Gloucester (provincial electoral district)

Gloucester
New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1826
District abolished	1973
First contested	1827
Last contested	1972

Gloucester was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada from the 1828 election of the 9th New Brunswick Legislature. It mirrored Gloucester County, and used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, divided up into five first past the post districts: Caraquet, Nepisiguit-Chaleur, Nigadoo-Chaleur, Shippagan-les-Îles and Tracadie.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
Riding created from Northumberland
9th	1827 – 1830	Hugh Munro	Ind.
10th	1831 – 1834	William End	Ind.
11th	1835 – 1837			Peter Stewart	Ind.
12th	1837 – 1842			Peter Stewart	Ind.
13th	1843 – 1846			Joshua Alexandre	Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850			Joseph Read	Ind.
15th	1851 – 1854	Robert Gordon	Ind.	Joseph Read	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856	William End	Ind.		Patrick McNaughton	Ind.
17th	1856 – 1857			Joseph Read	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861			Joseph Read	Ind.
19th	1862 – 1865	Robert Young	Ind.		John Meahan	Ind.
20th	1865 – 1866
21st	1866 – 1870
22nd	1870 – 1874	Samuel Napier	Ind.		Théotime Blanchard^[1]	Cons.
23rd	1875 – 1876	Kennedy F. Burns	Lib.		Théotime Blanchard^[1]	Cons.
23rd	1876 – 1878	Kennedy F. Burns	Lib.	Patrick G. Ryan	Lib.
24th	1879 – 1882	Francis J. McManus	Lib.
25th	1883 – 1886	Francis J. McManus	Lib.
26th	1886 – 1890	James Young	Cons.
27th	1890 – 1892	Joseph Poirier	Cons.
28th	1892 – 1895	Joseph Poirier	Cons.
29th	1896 – 1899	Peter Veniot^[2]	Lib.		John Sievewright	Ind.		Prosper E. Paulin	Cons.
30th	1899	Peter Veniot^[2]	Lib.	Theobald M. Burns	Cons.		Joseph Poirier	Cons.
30th	1899 – 1903	John Young	Ind.
31st	1903 – 1908	John Young	Ind.
32nd	1908 – 1912	Alphonse Sormany	Ind.		James P. Byrne	Lib.		Seraphine R. Léger	Lib.
33rd	1912 – 1917	John B. Hatchey	Ind.		Alfred J. Witzell	Ind.		A.L.H. Stewart	Ind.		Martin J. Robichaud	Ind.
34th	1917 – 1920	Peter Veniot^[3]	Lib.		James P. Byrne^[4]	Lib.		Seraphine R. Léger	Lib.		Jean G. Robichaud	Lib.
35th	1921 – 1922										Jean G. Robichaud	Lib.
	1923 – 1925			J. André Doucet			Lib.
	1925				Ivan Rand	Lib.
36th	1925 – 1926				John B. London^[5]	Lib.
36th	1926 – 1930	Clovis-Thomas Richard^[3]	Lib.
37th	1931
37th	1931 – 1935				Wesley H. Coffyn	Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939				F.T.B. Young^[5]	Lib.			William A. Losier	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1940				F.T.B. Young^[5]	Lib.
39th	1940 – 1944				Joseph E. Connolly	Lib.
40th	1944 – 1945							Frederick C. Young	Lib.
40th	1945 – 1948	J. Michel Fournier	Lib.
41st	1948 – 1952									Ernest Richard	Lib.
42nd	1952 – 1956
43rd	1957 – 1960			Claude Savoie			Lib.
44th	1960 – 1963				H. H. Williamson	Lib.			Bernard A. Jean^[6]			Lib.
45th	1963 – 1967	J. Omer Boudreau	Lib.		H. H. Williamson	Lib.
46th	1967 – 1970			Gérard Haché	Lib.		A. A. Ferguson	Lib.
47th	1970 – 1972			André Robichaud	Lib.					Frank Branch	Lib.
47th	1972 – 1974			André Robichaud	Lib.	Lorenzo Morais			PC	Frank Branch	Lib.
Riding dissolved into Caraquet, Nepisiguit-Chaleur, Nigadoo-Chaleur, Shippagan-les-Îles and Tracadie

Election results

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 18 September 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	Lorenzo Morais	13,685	53.88	Y
	Liberal	Richard Savoie	11,714	46.12
Total valid votes			25,399	100.0
Total rejected ballots			620	2.38
Turnout			26,019	81.16
Source: Elections New Brunswick^[7]

New Brunswick general election, 1970
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Omer Boudreau	11,333	49.47	Y
	Liberal	André Robichaud	11,055	48.25	Y
	Liberal	Bernard A. Jean	10,892	47.54	Y
	Liberal	Adjutor Ferguson	10,877	47.48	Y
	Liberal	Frank Branch	10,552	46.06	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Camille Losier	5,175	22.59
	Progressive Conservative	Calixte Chiasson	5,132	22.40
	Progressive Conservative	Roland Boudreau	4,538	19.81
	Progressive Conservative	Odilon Boudreau	4,272	18.65
	Progressive Conservative	William Young	4,211	18.38
	Independent	André Dumont	646	2.82
Total valid votes			22,910	100.0
Source: Elections New Brunswick^[8]

New Brunswick general election, 1967
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Omer Boudreau	12,350	61.16	Y
	Liberal	Adjutor Ferguson	12,048	59.66	Y
	Liberal	Gérard Haché	11,900	58.93	Y
	Liberal	Bernard A. Jean	11,890	58.88	Y
	Liberal	Ernest Richard	11,281	55.86	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Gerard Arseneau	6,539	32.38
	Progressive Conservative	Roland Boudreau	6,505	32.21
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Cormier	6,310	31.25
	Progressive Conservative	Bertie Ferguson	6,297	31.18
	Progressive Conservative	Antonin Friolet	4,211	20.85
Total valid votes^{[en 1]}			20,194	100.0
Source: Elections New Brunswick^[9]

↑ Estimate taken from the amount of votes from general polls, 19,720, and adding in the highest number of Liberal and Progressive Conservative votes from each of the advanced polls, as no total number of votes was available for these.

References

↑ resigned to accept appointment as Justice of the Peace
↑ resigned to accept appointment
1 2 elected to federal seat
↑ resigned to accept appointment as judge
1 2 died in office
↑ resigned
↑ Twenty-eighth General Election, November 18, 1974 , Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
↑ Twenty-seventh General Election, October 26, 1970, Report of the Chief Electoral Officer . Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
↑ Twenty-sixth General Elections, October 23, 1967, Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved February 22, 2011.

New Brunswick provincial electoral districts

Capital	Carleton-York Fredericton North Fredericton South Fredericton West-Hanwell Fredericton-Grand Lake Fredericton-York New Maryland-Sunbury Oromocto-Lincoln

Northern	Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-Saint-Isidore Bathurst West-Beresford Campbellton-Dalhousie Caraquet Miramichi Miramichi Bay-Neguac Restigouche West Restigouche-Chaleur Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou Southwest Miramichi-Bay du Vin Tracadie-Sheila

River Valley	Carleton Carleton-Victoria Edmundston-Madawaska Centre Madawaska les Lacs-Edmundston Victoria-la-Vallée

South	Fundy-The Isles-Saint John West Hampton Kings Centre Portland-Simonds Quispamsis Rothesay Saint Croix Saint John East Saint John Harbour Saint John Lancaster Sussex-Fundy-St. Martins

Southeast	Albert Dieppe Gagetown-Petitcodiac Kent North Kent South Memramcook-Tantramar Moncton Centre Moncton East Moncton Northwest Moncton South Moncton Southwest Riverview Shediac Bay-Dieppe Shediac-Beaubassin-Cap-Pelé

Defunct Districts

1974 – 2014	Albert Bathurst Bay du Vin Campbellton Campbellton-Restigouche Centre Caraquet Carleton Carleton Centre Carleton North Carleton South Centre-Péninsule Centre-Péninsule-Saint-Sauveur Charlotte Charlotte-Campobello Charlotte Centre Charlotte-Fundy Charlotte-The Isles Charlotte West Chatham Dalhousie Dalhousie-Restigouche East Dieppe Centre-Lewisville Dieppe-Memramcook East Saint John Edmundston Edmundston-Saint-Basile Fredericton-Fort Nashwaak Fredericton-Lincoln Fredericton-Nashwaaksis Fredericton North Fredericton-Silverwood Fredericton South Fundy Isles Fundy-River Valley Grand Bay-Westfield Grand Falls Grand Falls-Drummond-Saint-André Grand Falls Region Grand Lake Grand Lake-Gagetown Hampton-Belleisle Hampton-Kings Kennebecasis Kent Kent Centre Kent North Kent South Kings Centre Kings East Kings West Lamèque-Shippagan-Miscou Mactaquac Madawaska Centre Madawaska-la-Vallée Madawaska-les-Lacs Madawaska South Memramcook Memramcook-Lakeville-Dieppe Miramichi Bay Miramichi-Bay du Vin Miramichi Bay-Neguac Miramichi Centre Miramichi-Newcastle Moncton Crescent Moncton East Moncton North Moncton South Moncton West Nepisiguit Nepisiguit-Chaleur New Maryland New Maryland-Sunbury West Nigadoo-Chaleur Oromocto Oromocto-Gagetown Petitcodiac Queens North Queens South Quispamsis Restigouche East Restigouche-La-Vallée Restigouche West Riverview Rogersville-Kouchibouguac Rothesay Saint John Champlain Saint John East Saint John-Fundy Saint John Harbour Saint John-Kings Saint John Lancaster Saint John Park Saint John Portland Saint John South Saint John West St. Stephen-Milltown Shediac Shediac-Cap-Pelé Shippagan-les-Îles Southwest Miramichi Sunbury Tantramar Tracadie Tracadie-Sheila Victoria-Tobique Western Charlotte Woodstock York York North York South

Pre-1974	Albert Bathurst Carleton Charlotte Edmundston Fredericton Gloucester Kent Kings Madawaska Moncton Northumberland Queens Restigouche Saint John Saint John Centre Saint John City Saint John County Saint John East Saint John West St. Stephen-Milltown Sunbury Victoria Westmorland York

See also: 2013 electoral redistribution List of elections 2014 general election

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