Kent (New Brunswick provincial electoral district, 1827–1974)

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Kent
Flag of New Brunswick.svg New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created 1827
District abolished 1973
First contested1827
Last contested1972

Kent was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.

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Members of the Legislative Assembly

LegislatureYearsMemberPartyMemberPartyMemberParty
Riding created from Northumberland
9th 1827 – 1830   John W. Weldon Ind.
10th 1831 – 1834
11th 1835 – 1837  John P. Ford Ind.
12th 1837 – 1842  David McAlmon Ind.
13th 1843 – 1846   David Wark Ind.
14th 1847 – 1850
15th 1851 – 1854   Robert B. Cutler Ind.    Francis McPhelim Ind.
16th 1854 – 1856
17th 1856 – 1857   Lestock P. W. DesBrisay Ind.
18th 1857 – 1861
19th 1862 – 1865
20th 1865 – 1866   William S. Caie [1] Ind.
21st 1866 – 1869   Owen McInerney [2] Ind.
1869 – 1870   Urbain Johnson Lib.
22nd 1870 – 1873   Antoine Girouard Cons.
1873 – 1874   Henry O'Leary Ind.
23rd 1875 – 1878   Urbain Johnson Lib.
24th 1879 – 1882  Charles T. Sayre Ind.
25th 1883 – 1886  William Wheaton [3] Ind.    Olivier J. Leblanc [4] Lib.
26th 1886 – 1887
1887 – 1890   James D. Phinney Lib.-Con.
27th 1890 – 1891
1891 – 1892   Auguste Théophile Léger Lib.
28th 1892 – 1895   Jean-Baptiste Goguen Lib.-Con.
29th 1896 – 1899   Urbain Johnson Lib.    Pierre H. Léger [1] Cons.    James Barnes Lib.
30th 1899 – 1900
1901 – 1903   Richard A. Poirier Ind.
31st 1903 – 1908   Jean-Baptiste Goguen Lib.-Con.
32nd 1908 – 1912   Thomas-Jean Bourque Cons.    David-Vital Landry Cons.    John Sheridan Ind.
33rd 1912 – 1917
34th 1917 – 1920  Philias J. Melanson Ind.    Auguste Bordage Lib.    Allison Dysart [5] Lib.
35th 1921 – 1925
36th 1925 – 1930   François G. Richard Lib.
37th 1931 – 1935
38th 1935 – 1939
39th 1939 – 1940   Isaie Melanson Lib.
1940 – 1944   J. Killeen McKee Lib.
40th 1944 – 1948   Armand Richard Lib.
41st 1948 – 1952
42nd 1952 – 1956   Hugh A. Dysart [1] Lib.    Louis Robichaud [3] Lib.
43rd 1957 – 1960   André F. Richard Lib.
44th 1960 – 1963
45th 1963 – 1964
1964 – 1967   Camille Bordage Lib.
46th 1967 – 1970   Alan R. Graham Lib.
47th 1970 – 1971
1971 – 1974   Omer Léger PC
Riding dissolved into Kent Centre, Kent North and Kent South

Election results

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 4 October 1971
PartyCandidateVotesElected
Progressive Conservative Omer Léger 6,682Green check.svgY
Liberal Omer Cormier4,610
1970 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotesElected
Liberal Louis J. Robichaud 6,608Green check.svgY
Liberal Alan R. Graham 6,581Green check.svgY
Liberal André F. Richard 6,033Green check.svgY
Progressive Conservative Oliver J. Babineau2,618
Progressive Conservative Ulysse Robichaud2,521
Progressive Conservative Fred Hutchinson2,495
1967 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotesElected
Liberal Louis J. Robichaud 6,424Green check.svgY
Liberal Alan R. Graham 6,216Green check.svgY
Liberal André Richard 6,006Green check.svgY
Progressive Conservative Émile Daigle3,645
Progressive Conservative Byron Hannay3,635
Progressive Conservative  ? Leblanc3,498


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  1. 1 2 3 died in office
  2. named to the Legislative Council
  3. 1 2 resigned
  4. ran for federal seat
  5. resigned to accept appointment as judge