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		Party		Party		Party		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 – 1894	John Sievewright^[2]	Ind.	Théotime Blanchard^[3]	Cons.
28th	1895			Peter Veniot^[4]	Lib.
29th	1896 – 1898					Prosper E. Paulin	Cons.
29th	1898 – 1899	Joseph Poirier	Cons.			Prosper E. Paulin	Cons.
30th	1899					Theobald M. Burns	Cons.
30th	1900 – 1903			John Young^[5]	Ind.
31st	1903 – 1908			John Young^[5]	Ind.
32nd	1908 – 1912	Alphonse Sormany	Ind.	James P. Byrne	Lib.	Seraphin R. Léger	Lib.
33rd	1912 – 1917	Joseph B. Hachey	Ind.	Alfred J. Witzell	Ind.	A.J.H. Stewart	Ind.	Martin J. Robichaud	Ind.
34th	1917 – 1920	Peter Veniot^[6]	Lib.	James P. Byrne^[7]	Lib.	Seraphin 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 P. Lordon^[8]	Lib.
36th	1926 – 1930	Clovis-Thomas Richard^[6]	Lib.
37th	1931
37th	1931 – 1935			Wesley H. Coffyn	Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939			F.T.B. Young^[8]	Lib.	William A. Losier	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1940			F.T.B. Young^[8]	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^[9]	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 Resignation of Bernard Jean
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	97.62
Total rejected ballots			620	2.38
Turnout			26,019	81.16
Eligible voters			32,059
Source: Elections New Brunswick^[10]

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	J. Omer Boudreau	11,333	14.40	Y
	Liberal	André Robichaud	11,055	14.05	Y
	Liberal	Bernard A. Jean	10,892	13.84	Y
	Liberal	Adjutor Ferguson	10,877	13.82	Y
	Liberal	Frank Branch	10,552	13.41	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Camille Losier	5,175	6.58
	Progressive Conservative	Calixte Chiasson	5,132	6.52
	Progressive Conservative	Roland Boudreau	4,538	5.77
	Progressive Conservative	Odilon Boudreau	4,272	5.43
	Progressive Conservative	William Young	4,211	5.35
	Independent	André Dumont	646	0.82
Total number of valid votes			78,683
Total rejected ballots			192	0.84
Turnout			22,910	87.95
Eligible voters			26,048
Source: Elections New Brunswick^[11]

1967 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	J. Omer Boudreau	12,350	13.45	Y
	Liberal	Adjutor Ferguson	12,048	13.13	Y
	Liberal	Gérard Haché	11,900	12.96	Y
	Liberal	Bernard A. Jean	11,890	12.95	Y
	Liberal	Ernest Richard	11,387	12.41	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Bertie Ferguson	6,576	7.16
	Progressive Conservative	Gerard Arseneau	6,539	7.12
	Progressive Conservative	Roland Boudreau	6,513	7.10
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Cormier	6,310	6.97
	Progressive Conservative	Antonin Friolet	6,277	6.84
Total number of valid votes			91,790
Turnout^{[en 1]}			20,194	100.0
Source: Elections New Brunswick^[12]

↑ Estimate taken from the number 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.

1963 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Harry Williamson	13,979	12.96	Y
	Liberal	J. Omer Boudreau	13,938	12.92	Y
	Liberal	Bernard Jean	13,916	12.90	Y
	Liberal	Rhéal Richard	13,844	12.84	Y
	Liberal	Claude Savoie	13,766	12.76	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Elizabeth Coughlan	8,068	7.48
	Progressive Conservative	Edmond Landry	7,671	7.11
	Progressive Conservative	Ralph Burns	7,593	7.04
	Progressive Conservative	Yves Haché	7,545	7.00
	Progressive Conservative	Léger Chiasson	7,522	6.98
Total number of valid votes			107,842
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[13]

1960 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Rhéal Richard	14,897	13.33	Y
	Liberal	Bernard Jean	14,755	13.20	Y
	Liberal	Claude Savoie	14,668	13.12	Y
	Liberal	Harry Williamson	14,637	13.09	Y
	Liberal	Michel Fournier	14,635	13.09	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Fernand Lanteigne	7,869	7.04
	Progressive Conservative	Alban Duguay	7,704	6.89
	Progressive Conservative	Ralph Burns	7,648	6.84
	Progressive Conservative	Yves Haché	7,555	6.76
	Progressive Conservative	Warren Luce	7,418	6.64
Total number of valid votes			111,786
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[14]

1956 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Rhéal Richard	13,163	12.22	Y
	Liberal	Michel Fournier	13,003	12.07	Y
	Liberal	Claude Savoie	12,862	11.94	Y
	Liberal	Joseph Connolly	12,833	11.91	Y
	Liberal	Frederick Young	12,709	11.80	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Fernand Lanteigne	9,006	8.36
	Progressive Conservative	Warren Luce	8,846	8.21
	Progressive Conservative	Yves Haché	8,522	7.91
	Progressive Conservative	Ralph Burns	8,476	7.87
	Progressive Conservative	Fred Scott	8,325	7.73
Total number of valid votes			107,745
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[15]

1952 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Frederick Young	13,270	12.01	Y
	Liberal	Rhéal Richard	13,179	11.93	Y
	Liberal	Michel Fournier	13,151	11.90	Y
	Liberal	Joseph Connolly	13,092	11.85	Y
	Liberal	André Doucet	12,898	11.67	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Ralph Burns	8,375	7.58
	Progressive Conservative	Lorenzo Boudreau	8,312	7.52
	Progressive Conservative	Warren Luce	8,228	7.45
	Progressive Conservative	J. L. A. Robichaud	8,209	7.43
	Progressive Conservative	Yves Haché	8,151	7.38
	Independent	Guy Riordan	892	0.81
	Independent	Leo Ferguson	804	0.73
	Independent	Fred Hornibrook	663	0.60
	Independent	Emile Godin	630	0.57
	Independent	Percy Cormier	624	0.56
Total number of valid votes			110,478
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[16]

1948 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Joseph Connolly	Acclaimed	Y
	Liberal	André Doucet	Acclaimed	Y
	Liberal	Michel Fournier	Acclaimed	Y
	Liberal	Rhéal Richard	Acclaimed	Y
	Liberal	Frederick Young	Acclaimed	Y
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[17]

1944 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Frederick Young	11,635	15.91	Y
	Liberal	Joseph Connolly	11,526	15.76	Y
	Liberal	Clovis Richard	11,489	15.71	Y
	Liberal	André Doucet	11,477	15.70	Y
	Conservative	Albany-M. Robichaud	7,105	9.72
	Conservative	Leo Ferguson	6,450	8.82
	Conservative	L. A. Palmer	6,307	8.63
	Conservative	Eustache Godin	5,688	7.78
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Duval	728	1.00
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Harry Day	711	0.97
Total number of valid votes			73,116
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[18]

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 19 August 1940 Death of Frederick T. B. Young
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Joseph Connolly	Acclaimed	Y

1939 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Fred Young	10,973	17.83	Y
	Liberal	Clovis Richard	10,838	17.61	Y
	Liberal	André Doucet	10,775	17.50	Y
	Liberal	William Losier	10,762	17.48	Y
	Conservative	Leo Ferguson	4,651	7.56
	Conservative	Joseph Hachey	4,561	7.41
	Conservative	Joseph Talbot	4,528	7.36
	Conservative	A. V. Landry	4,471	7.26
Total number of valid votes			61,559
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[19]

1935 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Fred Young	12,256	18.04	Y
	Liberal	Clovis Richard	12,237	18.01	Y
	Liberal	André Doucet	12,204	17.96	Y
	Liberal	William Losier	12,202	17.96	Y
	Conservative	Wesley Coffyn	4,861	7.15
	Conservative	Alfred Witzell	4,799	7.06
	Conservative	George Haché	4,758	7.00
	Conservative	Martin Robichaud	4,624	6.81
Total number of valid votes			67,941
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[20]

References

↑ resigned to accept appointment as Justice of the Peace
↑ died in office ca. Feb. 1898
↑ resigned to contest a federal by-election
↑ resigned to accept appointment
↑ died in office; no by-election afterwards
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 Archived July 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
↑ Twenty-seventh General Election, October 26, 1970, Report of the Chief Electoral Officer . Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
↑ Twenty-sixth General Elections, October 23, 1967, Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
↑ 1963 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 26, 2022.
↑ 1960 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
↑ 1956 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
↑ 1952 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
↑ 1948 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
↑ 1944 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
↑ 1939 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
↑ 1935 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.

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[en1-12] Estimate taken from the number 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.

[1] resigned to accept appointment as Justice of the Peace

[2] ↑ died in office ca. Feb. 1898

[3] resigned to contest a federal by-election

[4] resigned to accept appointment

[5] ; no by-election afterwards

[fed-6] 1 2 elected to federal seat

[7] resigned to accept appointment as judge

[died-8] 1 2 died in office

[9] resigned

[electionsnb1974-10] Twenty-eighth General Election, November 18, 1974 , Report of the Chief Electoral Officer Archived July 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved 21 February 2011.

[nbelections1970-11] Twenty-seventh General Election, October 26, 1970, Report of the Chief Electoral Officer . Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved December 26, 2022.

[nbelections1967-13] Twenty-sixth General Elections, October 23, 1967, Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved December 26, 2022.

[14] 1963 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 26, 2022.

[15] 1960 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.

[16] 1956 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.

[17] 1952 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.

[18] 1948 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.

[19] 1944 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.

[20] 1939 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.

[21] 1935 New Brunswick Election. Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved December 28, 2022.

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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-Fredericton
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