Sunbury (provincial electoral district, 1785–1973)

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Sunbury (1785–1973)
Flag of New Brunswick.svg New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created 1785
District abolished 1973
First contested1785
Last contested 1970

Sunbury was an electoral district in New Brunswick. It was abolished in 1973 as New Brunswick moved from bloc voting to a single-member first past the post system. It was dissolved into the new ridings of Sunbury and Oromocto.

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Members of the Legislative Assembly

LegislatureYearsMemberPartyMemberParty
1st 1786 – 1792   William Hubbard Independent   Richard Vandeburg Independent
2nd 1793 – 1795   John Agnew Independent    James Glenie Independent
3rd 1795 – 1802   Samuel Denny Street Independent
4th 1802 – 1809   Elijah Miles Independent
5th 1809 – 1816   Samuel Denny Street Independent    James Taylor Independent
6th 1817 – 1819   Elijah Miles Independent   William Wilmot Independent
7th 1820   James Taylor Independent
8th 1821 – 1824   Amos Perley [1] Independent
1824 – 1827  William Wilmot Independent
9th 1827 – 1830   Thomas O. Miles Independent   George Hayward Independent
10th 1831 – 1834
11th 1835 – 1837  George Hayward, Jr. Independent
12th 1837 – 1842  Henry T. Partelow Independent
13th 1843 – 1846  William Scoullar Independent   Whitehead S. Barker Independent
14th 1847 – 1850  George Hayward Independent    Thomas O. Miles Independent
15th 1851 – 1854  William Scoullar Independent
16th 1854 – 1856  Enoch Lunt Independent
17th 1856 – 1857   William E. Perley Liberal-Conservative    David Tapley Independent
18th 1857 – 1861
19th 1862 – 1865   John Glasier Liberal
20th 1865 – 1866
21st 1866 – 1868
1868 – 1870   John S. Covert [2] Liberal
22nd 1870 – 1874   Archibald Harrison Liberal
23rd 1875 – 1878   William E. Perley Liberal-Conservative
24th 1879 – 1881
1881 – 1882  James S. White Independent
25th 1883   George A. Sterling [3] Liberal
1883 – 1886   Arthur Glasier Liberal
26th 1886 – 1890   Charles B. Harrison Liberal
27th 1890 – 1892   William E. Perley Liberal-Conservative
28th 1892 – 1895
29th 1896 – 1899   David Morrow Independent
30th 1899 – 1903   Parker Glasier Conservative    John Douglas Hazen [4] Conservative
31st 1903 – 1908
32nd 1908 – 1911
1911 – 1912   George A. Perley Independent
33rd 1912 – 1917
34th 1917 – 1920   David W. Mersereau Liberal   Robert H. Smith Liberal
35th 1921 – 1925
36th 1925 – 1930   Allan D. Taylor Conservative    Ewart C. Atkinson Conservative
37th 1931 – 1935
38th 1935 – 1939   Gabriel F. Smith Liberal    Walter C. Lawson Liberal
39th 1939 – 1944   Frederic McGrand Liberal
40th 1944 – 1948   Gordon R. Lawson Liberal
41st 1948 – 1952
42nd 1952 – 1956   Paul Fearon Progressive Conservative    Paul Mersereau Progressive Conservative
43rd 1957 – 1960
44th 1960 – 1963   R. Lee MacFarlane Liberal    William R. Duffie Liberal
45th 1963 – 1967
46th 1967 – 1970   Douglas A. Flower Liberal
47th 1970 – 1974   Reginald W. Mabey Progressive Conservative    Horace Smith Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Oromocto and Sunbury (1974–1994)

Election results

1970 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotesElected
Progressive Conservative Reginald W. Mabey 4,209Green check.svgY
Progressive Conservative Horace Smith 4,110Green check.svgY
Liberal William R. Duffie 3,427
Liberal Douglas Flower2,902
New Democratic William Robert Ross226
New Democratic Lawrence John Lamont205
1967 New Brunswick general election
PartyCandidateVotesElected
Liberal William R. Duffie 4,653Green check.svgY
Liberal Douglas A. Flower3,980Green check.svgY
Progressive Conservative ? Mockler3,341
Progressive Conservative ? Fearon3,152


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