Gloucester (provincial electoral district)

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.

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		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
13th	1843 – 1846					Joshua Alexandre	Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850					Joseph Read	Ind.
15th	1851 – 1854		Robert Gordon	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856		William End	Ind.		Patrick McNaughton	Ind.
17th	1856 – 1857					Joseph Read	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861
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.
	1876 – 1878					Patrick G. Ryan	Lib.
24th	1879 – 1882		Francis J. McManus	Lib.
25th	1883 – 1886
26th	1886 – 1890		James Young	Cons.
27th	1890 – 1892		Joseph Poirier	Cons.
28th	1892 – 1894		John Sievewright[2]	Ind.		Théotime Blanchard[3]	Cons.
	1895					Peter Veniot[4]	Lib.
29th	1896 – 1898								Prosper E. Paulin	Cons.
	1898 – 1899		Joseph Poirier	Cons.
30th	1899								Theobald M. Burns	Cons.
	1900 – 1903					John Young[5]	Ind.
31st	1903 – 1908
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
	1923 – 1925											J. André Doucet	Lib.
	1925					Ivan Rand	Lib.
36th	1925 – 1926					John P. Lordon[8]	Lib.
	1926 – 1930		Clovis-Thomas Richard[6]	Lib.
37th	1931
	1931 – 1935					Wesley H. Coffyn	Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939					F.T.B. Young[8]	Lib.		William A. Losier	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1940
	1940 – 1944					Joseph E. Connolly	Lib.
40th	1944 – 1945								Frederick C. Young	Lib.
	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.
46th	1967 – 1970					Gérard Haché	Lib.					A. A. Ferguson	Lib.
47th	1970 – 1972					André Robichaud	Lib.								Frank Branch	Lib.
	1972 – 1974								Lorenzo Morais	PC
Riding dissolved into Caraquet, Nepisiguit-Chaleur, Nigadoo-Chaleur, Shippagan-les-Îles and Tracadie

Election results

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 18 September 1972
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	100.0
Total rejected ballots			620	2.38
Turnout			26,019	81.16
Source: Elections New Brunswick[10]

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Omer Boudreau	11,333	49.47	Y
	Liberal	André Robichaud	11,055	48.25	Y
	Liberal	Bernard A. Jean	10,892	47.54	Y
	Liberal	Adjutor Ferguson	10,877	47.48	Y
	Liberal	Frank Branch	10,552	46.06	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Camille Losier	5,175	22.59
	Progressive Conservative	Calixte Chiasson	5,132	22.40
	Progressive Conservative	Roland Boudreau	4,538	19.81
	Progressive Conservative	Odilon Boudreau	4,272	18.65
	Progressive Conservative	William Young	4,211	18.38
	Independent	André Dumont	646	2.82
Total valid votes			22,910	100.0
Source: Elections New Brunswick[11]

1967 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Omer Boudreau	12,350	61.16	Y
	Liberal	Adjutor Ferguson	12,048	59.66	Y
	Liberal	Gérard Haché	11,900	58.93	Y
	Liberal	Bernard A. Jean	11,890	58.88	Y
	Liberal	Ernest Richard	11,281	55.86	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Gerard Arseneau	6,539	32.38
	Progressive Conservative	Roland Boudreau	6,505	32.21
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Cormier	6,310	31.25
	Progressive Conservative	Bertie Ferguson	6,297	31.18
	Progressive Conservative	Antonin Friolet	4,211	20.85
Total valid votes[en 1]			20,194	100.0
Source: Elections New Brunswick[12]

1. 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.

References

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. died in office; no by-election afterwards
6. elected to federal seat
7. resigned to accept appointment as judge
8. died in office
9. resigned
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.
11. Twenty-seventh General Election, October 26, 1970, Report of the Chief Electoral Officer . Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved February 22, 2011.
12. Twenty-sixth General Elections, October 23, 1967, Report of the Chief Electoral Officer. Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved February 22, 2011.