What is "shefford"

Shefford is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1867. Its population in 2006 was 100,000.

Shefford can mean the following:

• Shefford, Bedfordshire, a town in Bedfordshire, England
  • Shefford Town F.C., the football (soccer) club based in that town
• Great Shefford, a village in Berkshire, England
• Shefford, Quebec, a township in Eastern Quebec, Canada
• Shefford County, Quebec, a historic county in Quebec
• Shefford (electoral district), a federal electoral district in Southern Quebec
• Shefford (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district also in Southern Quebec

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.