Kings (New Brunswick provincial electoral district)

For the former federal electoral district in New Brunswick, see King's (New Brunswick electoral district).

Kings
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

Kings 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.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
1st	1786 – 1792	John Coffin^[1]	Ind.		Ebenezer Foster	Ind.
2nd	1793 – 1795			David Fanning	Ind.
3rd	1795 – 1802			David Fanning	Ind.
4th	1802 – 1809			George Leonard, Jr.	Ind.
5th	1809			George Pitfield^[1]	Ind.
5th	1810 – 1816	Jasper Belding	Ind.		George Leonard, Jr.	Ind.
6th	1817 – 1819	James Brittain	Ind.		David B. Wetmore	Ind.
7th	1820	Samuel Freeze	Ind.
8th	1821 – 1827	John C. Vail	Ind.
9th	1827 – 1830	Samuel Freeze	Ind.		John Humbert	Ind.
10th	1831 – 1834	John C. Vail	Ind.		John Humbert	Ind.
11th	1835 – 1837	William McLeod	Ind.		Samuel Freeze^[2]	Ind.
12th	1837 – 1842	William McLeod	Ind.
13th	1843 – 1846	Sylvester Zobieski Earle, Sr.	Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850	Sylvester Zobieski Earle, Sr.	Ind.	William McLeod	Ind.		John C. Vail	Ind.
15th	1851 – 1854	Matthew McLeod	Ind.		George Ryan	Ind.		Henry W. Purdy	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856	Matthew McLeod	Ind.		George Ryan	Ind.		Henry W. Purdy	Ind.
17th	1856 – 1857	Sylvester Zobieski Earle, Sr.	Ind.		Hugh McMonagle	Ind.		Walter Scovil	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861	Matthew McLeod	Ind.		Edwin Arnold Vail	Ind.
19th	1862 – 1865	George Ryan	Ind.
20th	1865 – 1866	George Otty	Ind.
21st	1866 – 1870	George Ryan	Ind.		William P. Flewelling	Ind.		John Flewelling	Ind.
22nd	1870 – 1873	Edwin Arnold Vail	Ind.		George Otty^[3]	Ind.		John Herbert Crawford^[4]	Lib.
22nd	1873 – 1874	Edwin Arnold Vail	Ind.	James William Nowlan	Lib.
23rd	1875 – 1878	John Flewelling	Ind.		Robert E. McLeod	Ind.
24th	1879 – 1882	Finnemore E. Morton	Ind.		Edwin Arnold Vail^[5]	Ind.
25th	1883
	1883 – 1885			Gabriel Flewelling			Lib.-Con.
	1885 – 1886			Gabriel Flewelling	William Pugsley	Lib.	Lib.-Con.
26th	1886 – 1890	Albert Scott White	Lib.-Con.				George L. Taylor	Lib.-Con.
27th	1890 – 1892						George L. Taylor	Lib.-Con.
28th	1892 – 1895			George G. Scovil	Lib.		Gabriel Flewelling	Lib.-Con.
29th	1896 – 1899					George William Fowler	Lib.-Con.
30th	1899 – 1903					William Pugsley	Lib.
31st	1903 – 1908	Ora P. King	Ind.			William Pugsley	Lib.
32nd	1908 – 1912	George Burpee Jones^[6]	Cons.		Frederick M. Sproule	Ind.		James Alexander Murray	Cons.
33rd	1912 – 1917			Hedley V. Dickson	Cons.
34th	1917 – 1920
35th	1921 – 1922					Ormond W. Wetmore	Lib.
35th	1922 – 1925	James D. McKenna	Lib.			Ormond W. Wetmore	Lib.
36th	1925 – 1930	Alfred Johnson Brooks	Cons.				J. W. Smith	Cons.
37th	1931 – 1935	Alfred Johnson Brooks	Cons.	Jack Fairweather	Cons.		J. W. Smith	Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939	Walter W. V. Foster	Lib.		Colin C. McDonald	Lib.		W. A. Jeffries	Lib.
39th	1938 – 1944	Elmore T. Kennedy^[7]	Cons.		Hugh Mackay	Cons.		Harry A. McMackin	Cons.
40th	1944 – 1948		PC			PC		John Woods	PC
41st	1948 – 1952					PC		John Woods	PC
42nd	1952 – 1956			Cyril Sherwood	PC		Gordon Fairweather^[6]	PC
43rd	1957 – 1960	Harry N. Jonah^[3]	PC
44th	1960 – 1962	Harry N. Jonah^[3]	PC
44th	1962 – 1963	John B. M. Baxter, Jr.	PC				George E. Horton	PC
45th	1963 – 1967
46th	1967 – 1970
47th	1970 – 1974
Riding dissolved into Kings Centre, Kings East and Kings West

Election results

New Brunswick general election, 1970
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	John B. M. Baxter	7,995	Y
	Progressive Conservative	C. B. Sherwood	7,695	Y
	Progressive Conservative	George Horton	7,593	Y
	Liberal	Ralph H. London	4,185
	Liberal	Edward W. B. McLean	4,079
	Liberal	Michael J. Leclair	3,885
	New Democratic	Allan Hermitage	740

New Brunswick general election, 1967
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	Cyril Sherwood	7,485	Y
	Progressive Conservative	John B. M. Baxter, Jr.	7,288	Y
	Progressive Conservative	George E. Horton	7,162	Y
	Liberal	? Alward	4,472
	Liberal	? Dearborn	4,435
	Liberal	? Nibbet	4,334

References

1 2 unseated after an appeal
↑ died in 1844
1 2 resigned after being named judge
↑ died in 1882
↑ died in 1885
1 2 elected to federal seat
↑ died in 1953

New Brunswick provincial electoral districts

Capital	Carleton-York Fredericton North Fredericton South Fredericton West-Hanwell Fredericton-Grand Lake Fredericton-York New Maryland-Sunbury Oromocto-Lincoln

Northern	Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-Saint-Isidore Bathurst West-Beresford Campbellton-Dalhousie Caraquet Miramichi Miramichi Bay-Neguac Restigouche West Restigouche-Chaleur Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou Southwest Miramichi-Bay du Vin Tracadie-Sheila

River Valley	Carleton Carleton-Victoria Edmundston-Madawaska Centre Madawaska les Lacs-Edmundston Victoria-la-Vallée

South	Charlotte-Campobello Fundy-The Isles-Saint John West Hampton Kings Centre Portland-Simonds Quispamsis Rothesay Saint John East Saint John Harbour Saint John Lancaster Sussex-Fundy-St. Martins

Southeast	Albert Dieppe Gagetown-Petitcodiac Kent North Kent South Memramcook-Tantramar Moncton Centre Moncton East Moncton Northwest Moncton South Moncton Southwest Riverview Shediac Bay-Dieppe Shediac-Beaubassin-Cap-Pelé

Defunct Districts

1974 – 2014	Albert Bathurst Bay du Vin Campbellton Campbellton-Restigouche Centre Caraquet Carleton Carleton Centre Carleton North Carleton South Centre-Péninsule Centre-Péninsule-Saint-Sauveur Charlotte Charlotte-Campobello Charlotte Centre Charlotte-Fundy Charlotte-The Isles Charlotte West Chatham Dalhousie Dalhousie-Restigouche East Dieppe Centre-Lewisville Dieppe-Memramcook East Saint John Edmundston Edmundston-Saint-Basile Fredericton-Fort Nashwaak Fredericton-Lincoln Fredericton-Nashwaaksis Fredericton North Fredericton-Silverwood Fredericton South Fundy Isles Fundy-River Valley Grand Bay-Westfield Grand Falls Grand Falls-Drummond-Saint-André Grand Falls Region Grand Lake Grand Lake-Gagetown Hampton-Belleisle Hampton-Kings Kennebecasis Kent Kent Centre Kent North Kent South Kings Centre Kings East Kings West Lamèque-Shippagan-Miscou Mactaquac Madawaska Centre Madawaska-la-Vallée Madawaska-les-Lacs Madawaska South Memramcook Memramcook-Lakeville-Dieppe Miramichi Bay Miramichi-Bay du Vin Miramichi Bay-Neguac Miramichi Centre Miramichi-Newcastle Moncton Crescent Moncton East Moncton North Moncton South Moncton West Nepisiguit Nepisiguit-Chaleur New Maryland New Maryland-Sunbury West Nigadoo-Chaleur Oromocto Oromocto-Gagetown Petitcodiac Queens North Queens South Quispamsis Restigouche East Restigouche-La-Vallée Restigouche West Riverview Rogersville-Kouchibouguac Rothesay Saint John Champlain Saint John East Saint John-Fundy Saint John Harbour Saint John-Kings Saint John Lancaster Saint John Park Saint John Portland Saint John South Saint John West St. Stephen-Milltown Shediac Shediac-Cap-Pelé Shippagan-les-Îles Southwest Miramichi Sunbury Tantramar Tracadie Tracadie-Sheila Victoria-Tobique Western Charlotte Woodstock York York North York South

Pre-1974	Albert Bathurst Carleton Charlotte Edmundston Fredericton Gloucester Kent Kings Madawaska Moncton Northumberland Queens Restigouche Saint John Saint John Centre Saint John City Saint John County Saint John East Saint John West St. Stephen-Milltown Sunbury Victoria Westmorland York

See also: 2013 electoral redistribution List of elections 2014 general election

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