Kent (1827–1974 electoral district)

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.

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		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
15th	1851 – 1854		Robert B. Cutler	Ind.		Francis McPhelim	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856
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.
	1869 – 1870		Urbain Johnson	Lib.
22nd	1870 – 1873		Antoine Girouard	Cons.
	1873 – 1874					Henry O'Leary	Ind.
23rd	1875 – 1878		Urbain Johnson	Lib.
24th	1879 – 1882					Charles T. Sayre	Ind.
25th	1883 – 1886		William Wheaton[3]	Ind.		Olivier J. Leblanc[4]	Lib.
26th	1886 – 1887
	1887 – 1890		James D. Phinney	Lib.-Con.
27th	1890 – 1891
	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
	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
34th	1917 – 1920		Philias J. Melanson	Ind.		Auguste Bordage	Lib.		Allison Dysart[5]	Lib.
35th	1921 – 1925
36th	1925 – 1930		François G. Richard	Lib.
37th	1931 – 1935
38th	1935 – 1939
39th	1939 – 1940		Isaie Melanson	Lib.
	1940 – 1944								J. Killeen McKee	Lib.
40th	1944 – 1948					Armand Richard	Lib.
41st	1948 – 1952
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
	1964 – 1967					Camille Bordage	Lib.
46th	1967 – 1970					Alan R. Graham	Lib.
47th	1970 – 1971
	1971 – 1974								Omer Léger	PC
Riding dissolved into Kent Centre, Kent North and Kent South

Election results

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

References

1. died in office
2. named to the Legislative Council
3. resigned
4. ran for federal seat
5. resigned to accept appointment as judge