County of Ottawa
County of Ottawa was a federal and provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada, which was represented in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1830 to 1867, in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1892, and in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1867 to at least 1919.
The federal electoral district was created by the British North America Act of 1867, which preserved existing electoral districts in Lower Canada. It was redistributed into the new electoral districts of Wright and Labelle in 1892.
The provincial electoral district was restructured in 1919.
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada
This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada:
- Philemon Wright (1830–1834)
- Theodore Davis (1832–1834) (second member added)
- James Blackburn & Baxter Bowman (1834–1838)
Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada:
- Charles Dewey Day, (1841–1842)
- Denis-Benjamin Papineau, (1842–1848)
- John Egan, {1848-1854)
- Alanson Cooke, (1854–1858)
- Denis-Émery Papineau, (1858–1861)
- William McDonell Dawson, (1861-1863}
- Alonzo Wright, (1863–1867)
Members of Parliament
This riding elected the following members of the Canadian House of Commons:
- Alonzo Wright, Liberal-Conservative (1867–1891)
- Charles Ramsay Devlin, Liberal (1891–1892)
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec
This riding elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec:
- Levi Ruggles Church, Conservative (1867–1871)
- Ezra Butler Eddy, Conservative (1871–1875)
- Louis Duhamel, Conservative (1875–1886)
- Narcisse-Édouard Cormier, Conservative (1886–1887)
- Alfred Rochon, Liberal (1887–1892)
- Nérée Tétreau, Conservative (1892–1897)
- Charles Beautron Major, Liberal (1897–1904)
- Ferdinand-Ambroise Gendron, Liberal (1904–1917)
- Joseph Caron, Liberal (1917–1919)
- After 1919 the successor electoral district was Hull
Election results
Federal riding
| Canadian federal election, 1867 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal–Conservative | WRIGHT, Alonzo | acclaimed | ||||||
| Canadian federal election, 1872 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal–Conservative | WRIGHT, Alonzo | acclaimed | ||||||
| Canadian federal election, 1874 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal–Conservative | WRIGHT, Alonzo | 2,569 | ||||||
| Unknown | MACKAY, F.S. | 716 | ||||||
| Canadian federal election, 1878 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal–Conservative | WRIGHT, Alonzo | 3,025 | ||||||
| Unknown | CAMERON, J.A. | 1,385 | ||||||
| Canadian federal election, 1882 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal–Conservative | WRIGHT, Alonzo | acclaimed | ||||||
| Canadian federal election, 1887 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal–Conservative | WRIGHT, Alonzo | 2,630 | ||||||
| Liberal | PAPINEAU, A.S.C. | 1,784 | ||||||
| Canadian federal election, 1891 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
| Liberal | DEVLIN, C.R. | 2,993 | ||||||
| Conservative | MCDOUGALL, J.M. | 2,579 | ||||||