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2024 New Brunswick general election

2024 New Brunswick general election

Upcoming Canadian provincial election

The 2024 New Brunswick general election is scheduled to take place on or before October 21, 2024, according to the Legislative Assembly Act of 2017 which states that an election should be held every four years on the third Monday in October.[3]

Quick Facts 49 seats in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick 25 seats needed for a majority, Leader ...

Background

Defections and de-registration of the People's Alliance

On March 30, 2022, Kris Austin and Michelle Conroy announced their departures from the People's Alliance to join the Progressive Conservatives. Austin said that the result of the 2020 provincial election, when the party lost one of its three seats, had prompted him to undertake some “soul-searching”, but that he believed he had changed politics in New Brunswick.[4] Both Austin and Conroy stated that they believed they could better represent their ridings from within government.[5]

Premier and Progressive Conservative leader Blaine Higgs expressed excitement about his party's new MLAs, but reiterated the party's support for official bilingualism when questioned about the People's Alliance's previous stances on the issue. The acceptance of MLAs who had expressed anti-bilingual opinions was criticized by the Acadian Society of New Brunswick, an organization promoting the rights of francophones in the province, when their president Alexandre Cédric Doucet said that he was happy to see the Alliance dissolve, but that it was "a sad day" for the Progressive Conservatives.[5]

The Chief Electoral Officer of New Brunswick confirmed that the Peoples Alliance of New Brunswick would be deregistered as a provincial party on March 31, 2022.[6] In April 2022, interim leader Rick DeSaulniers and party announced plans to re-register as a party.[7] Elections New Brunswick confirmed the party was re-registered in May 2022.[8]

Current standings

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Summary of seat changes

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Opinion polls

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Issues

Candidates

Retiring incumbents

The following sitting MLAs have announced that they would not seek re-election:

Legend

  • bold denotes cabinet minister, speaker or party leader
  • † denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election or was defeated in nomination contest
  • # denotes an incumbent seeking re-election in a new district

Northern

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Miramichi

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Southeastern

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Southern

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Capital Region

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Upper River Valley

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Notes

  1. Holt will run in the new riding of Fredericton South-Silverwood.
  2. Coon will run in the new riding of Fredericton-Lincoln.
  3. DeSaulniers was the MLA for Fredericton-York from 2018-2020. The party has named another candidate in his former seat,[1] and he is considering running in his home riding of Fredericton-Grand Lake.[2]

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