Carleton_(1834-1974_electoral_district)

Carleton
New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1834
District abolished	1973
First contested	1835
Last contested	1970

Carleton (New Brunswick provincial electoral district, 1834–1974)

Defunct provincial electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada

Carleton was an electoral district that elected members to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick (now a province of Canada) from 1824 to 1974. Its boundaries were those of Carelton County and the number of members it returned varied over the years.

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It was abolished in the 1973 electoral redistribution when the province moved to single member districts; at the time it elected three members and it was split into three single member districts: Carleton North, Carleton Centre and Carleton South.

During its time, three premiers represented the riding: James Kidd Flemming, Hugh John Flemming and Richard Hatfield.

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Legislature	Years		Party		Party		Party
Riding created from York
11th	1835 – 1837	Jeremiah M. Connell	Ind.	George Morehouse	Ind.
12th	1837 – 1842			Bartholomew C. Beardsley	Ind.
13th	1843 – 1846			Charles Perley	Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850	Charles Connell	Ind.	James Tibbits	Ind.
15th	1851 – 1854			Horace H. Beardsley	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856			Richard English	Ind.
17th	1856 – 1857			Charles Perley	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861			Charles Perley	Ind.
19th	1862 – 1865	David Munro	Ind.	William Lindsay	Lib.
20th	1865 – 1866	Charles Connell^[1]	Ind.
21st	1866 – 1867	Charles Connell^[1]	Ind.
	1867 – 1868	James Hartley^[2]	Ind.
	1868 – 1870	George W. White^[3]	Cons.
22nd	1870 – 1874	George W. White^[3]	Cons.
23rd	1875 – 1878	John S. Leighton	Lib.	Randolph K. Jones	Ind.
24th	1879 – 1882			George W. White	Cons.
25th	1883 – 1886			George W. White	Cons.
26th	1886 – 1890	George R. Ketchum	Lib.	Marcus C. Atkinson	Lib.-Con.
27th	1890 – 1892	George R. Ketchum	Lib.	Marcus C. Atkinson	Lib.-Con.
28th	1892 – 1895	Henry A. Connell	Ind.	J.T. Allan Dibblee	Lib.-Con.
28th	1895	Marcus C. Atkinson	Lib.-Con.
29th	1896 – 1899	Hugh H. McCain	Lib.			Charles L. Smith^[4]	Lib.
30th	1899 – 1900			Frank B. Carvell^[3]	Lib.	Charles L. Smith^[4]	Lib.
30th	1900 – 1903			James K. Flemming^[5]	Cons.	Stephen B. Appleby	Lib.
31st	1903 – 1908	Benjamin F. Smith^[3]	Cons.			Wendell P. Jones	Lib.
32nd	1908	Benjamin F. Smith^[3]	Cons.			Donald Munro^[5]	Ind.
32nd	1908 – 1912	George W. Upham	Ind.
33rd	1912 – 1915	George L. White^[2]	Cons.
	1915 – 1916			Benjamin F. Smith	Cons.
	1916 – 1917					William S. Sutton	Cons.
34th	1917 – 1920					William S. Sutton	Cons.
35th	1921 – 1925	Fred W. Smith	UF	Rennie K. Tracey	UF	Samuel J. Burlock	UF
36th	1925 – 1930	Fred C. Squires	Cons.	Edwin W. Melville	Cons.	Benjamin F. Smith	Cons.
37th	1931 – 1935					Gladstone W. Perry	Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939
39th	1939 – 1944
40th	1944 – 1948		PC	Hugh J. Flemming^[1]	PC		PC
41st	1948 – 1952	John (Jock) Fraser	Lib.				PC
42nd	1952 – 1956	Fred A. McCain	PC			Harrison C. Monteith	PC
43rd	1957 – 1960					Harrison C. Monteith	PC
44th	1960 – 1961					A. Edison Stairs	PC
44th	1961 – 1963			Richard B. Hatfield	PC
45th	1963 – 1967
46th	1967 – 1970
47th	1970 – 1974	Charles Gallagher	PC
Riding dissolved into Carleton Centre, Carleton North and Carleton South

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	Richard B. Hatfield	6,695	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Gallagher	6,104	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Edison Stairs	5,881	Y
	Liberal	James E. Patterson	2,711
	Liberal	Charles E. Russell	2,528
	Liberal	Robert Caines	2,523
	New Democratic	Barry Morrison	208
	New Democratic	James Wallace, Jr.	164
	New Democratic	Samo Stehlik	145

1967 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	Richard B. Hatfield	5,907	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Fred A. McCain	5,581	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Edison Stairs	5,536	Y
	Liberal	Robert R. "Bob" McCain	4,559
	Liberal	Hugh Tait	4,059
	Liberal	Christine Young	3,702

Carleton_(1834-1974_electoral_district)

Carleton (New Brunswick provincial electoral district, 1834–1974)

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

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