New Brunswick electoral district | |
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Defunct provincial electoral district | |
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick |
District created | 1795 |
District abolished | 1973 |
First contested | 1795 |
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.
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.
New Brunswick provincial by-election, 25 June 1973 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
Liberal | John W. Turnbull | 6,933 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | George W. Bate | 6,848 |
1970 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
Progressive Conservative | J. Lorne McGuigan | 10,435 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | Eric L. Teed | 9,943 | ||||||
Liberal | Robert J. Higgins | 9,926 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | George E. McInerney | 9,750 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | Wallace P. MacMurray | 9,533 | ||||||
Liberal | Stephen Weyman | 7,766 | ||||||
Liberal | Joseph G. Boyce | 7,726 | ||||||
Liberal | J. Esmonde Barry | 7,566 | ||||||
New Democratic | Eldon John Richardson | 996 | ||||||
New Democratic | David Hugh Jory | 901 | ||||||
New Democratic | Peter Douglas Gibson | 799 | ||||||
New Democratic | John Caleb Sutton | 642 | ||||||
Independent | Michael Ronald Landers | 134 |
1967 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
Progressive Conservative | J. Lorne McGuigan | 11,803 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | D.D. Patterson | 11,386 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | George E. McInerney | 11,255 | ||||||
Liberal | Robert Higgins | 10,671 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | H.C. "Nig" Tracy | 10,651 | ||||||
Liberal | Stephen Weyman | 9,992 | ||||||
Liberal | John MacCallum | 9,689 | ||||||
Liberal | Jas. W. O'Brien | 9,500 |
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