5th Canadian Parliament

By-elections

By-election	Year	Incumbent		Winner		Cause	Retained
Haldimand	1886	David Thompson	Liberal	Charles Wesley Colter	Liberal	Death	Yes
Chambly	1886	Pierre Basile Benoit	Conservative	Raymond Préfontaine	Liberal	Appointed Superintendent of the Chambly Canal.	No
King's	1885	George Eulas Foster	Conservative	George Eulas Foster	Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of Marine and Fisheries.	Yes
City of St. John	1885	Samuel Leonard Tilley	Liberal-Conservative	Frederick Eustace Barker	Conservative	Appointed Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick.	Yes
City and County of St. John	1885	Isaac Burpee	Liberal	Charles Arthur Everett	Conservative	Death	No
Antigonish	1885	Angus McIsaac	Liberal	John Sparrow David Thompson	Liberal-Conservative	Appointed County Court Judge for District No. 6.	No
Cardwell	1885	Thomas White	Conservative	Thomas White	Conservative	Recontested upon appointment as Minister of the Interior.	Yes
Durham East	1885	Arthur Trefusis Heneage Williams	Conservative	Henry Alfred Ward	Conservative	Death	Yes
Grenville South	1885	William Thomas Benson	Conservative	Walter Shanly	Conservative	Death	Yes
Lévis	1885	Isidore-Noël Belleau	Conservative	Pierre Malcom Guay	Liberal	Unseated on a judgement of the Supreme Court.	Yes
Northumberland West	1885	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
Soulanges	1885	James William Bain	Conservative	James William Bain	Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Lennox	1885	David Wright Allison	Liberal	Matthew William Pruyn	Conservative	Election declared void.	No
Maskinongé	1884	Frédéric Houde	Nationalist Conservative	Alexis Lesieur Desaulniers	Conservative	Death.	No
Beauce	1884	Joseph Bolduc	Nationalist Conservative	Thomas Linière Taschereau	Conservative	Called to the Senate.	Yes
Ontario West	1884	George Wheler	Liberal	James David Edgar	Liberal	Resignation	Yes
Queen's County	1884	Frederick de Sainte-Croix Brecken	Conservative	John Theophilus Jenkins	Liberal-Conservative	Appointed Postmaster of Charlottetown.	Yes
Cape Breton	1884	William M. McDonald	Conservative	Hector Francis McDougall	Liberal-Conservative	Called to the Senate.	Yes
York	1884	John Pickard	Independent Liberal	Thomas Temple	Conservative	Death	No
Cumberland	1884	Charles Tupper	Conservative	Charles James Townshend	Liberal-Conservative	Appointed High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom.	Yes
Mégantic	1884	Louis-Israël Côté dit Fréchette	Conservative	François Langelier	Liberal	Election declared void.	No
Nicolet	1884	François-Xavier-Ovide Méthot	Independent Conservative	Athanase Gaudet	Nationalist Conservative	Appointed to the Legislative Council of Quebec.	No
Bothwell	1884	John Joseph Hawkins	Liberal-Conservative	David Mills	Liberal	Election declared void.	No
Kent	1884	Henry Smyth	Conservative	Henry Smyth	Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Soulanges	1883	Georges-Raoul-Léotale-Guichart-Humbert Saveuse de Beaujeu	Conservative	James William Bain	Conservative	Unseated on petition.	Yes
Middlesex West	1883	George William Ross	Liberal	Donald Mackenzie Cameron	Liberal	Election declared void.	Yes
Huron South	1883	John McMillan	Liberal	Richard John Cartwright	Liberal	Resignation to provide a seat for Cartwright.	Yes
Lennox	1883	John A. Macdonald	Liberal-Conservative	David Wright Allison	Liberal	Election voided. MacDonald was concurrently elected in Carleton and chose to sit for that riding.	No
Lévis	1883	Joseph-Godéric Blanchet	Liberal-Conservative	Isidore-Noël Belleau	Conservative	Appointed Collector of Customs for the Port of Quebec.	Yes
Lunenburg	1883	Thomas Twining Keefler	Liberal	Charles Edwin Kaulbach	Conservative	Election declared void.	No
Kent	1883	Gilbert Anselme Girouard	Conservative	Pierre-Amand Landry	Conservative	Appointed customs collector for Richibucto.	Yes
Halifax	1883	Matthew Henry Richey	Liberal-Conservative	John Fitzwilliam Stairs	Conservative	Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.	Yes
King's County	1883	James Edwin Robertson	Liberal	Augustine Colin MacDonald	Liberal-Conservative	Robertson disqualified as he was a member of the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly at the time of the election. The seat was adjudicated to MacDonald.	No
Queen's County	1883	Louis Henry Davies	Liberal	Frederick de Sainte-Croix Brecken	Conservative	Jenkins' election being declared void, the seat was adjudicated to Mr. Brecken.	No
Joliette	1883	Édouard Guilbault	Conservative	Édouard Guilbault	Independent Conservative	Election declared void.	No
King's	1882	George Eulas Foster	Conservative	George Eulas Foster	Conservative	Election declared void.	Yes
Soulanges	1882	Georges-Raoul-Léotale-Guichart-Humbert Saveuse de Beaujeu	Conservative	James William Bain	Conservative	Unseated by petition.	Yes
Bagot	1882	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau	Conservative	Joseph-Alfred Mousseau	Conservative	Recontested upon appointment to cabinet.	Yes
Terrebonne	1882	Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel	Conservative	Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau	Conservative	Resignation to provide a seat for Chapleau.	Yes