Victoria (New Brunswick provincial electoral district)

Victoria was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It used a bloc voting system to elect candidates, and was created from Carleton in 1846. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.

For the former New Brunswick federal electoral district, see Victoria (New Brunswick electoral district).

Victoria

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1846
District abolished	1973
First contested	1846
Last contested	1970

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party
Riding created from Carleton
15th	1851 – 1854		John Richard Partelow	Independent		Francis Rice	Independent
16th	1854 – 1856		James Tibbits	Independent
17th	1856 – 1857					Charles Watters	Independent
18th	1857 – 1861
19th	1862 – 1865		David B. Raymond	Independent		John Costigan	Conservative
20th	1865 – 1866		Benjamin Beveridge	Independent
21st	1866 – 1867					Vital Hébert[1]	Independent
	1868 – 1870					Lévite Thériault	Independent
22nd	1870 – 1874		James Tibbits	Independent
23rd	1875 – 1878		William Blackwood Beveridge	Liberal-Conservative
24th	1879 – 1882
25th	1883 – 1884		Richard Tibbits[2]	Conservative
	1884 – 1886		George Thomas Baird	Conservative
26th	1886 – 1890
27th	1890 – 1892		James Porter	Liberal
28th	1892 – 1895		George Thomas Baird	Conservative
29th	1896 – 1899		James Porter	Liberal		Adam Beveridge	Liberal
30th	1899 – 1903					Thomas Lawson	Independent
31st	1903 – 1908		John F. Tweeddale	Liberal		James Burgress, Jr.	Independent
32nd	1908 – 1912
33rd	1912 – 1917		J. Leigh White	Independent		Thomas J. Carter	Independent
34th	1917		John F. Tweeddale	Liberal		James Burgess[2]	Liberal
	1917 – 1920					Walter Edward Foster	Liberal
35th	1921 – 1925		D. Wetmore Pickett	United Farmers		George W. Warnock	United Farmers
36th	1925 – 1930		Oran B. Davis	Liberal		John W. Niles[2]	Liberal
37th	1931 – 1935		Frederick William Pirie[3]	Liberal
38th	1935 – 1939
39th	1939 – 1940
	1940 – 1944					John B. McNair	Liberal
40th	1944 – 1945					Michael F. McCloskey	Liberal
	1945 – 1948		Vernon R. Briggs	Liberal
41st	1948 – 1952
42nd	1952 – 1956		J. Stewart Brooks	Progressive Conservative		Walter Powers[4]	Progressive Conservative
43rd	1957 – 1960					L.B. Rideout	Progressive Conservative
44th	1960 – 1963					T.E. Duffie	Liberal
45th	1963 – 1967					Leon B. Rideout	Progressive Conservative
46th	1967 – 1970
47th	1970 – 1974					Joseph E. M. Ouellette	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Grand Falls and Victoria-Tobique

Election results

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	J. Stewart Brooks	3,834	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Joseph Ouellette	3,307	Y
	Liberal	Everard Daigle	3,273
	Liberal	Winfred V. Baker	3,226

1967 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	J. Stewart Brooks	3,913	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Leon B. Rideout	3,703	Y
	Liberal	Everard Daigle	3,366
	Liberal	Gordon Matheson	3,193

References

1. died in 1867
2. resigned
3. named to Senate of Canada
4. died in 1954