York (1785-1974 electoral district)

For the former New Brunswick provincial electoral district from 1995–2014, see York (1995-2014 provincial electoral district).
York
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

York 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 Member Party Member Party Member Party Member Party
1st 1786 – 1792     Daniel Murray Ind.     Isaac Atwood Ind.     Daniel Lyman Ind.     Edward Stelle Ind.
2nd 1793 – 1795     Archibald McLean Ind.     Stair Agnew Ind.     Jacob Ellegood Ind.
3rd 1795 – 1796     James French[1] Ind.
1796 – 1802     Stair Agnew[2] Ind.
4th 1802 – 1809     John Davison Ind.     Walter Price Ind.
5th 1809 – 1816     Peter Fraser Ind.     John Allen Ind.     Duncan McLeod Ind.
6th 1817 – 1819     John Dow[3] Ind.
7th 1820
8th 1821
1822 – 1827     William Taylor Ind.
9th 1827 – 1830     Richard Ketchum Ind.
10th 1831 – 1832     Jedediah Slason Ind.
1832 – 1834     James Taylor Ind.
11th 1835 – 1837     Lemuel Allan Wilmot Ref.
12th 1837 – 1842     Charles Fisher Ref.
13th 1843 – 1846
14th 1847 – 1850     Thomas Baillie Ind.
15th 1851 – 1854     George Luther Hathaway Cons.     Thomas Pickard, Jr. Ind.
16th 1854 – 1856     Charles Fisher Ref.     Charles McPherson Ind.
17th 1856 – 1857     John Campbell Allen Ind.
18th 1857 – 1861     John McIntosh Ind.
19th 1862 – 1865     George Luther Hathaway Cons.     Hiram Dow Ind.
20th 1865 – 1866     John James Fraser Cons.     William Hayden Needham Ind.
21st 1866 – 1867     Hiram Dow Ind.     Charles Fisher[4] Ref.     Alexander Thompson Ind.     John Adolphus Beckwith Cons.
1867 – 1868     John Pickard[4] Ind.
1869 – 1870     William Hayden Needham Ind.
22nd 1870 – 1872     Robert Robinson Ind.     George Luther Hathaway[5] Cons.     Charles McPherson Ind.
1872 – 1874     John James Fraser Cons.
23rd 1875 – 1878     Thomas F. Barker Cons.     Hiram Dow Ind.
24th 1879 – 1882     Andrew George Blair Lib.     Frederick P. Thompson[6] Lib.     George J. Colter Lib.-Con.
25th 1883 – 1885     Edward Ludlow Wetmore Lib.
1885 – 1886     William Wilson Lib.
26th 1886 – 1890     Richard Bellamy[7] Lib.     David R. Moore Lib.
27th 1890[8]     John Anderson Ind.
1890 – 1892     Thomas Colter Cons.
28th 1892 – 1895     George W. Allen Ind.     William T. Howe Cons.     James K. Pinder Cons.     Herman Pitts Cons.
29th 1896 – 1899     John Black Lib.
30th 1899 – 1901     William T. Whitehead Ind.     John A. Campbell Ind.     Alexander Gibson[4] Lib.     Frederick P. Thompson Ind.
1901 – 1903     George W. Allen Ind.
31st 1903 – 1908     George F. Borden Ind.
32nd 1908 – 1911     Harry Fulton McLeod[4] Cons.     John A. Young Cons.     Thomas A. Robinson[9] Ind.
1911 – 1912     Oscar Morehouse Ind.
33rd 1912 – 1914     James K. Pinder Cons.
1914 – 1917     Percy A. Guthrie Ind.
34th 1917 – 1920     William C. Crocket Cons.     Samuel L.B. Hunter Lib.
35th 1921 – 1925     Charles Dow Richards Cons.
36th 1925 – 1930     B. H. Dougan Cons.     G. C. Grant Cons.     James M. Scott Cons. see Fredericton
37th 1931 – 1935     Marcus Lorne Jewett Cons.     Charles Dow Richards[10] Cons.
38th 1935 – 1939     John B. McNair Lib.     Ernest W. Stairs Lib.     H. Ralph Gunter Lib.     Stewart E. Durling Lib.
39th 1939 – 1944     C. Hedley Forbes Cons.     Charles Price Cons.     John Rutherford Messer Cons.     Arthur J. McEvoy Cons.
40th 1944 – 1948     Harry A. Corey Lib.     Donald T. Cochrane Lib.     Henry C. Greenlaw Lib.     John B. McNair Lib.
41st 1948 – 1952
42nd 1952 – 1956     Harry Ames[11] PC     C. Weldon Lawrence PC     John F. McInerney PC     William J. West PC
43rd 1957 – 1960
44th 1960 – 1963     George Everett Chalmers PC
45th 1963 – 1967
46th 1967 – 1970     Carl Mooers PC see Fredericton
47th 1970 – 1974
Riding dissolved into York North and York South

Election results

New Brunswick general election, 1970
Party Candidate VotesElected
Progressive ConservativeHarry Ames 6,050 Green tickY
Progressive ConservativeCarl Mooers 5,954 Green tickY
LiberalJohn Ker 4,278
LiberalAlbert A. Knox 4,272
New DemocraticJames William Bradley 318
New DemocraticRichard Lawrence Bright 295
New Brunswick general election, 1967
Party Candidate VotesElected
Progressive ConservativeHarry Ames 5,616 Green tickY
Progressive ConservativeCarl Mooers 5,393 Green tickY
LiberalJohn Fawcett 4,755
LiberalWilliam Gould 4,403

References

  1. ↑ unseated after an appeal
  2. ↑ died in 1821
  3. ↑ died in 1832
  4. 1 2 3 4 elected to federal seat
  5. ↑ died in 1872
  6. ↑ named to Legislative Council
  7. ↑ lost second election
  8. ↑ election protested and a second election was held in October 1890
  9. ↑ died in 1911
  10. ↑ resigned to accept appointment as judge
  11. ↑ died in 1973
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