Compton (federal electoral district)

Compton
Quebec electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1966
District abolished	1996
First contested	1968
Last contested	1993

Compton (also known as Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead) was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1949, and again from 1968 to 1997.

History[edit]

Compton was created by the British North America Act of 1867. It consisted of the Townships of Compton, Westbury, Eaton, Clifton, Hereford, and Augmentation, Bury, Newport, Auckland, Lingwick, Hampden, Ditton, Winslow, Whitton, Marston, Chesham and part of the Township of Clinton.

In 1924, it was re-defined to consist of:

the County of Compton;
in the County of Stanstead: the township of Hereford;
in the County of Sherbrooke: the municipalities of Compton (township and village) and Waterville; and
in the County of Frontenac: the municipalities of Marston South, Ste. Cécile de Whitton, Chesham, Winslow South, Clinton, St. Léon de Marston, Winslow North and the town of Mégantic.

In 1933, it was expanded to include the townships of Eaton and Westbury in the village of Ascot Corner.

It was abolished in 1947 when it was redistributed into the Compton—Frontenac and Sherbrooke electoral districts.

It was re-created in 1966 from parts of Compton—Frontenac, Mégantic and Stanstead ridings. The new riding was defined to consist of:

the Towns of Coaticook, Cookshire, East Angus, Lac-Mégantic, Rock Island, Scotstown and Waterville;
the County of Compton;
parts of the County of Frontenac;
the county of Stanstead (except the village municipality of Omerville and the township municipality of Magog); and
in the County of Sherbrooke: the village municipality of Compton; the township municipality of Compton; and the municipalities of Ascot Corner and Compton Station.

In 1976, it was expanded to include in the County of Stanstead: the village municipalities of Ayer's Cliff, Beebe Plain, Dixville, Hatley, North Hatley, Saint-Herménégilde and Stanstead Plain; the township municipalities of Barford, Barnston, Hatley, Hatley (West part) and Stanstead; the municipalities of Barnston West, Ogden, Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley, Saint-Herménégilde, Saint-Mathieu-de-Dixville and Stanstead East.

It was renamed "Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead" in 1978.

In 1987, it was redefined to consist of:

the Towns of Coaticook, Cookshire, East Angus, Lac-Mégantic, Rock Island, Scotstown and Waterville;
the County of Compton;
in the County of Frontenac: the parish municipalities of Courcelles, Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn and Val-Racine; the Township municipality of Marston; the municipalities of Audet, Frontenac, Lac-Drolet, Milan, Nantes, Notre-Dames-des-Bois, Piopolis, Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton, Saint-Romain, Saint-Sébastien and Stornoway;
in the County of Sherbrooke: the Township Municipality of Ascot; the Municipality of Ascot Corner;
in the County of Stanstead excluding the following: the Town of Magog; the Village Municipality of Omerville; the Township Municipality of Magog;
in the County of Wolfe: the village municipalities of Bishopton, Marbleton, Saint-Gérard and Weedon-Centre; the township municipalities of Dudswell, Stratford and Weedon; the municipality of Fontainebleau.

It was abolished in 1996 when it was merged into Compton—Stanstead riding.

Members of Parliament[edit]

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Compton
1st	1867–1871	John Henry Pope	Liberal–Conservative
1st	1871–1872
2nd	1872–1874
3rd	1874–1878
4th	1878–1878
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1887
6th	1887–1889
6th	1889–1891	Rufus Henry Pope	Conservative
7th	1891–1896
8th	1896–1900
9th	1900–1904
10th	1904–1905	Aylmer Byron Hunt	Liberal
10th	1906–1908
11th	1908–1911
12th	1911–1917	Frederick Robert Cromwell	Conservative
13th	1917–1921	Aylmer Byron Hunt	Liberal
14th	1921–1925	Aylmer Byron Hunt
15th	1925–1926	Joseph-Étienne Letellier de Saint-Just
16th	1926–1930	Joseph-Étienne Letellier de Saint-Just
17th	1930–1935	Samuel Gobeil	Conservative
18th	1935–1940	Joseph-Adéodat Blanchette	Liberal
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1949
Riding dissolved into Compton—Frontenac and Sherbrooke
Riding re-created from Compton—Frontenac, Mégantic and Stanstead
28th	1968–1971	Henry Latulippe	Ralliement créditiste
28th	1971–1972		Social Credit
29th	1972–1974		Social Credit
30th	1974–1979	Claude Tessier	Liberal
Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead
31st	1979–1980	Claude Tessier	Liberal
32nd	1980–1984	Claude Tessier	Liberal
33rd	1984–1988	François Gérin	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993	François Gérin	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Maurice Bernier	Bloc Québécois
Riding dissolved into Compton—Stanstead

Election results[edit]

Compton, 1867–1949[edit]

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	John Henry Pope	acclaimed
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[1]

By-election: On Mr. Pope's appointment as Minister of Agriculture, 25 October 1871

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 11 November 1871
	Liberal–Conservative	John Henry Pope	acclaimed

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	John Henry Pope	acclaimed
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[2]

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	John Henry Pope	1,387
	Unknown	H. E. Cairns	535

v t e 1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	John Henry Pope	1,464
	Unknown	H. Leonard	796

By-election: On Mr. Pope's appointment as Minister of Agriculture, 17 October 1878

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 4 November 1878
	Liberal–Conservative	John Henry Pope	acclaimed

v t e 1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	John Henry Pope	1,612
	Unknown	H. E. Cairns	823

v t e 1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal–Conservative	John Henry Pope	2,157
	Unknown	T. B. Munro	1,333

By-election: On Mr. Pope's death, 1 April 1889

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 16 May 1889
	Conservative	Rufus Henry Pope	acclaimed

v t e 1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Rufus Henry Pope	2,004
	Liberal	S. P. Leet	938

v t e 1896 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Rufus Henry Pope	1,948
	Patrons of Industry	Francis F. Wellard	1,485

v t e 1900 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Rufus Henry Pope	2,438
	Liberal	Geo. B. Cleveland	2,190

v t e 1904 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Aylmer Byron Hunt	2,735
	Conservative	Rufus Henry Pope	2,440

By-election: On election being declared void, Nov. 22, 1905

Party		Candidate	Votes
By-election on 4 January 1906
	Liberal	Aylmer Byron Hunt	2,935
	Conservative	Rufus Henry Pope	2,585

v t e 1908 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Aylmer Byron Hunt	3,175
	Conservative	Rufus Henry Pope	2,781

v t e 1911 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Frederick Robert Cromwell	2,953
	Liberal	Aylmer Byron Hunt	2,877

v t e 1917 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	Aylmer Byron Hunt	4,418
	Government (Unionist)	Kenneth Nicholson McIver	2,515

v t e 1921 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Aylmer Byron Hunt	7,866
	Conservative	Frederick Robert Cromwell	3,961

v t e 1925 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-Étienne Letellier de Saint-Just	6,497
	Conservative	Samuel Gobeil	4,262

v t e 1926 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-Étienne Letellier de Saint-Just	7,125
	Conservative	Samuel Gobeil	4,979

v t e 1930 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Samuel Gobeil	6,701
	Liberal	Joseph-Étienne Letellier de Saint-Just	6,393

v t e 1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-Adéodat Blanchette	7,388
	Conservative	Samuel Gobeil	6,374

v t e 1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-Adéodat Blanchette	8,012
	National Government	Joseph-Alfred Laforest	1,623

v t e 1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Joseph-Adéodat Blanchette	8,007
	Progressive Conservative	Samuel Gobeil	3,506
	Bloc populaire	Aurélien Quintin	1,622
	Social Credit	Gérard Houle	1,065
	Co-operative Commonwealth	R. Barton Carr	486

Compton, 1968–1979[edit]

v t e 1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Ralliement créditiste	Henry Latulippe	11,961
	Liberal	Léger Cameron	8,615
	Progressive Conservative	Luc Bourque	3,987
	New Democratic	Curtis Lowry	851

v t e 1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	Henry Latulippe	11,636
	New Democratic	Duncan J. M. Graham	10,982
	Liberal	Claude Tessier	10,656
	Progressive Conservative	Guy-C. Gauvin	4,142
	Independent	Conrad Descoteaux	182

v t e 1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Claude Tessier	11,474
	Social Credit	Henry Latulippe	9,917
	Progressive Conservative	Guy Lapointe	4,407
	New Democratic	Duncan J. M. Graham	858

Mégantic—Compton—Stanstead, 1979–1997[edit]

v t e 1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Claude Tessier	19,309
	Social Credit	Henry Latulippe	9,047
	Progressive Conservative	Claude G. Gosselin	7,463
	New Democratic	Murray Dale Powell	1,316
	Union populaire	Robert Huberdeau	281

v t e 1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Claude Tessier	21,562
	Progressive Conservative	Fernand Grenier	10,336
	Social Credit	Léonel Drouin	3,023
	New Democratic	Keith Taylor	1,769
	Rhinoceros	D. Gavroche Gosselin	1,002

v t e 1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	François Gérin	25,679
	Liberal	Claude Tessier	13,123
	New Democratic	Jean-Pierre Walsh	2,690
	Green	Andrew McCammon	454
	Parti nationaliste	Michel Houde	427
	Social Credit	Robert Bélanger	399
	Commonwealth of Canada	Ronald A. Javitch	51

v t e 1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	François Gérin	23,246
	Liberal	Jean-Guy Landry	11,566
	New Democratic	Jean-Pierre Walsh	3,195
	Social Credit	Yvan Lanctot	550

v t e 1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Bloc Québécois	Maurice Bernier	17,317
	Liberal	Eugene Naylor	13,538
	Progressive Conservative	Gilles Goddard	6,042
	Natural Law	Jacqueline Benoît	767
	New Democratic	Martine Simard	495
	Abolitionist	Marco Bissonnette	215
	National	James Stewart	198

References[edit]

^ Sayers, Anthony M. "1867 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on 22 January 2024.
^ Sayers, Anthony M. "1872 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on 3 February 2024.

External links[edit]

Riding history from the Library of Parliament:

[1] Sayers, Anthony M. "1867 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on 22 January 2024.

[2] Sayers, Anthony M. "1872 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on 3 February 2024.

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