Gloucester (provincial electoral district)

Gloucester

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1826
District abolished	1973
First contested	1827
Last contested	1972

Gloucester was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada, from the 1828 election of the 9th New Brunswick Legislature. It mirrored Gloucester County, and used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, divided up into five first past the post districts: Caraquet, Nepisiguit-Chaleur, Nigadoo-Chaleur, Shippagan-les-Îles, and Tracadie.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
Riding created from Northumberland
9th	1827 – 1830		Hugh Munro	Ind.
10th	1831 – 1834		William End	Ind.
11th	1835 – 1837					Peter Stewart	Ind.
12th	1837 – 1842
13th	1843 – 1846					Joshua Alexandre	Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850					Joseph Read	Ind.
15th	1851 – 1854		Robert Gordon	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856		William End	Ind.		Patrick McNaughton	Ind.
17th	1856 – 1857					Joseph Read	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861
19th	1862 – 1865		Robert Young	Ind.		John Meahan	Ind.
20th	1865 – 1866
21st	1866 – 1870
22nd	1870 – 1874		Samuel Napier	Ind.		Théotime Blanchard [1]	Cons.
23rd	1875 – 1876		Kennedy F. Burns	Lib.
	1876 – 1878					Patrick G. Ryan	Lib.
24th	1879 – 1882		Francis J. McManus	Lib.
25th	1883 – 1886
26th	1886 – 1890		James Young	Cons.
27th	1890 – 1892		Joseph Poirier	Cons.
28th	1892 – 1894		John Sievewright [2]	Ind.		Théotime Blanchard [3]	Cons.
	1895					Peter Veniot [4]	Lib.
29th	1896 – 1898								Prosper E. Paulin	Cons.
	1898 – 1899		Joseph Poirier	Cons.
30th	1899								Theobald M. Burns	Cons.
	1900 – 1903					John Young [5]	Ind.
31st	1903 – 1908
32nd	1908 – 1912		Alphonse Sormany	Ind.		James P. Byrne	Lib.		Seraphin R. Léger	Lib.
33rd	1912 – 1917		Joseph B. Hachey	Ind.		Alfred J. Witzell	Ind.		A.J.H. Stewart	Ind.		Martin J. Robichaud	Ind.
34th	1917 – 1920		Peter Veniot [6]	Lib.		James P. Byrne [7]	Lib.		Seraphin R. Léger	Lib.		Jean G. Robichaud	Lib.
35th	1921 – 1922
	1923 – 1925											J. André Doucet	Lib.
	1925					Ivan Rand	Lib.
36th	1925 – 1926					John P. Lordon [8]	Lib.
	1926 – 1930		Clovis-Thomas Richard [6]	Lib.
37th	1931
	1931 – 1935					Wesley H. Coffyn	Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939					F.T.B. Young [8]	Lib.		William A. Losier	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1940
	1940 – 1944					Joseph E. Connolly	Lib.
40th	1944 – 1945								Frederick C. Young	Lib.
	1945 – 1948		J. Michel Fournier	Lib.
41st	1948 – 1952														Ernest Richard	Lib.
42nd	1952 – 1956
43rd	1957 – 1960											Claude Savoie	Lib.
44th	1960 – 1963					H. H. Williamson	Lib.		Bernard A. Jean [9]	Lib.
45th	1963 – 1967		J. Omer Boudreau	Lib.
46th	1967 – 1970					Gérard Haché	Lib.					A. A. Ferguson	Lib.
47th	1970 – 1972					André Robichaud	Lib.								Frank Branch	Lib.
	1972 – 1974								Lorenzo Morais	PC
Riding dissolved into Caraquet, Nepisiguit-Chaleur, Nigadoo-Chaleur, Shippagan-les-Îles and Tracadie

Election results

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 18 September 1972 Resignation of Bernard Jean
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	Lorenzo Morais	13,685	53.88	Y
	Liberal	Richard Savoie	11,714	46.12
Total valid votes			25,399	97.62
Total rejected ballots			620	2.38
Turnout			26,019	81.16
Eligible voters			32,059
Source: Elections New Brunswick [10]

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	J. Omer Boudreau	11,333	14.40	Y
	Liberal	André Robichaud	11,055	14.05	Y
	Liberal	Bernard A. Jean	10,892	13.84	Y
	Liberal	Adjutor Ferguson	10,877	13.82	Y
	Liberal	Frank Branch	10,552	13.41	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Camille Losier	5,175	6.58
	Progressive Conservative	Calixte Chiasson	5,132	6.52
	Progressive Conservative	Roland Boudreau	4,538	5.77
	Progressive Conservative	Odilon Boudreau	4,272	5.43
	Progressive Conservative	William Young	4,211	5.35
	Independent	André Dumont	646	0.82
Total number of valid votes			78,683
Total rejected ballots			192	0.84
Turnout			22,910	87.95
Eligible voters			26,048
Source: Elections New Brunswick [11]

1967 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	J. Omer Boudreau	12,350	13.45	Y
	Liberal	Adjutor Ferguson	12,048	13.13	Y
	Liberal	Gérard Haché	11,900	12.96	Y
	Liberal	Bernard A. Jean	11,890	12.95	Y
	Liberal	Ernest Richard	11,387	12.41	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Bertie Ferguson	6,576	7.16
	Progressive Conservative	Gerard Arseneau	6,539	7.12
	Progressive Conservative	Roland Boudreau	6,513	7.10
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Cormier	6,310	6.97
	Progressive Conservative	Antonin Friolet	6,277	6.84
Total number of valid votes			91,790
Turnout [en 1]			20,194	100.0
Source: Elections New Brunswick [12]

1. Estimate taken from the number of votes from general polls, 19,720, and adding in the highest number of Liberal and Progressive Conservative votes from each of the advanced polls, as no total number of votes was available for these.

1963 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Harry Williamson	13,979	12.96	Y
	Liberal	J. Omer Boudreau	13,938	12.92	Y
	Liberal	Bernard Jean	13,916	12.90	Y
	Liberal	Rhéal Richard	13,844	12.84	Y
	Liberal	Claude Savoie	13,766	12.76	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Elizabeth Coughlan	8,068	7.48
	Progressive Conservative	Edmond Landry	7,671	7.11
	Progressive Conservative	Ralph Burns	7,593	7.04
	Progressive Conservative	Yves Haché	7,545	7.00
	Progressive Conservative	Léger Chiasson	7,522	6.98
Total number of valid votes			107,842
Source: Canadian Elections Database [13]

1960 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Rhéal Richard	14,897	13.33	Y
	Liberal	Bernard Jean	14,755	13.20	Y
	Liberal	Claude Savoie	14,668	13.12	Y
	Liberal	Harry Williamson	14,637	13.09	Y
	Liberal	Michel Fournier	14,635	13.09	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Fernand Lanteigne	7,869	7.04
	Progressive Conservative	Alban Duguay	7,704	6.89
	Progressive Conservative	Ralph Burns	7,648	6.84
	Progressive Conservative	Yves Haché	7,555	6.76
	Progressive Conservative	Warren Luce	7,418	6.64
Total number of valid votes			111,786
Source: Canadian Elections Database [14]

1956 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Rhéal Richard	13,163	12.22	Y
	Liberal	Michel Fournier	13,003	12.07	Y
	Liberal	Claude Savoie	12,862	11.94	Y
	Liberal	Joseph Connolly	12,833	11.91	Y
	Liberal	Frederick Young	12,709	11.80	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Fernand Lanteigne	9,006	8.36
	Progressive Conservative	Warren Luce	8,846	8.21
	Progressive Conservative	Yves Haché	8,522	7.91
	Progressive Conservative	Ralph Burns	8,476	7.87
	Progressive Conservative	Fred Scott	8,325	7.73
Total number of valid votes			107,745
Source: Canadian Elections Database [15]

1952 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Frederick Young	13,270	12.01	Y
	Liberal	Rhéal Richard	13,179	11.93	Y
	Liberal	Michel Fournier	13,151	11.90	Y
	Liberal	Joseph Connolly	13,092	11.85	Y
	Liberal	André Doucet	12,898	11.67	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Ralph Burns	8,375	7.58
	Progressive Conservative	Lorenzo Boudreau	8,312	7.52
	Progressive Conservative	Warren Luce	8,228	7.45
	Progressive Conservative	J. L. A. Robichaud	8,209	7.43
	Progressive Conservative	Yves Haché	8,151	7.38
	Independent	Guy Riordan	892	0.81
	Independent	Leo Ferguson	804	0.73
	Independent	Fred Hornibrook	663	0.60
	Independent	Emile Godin	630	0.57
	Independent	Percy Cormier	624	0.56
Total number of valid votes			110,478
Source: Canadian Elections Database [16]

1948 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Joseph Connolly	Acclaimed	Y
	Liberal	André Doucet	Acclaimed	Y
	Liberal	Michel Fournier	Acclaimed	Y
	Liberal	Rhéal Richard	Acclaimed	Y
	Liberal	Frederick Young	Acclaimed	Y
Source: Canadian Elections Database [17]

1944 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Frederick Young	11,635	15.91	Y
	Liberal	Joseph Connolly	11,526	15.76	Y
	Liberal	Clovis Richard	11,489	15.71	Y
	Liberal	André Doucet	11,477	15.70	Y
	Conservative	Albany-M. Robichaud	7,105	9.72
	Conservative	Leo Ferguson	6,450	8.82
	Conservative	L. A. Palmer	6,307	8.63
	Conservative	Eustache Godin	5,688	7.78
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Duval	728	1.00
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Harry Day	711	0.97
Total number of valid votes			73,116
Source: Canadian Elections Database [18]

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 19 August 1940 Death of Frederick T. B. Young
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Joseph Connolly	Acclaimed	Y

1939 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Fred Young	10,973	17.83	Y
	Liberal	Clovis Richard	10,838	17.61	Y
	Liberal	André Doucet	10,775	17.50	Y
	Liberal	William Losier	10,762	17.48	Y
	Conservative	Leo Ferguson	4,651	7.56
	Conservative	Joseph Hachey	4,561	7.41
	Conservative	Joseph Talbot	4,528	7.36
	Conservative	A. V. Landry	4,471	7.26
Total number of valid votes			61,559
Source: Canadian Elections Database [19]

1935 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Fred Young	12,256	18.04	Y
	Liberal	Clovis Richard	12,237	18.01	Y
	Liberal	André Doucet	12,204	17.96	Y
	Liberal	William Losier	12,202	17.96	Y
	Conservative	Wesley Coffyn	4,861	7.15
	Conservative	Alfred Witzell	4,799	7.06
	Conservative	George Haché	4,758	7.00
	Conservative	Martin Robichaud	4,624	6.81
Total number of valid votes			67,941
Source: Canadian Elections Database [20]

See also

• List of New Brunswick provincial electoral districts
• Canadian provincial electoral districts

References

1. resigned to accept appointment as Justice of the Peace
2. died in office ca. Feb. 1898
3. resigned to contest a federal by-election
4. resigned to accept appointment
5. died in office; no by-election afterwards
6. elected to federal seat
7. resigned to accept appointment as judge
8. died in office
9. resigned
10. Twenty-eighth General Election, November 18, 1974 , Report of the Chief Electoral Officer Archived July 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine . Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
11. Twenty-seventh General Election, October 26, 1970, Report of the Chief Electoral Officer . Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
12. Twenty-sixth General Elections, October 23, 1967, Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
13. 1963 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
14. 1960 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
15. 1956 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
16. 1952 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
17. 1948 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
18. 1944 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
19. 1939 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
20. 1935 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.