By-elections to the 4th Canadian Parliament explained

By-elections to the 4th Canadian Parliament were held to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada between the 1878 federal election and the 1882 federal election. The Conservative Party of Canada led a majority government for the 4th 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.

By-election	Date	Incumbent	Party		Winner	Party		Cause	Retained
New Westminster	March 9, 1882	Thomas Robert McInnes				Joshua Homer				Called to the Senate.	No
Simcoe South	February 16, 1882	William Carruthers Little				Angus McIsaac				Death	Yes
Northumberland West	December 19, 1881	James Cockburn			Conservative	George Guillet			Conservative	Appointed Chairman of the Commission to collect, examine and classify the Statutes passed by the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada, since Confederation	Yes
Argenteuil	August 17, 1881	John Joseph Caldwell Abbott			Liberal-Conservative	John Joseph Caldwell Abbott				Election declared void.	Yes
Pictor	June 18, 1881	James McDonald			Conservative	John McDougald			Liberal-Conservative	Appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia.	Yes
Colchester	June 18, 1881	Thomas McKay				Archibald McLelan			Conservative	Called to the Senate.	Yes
Colchester	March 31, 1881	Joshua Spencer Thompson				James Reid			Liberal-Conservative	Death	Yes
Northumberland East	March 25, 1881	Joseph Keeler				Darius Crouter			Independent Liberal	Death	No
Bellechasse	March 19, 1881	Achille Larue				Guillaume Amyot			Conservative	Election declared void.	No
Charlevoix	March 19, 1881	Joseph-Stanislas Perrault				Simon-Xavier Cimon			Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Carleton	February 16, 1881	George Heber Connell			Independent	David Irvine				Death	No
Joliette	December 9, 1880	Louis François Georges Baby			Conservative	Lewis Arthur McConville			Conservative	Appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec	Yes
Oxford North	December 9, 1880	Thomas Oliver				James Sutherland				Death	Yes
Montmorency	December 9, 1880	Auguste-Réal Angers			Conservative	Pierre-Vincent Valin			Conservative	Appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec.	Yes
Quebec County	November 20, 1880	Adolphe-Philippe Caron			Conservative	Adolphe-Philippe Caron			Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Militia and Defence.	Yes
Bagot	November 20, 1880	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau			Conservative	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau			Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as President of the Privy Council.	Yes
Brome	October 18, 1880	Edmund Leavens Chandler				David Ames Manson			Liberal-Conservative	Death	No
Selkirk	September 10, 1880	Donald Smith				Thomas Scott			Conservative	Election declared void.	No
Ontario North	August 28, 1880	George Wheler				George Wheler				Election declared void.	Yes
West Toronto	August 28, 1880	John Beverly Robinson				James Beaty, Jr.			Conservative	Appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario.	Yes
Châteauguay	April 17, 1880	Luther Hamilton Holton				Edward Holton				Death	Yes
Montmorency	February 14, 1880	Pierre-Vincent Valin			Conservative	Auguste-Réal Angers			Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Argenteuil	February 12, 1880	Thomas Christie				John Joseph Caldwell Abbott				Election declared void.	No
Cornwall	January 27, 1880	Darby Bergin			Liberal-Conservative	Darby Bergin				Election declared void.	Yes
Lanark North	January 22, 1880	Daniel Galbraith				Donald Greenfield MacDonell				Death	Yes
Provencher	December 30, 1879	Joseph Dubuc			Conservative	Joseph Royal			Conservative	Appointed a Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench for Manitoba.	Yes
Durham West	November 17, 1879	Harvey William Burk				Edward Blake				Resignation to provide a seat for Blake.	Yes
Cape Breton	October 23, 1879	Hugh McLeod			Liberal-Conservative	William Mackenzie McLeod			Liberal-Conservative	Death	Yes
Yale	September 29, 1879	Edgar Dewdney			Conservative	Francis Jones Barnard			Conservative	Appointed Indian Commissioner of Manitoba and the North West Territories.	Yes
Bonaventure	August 26, 1879	Théodore Robitaille			Conservative	Pierre-Clovis Beauchesne			Conservative	Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.	Yes
Yamaska	July 7, 1879	Charles-Ignace Gill			Conservative	Fabien Vanasse dit Vertefeuille			Conservative	Appointed a judge to the Quebec Superior Court.	Yes
Niagara	March 20, 1879	Patrick Hughes				Josiah Burr Plumb			Conservative	Election declared void.	No
Hastings East	February 25, 1879	John White				John White			Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Charlevoix	February 13, 1879	Pierre-Alexis Tremblay				Joseph-Stanislas Perrault			Conservative	Death	No
Beauharnois	January 9, 1879	Michael Cayley			Conservative	Joseph Gédéon H. Bergeron			Conservative	Death	Yes
Marquette	November 30, 1878	John A. Macdonald			Liberal-Conservative	Joseph O'Connell Ryan				MacDonald was elected in several seats simultaneously, resigned to run in Ministerial by-election in Victoria.	No
Three Rivers	November 21, 1878	William McDougall			Conservative	Hector-Louis Langevin				Resignation to provide a seat for Langevin.	Yes
Joliette	November 14, 1878	Louis François Georges Baby			Conservative	Louis François Georges Baby			Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Inland Revenue.	Yes
Queens County	November 9, 1878	James Colledge Pope			Conservative	James Colledge Pope			Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Marine and Fisheries.	Yes
Hastings North	November 6, 1878	Mackenzie Bowell			Conservative	Mackenzie Bowell			Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Customs.	Yes
Terrebonne	November 6, 1878	Louis-Rodrigue Masson			Conservative	Louis-Rodrigue Masson			Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Militia and Defence.	Yes
City of St. John	November 4, 1878	Samuel Leonard Tilley			Liberal-Conservative	Samuel Leonard Tilley			Liberal-Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Finance.	Yes
Pictou	November 4, 1878	James McDonald			Conservative	James McDonald			Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Justice and Attorney General.	Yes
Russell	November 4, 1878	John O'Connor			Conservative	John O'Connor			Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as President of the Privy Council.	Yes
Compton	November 4, 1878	John Henry Pope			Liberal-Conservative	John Henry Pope			Liberal-Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Agriculture.	Yes
Cumberland	November 4, 1878	Charles Tupper			Conservative	Charles Tupper			Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Public Works.	Yes
Huron Centre	November 2, 1878	Horace Horton				Richard John Cartwright				Appointment in the office of the Auditor-General of Canada.	Yes

See also

• List of federal by-elections in Canada

Sources

• Parliament of Canada–Elected in By-Elections