Kent_(New_Brunswick_provincial_electoral_district,_1827–1974)

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

Kent (New Brunswick provincial electoral district, 1827–1974)

Defunct provincial electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada

Kent was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.

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Legislature	Years		Party		Party		Party
Riding created from Northumberland
9th	1827 – 1830	John W. Weldon	Ind.
10th	1831 – 1834
11th	1835 – 1837			John P. Ford	Ind.
12th	1837 – 1842			David McAlmon	Ind.
13th	1843 – 1846			David Wark	Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850			David Wark	Ind.
15th	1851 – 1854	Robert B. Cutler	Ind.	Francis McPhelim	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856	Robert B. Cutler	Ind.
17th	1856 – 1857	Lestock P. W. DesBrisay	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861
19th	1862 – 1865
20th	1865 – 1866			William S. Caie^[1]	Ind.
21st	1866 – 1869	Owen McInerney^[2]	Ind.
21st	1869 – 1870	Urbain Johnson	Lib.
22nd	1870 – 1873	Antoine Girouard	Cons.
22nd	1873 – 1874	Antoine Girouard	Cons.	Henry O'Leary	Ind.
23rd	1875 – 1878	Urbain Johnson	Lib.	Henry O'Leary	Ind.
24th	1879 – 1882	Urbain Johnson	Lib.	Charles T. Sayre	Ind.
25th	1883 – 1886	William Wheaton^[3]	Ind.	Olivier J. Leblanc^[4]	Lib.
26th	1886 – 1887	William Wheaton^[3]	Ind.
26th	1887 – 1890	James D. Phinney	Lib.-Con.
27th	1890 – 1891
27th	1891 – 1892			Auguste Théophile Léger	Lib.
28th	1892 – 1895			Jean-Baptiste Goguen	Lib.-Con.
29th	1896 – 1899	Urbain Johnson	Lib.	Pierre H. Léger^[1]	Cons.	James Barnes	Lib.
30th	1899 – 1900			Pierre H. Léger^[1]	Cons.
30th	1901 – 1903			Richard A. Poirier	Ind.
31st	1903 – 1908			Jean-Baptiste Goguen	Lib.-Con.
32nd	1908 – 1912	Thomas-Jean Bourque	Cons.	David-Vital Landry	Cons.	John Sheridan	Ind.
33rd	1912 – 1917	Thomas-Jean Bourque	Cons.	David-Vital Landry	Cons.	John Sheridan	Ind.
34th	1917 – 1920	Philias J. Melanson	Ind.	Auguste Bordage	Lib.	Allison Dysart^[5]	Lib.
35th	1921 – 1925	Philias J. Melanson	Ind.
36th	1925 – 1930	François G. Richard	Lib.
37th	1931 – 1935
38th	1935 – 1939
39th	1939 – 1940	Isaie Melanson	Lib.
39th	1940 – 1944					J. Killeen McKee	Lib.
40th	1944 – 1948			Armand Richard	Lib.
41st	1948 – 1952			Armand Richard	Lib.
42nd	1952 – 1956			Hugh A. Dysart^[1]	Lib.	Louis Robichaud^[3]	Lib.
43rd	1957 – 1960	André F. Richard	Lib.
44th	1960 – 1963
45th	1963 – 1964
45th	1964 – 1967			Camille Bordage	Lib.
46th	1967 – 1970			Alan R. Graham	Lib.
47th	1970 – 1971
47th	1971 – 1974					Omer Léger	PC
Riding dissolved into Kent Centre, Kent North and Kent South

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 4 October 1971
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	Omer Léger	6,682	Y
	Liberal	Omer Cormier	4,610

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Louis J. Robichaud	6,608	Y
	Liberal	Alan R. Graham	6,581	Y
	Liberal	André F. Richard	6,033	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Oliver J. Babineau	2,618
	Progressive Conservative	Ulysse Robichaud	2,521
	Progressive Conservative	Fred Hutchinson	2,495

1967 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Louis J. Robichaud	6,424	Y
	Liberal	Alan R. Graham	6,216	Y
	Liberal	André Richard	6,006	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Émile Daigle	3,645
	Progressive Conservative	Byron Hannay	3,635
	Progressive Conservative	? Leblanc	3,498

Kent_(New_Brunswick_provincial_electoral_district,_1827–1974)

Kent (New Brunswick provincial electoral district, 1827–1974)

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