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Shefford (provincial electoral district)

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District created
  
1867

Last contested
  
2008

Area (km²)
  
292.68

District abolished
  
2011

First contested
  
1867

Electors (2008)
  
56,143

Province
  
Québec

Elector
  
56,143

Legislature
  
National Assembly of Quebec

Census divisions
  
La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality (part)

Shefford is a former provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. As of its final election, it included the cities of Granby and Waterloo.

It was created for the 1867 election (and existed prior to that in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada). Its final election was in 2008. It disappeared in the 2012 election and the successor electoral districts were Granby and Brome-Missisquoi.

Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly

  • Michel-Adrien Bessette, Conservative Party (1867–1871)
  • Maurice Laframboise, Liberal (1871–1878)
  • Joseph Lafontaine, Liberal (1878–1881)
  • Isidore Frégeau, Conservative Party (1881–1886)
  • Thomas Brassard, Liberal (1886–1887)
  • Tancrède Boucher de Grosbois, Liberal (1888–1892)
  • Adolphe-François Savaria, Conservative Party (1892–1897)
  • Tancrède Boucher de Grosbois, Liberal (1897–1903)
  • Auguste Mathieu, Liberal (1904)
  • Ludger-Pierre Bernard, Conservative Party (1904–1912)
  • William Stephen Bullock, Liberal (1912–1931)
  • Robert-Raoul Bachand, Liberal (1931–1935)
  • Hector Choquette, Action liberale nationale - Union Nationale (1935–1939)
  • Charles Munson Bullock, Liberal (1939–1944)
  • Hector Choquette, Union Nationale (1944–1952)
  • Gaston Ledoux, Liberal (1952–1956)
  • Armand Russell, Union Nationale (1956–1973)
  • Richard Verreault, Liberal (1973–1981)
  • Roger Paré, Parti Québécois (1981–1994)
  • Bernard Brodeur, Liberal (1994–2007)
  • François Bonnardel, ADQ (2007–2012), CAQ (2012)

    • References

    Shefford (provincial electoral district) Wikipedia
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