Tobique—Mactaquac

Tobique—Mactaquac

New Brunswick electoral district
Tobique-Mactaquac in relation to other New Brunswick federal electoral districts
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	T. J. Harvey Liberal
District created	1996
First contested	1997
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	70,632
Electors (2015)	53,129
Area (km²)[2]	15,130
Pop. density (per km²)	4.7
Census divisions	Carleton, Victoria, York
Census subdivisions	Grand Falls / Grand-Sault, Fredericton, Woodstock, Bright, Douglas, Drummond, Kent, Saint Marys, Wakefield

Tobique—Mactaquac is a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.

Geography

The district includes the counties of Carleton and Victoria as well as the Parish and Village of Saint-André and the eastern part of the County of York (excluding the City of Fredericton and vicinity). The neighbouring ridings are Madawaska—Restigouche, Miramichi, Fredericton, and New Brunswick Southwest.

History

The electoral district was created in 1996 from portions of the old ridings of Carleton—Charlotte, Fredericton—York—Sunbury, and Madawaska—Victoria. Its creation was very controversial, as it included areas with both large anglophone and francophone populations, while neighbouring communities were placed in other ridings. This seemingly went against the "communities of interest" criterion in drawing electoral boundaries.

On two separate occasions Tobique—Mactaquac has been involved in party nomination controversies. In the 1997 election, the Liberals were alleged to have rigged their meeting to choose Pierrette Ringuette-Maltais, the Member of Parliament for the defunct Madawaska—Victoria riding. The meeting was held in Grand Falls, near her hometown and at the far northern end of the riding. Because of sound problems, only her speech was carried over the loudspeakers. Ringuette-Maltais lost the election to Gilles Bernier of the Progressive Conservatives.

In the 2004 election, the Conservative Party selected Adam Richardson, who had run for the Canadian Alliance in the 2000 election, but national head office refused to sign his nomination papers, apparently because of Richardson's demands that Stephen Harper apologize for comments about Atlantic Canadians. The eventual Conservative candidate, Mike Allen, lost to Liberal incumbent Andy Savoy.

As per the 2012 federal electoral distribution, this riding will gain territory from Fredericton and lose a small territory to the new riding of Miramichi—Grand Lake.

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
2001	70,105	—
2006	68,352	−2.5%
2011	68,709	+0.5%

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Tobique—Mactaquac Riding created from Carleton—Charlotte, Fredericton—York—Sunbury and Madawaska—Victoria
36th	1997–2000		Gilles Bernier	Progressive Conservative
37th	2000–2004		Andy Savoy	Liberal
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008		Mike Allen	Conservative
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–Present		T. J. Harvey	Liberal

Election results

Tobique—Mactaquac, 2013 Representation Order

This riding gained territory from Fredericton and lost territory to Miramichi—Grand Lake for the 42nd Canadian federal election.

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	T. J. Harvey	17,909	46.61	+30.38	–
	Conservative	Richard Bragdon	14,225	37.02	-25.12	–
	New Democratic	Robert Kitchen	4,334	11.28	-7.86	–
	Green	Terry Wishart	1,959	5.10	+2.62	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			38,427	100.00		$203,600.80
Total rejected ballots			248	0.64	–
Turnout			38,675	71.79	–
Eligible voters			53,870
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+27.75
Source: Elections Canada[3][4]

2011 federal election redistributed results[5]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	21,410	62.14
	New Democratic	6,594	19.14
	Liberal	5,591	16.23
	Green	853	2.48
	Others	7	0.02

Tobique—Mactaquac, 2003 Representation Order

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Mike Allen	21,108	62.70	+5.21	$44,047.06
	New Democratic	Pierre Cyr	6,388	18.98	+3.61	$4,796.14
	Liberal	Charles Chiasson	5,337	15.85	-5.70	$29,831.59
	Green	Rish McGlynn	831	2.47	-3.29	$5.82
Total valid votes/Expense limit			33,664	100.0		$84,385.35
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			256	0.75	-0.33
Turnout			33,920	63.91	+4.18
Eligible voters			53,073
	Conservative hold		Swing		+0.80
Sources:[6][7]

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Mike Allen	18,071	57.49	+13.70	$61,678.30
	Liberal	Sally McGrath	6,773	21.55	-21.32	$26,392.40
	New Democratic	Alice Finnamore	4,830	15.37	+3.87	$8,535.56
	Green	Mark Glass	1,810	5.76	+3.89	$1,492.00
Total valid votes/Expense limit			31,433	100.0		$81,901
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			343	1.08	+0.04
Turnout			31,776	59.73	-8.02
Eligible voters			53,203
	Conservative hold		Swing		+17.51

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Mike Allen	15,894	43.79	+4.20	$66,976.92
	Liberal	Andy Savoy	15,558	42.87	-5.36	$70,900.54
	New Democratic	Alice Finnamore	4,172	11.50	+3.00	$9,442.17
	Green	Robert Bérubé Jr.	679	1.87	-1.81	none listed
Total valid votes/Expense limit			36,292	100.0		$76,462
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			383	1.04
Turnout			36,675	67.75	+3.75
Eligible voters			54,135
	Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+4.78

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Andy Savoy	16,787	48.23	+15.82	$74,481.32
	Conservative	Mike Allen	13,779	39.59	-24.32	$60,455.56
	New Democratic	Jason Mapplebeck	2,957	8.50	+4.82	$1,645.00
	Green	Scott Jones	1,282	3.68	–	$882.20
Total valid votes/Expense limit			34,805	100.0		$74,648
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			349	1.0
Turnout			35,154	64.00	-2.29
Eligible voters			54,931
	Liberal notional gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+20.07
Changes from 2000 are based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.

2000 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	Progressive Conservative	11,708	33.80
	Liberal	11,225	32.41
	Alliance	10,428	30.11
	New Democratic	1,273	3.68

Tobique—Mactaquac, 1996 Representation Order

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Andy Savoy	10,900	33.6	+3.4
	Progressive Conservative	Gilles Bernier	10,750	33.1	-2.8
	Alliance	Adam Richardson	9,570	29.5	+1.8
	New Democratic	Carolyn Van Dine	1,216	3.7	-2.5
Total			32,436	100.0

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Gilles Bernier	12,125	35.9
	Liberal	Pierrette Ringuette-Maltais	10,190	30.2
	Reform	Ivan Shaw	9,371	27.7
	New Democratic	Leslie Ann Ferguson	2,093	6.2
Total			33,779	100.0

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

References

• "(Code 13010) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-03.

Notes

1. Statistics Canada: 2011
2. Statistics Canada: 2011
3. Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Tobique—Mactaquac, 30 September 2015
4. Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
5. Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections
6. Elections Canada – Official voting results, Forty-first general election, 2011
7. Elections Canada – Candidate's electoral campaign return, 41st general election

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament