Victoria (New Brunswick provincial electoral district)
Victoria was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It used a bloc voting system to elect candidates, and was created from Carleton in 1846. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.
 New Brunswick electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick |
| District created | 1846 |
| District abolished | 1973 |
| First contested | 1846 |
| Last contested | 1970 |
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riding created from Carleton | |||||||
| 15th | 1851 – 1854 | John Richard Partelow | Independent | Francis Rice | Independent | ||
| 16th | 1854 – 1856 | James Tibbits | |||||
| 17th | 1856 – 1857 | Charles Watters | |||||
| 18th | 1857 – 1861 | ||||||
| 19th | 1862 – 1865 | David B. Raymond | John Costigan | Conservative | |||
| 20th | 1865 – 1866 | Benjamin Beveridge | |||||
| 21st | 1866 – 1867 | Vital Hébert[1] | Independent | ||||
| 1868 – 1870 | Lévite Thériault | ||||||
| 22nd | 1870 – 1874 | James Tibbits | |||||
| 23rd | 1875 – 1878 | William Blackwood Beveridge | Liberal-Conservative | ||||
| 24th | 1879 – 1882 | ||||||
| 25th | 1883 – 1884 | Richard Tibbits[2] | Conservative | ||||
| 1884 – 1886 | George Thomas Baird | ||||||
| 26th | 1886 – 1890 | ||||||
| 27th | 1890 – 1892 | James Porter | Liberal | ||||
| 28th | 1892 – 1895 | George Thomas Baird | Conservative | ||||
| 29th | 1896 – 1899 | James Porter | Liberal | Adam Beveridge | Liberal | ||
| 30th | 1899 – 1903 | Thomas Lawson | Independent | ||||
| 31st | 1903 – 1908 | John F. Tweeddale | James Burgress, Jr. | ||||
| 32nd | 1908 – 1912 | ||||||
| 33rd | 1912 – 1917 | J. Leigh White | Independent | Thomas J. Carter | |||
| 34th | 1917 | John F. Tweeddale | Liberal | James Burgess[2] | Liberal | ||
| 1917 – 1920 | Walter Edward Foster | ||||||
| 35th | 1921 – 1925 | D. Wetmore Pickett | United Farmers | George W. Warnock | United Farmers | ||
| 36th | 1925 – 1930 | Oran B. Davis | Liberal | John W. Niles[2] | Liberal | ||
| 37th | 1931 – 1935 | Frederick William Pirie[3] | |||||
| 38th | 1935 – 1939 | ||||||
| 39th | 1939 – 1940 | ||||||
| 1940 – 1944 | John B. McNair | ||||||
| 40th | 1944 – 1945 | Michael F. McCloskey | |||||
| 1945 – 1948 | Vernon R. Briggs | ||||||
| 41st | 1948 – 1952 | ||||||
| 42nd | 1952 – 1956 | J. Stewart Brooks | Progressive Conservative | Walter Powers[4] | Progressive Conservative | ||
| 43rd | 1957 – 1960 | L.B. Rideout | |||||
| 44th | 1960 – 1963 | T.E. Duffie | Liberal | ||||
| 45th | 1963 – 1967 | Leon B. Rideout | Progressive Conservative | ||||
| 46th | 1967 – 1970 | ||||||
| 47th | 1970 – 1974 | Joseph E. M. Ouellette | |||||
| Riding dissolved into Grand Falls and Victoria-Tobique | |||||||
Election results
| 1970 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | J. Stewart Brooks | 3,834 |  | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Joseph Ouellette | 3,307 | | |||||
| Liberal | Everard Daigle | 3,273 | ||||||
| Liberal | Winfred V. Baker | 3,226 | ||||||
| 1967 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | J. Stewart Brooks | 3,913 | | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Leon B. Rideout | 3,703 | | |||||
| Liberal | Everard Daigle | 3,366 | ||||||
| Liberal | Gordon Matheson | 3,193 | ||||||
References
- died in 1867
- resigned
- named to Senate of Canada
- died in 1954
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