		Alexander Gunn	Liberal	1878
Lambton East		John Henry Fairbank	Liberal	1882
Lambton West		James Frederick Lister	Liberal	1882
Lanark North		Joseph Jamieson	Conservative	1882
Lanark South		John Graham Haggart	Conservative	1872
Leeds North and Grenville North		Charles Frederick Ferguson	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Leeds South		George Taylor	Conservative	1882
Lennox		John A. Macdonald (until election voided)	Liberal-Conservative	1867
		David Wright Allison (by-election of 1883-11-26, until election voided)	Liberal	1883
		Matthew William Pruyn (by-election of 1885-01-28)	Conservative	1885
Lincoln and Niagara		John Charles Rykert	Conservative	1878
London		John Carling	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1878
Middlesex East		Duncan Macmillan	Liberal-Conservative	1875
Middlesex North		Timothy Coughlin	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Middlesex South		James Armstrong	Liberal	1882
Middlesex West		George William Ross (until election voided October 1883)	Liberal	1872
		Donald Mackenzie Cameron (by-election of 1883-12-14)	Liberal	1883
Monck		Lachlan McCallum	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Muskoka and Parry Sound		William Edward O'Brien	Conservative	1882
Norfolk North		John Charlton	Liberal	1872
Norfolk South		Joseph Jackson	Liberal	1882
Northumberland East		Edward Cochrane	Conservative	1882
Northumberland West		George Guillet (unseated 1885)	Conservative	1881
		George Guillet (by-election of 1885-04-07)	Conservative	1885
Ontario North		Alexander Peter Cockburn	Liberal	1878
Ontario South		Francis Wayland Glen	Liberal	1878
Ontario West		George Wheler (resigned 1884)	Liberal	1878
		James David Edgar (by-election of 1884-08-22)	Liberal	1884
Ottawa (City of)*		Charles Herbert Mackintosh	Conservative	1882
		Joseph Tassé	Conservative	1878
Oxford North		James Sutherland	Liberal	1880
Oxford South		Archibald Harley	Liberal	1882
Peel		James Fleming	Liberal	1882
Perth North		Samuel Rollin Hesson	Conservative	1878
Perth South		James Trow	Liberal	1872
Peterborough East		John Burnham	Conservative	1878
Peterborough West		George Hilliard	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Prescott		Simon Labrosse	Liberal	1882
Prince Edward		John Milton Platt	Liberal	1882
Renfrew North		Peter White	Conservative	1876
Renfrew South		Robert Campbell	Liberal	1882
Russell		Moss Kent Dickinson	Conservative	1882
Simcoe East		Hermon Henry Cook	Liberal	1874, 1882
Simcoe North		Dalton McCarthy	Conservative	1872
Simcoe South		Richard Tyrwhitt	Conservative	1882
Toronto Centre		Robert Hay	Liberal	1878
Toronto East		John Small	Conservative	1882
Victoria North		Hector Cameron	Conservative	1875
Victoria South		Joseph Rutherford Dundas	Conservative	1882
Waterloo North		Hugo Kranz	Conservative	1878
Waterloo South		James Livingston	Liberal	1882
Welland		John Ferguson	Conservative	1878
Wellington Centre		George Turner Orton	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Wellington North		James McMullen	Liberal	1882
Wellington South		James Innes	Liberal	1882
Wentworth North		Thomas Bain	Liberal	1872
Wentworth South		Lewis Springer	Liberal	1882
West Toronto		James Beaty	Conservative	1880
York East		Alexander Mackenzie	Liberal	1867
York North		William Mulock	Liberal	1882
York West		Nathaniel Clarke Wallace	Conservative	1878

Prince Edward Island

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
King's County*		Peter Adolphus McIntyre	Liberal	1874, 1882
		James Edwin Robertson (until disqualified from office)	Liberal	1882
		Augustine Colin Macdonald (by-election of 1883-04-26)	Liberal-Conservative	1873, 1878, 1883
Prince County*		Edward Hackett	Liberal-Conservative	1878
		James Yeo	Liberal	1873
Queen's County*		Louis Henry Davies	Liberal	1882
		John Theophilus Jenkins (until election voided)	Liberal-Conservative	1882
		Frederick de Sainte-Croix Brecken (by-election of 1883-02-27, until postmaster appointment)	Conservative	1883
		John Theophilus Jenkins (by-election of 1884-08-19)	Liberal-Conservative	1882, 1884

Quebec

Electoral district		Name	Party	First elected/previously elected
Argenteuil		John Abbott	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1880
Bagot		Joseph Alfred Mousseau (until Quebec cabinet appointment)	Conservative	1874
		Flavien Dupont (by-election of 1882-09-02)	Conservative	1882
Beauce		Joseph Bolduc (until Senate appointment)	Conservative	1876
		Thomas Linière Taschereau (by-election of 1884-10-31)	Conservative	1884
Beauharnois		Joseph Gédéon Horace Bergeron	Conservative	1879
Bellechasse		Guillaume Amyot	Conservative	1881
Berthier		Edward Octavian Cuthbert	Conservative	1875
Bonaventure		Louis Joseph Riopel	Conservative	1882
Brome		Sydney Arthur Fisher	Liberal	1882
Chambly		Pierre Basile Benoit (until Chambly Canal appointment)	Conservative	1876
		Raymond Préfontaine (by-election of 1886-07-30)	Liberal	1886
Champlain		Hippolyte Montplaisir	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Charlevoix		Simon-Xavier Cimon	Conservative	1881
Chicoutimi—Saguenay		Jean Alfred Gagné	Conservative	1882
Châteauguay		Edward Holton	Liberal	1880
Compton		John Henry Pope	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Dorchester		Charles Alexander Lesage	Conservative	1882
Drummond—Arthabaska		Désiré Olivier Bourbeau	Conservative	1877
Gaspé		Pierre Fortin	Conservative	1867, 1878
Hochelaga		Alphonse Desjardins	Conservative	1874
Huntingdon		Julius Scriver	Liberal	1869
Iberville		François Béchard	Liberal	1867
Jacques Cartier		Désiré Girouard	Conservative	1878
Joliette		Édouard Guilbault (until election voided 4 November 1882)	Conservative	1882
		Édouard Guilbault (by-election of 1882-12-07)	Independent Conservative	1882
Kamouraska		Charles Bruno Blondeau	Conservative	1882
Laprairie		Alfred Pinsonneault	Conservative	1867
L'Assomption		Hilaire Hurteau	Liberal-Conservative	1874
Laval		Joseph-Aldric Ouimet	Liberal-Conservative	1873
Lévis		Joseph-Goderic Blanchet (until Customs appointment) (†)	Liberal-Conservative	1867, 1878
		Isidore-Noël Belleau (by-election of 1883-10-25, until unseated by court)	Conservative	1883
		Pierre Malcom Guay (by-election of 1885-04-14)	Liberal	1885
L'Islet		Philippe Baby Casgrain	Liberal	1872
Lotbinière		Côme Isaïe Rinfret	Liberal	1878
Maskinongé		Frédéric Houde (died 15 November 1884)	Nationalist Conservative	1878
		Alexis Lesieur Desaulniers (by-election of 1884-12-22)	Conservative	1884
Mégantic		Louis-Israël Côté alias Fréchette (until election voided 1 April 1884)	Conservative	1882
		François Charles Stanislas Langelier (by-election of 1884-06-10)	Liberal	1884
Missisquoi		George Barnard Baker	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Montcalm		Firmin Dugas	Conservative	1871
Montmagny		Auguste Charles Philippe Robert Landry	Conservative	1878
Montmorency		Pierre Vincent Valin	Conservative	1878, 1880
Montreal Centre		John Joseph Curran	Conservative	1882
Montreal East		Charles-Joseph Coursol	Conservative	1878
Montreal West		Matthew Hamilton Gault	Conservative	1878
Napierville		Médéric Catudal	Liberal	1882
Nicolet		François Xavier Ovide Méthot (until Quebec legislative council appointment 27 March 1884)	Independent Conservative	1877
		Athanase Gaudet (by-election of 1884-04-16)	Nationalist Conservative	1884
Ottawa (County of)		Alonzo Wright	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Pontiac		John Bryson	Conservative	1882
Portneuf		Joseph Esdras Alfred de Saint-Georges	Liberal	1872, 1882
Quebec-Centre		Joseph Guillaume Bossé	Conservative	1882
Quebec County		Adolphe-Philippe Caron	Conservative	1873
Quebec East		Wilfrid Laurier	Liberal	1874
Quebec West		Thomas McGreevy	Liberal-Conservative	1867
Richelieu		Louis Huet Massue	Liberal-Conservative	1878
Richmond—Wolfe		William Bullock Ives	Conservative	1878
Rimouski		Louis Adolphe Billy	Conservative	1882
Rouville		Georges Auguste Gigault	Conservative	1878
Saint Maurice		Louis-Léon Lesieur Desaulniers	Conservative	1867, 1878
Shefford		Michel Auger	Independent Liberal	1882
Town of Sherbrooke		Robert Newton Hall	Liberal-Conservative	1882
Soulanges		Jacques Philippe Lantier (died 15 September 1882)	Conservative	1872
		Georges-Raoul-Léotale-Guichart-Humbert Saveuse de Beaujeu (by-election of 1882-10-27, until unseated 11 December 1883)	Conservative	1882
		James William Bain (by-election of 1883-12-27, until election voided)	Conservative	1883
		James William Bain (by-election of 1885-02-05)	Conservative	1882
Stanstead		Charles Carroll Colby	Liberal-Conservative	1867
St. Hyacinthe		Michel Esdras Bernier	Liberal	1882
St. John's		François Bourassa	Liberal	1867
Terrebonne		Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (resigned to open seat for Chapleau)	Conservative	1882
		Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau (by-election of 1882-08-16)	Conservative	1882
Three Rivers		Hector-Louis Langevin	Conservative	1867, 1876, 1882
Témiscouata		Paul Étienne Grandbois	Conservative	1878
Two Mountains		Jean-Baptiste Daoust	Conservative	1876
Vaudreuil		Hugh McMillan	Conservative	1882
Verchères		Félix Geoffrion	Liberal	1867
Yamaska		Fabien Vanasse	Conservative	1879

By-elections

Main article: By-elections to the 5th Canadian Parliament

By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause	Retained
Haldimand	September 8, 1886	David Thompson		Liberal	Charles Wesley Colter		Liberal	Death	Yes
Chambly	July 30, 1886	Pierre Basile Benoit		Conservative	Raymond Préfontaine		Liberal	Appointed Superintendent of the Chambly Canal.	No
King's	December 31, 1885	George Eulas Foster		Conservative	George Eulas Foster		Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Marine and Fisheries.	Yes
City of St. John	November 24, 1885	Samuel Leonard Tilley		Liberal-Conservative	Frederick Eustace Barker		Conservative	Appointed Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick.	Yes
City and County of St. John	October 20, 1885	Isaac Burpee		Liberal	Charles Arthur Everett		Conservative	Death	No
Antigonish	October 16, 1885	Angus McIsaac		Liberal	John Sparrow David Thompson		Liberal-Conservative	Appointed County Court Judge for District No. 6.	No
Cardwell	August 27, 1885	Thomas White		Conservative	Thomas White		Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of the Interior.	Yes
Durham East	August 24, 1885	Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams		Conservative	Henry Alfred Ward		Conservative	Death	Yes
Grenville South	July 4, 1885	William Thomas Benson		Conservative	Walter Shanly		Conservative	Death	Yes
Lévis	April 14, 1885	Isidore-Noël Belleau		Conservative	Pierre Malcom Guay		Liberal	Unseated on a judgement of the Supreme Court.	Yes
Northumberland West	April 7, 1885	George Guillet		Conservative	George Guillet		Conservative	Election declared void	Yes
Soulanges	February 5, 1885	James William Bain		Conservative	James William Bain		Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Lennox	January 28, 1885	David Wright Allison		Liberal	Matthew William Pruyn		Conservative	Election declared void.	No
Maskinongé	December 22, 1884	Frédéric Houde		Nationalist Conservative	Alexis Lesieur Desaulniers		Conservative	Death.	No
Beauce	October 31, 1884	Joseph Bolduc		Nationalist Conservative	Thomas Linière Taschereau		Conservative	Called to the Senate.	Yes
Ontario West	August 22, 1884	George Wheler		Liberal	James David Edgar		Liberal	Resignation	Yes
Queen's County	August 19, 1884	Frederick de Sainte-Croix Brecken		Conservative	John Theophilus Jenkins		Liberal-Conservative	Appointed Postmaster of Charlottetown.	Yes
Cape Breton	July 3, 1884	William McDonald		Conservative	Hector Francis McDougall		Liberal-Conservative	Called to the Senate.	Yes
York	June 29, 1884	John Pickard		Independent Liberal	Thomas Temple		Conservative	Death	No
Cumberland	June 26, 1884	Charles Tupper		Conservative	Charles James Townshend		Liberal-Conservative	Appointed High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom.	Yes
Mégantic	June 10, 1884	Louis-Israël Côté dit Fréchette		Conservative	François Langelier		Liberal	Election declared void.	No
Nicolet	April 16, 1884	François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot		Independent Conservative	Athanase Gaudet		Nationalist Conservative	Appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec.	No
Bothwell	February 25, 1884	John Joseph Hawkins		Liberal-Conservative	David Mills		Liberal	Election declared void.	No
Kent	January 29, 1884	Henry Smyth		Conservative	Henry Smyth		Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Soulanges	December 27, 1883	Georges-Raoul-Léotale-Guichart-Humbert Saveuse de Beaujeu		Conservative	James William Bain		Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Middlesex West	December 14, 1883	George William Ross		Liberal	Donald Mackenzie Cameron		Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes
Huron South	December 10, 1883	John McMillan		Liberal	Richard John Cartwright		Liberal	Resignation to provide a seat for Cartwright.	Yes
Lennox	November 26, 1883	John A. Macdonald		Liberal-Conservative	David Wright Allison		Liberal	Election voided. Macdonald was concurrently elected in Carleton and chose to sit for that riding.	No
Lévis	October 25, 1883	Joseph-Godéric Blanchet		Liberal-Conservative	Isidore-Noël Belleau		Conservative	Appointed Collector of Customs for the Port of Quebec.	Yes
Lunenburg	October 10, 1883	Thomas Twining Keefler		Liberal	Charles Edwin Kaulbach		Conservative	Election declared void.	No
Kent	September 22, 1883	Gilbert Anselme Girouard		Conservative	Pierre-Amand Landry		Conservative	Appointed customs collector for Richibucto.	Yes
Halifax	July 24, 1883	Matthew Henry Richey		Liberal-Conservative	John Fitzwilliam Stairs		Conservative	Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.	Yes
Albert	July 10, 1883	John Wallace		Liberal	John Wallace		Liberal-Conservative	Election declared void.	No
King's County	April 26, 1883	James Edwin Robertson		Liberal	Augustine Colin Macdonald		Liberal-Conservative	Robertson disqualified as he was a member of the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly at the time of the election. The seat was adjudicated to MacDonald.	No
Queen's County	February 27, 1883	John Theophilus Jenkins		Liberal-Conservative	Frederick de Sainte-Croix Brecken		Conservative	Jenkins' election being declared void, the seat was adjudicated to Mr. Brecken.	Yes
Joliette	December 7, 1882	Édouard Guilbault		Conservative	Édouard Guilbault		Independent Conservative	Election declared void.	No
King's	November 7, 1882	George Eulas Foster		Conservative	George Eulas Foster		Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Soulanges	October 27, 1882	Jacques Philippe Lantier		Conservative	Georges-Raoul-Léotale-Guichart-Humbert Saveuse de Beaujeu		Conservative	Death	Yes
Bagot	September 2, 1882	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau		Conservative	Flavien Dupont		Conservative	Resignation upon appointment as Premier of Quebec.	Yes
Terrebonne	August 16, 1882	Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel		Conservative	Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau		Conservative	Resignation to provide a seat for Chapleau.	Yes

References

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