By-elections to the 10th Canadian Parliament explained

By-elections to the 10th Canadian Parliament were held to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada between the 1904 federal election and the 1908 federal election. The Liberal Party of Canada led a majority government for the 10th Canadian Parliament.

The list includes Ministerial by-elections which occurred due to the requirement that Members of Parliament recontest their seats upon being appointed to Cabinet. These by-elections were almost always uncontested. This requirement was abolished in 1931.

Alberta and Saskatchewan entered Confederation in 1905. Unlike in the case of other provinces that joined after 1867, the new provinces were already represented by ridings originally drawn for the Northwest Territories, and the members elected in 1904 continued to sit as representatives of the old NWT ridings (some of which straddled the new border), except where they resigned as indicated below.

By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause	Retained
Stanstead	January 22, 1908	Henry Lovell			Liberal	Charles Henry Lovell			Liberal	Death	Yes
Huron South	January 22, 1908	Benjamin B. Gunn			Conservative	Murdo Young McLean			Liberal	Death	No
Nicolet	December 30, 1907	Charles Ramsay Devlin			Liberal	Gustave-Adolphe-Narcisse Turcotte			Liberal	Resignation upon appointment to the provincial cabinet of Quebec	Yes
City of Ottawa	December 23, 1907	Napoléon Antoine Belcourt			Liberal	William H. Hutchison			Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
Labelle	December 23, 1907	Henri Bourassa			Liberal	Charles Beautron Major			Liberal	Resignation to enter provincial politics	Yes
York Centre	December 23, 1907	Archibald Campbell			Liberal	Peter Douglas McLean			Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
Colchester	November 28, 1907	Frederick Andrew Laurence			Liberal	John Stanfield			Conservative	Appointed a judge	No
London	October 29, 1907	C. S. Hyman			Liberal	Thomas Beattie			Conservative	Resignation	No
Northumberland East	October 29, 1907	Edward Cochrane			Conservative	Charles Lewis Owen			Conservative	Death	Yes
Wellington North	October 29, 1907	Thomas Martin			Liberal	Alexander Munro Martin			Liberal	Death	Yes
Brockville	September 18, 1907	Daniel Derbyshire			Liberal	George Perry Graham			Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
City and County of St. John	September 18, 1907	Alfred Augustus Stockton			Conservative	William Pugsley			Liberal	Death	No
Richelieu	March 7, 1907	Arthur-Aimé Bruneau			Liberal	Adélard Lanctôt			Liberal	Appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec	Yes
L'Assomption	March 7, 1907	Romuald-Charlemagne Laurier			Liberal	Ruben Charles Laurier			Liberal	Death	Yes
Victoria	March 5, 1907	John Costigan			Liberal	Pius Michaud			Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
Three Rivers and St. Maurice	February 28, 1907	Jacques Bureau			Liberal	Jacques Bureau			Liberal	Recontested upon appointment as Solicitor General	Yes
Nicolet	December 29, 1906	Rodolphe Lemieux			Liberal	Charles Ramsay Devlin			Liberal	Chose to sit for Gaspé	Yes
St. Ann	November 21, 1906	Daniel Gallery			Liberal	Joseph Charles Walsh			Liberal	Election declared void	Yes
St. Mary	November 21, 1906	Camille Piché			Liberal	Médéric Martin			Liberal	Appointed Police Magistrate in Montreal.	Yes
Shelburne and Queen's	October 31, 1906	William Stevens Fielding			Liberal	William Stevens Fielding			Liberal	Election declared void	Yes
Bruce North	October 30, 1906	Leonard Thomas Bland			Liberal-Conservative	John Tolmie			Liberal	Death	No
Quebec County	October 23, 1906	Charles Fitzpatrick			Liberal	Lorenzo Robitaille			Independent Liberal	Appointed Chief Justice of Canada	No
St. Johns—Iberville	October 16, 1906	Louis Philippe Demers			Liberal	Marie Joseph Demers			Liberal	Appointed Puisne Judge of the Superior Court of Quebec	Yes
Elgin East	October 14, 1906	Andrew B. Ingram			Liberal-Conservative	David Marshall			Conservative	Appointed Vice Chairman of the Ontario Railway and Municipal Commission	Yes
Renfrew North	October 9, 1906	Peter White			Conservative	Gerald Verner White			Conservative	Death	Yes
Strathcona	April 5, 1906	Peter Talbot			Liberal	Wilbert McIntyre			Liberal	Called to the Senate	Yes
Cape Breton North and Victoria	March 14, 1906	Daniel Duncan McKenzie			Liberal	Alexander Charles Ross			Liberal	Appointed a judge	Yes
Victoria City	March 6, 1906	George Riley			Liberal	William Templeman			Liberal	Resignation to provide a seat for Templeman	Yes
Maisonneuve	February 23, 1906	Raymond Préfontaine			Liberal	Alphonse Verville			Labour	Death	No
Assiniboia West	February 6, 1906	Thomas Walter Scott			Liberal	William Erskine Knowles			Liberal	Resignation to enter provincial politics in Saskatchewan	Yes
Saskatchewan	February 6, 1906	John Henderson Lamont			Liberal	George Ewan McCraney			Liberal	Resignation to enter provincial politics in Saskatchewan	Yes
Town of Sherbrooke	February 6, 1906	Arthur Norreys Worthington			Conservative	Arthur Norreys Worthington			Conservative	Election declared void	Yes
Compton	January 4, 1906	Aylmer Byron Hunt			Liberal	Aylmer Byron Hunt			Liberal	Election declared void	Yes
York North	November 22, 1905	William Mulock			Liberal	Allen Bristol Aylesworth			Liberal	Appointed a judge	Yes
Antigonish	November 22, 1905	Colin McIsaac			Liberal	William Chisholm			Liberal	Appointed a Railway Commissioner	Yes
Lambton West	November 22, 1905	Thomas George Johnston			Liberal	Frederick Forsyth Pardee			Liberal	Death	Yes
Wentworth	November 22, 1905	E. D. Smith			Conservative	E. D. Smith			Conservative	Election declared void	Yes
London	June 13, 1905	C. S. Hyman			Liberal	C. S. Hyman			Liberal	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Public Works	Yes
Oxford North	June 13, 1905	James Sutherland			Liberal	George Smith			Liberal	Death	Yes
Lévis	June 6, 1905	Louis Julien Demers			Liberal	Louis Auguste Carrier			Liberal	Death	Yes
Edmonton	April 25, 1905	Frank Oliver			Liberal	Frank Oliver			Liberal	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of the Interior.	Yes
Toronto Centre	April 11, 1905	Edward Frederick Clarke			Conservative	Edmund James Bristol			Conservative	Death	Yes
Wright	February 13, 1905	Wilfrid Laurier			Liberal	Emmanuel Berchmans Devlin			Liberal	Chose to sit for Quebec East	Yes
Carleton	February 4, 1905	Edward Kidd			Conservative	Robert L. Borden			Conservative	Resignation to provide a seat for Borden	Yes
Quebec-Centre	January 19, 1905	Arthur Cyrille Albert Malouin			Liberal	Arthur Lachance			Liberal	Appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec	Yes

See also

• List of federal by-elections in Canada

Sources

• Parliament of Canada–Elected in By-Elections