 New Brunswick electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick |
| District created | 1785 |
| District abolished | 1973 |
| First contested | 1785 |
| Last contested | 1970 |
Kings 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.
| 1970 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | John B. M. Baxter | 7,995 |  | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | C. B. Sherwood | 7,695 | | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | George Horton | 7,593 | | |||||
| Liberal | Ralph H. London | 4,185 | ||||||
| Liberal | Edward W. B. McLean | 4,079 | ||||||
| Liberal | Michael J. Leclair | 3,885 | ||||||
| New Democratic | Allan Hermitage | 740 | ||||||
| 1967 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Cyril Sherwood | 7,485 | | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | John B. M. Baxter, Jr. | 7,288 | | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | George E. Horton | 7,162 | | |||||
| Liberal | ? Alward | 4,472 | ||||||
| Liberal | ? Dearborn | 4,435 | ||||||
| Liberal | ? Nibbet | 4,334 | ||||||
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