York (provincial electoral district, 1785–1974)

York

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.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
1st	1786 – 1792		Daniel Murray	Ind.		Isaac Atwood	Ind.		Daniel Lyman	Ind.		Edward Stelle	Ind.
2nd	1793 – 1795					Archibald McLean	Ind.		Stair Agnew	Ind.		Jacob Ellegood	Ind.
3rd	1795 – 1796								James French [1]	Ind.
	1796 – 1802								Stair Agnew [2]	Ind.
4th	1802 – 1809		John Davison	Ind.								Walter Price	Ind.
5th	1809 – 1816		Peter Fraser	Ind.		John Allen	Ind.					Duncan McLeod	Ind.
6th	1817 – 1819											John Dow [3]	Ind.
7th	1820
8th	1821
	1822 – 1827								William Taylor	Ind.
9th	1827 – 1830		Richard Ketchum	Ind.
10th	1831 – 1832		Jedediah Slason	Ind.
	1832 – 1834											James Taylor	Ind.
11th	1835 – 1837								Lemuel Allan Wilmot	Ref.
12th	1837 – 1842		Charles Fisher	Ref.
13th	1843 – 1846
14th	1847 – 1850					Thomas Baillie	Ind.
15th	1851 – 1854		George Luther Hathaway	Cons.		Thomas Pickard Jr.	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856					Charles Fisher	Ref.		Charles McPherson	Ind.
17th	1856 – 1857											John Campbell Allen	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861		John McIntosh	Ind.
19th	1862 – 1865		George Luther Hathaway	Cons.					Hiram Dow	Ind.
20th	1865 – 1866					John James Fraser	Cons.		William Hayden Needham	Ind.
21st	1866 – 1867		Hiram Dow	Ind.		Charles Fisher [4]	Ref.		Alexander Thompson	Ind.		John Adolphus Beckwith	Cons.
	1867 – 1868					John Pickard [4]	Ind.
	1869 – 1870					William Hayden Needham	Ind.
22nd	1870 – 1872		Robert Robinson	Ind.		George Luther Hathaway [5]	Cons.		Charles McPherson	Ind.
	1872 – 1874					John James Fraser	Cons.
23rd	1875 – 1878								Thomas F. Barker	Cons.		Hiram Dow	Ind.
24th	1879 – 1882		Andrew George Blair	Lib.					Frederick P. Thompson [6]	Lib.		George J. Colter	Lib.-Con.
25th	1883 – 1885					Edward Ludlow Wetmore	Lib.
	1885 – 1886								William Wilson	Lib.
26th	1886 – 1890					Richard Bellamy [7]	Lib.					David R. Moore	Lib.
27th	1890 [8]											John Anderson	Ind.
	1890 – 1892					Thomas Colter	Cons.
28th	1892 – 1895		William K. Allen	Ind.		William T. Howe	Cons.		James K. Pinder	Cons.		Herman Pitts	Cons.
29th	1896 – 1899		John Black	Lib.
30th	1899 – 1901		William T. Whitehead	Ind.		John A. Campbell	Ind.		Alexander Gibson [4]	Lib.		Frederick P. Thompson [9]	Lib.
	1901 – 1903								George W. Allen	Ind.
31st	1903 – 1908											George F. Burden	Ind.
32nd	1908 – 1911		Harry Fulton McLeod [4]	Cons.		John A. Young	Cons.		Thomas Robison [10]	Cons.		James K. Pinder	Cons.
	1911 – 1912								Oscar E. Morehouse	Cons.
33rd	1912 – 1914
	1914 – 1917		Percy A. Guthrie	Cons.
34th	1917 – 1920		William C. Crocket	Cons.					Samuel B. Hunter	Lib.
35th	1921 – 1925		Charles Dow Richards	Cons.
36th	1925 – 1930		B. H. Dougan	Cons.		G. C. Grant	Cons.		James M. Scott	Cons.	see Fredericton
37th	1931 – 1935					Marcus Lorne Jewett	Cons.					Charles Dow Richards [11]	Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939		John B. McNair	Lib.		Ernest W. Stairs	Lib.		H. Ralph Gunter	Lib.		Stewart E. Durling	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1944		C. Hedley Forbes	Cons.		Charles Price	Cons.		John Rutherford Messer	Cons.		Arthur J. McEvoy	Cons.
40th	1944 – 1948		Harry A. Corey	Lib.		Donald T. Cochrane	Lib.		Henry C. Greenlaw	Lib.		John B. McNair	Lib.
41st	1948 – 1952
42nd	1952 – 1956		Harry Ames [12]	PC		C. Weldon Lawrence	PC		John F. McInerney	PC		William J. West	PC
43rd	1957 – 1960
44th	1960 – 1963											George Everett Chalmers	PC
45th	1963 – 1967
46th	1967 – 1970					Carl Mooers	PC	see Fredericton
47th	1970 – 1974
Riding dissolved into York North and York South

Election results

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	Harry Ames	6,050	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Carl Mooers	5,954	Y
	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	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Carl Mooers	5,393	Y
	Liberal	John Fawcett	4,755
	Liberal	William Gould	4,403

References

1. unseated after an appeal
2. died in 1821
3. died in 1832
4. elected to federal seat
5. died in 1872
6. named to Legislative Council
7. lost second election
8. election protested and a second election was held in October 1890
9. called to the Senate in 1902
10. died in 1911
11. resigned to accept appointment as judge
12. died in 1973