Bernard Lord is a Canadian lawyer,business executive and former politician. He served as the 30th premier of New Brunswick from 1999 to 2006. Lord was appointed as board chair of Ontario Power Generation in 2014.
Shawn Michael Graham is a Canadian politician,who served as the 31st premier of New Brunswick from 2006 to 2010. He was elected leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party in 2002 and became premier after his party captured a majority of seats in the 2006 election. After being elected,Graham initiated a number of changes to provincial policy especially in the areas of health care,education and energy. His party was defeated in the New Brunswick provincial election held September 27,2010,and Graham resigned as Liberal leader on November 9,2010.
The New Brunswick Liberal Association,more popularly known as the New Brunswick Liberal Party or Liberal Party of New Brunswick,is one of the two major provincial political parties in New Brunswick,Canada. The party descended from both the Confederation Party and the Anti-Confederation Party whose members split into left-wing and right-wing groups following the creation of Canada as a nation in 1867.
The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is a social democratic political party in New Brunswick,Canada. It is the provincial section of the federal New Democratic Party.
The Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick is a centre to centre-right conservative political party in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. The party has its origins in the pre-Canadian confederation Conservative Party that opposed the granting of responsible government to the colony. It has historically followed the Red Tory tradition. The Progressive Conservative Party currently leads the provincial government since 2018 under Premier Blaine Higgs.
Percy Paul Mockler is a retired Canadian politician who served as a Canadian Senator for New Brunswick from 2009 until his retirement in 2024. A member of the Conservative Party of Canada,Mockler previously served two non-consecutive stints in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1982 to 1987,and again from 1993 to 2008. He retired from the Senate on April 14,2024,upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.
Bernard Richard is a Canadian social worker,lawyer,and politician in the Province of New Brunswick.
Saint John Harbour is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick,Canada. It was represented from its creation for the 1995 election until October 13,2005 by Elizabeth Weir,the leader of the New Democratic Party of New Brunswick from 1988 to September 25,2005. Liberal Ed Doherty had then taken the spot by winning a by-election on November 14,2005 and was re-elected in the 2006 general election.
Canadian federal elections have provided the following results in New Brunswick.
Omer Léger was an American-born Canadian merchant and politician.
The 2010 New Brunswick general election was held on September 27,2010,to elect 55 members to the 57th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly,the governing house of the province of New Brunswick,Canada. The incumbent Liberal government won 13 seats,while the opposition Progressive Conservatives won a landslide majority of 42 seats in the legislature. As leader of the PC party,David Alward became New Brunswick's 32nd premier.
The Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick held a leadership election in 2008,following the resignation of Bernard Lord on December 13,2006. The Conservatives had last had a leadership election in 1997.
New Brunswick has had,since the Legislative Council was abolished by an act passed on 16 April 1891,a unicameral legislature called the New Brunswick Legislature,consisting of the Lieutenant Governor and the Legislative Assembly with 49 seats. The legislature functions according to the Westminster system of government. Elections are now held at least every five years but may be called at any time by the lieutenant governor on consultation with the premier.
Chris Collins is a former Canadian politician from Moncton,New Brunswick. He served as MLA for the riding of Moncton Centre from 2014 until 2018,having previously served part of one term as a city councillor for Moncton City Council. On October 24,2014,Collins was elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick succeeding Dale Graham. Collins was defeated in the 2018 provincial election.
Albany M. Robichaud was a Canadian lawyer and politician. Robichaud was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Shippagan,New Brunswick and became a barrister by career.
Carl Killen is a former Canadian politician,who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2010 provincial election. He represented the electoral district of Saint John Harbour as a member of the Progressive Conservatives until the 2014 provincial election,when he was defeated by Ed Doherty,the former MLA Killen had defeated in 2010.
Robert R. Goguen is a former Canadian politician who served in the House of Commons of Canada from the 2011 election to the 2015 election. He represented the electoral district of Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe as a member of the Conservative Party. He served in the House of Commons as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General. He is the past president of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick
Paul Wallace Dawson was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1982 to 1987 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party from the constituency of Miramichi-Newcastle.
The 2020 New Brunswick general election was held on September 14,2020,to elect members of the 60th New Brunswick Legislature. The Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick,led by Blaine Higgs,won a majority government.
The 2024 New Brunswick general election will be held on October 21,2024,where 49 members will be elected to the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly. It was formally called upon the dissolution of the 60th Assembly on September 19,2024.
