Saint John Centre
New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created1795
District abolished1973
First contested1795
Last contested1970

Saint John Centre was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was created from Saint John in 1795 as Saint John City. It was renamed Saint John Centre in 1967.

It elected multiple members through the bloc voting system -- two members prior to 1892 and four members from 1892 to 1973.

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 Member Party
Saint John City
Riding created from Saint John
3rd 1795 – 1802     George Younghusband Ind.     Nathan Smith Ind.
4th 1802 – 1809     John Robinson Ind.
5th 1809 – 1810     John Garrison Ind.     Stephen Humbert Ind.
1810 – 1816     John Robinson Ind.
6th 1817 – 1819     Harry Peters Ind.
7th 1820
8th 1821 – 1827     Hugh Johnston, Jr. Ind.
9th 1827 – 1830     Gregory Van Horne Ind.
10th 1831 – 1834     Thomas Barlow Ind.     William Boyd Kinnear Ind.
11th 1835 – 1837     Lewis Burns Ind.     Isaac Woodward Ind.
12th 1837 – 1842     Thomas Barlow Ind.
13th 1843 – 1846     Robert Leonard Hazen Cons.     Lewis Burns Ind.
14th 1847 – 1850     Isaac Woodward Ind.
15th 1851     Samuel Leonard Tilley[1] Cons.     William Hayden Needham Ind.
1851 – 1854     James A. Harding Ind.
16th 1854 – 1856     Samuel Leonard Tilley Cons.
17th 1856 – 1857     Joseph Wilson Lawrence Ind.
18th 1857 – 1861     Samuel Leonard Tilley Cons.
19th 1862 – 1865     Charles Watters Ind.
20th 1865 – 1866     Andrew Rainsford Wetmore Cons.     Jacob Valentine Troop Ind.
21st 1866 – 1867     Samuel Leonard Tilley[2] Cons.
1867 – 1870     William H.A. Keans Ind.
22nd 1870 – 1874     Aaron Alward Ind.     William Wedderburn Ind.
23rd 1875 – 1876     William H.A. Keans[3] Ind.
1876 – 1878     Robert Marshall Lib.
24th 1879 – 1882
25th 1883 – 1886     John Valentine Ellis[2] Lib.     Ezekiel McLeod Cons.
26th 1886 – 1887     John Berryman Lib.
1887 – 1890     Silas Alward Lib.
27th 1890 – 1892     A.C. Smith Ind.
28th 1892 – 1895     Alfred Augustus Stockton Cons.     William Shaw Lib.-Con.
29th 1896 – 1899     Charles B. Lockhart Cons.
30th 1899 – 1903     George Robertson Ind.     Harrison A. McKeown[4] Lib.-Con.     Daniel S. Purdy Ind.
31st 1903 – 1904     Edward Lantalum Ind.
1905 – 1908     Robert Maxwell Ind.
32nd 1908 – 1912     John Edward Wilson Ind.     James P. McInerney Ind.     Warren Franklin Hatheway Cons.
33rd 1912 – 1917     Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley Cons.     Charles B. Lockhart Cons.     Phillip Grammen Ind.
34th 1917 – 1920     John R. Campbell Cons.     Frank L. Potts Cons.     William F. Roberts Lib.
35th 1921 – 1925     Walter Edward Foster Lib.     Robert Thomas Hayes Cons.     William Edward Scully Lib.
36th 1925 – 1930     Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley Cons.     James Lewis Cons.     W. Henry Harrison Cons.     Miles E. Agar Cons.
37th 1931 – 1935     Walter W. White Cons.
38th 1935 – 1939     A. P. Paterson Lib.     William F. Roberts Lib.     Horace A. Porter Lib.     E. J. Henneberry Lib.
39th 1939 – 1944     Ralph McInerney Cons.     W. Grant Smith Cons.     W. J. Swanton Cons.     J. Starr Tait Cons.
40th 1944 – 1948     PC     PC     Lawrence T. Dow PC     PC
41st 1948 – 1952     James W. Brittain Lib.     Harold Gault Lib.     S. Roy Kelly Lib.     Robert H. Carlin Lib.
42nd 1952 – 1956     Donald D. Patterson PC     Arthur Skaling PC     Harold S. Prince PC     George E. McInerney PC
43rd 1957 – 1960     George L. Keith PC
44th 1960 – 1963     R. M. Pendrigh PC
45th 1963 – 1966     Daniel Aloysius Riley[5] Lib.     John D. MacCallum Lib.
1966 – 1967     Stephen Weyman Lib.
Saint John Center
46th 1967 – 1970     J. Lorne McGuigan PC     George E. McInerney[6] PC     Donald D. Patterson PC     Robert J. Higgins Lib.
47th 1970 – 1972     Eric Teed PC
1973 – 1974     John W. Turnbull Lib.
Riding dissolved into Saint John Harbour, Saint John North, Saint John Park and Saint John South

Election results

Saint John Centre

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 25 June 1973
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Liberal John W. Turnbull 6,933 Green tickY
Progressive Conservative George W. Bate 6,848
1970 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Progressive Conservative J. Lorne McGuigan 10,435 Green tickY
Progressive Conservative Eric L. Teed 9,943 Green tickY
Liberal Robert J. Higgins 9,926 Green tickY
Progressive Conservative George E. McInerney 9,750 Green tickY
Progressive Conservative Wallace P. MacMurray 9,533
Liberal Stephen Weyman 7,766
Liberal Joseph G. Boyce 7,726
Liberal J. Esmonde Barry 7,566
New Democratic Eldon John Richardson 996
New Democratic David Hugh Jory 901
New Democratic Peter Douglas Gibson 799
New Democratic John Caleb Sutton 642
Independent Michael Ronald Landers 134
1967 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Progressive Conservative J. Lorne McGuigan 11,803 Green tickY
Progressive Conservative D.D. Patterson 11,386 Green tickY
Progressive Conservative George E. McInerney 11,255 Green tickY
Liberal Robert Higgins 10,671 Green tickY
Progressive Conservative H.C. "Nig" Tracy 10,651
Liberal Stephen Weyman 9,992
Liberal John MacCallum 9,689
Liberal Jas. W. O'Brien 9,500

Saint John City

References

  1. ^ resigned
  2. ^ a b elected to federal seat
  3. ^ died in 1876
  4. ^ resigned to run federally in 1904
  5. ^ appointed chairman of the New Brunswick Motor Carrier Board and Public Utilities Commission in 1966
  6. ^ died on 25 November 1972

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