 New Brunswick electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick |
| District created | 1785 |
| District abolished | 1973 |
| First contested | 1785 |
| Last contested | 1970 |
York was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.
| 1970 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Harry Ames | 6,050 |  | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Carl Mooers | 5,954 | | |||||
| Liberal | John Ker | 4,278 | ||||||
| Liberal | Albert A. Knox | 4,272 | ||||||
| New Democratic | James William Bradley | 318 | ||||||
| New Democratic | Richard Lawrence Bright | 295 | ||||||
| 1967 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Harry Ames | 5,616 | | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Carl Mooers | 5,393 | | |||||
| Liberal | John Fawcett | 4,755 | ||||||
| Liberal | William Gould | 4,403 | ||||||
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