Kent Centre
 New Brunswick electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick |
| District created | 1973 |
| District abolished | 1994 |
| First contested | 1974 |
| Last contested | 1991 |
Kent Centre was a provincial electoral district in New Brunswick. It was created from the multi-member riding of Kent in the 1973 electoral redistribution, and was abolished in the 1994 electoral redistribution.
Members of the Legislative Assembly[]
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riding created from Kent (1827–1974) | ||||
| 48th | 1974–1978 | Alan R. Graham | Liberal | |
| 49th | 1978–1982 | |||
| 50th | 1982–1987 | |||
| 51st | 1987–1991 | |||
| 52nd | 1991–1995 | |||
| Riding dissolved into Kent (1994–2013) | ||||
Election results[]
| 1991 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Alan Graham | 3,025 | 69.11 | -8.54 | ||||
| Confederation of Regions | Percy Beers | 626 | 14.30 | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Neil Gardner | 379 | 8.66 | +2.22 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | David MacDonald | 347 | 7.93 | -7.98 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 4,377 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -11.42 | ||||||
| 1987 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Alan R. Graham | 3,232 | 77.65 | +14.00 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Sammy Arsenault | 662 | 15.91 | -13.51 | ||||
| New Democratic | Neil Gardner | 268 | 6.44 | +1.33 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 4,162 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +13.76 | ||||||
| 1982 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Alan R. Graham | 2,691 | 63.65 | +3.23 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Fernand Savoie | 1,244 | 29.42 | -0.66 | ||||
| New Democratic | Derrold H. Barnes | 216 | 5.11 | -1.29 | ||||
| Independent | Ronald S. MacDonald | 77 | 1.82 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 4,228 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +1.94 | ||||||
| 1978 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Alan Robert Graham | 2,352 | 60.42 | +2.72 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Claude Giruan Warren | 1,171 | 30.08 | -9.12 | ||||
| New Democratic | John B. LaBossiere | 249 | 6.40 | +3.29 | ||||
| Parti acadien | Pierrette Leblanc | 121 | 3.11 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 3,893 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +5.92 | ||||||
| 1974 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Alan Graham | 2,024 | 57.70 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Lloyd Girvan | 1,375 | 39.20 | |||||
| New Democratic | Lawrence Murphy | 109 | 3.11 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 3,508 | 100.0 | ||||||
| The previous multi-member riding of Kent elected 3 (of 3) Liberals in the last election. One Progressive Conservative was elected in a 1971 by-election. Alan R. Graham was one of three incumbents. | ||||||||
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