Compton was a former provincial electoral district in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. It elected members to the National Assembly of Quebec (earlier known as the Legislative Assembly of Quebec).
 Quebec electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | National Assembly of Quebec |
| District created | 1867 |
| District abolished | 1972 |
| First contested | 1867 |
| Last contested | 1970 |
It was created for the 1867 election (and a district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada). Its final election was in 1970. It disappeared in the 1973 election, when it merged with Mégantic to form the Mégantic-Compton electoral district.
Members of the Legislative Assembly and National Assembly
edit| Name | Party | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Ross | Conservative | 1867 | 1871 |
| William Sawyer | Conservative | 1871 | 1886 |
| John McIntosh | Conservative | 1886 | 1894 |
| Charles McClary | Conservative | 1894 | 1897 |
| James Hunt | Liberal | 1897 | 1900 |
| Allan Wright Giard | Conservative | 1900 | 1912 |
| Georges Nathaniel Scott | Liberal | 1912 | 1919 |
| Camille-Émile Desjarlais | Liberal | 1919 | 1923 |
| Jacob Nicol | Liberal | 1923 | 1929 |
| Andrew Ross McMaster | Liberal | 1929 | 1931 |
| William James Duffy | Liberal | 1931 | 1935 |
| Payson Sherman | Conservative | 1935 | 1939 |
| William James Duffy | Liberal | 1939 | 1946 |
| Charles Daniel French | Union Nationale | 1946 | 1954 |
| John William French | Union Nationale | 1954 | 1956 |
| Fabien Gagnon | Liberal | 1956 | 1957 |
| Claude-Gilles Gosselin | Union Nationale | 1957 | 1970 |
| Omer Dionne | Liberal | 1970 | 1973 |
External links
edit- Election results (National Assembly)
- Election results (QuebecPolitique.com)