Kent Centre

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Kent Centre
Flag of New Brunswick.svg New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created 1973
District abolished 1994
First contested 1974
Last contested 1991

Kent Centre was a provincial electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada. It was created from the multi-member riding of Kent in the 1973 electoral redistribution, and was abolished in the 1994 electoral redistribution.

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Members of the Legislative Assembly

AssemblyYearsMemberParty
Riding created from Kent (1827–1974)
48th  1974–1978   Alan R. Graham Liberal
49th  1978–1982
50th  1982–1987
51st  1987–1991
52nd  1991–1995
Riding dissolved into Kent (1994–2013)

Election results

1991 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Alan Graham 3,02569.11-8.54
Confederation of Regions Percy Beers62614.30
New Democratic Neil Gardner3798.66+2.22
Progressive Conservative David MacDonald3477.93-7.98
Total valid votes4,377100.0  
Liberal hold Swing -11.42
1987 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Alan R. Graham 3,23277.65+14.00
Progressive Conservative Sammy Arsenault66215.91-13.51
New Democratic Neil Gardner2686.44+1.33
Total valid votes4,162100.0  
Liberal hold Swing +13.76
1982 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Alan R. Graham 2,69163.65+3.23
Progressive Conservative Fernand Savoie1,24429.42-0.66
New Democratic Derrold H. Barnes2165.11-1.29
Independent Ronald S. MacDonald771.82
Total valid votes4,228100.0  
Liberal hold Swing +1.94
1978 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Alan Robert Graham 2,35260.42+2.72
Progressive Conservative Claude Giruan Warren1,17130.08-9.12
New Democratic John B. LaBossiere 2496.40+3.29
Parti acadien Pierrette Leblanc1213.11
Total valid votes3,893100.0  
Liberal hold Swing +5.92
1974 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Alan Graham 2,02457.70
Progressive Conservative Lloyd Girvan1,37539.20
New Democratic Lawrence Murphy1093.11
Total valid votes3,508100.0  
The previous multi-member riding of Kent elected 3 (of 3) Liberals in the last election. One Progressive Conservative was elected in a 1971 by-election. Alan R. Graham was one of three incumbents.

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