 New Brunswick electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick |
| District created | 1785 |
| District abolished | 1795 |
| First contested | 1785 |
| Last contested | 1793 |
Saint John was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was split into the ridings of Saint John City and Saint John County in 1795.
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st [1] | 1786 – 1792 | William Pagan | Ind. | Jonathan Bliss | Ind. | Christopher Billop | Ind. | Ward Chipman | Ind. | John McGeorge | Ind. | Stanton Hazard | Ind. | ||||||
| 2nd | 1793 – 1795 | William Thomson | Ind. | George Younghusband | Ind. | Edward Sands | Ind. | Bradford Gilbert | Ind. | Elias Hardy | Ind. | ||||||||
| Riding dissolved into Saint John City and Saint John County | |||||||||||||||||||
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