Westmorland (provincial electoral district)

Westmorland 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.

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

Westmorland

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1785
District abolished	1973
First contested	1785
Last contested	1970

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
1st	1786 – 1792		Amos Botsford[1]	Ind.		Charles Dixon	Ind.		Samuel Gay	Ind.		Andrew Kinnear	Ind.
2nd	1793 – 1795					Thomas Chandler	Ind.		William Black	Ind.		Thomas Dixson	Ind.
3rd	1795 – 1802					Samuel Gay	Ind.		Ralph Siddall	Ind.
4th	1802 – 1809					Benjamin Wilson	Ind.		James Easterbrooks	Ind.
5th	1809 – 1812					Titus Knapp	Ind.					John Chapman	Ind.
	1813 – 1816		William Botsford[2]	Ind.
6th	1817 – 1819					Rufus Smith	Ind.
7th	1820											Joseph Crandall[3]	Ind.
8th	1821 – 1823								Benjamin Wilson	Ind.
	1823 – 1824											Malcolm Wilmot	Ind.
	1824 – 1827		William Crane	Ind.
9th	1827 – 1830					Edward Barron Chandler	Ind.		Philip Palmer	Ind.		Robert Scott	Ind.
10th	1831 – 1834								Rufus Smith	Ind.
11th	1835 – 1837								Philip Palmer	Ind.		Daniel Hanington	Ind.
12th	1837 – 1842					William Wilson	Ind.
13th	1843 – 1846		William Hazen Botsford	Ind.		John Smith	Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850					William Wilson	Ind.		Amand Landry	Ind.
15th	1851 – 1853		William Crane[4]	Ind.		Bliss Botsford	Ind.		Robert B. Chapman	Ind.
	1853 – 1854		Amand Landry	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856					Albert James Smith[5]	Lib.		James Steadman	Ind.
17th	1856 – 1857								Bliss Botsford	Ind.		Robert K. Gilbert	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861		James Steadman	Ind.
19th	1862 – 1865								Amand Landry	Ind.		William J. Gilbert	Ind.
20th	1865 – 1866		Bliss Botsford	Ind.
21st	1866 – 1867											Angus McQueen	Ind.
	1867 – 1870					Joseph Lytle Moore[6]	Ind.
22nd	1870 – 1871								Pierre-Amand Landry	Cons.
	1871 – 1874		Daniel Lionel Hanington	Lib.-Con.		John A. Humphrey	Lib.-Con.
23rd	1875 – 1878		Edward J. Smith	Lib.					Thomas Pickard	Lib.
24th	1879 – 1882		Daniel Lionel Hanington	Lib.-Con.		Amasa E. Killam	Lib.-Con.		Pierre-Amand Landry	Cons.		Joseph Laurence Black	Ind.
25th	1882 – 1883					John A. Humphrey	Lib.-Con.					Charles A. Black	Cons.
	1883 – 1886								Amasa E. Killam	Lib.-Con.
26th	1886 – 1890											Joseph Laurence Black	Ind.
27th	1890 – 1891					Henry Absalom Powell[7]	Lib.-Con.		Olivier-Maximin Melanson	Lib.-Con.		Henry T. Stevens[8]	Ind.
	1891 – 1892											Joseph A. McQueen	Lib.
28th	1892 – 1895		John W. Y. Smith[9]	Ind.					Amasa E. Killam	Lib.-Con.		W. Woodbury Wells[10]	Lib.
29th	1896 – 1897		Ambrose D. Richard	Cons.		Frederick W. Sumner	Cons.
	1897 – 1899								Clifford William Robinson	Lib.
30th	1899 – 1901		William F. Humphrey	Ind.		Olivier-Maximin Melanson	Lib.-Con.
	1901 – 1903											Arthur Bliss Copp	Lib.
31st	1903 – 1908		Francis J. Sweeney	Lib.		Clement M. Leger	Lib.
32nd	1908 – 1912
33rd	1912 – 1916		William F. Humphrey	Ind.		Frank Bunting Black	Cons.		Olivier-Maximin Melanson	Lib.-Con.		Patrick G. Mahoney[11]	Ind.
	1916 – 1917											Ernest A. Smith	Lib.
34th	1917 – 1920		Francis J. Sweeney	Lib.		Clement M. Leger	Lib.		Fred Magee	Lib.
35th	1921 – 1925		Frederick L. Estabrooks	Lib.		A. Chase Fawcett	UF					Reid McManus	Lib.
36th	1925 – 1930		Merville A. Oulton[12]	Cons.		Antoine Joseph Léger	Cons.		Herbert M. Wood	Cons.		Medley G. Siddall	Cons.
37th	1930
	1931 – 1935		Lewis Smith	Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939		Austin Claude Taylor[13]	Lib.		Frank Copp	Lib.		E. R. McDonald	Lib.		Simeon Melanson	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1944								Édouard S. Léger	Lib.		A. W. McQueen	Lib.
40th	1944 – 1948											L. C. Dysart	Lib.
41st	1948 – 1952
42nd	1952 – 1956					Donald C. Harper[14]	Lib.		Joseph E. LeBlanc	Lib.		Cléophas Léger	Lib.
43rd	1957 – 1960
44th	1960 – 1963		Percy Mitton	Lib.
45th	1963 – 1965
	1965 – 1967					W. Wynn Meldrum	Lib.
46th	1967 – 1970
47th	1970 – 1974		William J. McNevin	Lib.
Riding dissolved into Memramcook, Petitcodiac, Shediac and Tantramar

Election results

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Joseph E. Leblanc	10,683	13.10	Y
	Liberal	Wendell W. Meldrum	10,495	12.87	Y
	Liberal	William J. McNevin	10,284	12.61	Y
	Liberal	J. Cléophas Léger	10,141	12.43	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Frank K. Wortman	9,516	11.67
	Progressive Conservative	William Sloan	9,316	11.42
	Progressive Conservative	Max Gordon	9,143	11.21
	Progressive Conservative	Alfred Leger	8,713	10.68
	New Democratic	Colin McCabe	1,188	1.46
	New Democratic	Beatrice Boudreau	1,110	1.36
	New Democratic	Kevin Noon	982	1.20
Total number of valid votes			81,571	100.00
Number of electors who cast votes/Turnout			22,326	82.03
Eligible voters			27,216

1967 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	W. W. Meldrum	11,785	15.00	Y
	Liberal	Joseph E. Leblanc	11,656	14.84	Y
	Liberal	Percy Mitton	11,346	14.44	Y
	Liberal	J. Cléophas Léger	11,314	14.40	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Wortman	8,476	10.79
	Progressive Conservative	Mark Yeoman	8,243	10.49
	Progressive Conservative	Leopold Leger	7,952	10.12
	Progressive Conservative	George Cormier	7,780	9.90
Total number of valid votes			78,552	100.00

1963 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Donald C. Harper	11,284	14.18	Y
	Liberal	Percy Mitton	11,195	14.07	Y
	Liberal	Joseph E. Leblanc	11,083	13.93	Y
	Liberal	Joseph C. Léger	11,072	13.92	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Lutes	8,779	11.04
	Progressive Conservative	Harvey Hicks	8,770	11.02
	Progressive Conservative	Louis Landry	8,699	10.93
	Progressive Conservative	Sylvain Léger	8,672	10.90

1960 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Donald C. Harper	11,889	14.16	Y
	Liberal	Percy Mitton	11,832	14.09	Y
	Liberal	Joseph E. Leblanc	11,811	14.07	Y
	Liberal	Joseph C. Léger	11,759	14.00	Y
	Progressive Conservative	James Henderson	9,269	11.04
	Progressive Conservative	Harvey Hicks	9,213	10.97
	Progressive Conservative	Louis Landry	9,138	10.88
	Progressive Conservative	Régis LeBlanc	9,060	10.79

1956 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	11,159	13.84	Y
	Liberal	Joseph E. Leblanc	11,012	13.66	Y
	Liberal	Joseph C. Léger	11,005	13.65	Y
	Liberal	Donald C. Harper	10,962	13.60	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Aurèle Young	9,147	11.35
	Progressive Conservative	Howard Trueman	9,132	11.33
	Progressive Conservative	Louis Landry	9,128	11.32
	Progressive Conservative	Roy Beckwith	9,069	11.25

1952 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	11,829	13.72	Y
	Liberal	Donald C. Harper	11,569	13.42	Y
	Liberal	Joseph E. Leblanc	11,487	13.33	Y
	Liberal	Joseph C. Léger	11,375	13.20	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Robert S. Black	8,998	10.44
	Progressive Conservative	Aurèle Young	8,763	10.17
	Progressive Conservative	Roy Beckwith	8,755	10.16
	Progressive Conservative	George Belliveau	8,472	9.83
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Percy Mitton	1,274	1.48
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Claude P. Milton	1,259	1.46
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George A. Wilson	1,259	1.44
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Joseph O. LeBlanc	1,182	1.37

1948 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	13,203	16.91	Y
	Liberal	Frank H. Copp	12,895	16.52	Y
	Liberal	Langton C. Dysart	12,794	16.39	Y
	Liberal	Edouard S. Léger	12,647	16.20	Y
	Progressive Conservative	J. Lawrence Black	5,143	6.59
	Progressive Conservative	Percy J. Eagles	5,136	6.58
	Progressive Conservative	Ambrose Léger	4,832	6.19
	Progressive Conservative	M. J. Esliger	4,812	6.16
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Percy Mitton	2,261	2.90
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gordon Wilson	2,208	2.83
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Joseph Breau	2,127	2.72

1944 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	9,465	13.02	Y
	Liberal	Frank H. Copp	9,148	12.59	Y
	Liberal	Langton C. Dysart	9,076	12.49	Y
	Liberal	Edouard S. Léger	8,913	12.26	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Cass	6,493	8.93
	Progressive Conservative	Carl C. Allen	6,323	8.70
	Progressive Conservative	William H. Humphrey	6,313	8.69
	Progressive Conservative	Eloi J. Léger	5,949	8.18
	Co-operative Commonwealth	R. J. Caldwell	2,840	3.91
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Edward R. McDonald	2,740	3.77
	Co-operative Commonwealth	G. W. R. Myles	2,740	3.77
	Co-operative Commonwealth	P. A. Bannister	2,685	3.69

1939 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	9,999	14.85	Y
	Liberal	Frank H. Copp	9,692	14.39	Y
	Liberal	Alexander W. McQueen	9,725	14.44	Y
	Liberal	Edouard S. Léger	9,593	14.25	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Carl C. Allen	7,132	10.59
	Progressive Conservative	Emmerson C. Rice	7,104	10.55
	Progressive Conservative	Medley G. Siddall	7,096	10.54
	Progressive Conservative	Ferdinand J. Robidoux	6,992	10.38

1935 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	10,558	15.49	Y
	Liberal	Frank H. Copp	10,491	15.39	Y
	Liberal	Edward McDonald	10,418	15.28	Y
	Liberal	Siméon Melanson	10,230	15.01	Y
	Progressive Conservative	William Humphrey	6,807	9.98
	Progressive Conservative	Herbert M. Wood	6,719	9.68
	Progressive Conservative	Medley G. Siddall	6,625	9.72
	Progressive Conservative	Antoine J. Léger	6,327	9.28

1930 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	Herbert M. Wood	7,156	12.98	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Merville A. Oulton	7,060	12.81	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Medley G. Siddall	7,051	12.79	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Antoine J. Léger	6,927	12.57	Y
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	6,841	12.41
	Liberal	William C. Rayworth	6,819	12.37
	Liberal	Reid McManus	6,671	12.10
	Liberal	Alphonse T. LeBlanc	6,603	11.98

References

1. died in 1812
2. appointed judge
3. declared ineligible because he was a preacher
4. died in 1853
5. elected to federal seat
6. died in 1871
7. 1890 election appealed but re-elected in subsequent by-election in 1891
8. 1890 election appealed; lost subsequent by-election in 1891
10. died in 1901
11. named to cabinet; lost subsequent by-election
12. resigned
13. named to Senate
14. died in 1965