Madawaska
New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created1874
District abolished1973
First contested1874
Last contested1970

Madawaska was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was created from Victoria in 1874, and used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature Years Member Party Member Party Member Party
Riding created from Victoria
23rd 1875 – 1878     Lévite Thériault Ind.
24th 1879 – 1882
25th 1882     P. Lynott[1] Ind.
1882 – 1886     Mathias Nadeau Cons.
26th 1886 – 1890     Lévite Thériault Ind.
27th 1890 – 1892
28th 1892 – 1895
29th 1896 – 1899     Alphonse Bertrand Cons.     Cyprien Martin Lib.
30th 1899 – 1903     Frederick LaForest Ind.     Narcisse A. Gagnon Ind.
31st 1903     Thomas Clair Lib.
1903 – 1908     Cyprien Martin Lib.
32nd 1908 – 1912     Charles L. Cyr Ind.     Jesse W. Baker Ind.
33rd 1912 – 1917     Louis-Auguste Dugal Lib.     Joseph H. Pelletier Ind.
34th 1917 – 1920     Joseph-Enoil Michaud[2] Lib.
35th 1921 – 1922     Donat L. Daigle Ind.
1922 – 1925     Lorne J. Violette Lib.
36th 1925 – 1930
37th 1931 – 1935
38th 1935 – 1939     Joseph Gaspard Boucher Lib.     Pio Laporte[3] Lib.
39th 1939 – 1944
40th 1944 – 1948     J. Hervé Proulx Lib.
41st 1948 – 1952     Clarence Bourque Lib.     Docithe Nadeau Lib.
42nd 1952 – 1956     William Bird PC     Lucien Fortin PC     Edgar Fournier PC
43rd 1957 – 1960
44th 1960 – 1963     Laurier Lévesque Lib.     J. Adrien Lévesque Lib.     Jean Marc Michaud Lib.
45th 1963 – 1967     Fred E. Soucy Lib.
46th 1967 – 1970     Gérald Clavette Lib.
47th 1970 – 1974     Daniel G. Daigle Lib.
Riding dissolved into Madawaska Centre, Madawaska-les-Lacs and Madawaska South

Election results

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Liberal Gérald Clavette 4,766 Green tickY
Liberal Laurier Lévesque 4,696 Green tickY
Liberal Daniel Daigle 4,670 Green tickY
Progressive Conservative Guy Charest 3,304
Progressive Conservative Guildard A. Pelletier 3,195
Progressive Conservative Renaud Gagné 3,125
1967 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Liberal Gérald Clavette 4,303 Green tickY
Liberal J. Adrien Lévesque 4,235 Green tickY
Liberal Laurier Lévesque 4,187 Green tickY
Progressive Conservative Guy Charest 3,679
Progressive Conservative Noe Lévesque 3,574
Progressive Conservative Everard Tardif 3,548
New Brunswick provincial by-election, 9 October 1882
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Conservative Mathias Nadeau accl. Green tickY
1882 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Independent Patrick Lynott 343 Green tickY
Liberal Lévite Thériault 342
Conservative Mathias Nadeau 294
1878 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Liberal Lévite Thériault accl. Green tickY
1874 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Liberal Lévite Thériault 475 Green tickY
Independent John Lynch 210
Independent Prudent A. Babin ret.

References

  1. ^ resigned
  2. ^ elected to federal seat
  3. ^ died in 1939

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