Saint John North

Saint John North

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1973
District abolished	1994
First contested	1974
Last contested	1991

Saint John North was a provincial electoral district in New Brunswick. It was created from the multi-member riding of Saint John Centre in the 1973 electoral redistribution, and was abolished in the 1994 electoral redistribution.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Saint John Centre
48th	1974–1978		Shirley Dysart	Liberal
49th	1978–1982		Eric Kipping	Progressive Conservative
50th	1982–1987
51st	1987–1991		Leo McAdam	Liberal
52nd	1991–1995
Riding dissolved into Saint John Portland

Election results

New Brunswick general election, 1991
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Leo McAdam	1,892	38.64	-17.89
	Progressive Conservative	Doug Shippee	1,089	22.24	-1.68
	New Democratic	Julie Galbraith	966	19.73	+0.18
	Confederation of Regions	Peter A. Whitebone	950	19.40	–
Total valid votes			4,897	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-8.10

New Brunswick general election, 1987
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Leo A. McAdam	2,753	56.53	+17.91
	Progressive Conservative	Eric John Kipping	1,165	23.92	-17.40
	New Democratic	Lesley Orill MacLean	952	19.55	-0.51
Total valid votes			4,870	100.0
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+17.66

New Brunswick general election, 1982
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Eric J. Kipping	2,223	41.32	-7.49
	Liberal	Joseph A. Day	2,078	38.62	-1.56
	New Democratic	Erik Kraglund	1,079	20.06	+9.05
Total valid votes			5,380	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-2.96

New Brunswick general election, 1978
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Eric J. Kipping	1,906	48.81	+0.98
	Liberal	Harry G. Colwell	1,569	40.18	-9.27
	New Democratic	Henry Thomas Watts	430	11.01	+8.28
Total valid votes			3,905	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+5.12

New Brunswick general election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Shirley Dysart	2,231	49.45
	Progressive Conservative	Hugh John Flemming	2,158	47.83
	New Democratic	Keith Parks	123	2.73
Total valid votes			4,512	100.0
The previous multi-member riding of Saint John Centre elected three Progressive Conservatives and one Liberal in the previous election, one of the PC seats was won by a Liberal in a by-election. None of the four incumbents ran in this riding.

External Links

• Website of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick