Saint John Centre (electoral district)

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Saint John Centre
Flag of New Brunswick.svg New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created 1795
District abolished 1973
First contested1795
Last contested 1970

Saint John Centre was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was created from Saint John in 1795 as Saint John City. It was renamed Saint John Centre in 1967.

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It elected multiple members through the bloc voting system -- two members prior to 1892 and four members from 1892 to 1973.

It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

LegislatureYearsMemberPartyMemberPartyMemberPartyMemberParty
Saint John City
Riding created from Saint John
3rd 1795 – 1802  George Younghusband Ind.   Nathan Smith Ind.
4th 1802 – 1809   John Robinson Ind.
5th 1809 – 1810  John Garrison Ind.    Stephen Humbert Ind.
1810 – 1816   John Robinson Ind.
6th 1817 – 1819   Harry Peters Ind.
7th 1820
8th 1821 – 1827   Hugh Johnston, Jr. Ind.
9th 1827 – 1830  Gregory Van Horne Ind.
10th 1831 – 1834   Thomas Barlow Ind.    William Boyd Kinnear Ind.
11th 1835 – 1837  Lewis Burns Ind.   Isaac Woodward Ind.
12th 1837 – 1842   Thomas Barlow Ind.
13th 1843 – 1846   Robert Leonard Hazen Cons.   Lewis Burns Ind.
14th 1847 – 1850  Isaac Woodward Ind.
15th 1851   Samuel Leonard Tilley [1] Cons.    William Hayden Needham Ind.
1851 – 1854  James A. Harding Ind.
16th 1854 – 1856   Samuel Leonard Tilley Cons.
17th 1856 – 1857  Joseph Wilson Lawrence Ind.
18th 1857 – 1861   Samuel Leonard Tilley Cons.
19th 1862 – 1865   Charles Watters Ind.
20th 1865 – 1866   Andrew Rainsford Wetmore Cons.    Jacob Valentine Troop Ind.
21st 1866 – 1867   Samuel Leonard Tilley [2] Cons.
1867 – 1870  William H.A. Keans Ind.
22nd 1870 – 1874   Aaron Alward Ind.    William Wedderburn Ind.
23rd 1875 – 1876  William H.A. Keans [3] Ind.
1876 – 1878   Robert Marshall Lib.
24th 1879 – 1882
25th 1883 – 1886   John Valentine Ellis [2] Lib.    Ezekiel McLeod Cons.
26th 1886 – 1887   John Berryman Lib.
1887 – 1890   Silas Alward Lib.
27th 1890 – 1892  A.C. Smith Ind.
28th 1892 – 1895   Alfred Augustus Stockton Cons.    William Shaw Lib.-Con.
29th 1896 – 1899   Charles B. Lockhart Cons.
30th 1899 – 1903  George Robertson Ind.    Harrison A. McKeown [4] Lib.-Con.   Daniel S. Purdy Ind.
31st 1903 – 1904  Edward Lantalum Ind.
1905 – 1908   Robert Maxwell Ind.
32nd 1908 – 1912   John Edward Wilson Ind.    James P. McInerney Ind.    Warren Franklin Hatheway Cons.
33rd 1912 – 1917   Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley Cons.    Charles B. Lockhart Cons.   Phillip Grammen Ind.
34th 1917 – 1920  John R. Campbell Cons.    Frank L. Potts Cons.    William F. Roberts Lib.
35th 1921 – 1925   Walter Edward Foster Lib.   Robert Thomas Hayes Cons.   William Edward Scully Lib.
36th 1925 – 1930   Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley Cons.    James Lewis Cons.    W. Henry Harrison Cons.    Miles E. Agar Cons.
37th 1931 – 1935   Walter W. White Cons.
38th 1935 – 1939   A. P. Paterson Lib.    William F. Roberts Lib.    Horace A. Porter Lib.    E. J. Henneberry Lib.
39th 1939 – 1944   Ralph McInerney Cons.    W. Grant Smith Cons.   W. J. Swanton Cons.    J. Starr Tait Cons.
40th 1944 – 1948   PC    PC    Lawrence T. Dow PC    PC
41st 1948 – 1952   James W. Brittain Lib.    Harold Gault Lib.    S. Roy Kelly Lib.    Robert H. Carlin Lib.
42nd 1952 – 1956   Donald D. Patterson PC    Arthur Skaling PC   Harold S. Prince PC    George E. McInerney PC
43rd 1957 – 1960   George L. Keith PC
44th 1960 – 1963   R. M. Pendrigh PC
45th 1963 – 1966   Daniel Aloysius Riley [5] Lib.    John D. MacCallum Lib.
1966 – 1967   Stephen Weyman Lib.
Saint John Center
46th 1967 – 1970   J. Lorne McGuigan PC    George E. McInerney [6] PC    Donald D. Patterson PC    Robert J. Higgins Lib.
47th 1970 – 1972   Eric Teed PC
1973 – 1974   John W. Turnbull Lib.
Riding dissolved into Saint John Harbour, Saint John North, Saint John Park and Saint John South

Election results

Saint John Centre

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 25 June 1973
PartyCandidateVotesElected
Liberal John W. Turnbull 6,933Green check.svgY
Progressive Conservative George W. Bate6,848
1970 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotesElected
Progressive Conservative J. Lorne McGuigan 10,435Green check.svgY
Progressive Conservative Eric L. Teed 9,943Green check.svgY
Liberal Robert J. Higgins 9,926Green check.svgY
Progressive Conservative George E. McInerney 9,750Green check.svgY
Progressive Conservative Wallace P. MacMurray9,533
Liberal Stephen Weyman 7,766
Liberal Joseph G. Boyce7,726
Liberal J. Esmonde Barry7,566
New Democratic Eldon John Richardson996
New Democratic David Hugh Jory901
New Democratic Peter Douglas Gibson799
New Democratic John Caleb Sutton642
Independent Michael Ronald Landers134
1967 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotesElected
Progressive Conservative J. Lorne McGuigan 11,803Green check.svgY
Progressive Conservative D.D. Patterson 11,386Green check.svgY
Progressive Conservative George E. McInerney 11,255Green check.svgY
Liberal Robert Higgins 10,671Green check.svgY
Progressive Conservative H.C. "Nig" Tracy10,651
Liberal Stephen Weyman 9,992
Liberal John MacCallum 9,689
Liberal Jas. W. O'Brien9,500

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References

  1. ↑ resigned
  2. 1 2 elected to federal seat
  3. ↑ died in 1876
  4. ↑ resigned to run federally in 1904
  5. ↑ appointed chairman of the New Brunswick Motor Carrier Board and Public Utilities Commission in 1966
  6. ↑ died on 25 November 1972

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