Saint John Centre (electoral district)
New Brunswick electoral district | |
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Defunct provincial electoral district | |
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick |
District created | |
District abolished | 1973 |
First contested | 1795 |
Last contested | 1970 |
Saint John Centre was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was created from Saint John in as Saint John City. It was renamed Saint John Centre in 1967.
It elected multiple members through the bloc voting system -- two members prior to 1892 and four members from 1892 to 1973.
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 | ||||
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Saint John City Riding created from Saint John | |||||||||||||
3rd | 1795 – 1802 | George Younghusband | Ind. | Nathan Smith | Ind. | ||||||||
4th | 1802 – 1809 | John Robinson | Ind. | ||||||||||
5th | 1809 – 1810 | John Garrison | Ind. | Stephen Humbert | Ind. | ||||||||
1810 – 1816 | John Robinson | Ind. | |||||||||||
6th | 1817 – 1819 | Harry Peters | Ind. | ||||||||||
7th | 1820 | ||||||||||||
8th | 1821 – 1827 | Hugh Johnston, Jr. | Ind. | ||||||||||
9th | 1827 – 1830 | Gregory Van Horne | Ind. | ||||||||||
10th | 1831 – 1834 | Thomas Barlow | Ind. | William Boyd Kinnear | Ind. | ||||||||
11th | 1835 – 1837 | Lewis Burns | Ind. | Isaac Woodward | Ind. | ||||||||
12th | 1837 – 1842 | Thomas Barlow | Ind. | ||||||||||
13th | 1843 – 1846 | Robert Leonard Hazen | Cons. | Lewis Burns | Ind. | ||||||||
14th | 1847 – 1850 | Isaac Woodward | Ind. | ||||||||||
15th | 1851 | Samuel Leonard Tilley[1] | Cons. | William Hayden Needham | Ind. | ||||||||
1851 – 1854 | James A. Harding | Ind. | |||||||||||
16th | 1854 – 1856 | Samuel Leonard Tilley | Cons. | ||||||||||
17th | 1856 – 1857 | Joseph Wilson Lawrence | Ind. | ||||||||||
18th | 1857 – 1861 | Samuel Leonard Tilley | Cons. | ||||||||||
19th | 1862 – 1865 | Charles Watters | Ind. | ||||||||||
20th | 1865 – 1866 | Andrew Rainsford Wetmore | Cons. | Jacob Valentine Troop | Ind. | ||||||||
21st | 1866 – 1867 | Samuel Leonard Tilley[2] | Cons. | ||||||||||
1867 – 1870 | William H.A. Keans | Ind. | |||||||||||
22nd | 1870 – 1874 | Aaron Alward | Ind. | William Wedderburn | Ind. | ||||||||
23rd | 1875 – 1876 | William H.A. Keans[3] | Ind. | ||||||||||
1876 – 1878 | Robert Marshall | Lib. | |||||||||||
24th | 1879 – 1882 | ||||||||||||
25th | 1883 – 1886 | John Valentine Ellis[2] | Lib. | Ezekiel McLeod | Cons. | ||||||||
26th | 1886 – 1887 | John Berryman | Lib. | ||||||||||
1887 – 1890 | Silas Alward | Lib. | |||||||||||
27th | 1890 – 1892 | A.C. Smith | Ind. | ||||||||||
28th | 1892 – 1895 | Alfred Augustus Stockton | Cons. | William Shaw | Lib.-Con. | ||||||||
29th | 1896 – 1899 | Charles B. Lockhart | Cons. | ||||||||||
30th | 1899 – 1903 | George Robertson | Ind. | Harrison A. McKeown[4] | Lib.-Con. | Daniel S. Purdy | Ind. | ||||||
31st | 1903 – 1904 | Edward Lantalum | Ind. | ||||||||||
1905 – 1908 | Robert Maxwell | Ind. | |||||||||||
32nd | 1908 – 1912 | John Edward Wilson | Ind. | James P. McInerney | Ind. | Warren Franklin Hatheway | Cons. | ||||||
33rd | 1912 – 1917 | Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley | Cons. | Charles B. Lockhart | Cons. | Phillip Grammen | Ind. | ||||||
34th | 1917 – 1920 | John R. Campbell | Cons. | Frank L. Potts | Cons. | William F. Roberts | Lib. | ||||||
35th | 1921 – 1925 | Walter Edward Foster | Lib. | Robert Thomas Hayes | Cons. | William Edward Scully | Lib. | ||||||
36th | 1925 – 1930 | Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley | Cons. | James Lewis | Cons. | W. Henry Harrison | Cons. | Miles E. Agar | Cons. | ||||
37th | 1931 – 1935 | Walter W. White | Cons. | ||||||||||
38th | 1935 – 1939 | A. P. Paterson | Lib. | William F. Roberts | Lib. | Horace A. Porter | Lib. | E. J. Henneberry | Lib. | ||||
39th | 1939 – 1944 | Ralph McInerney | Cons. | W. Grant Smith | Cons. | W. J. Swanton | Cons. | J. Starr Tait | Cons. | ||||
40th | 1944 – 1948 | PC | PC | Lawrence T. Dow | PC | PC | |||||||
41st | 1948 – 1952 | James W. Brittain | Lib. | Harold Gault | Lib. | S. Roy Kelly | Lib. | Robert H. Carlin | Lib. | ||||
42nd | 1952 – 1956 | Donald D. Patterson | PC | Arthur Skaling | PC | Harold S. Prince | PC | George E. McInerney | PC | ||||
43rd | 1957 – 1960 | George L. Keith | PC | ||||||||||
44th | 1960 – 1963 | R. M. Pendrigh | PC | ||||||||||
45th | 1963 – 1966 | Daniel Aloysius Riley[5] | Lib. | John D. MacCallum | Lib. | ||||||||
1966 – 1967 | Stephen Weyman | Lib. | |||||||||||
Saint John Center | |||||||||||||
46th | 1967 – 1970 | J. Lorne McGuigan | PC | George E. McInerney[6] | PC | Donald D. Patterson | PC | Robert J. Higgins | Lib. | ||||
47th | 1970 – 1972 | Eric Teed | PC | ||||||||||
1973 – 1974 | John W. Turnbull | Lib. | |||||||||||
Riding dissolved into Saint John Harbour, Saint John North, Saint John Park and Saint John South |
Election results[]
Saint John Centre[]
New Brunswick provincial by-election, 25 June 1973 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
Liberal | John W. Turnbull | 6,933 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | George W. Bate | 6,848 |
1970 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
Progressive Conservative | J. Lorne McGuigan | 10,435 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | Eric L. Teed | 9,943 | ||||||
Liberal | Robert J. Higgins | 9,926 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | George E. McInerney | 9,750 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | Wallace P. MacMurray | 9,533 | ||||||
Liberal | Stephen Weyman | 7,766 | ||||||
Liberal | Joseph G. Boyce | 7,726 | ||||||
Liberal | J. Esmonde Barry | 7,566 | ||||||
New Democratic | Eldon John Richardson | 996 | ||||||
New Democratic | David Hugh Jory | 901 | ||||||
New Democratic | Peter Douglas Gibson | 799 | ||||||
New Democratic | John Caleb Sutton | 642 | ||||||
Independent | Michael Ronald Landers | 134 |
1967 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
Progressive Conservative | J. Lorne McGuigan | 11,803 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | D.D. Patterson | 11,386 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | George E. McInerney | 11,255 | ||||||
Liberal | Robert Higgins | 10,671 | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | H.C. "Nig" Tracy | 10,651 | ||||||
Liberal | Stephen Weyman | 9,992 | ||||||
Liberal | John MacCallum | 9,689 | ||||||
Liberal | Jas. W. O'Brien | 9,500 |
Saint John City[]
References[]
Categories:
- Defunct New Brunswick provincial electoral districts
- 1974 disestablishments in New Brunswick