Saint John Harbour (1974–1995)

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Saint John Harbour
Flag of New Brunswick.svg New Brunswick electoral district
Saint john harbour.PNG
The boundaries of the original Saint John Harbour (red) overlaid with the boundaries of this district as it stood from 1995 to 2006 (blue)
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created 1973
District abolished 1994
First contested 1974
Last contested 1991

Saint John Harbour was a provincial electoral district in New Brunswick. It was created from the multi-member riding of Saint John Centre 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 Saint John Centre
48th  1974–1978   John Turnbull Liberal
49th  1978–1982   Louis Murphy Liberal
50th  1982–1987
51st  1987–1991
52nd  1991–1995
Riding dissolved into Saint John Lancaster
and Saint John Harbour (1995–)

Election results

1991 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Louis Murphy 1,77943.53-19.33
New Democratic Al Maund96823.68+5.83
Confederation of Regions Marie Gerrior84420.65
Progressive Conservative Nargis Kheraj49612.14-7.15
Total valid votes4,087100.0  
Liberal hold Swing -12.58
1987 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Louis Murphy 2,70562.86+18.59
Progressive Conservative Gay Wittrien83019.29-21.47
New Democratic Kenneth Wilcox76817.85+2.88
Total valid votes4,303100.0  
Liberal hold Swing +20.03
1982 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Louis Edward Murphy 2,05544.27+0.81
Progressive Conservative Foster Hammond1,89240.76-0.45
New Democratic Dee Dee M.A. Daigle69514.97-0.36
Total valid votes4,642100.0  
Liberal hold Swing +0.63
1978 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Louis E. Murphy 1,77243.46-9.91
Progressive Conservative E. Lorne Richardson1,68041.21-1.12
New Democratic Harrison G. Harvey62515.33+11.03
Total valid votes4,077100.0  
Liberal hold Swing -4.40
1974 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal John W. Turnbull 2,54453.37
Progressive Conservative Eric L. Teed 2,01842.33
New Democratic William Gray2054.30
Total valid votes4,767100.0  
The previous multi-member riding of Saint John Centre elected three Progressive Conservative and one Liberal in the previous election, with one of the PC seats won by a Liberal in a by-election. Both John Turnbull and Eric Teed were among the four incumbents.

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