Sunbury (provincial electoral district, 1785–1973)

Sunbury was an electoral district in New Brunswick. It was abolished in 1973 as New Brunswick moved from bloc voting to a single-member first past the post system. It was dissolved into the new ridings of Sunbury and Oromocto.

Sunbury (1785–1973)
New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created1785
District abolished1973
First contested1785
Last contested1970

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Legislature Years Member Party Member Party
1st 1786 – 1792     William Hubbard Independent     Richard Vandeburg Independent
2nd 1793 – 1795     John Agnew Independent     James Glenie Independent
3rd 1795 – 1802     Samuel Denny Street Independent
4th 1802 – 1809     Elijah Miles Independent
5th 1809 – 1816     Samuel Denny Street Independent     James Taylor Independent
6th 1817 – 1819     Elijah Miles Independent     William Wilmot Independent
7th 1820     James Taylor Independent
8th 1821 – 1824     Amos Perley[1] Independent
1824 – 1827     William Wilmot Independent
9th 1827 – 1830     Thomas O. Miles Independent     George Hayward Independent
10th 1831 – 1834
11th 1835 – 1837     George Hayward, Jr. Independent
12th 1837 – 1842     Henry T. Partelow Independent
13th 1843 – 1846     William Scoullar Independent     Whitehead S. Barker Independent
14th 1847 – 1850     George Hayward Independent     Thomas O. Miles Independent
15th 1851 – 1854     William Scoullar Independent
16th 1854 – 1856     Enoch Lunt Independent
17th 1856 – 1857     William E. Perley Liberal-Conservative     David Tapley Independent
18th 1857 – 1861
19th 1862 – 1865     John Glasier Liberal
20th 1865 – 1866
21st 1866 – 1868
1868 – 1870     John S. Covert[2] Liberal
22nd 1870 – 1874     Archibald Harrison Liberal
23rd 1875 – 1878     William E. Perley Liberal-Conservative
24th 1879 – 1881
1881 – 1882     James S. White Independent
25th 1883     George A. Sterling[3] Liberal
1883 – 1886     Arthur Glasier Liberal
26th 1886 – 1890     Charles B. Harrison Liberal
27th 1890 – 1892     William E. Perley Liberal-Conservative
28th 1892 – 1895
29th 1896 – 1899     David Morrow Independent
30th 1899 – 1903     Parker Glasier Conservative     John Douglas Hazen[4] Conservative
31st 1903 – 1908
32nd 1908 – 1911
1911 – 1912     George A. Perley Independent
33rd 1912 – 1917
34th 1917 – 1920     David W. Mersereau Liberal     Robert H. Smith Liberal
35th 1921 – 1925
36th 1925 – 1930     Allan D. Taylor Conservative     Ewart C. Atkinson Conservative
37th 1931 – 1935
38th 1935 – 1939     Gabriel F. Smith Liberal     Walter C. Lawson Liberal
39th 1939 – 1944     Frederic McGrand Liberal
40th 1944 – 1948     Gordon R. Lawson Liberal
41st 1948 – 1952
42nd 1952 – 1956     Paul Fearon Progressive Conservative     Paul Mersereau Progressive Conservative
43rd 1957 – 1960
44th 1960 – 1963     R. Lee MacFarlane Liberal     William R. Duffie Liberal
45th 1963 – 1967
46th 1967 – 1970     Douglas A. Flower Liberal
47th 1970 – 1974     Reginald W. Mabey Progressive Conservative     Horace Smith Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Oromocto and Sunbury (1974–1994)

Election results

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1970 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Progressive Conservative Reginald W. Mabey 4,209  Y
Progressive Conservative Horace Smith 4,110  Y
Liberal William R. Duffie 3,427
Liberal Douglas Flower 2,902
New Democratic William Robert Ross 226
New Democratic Lawrence John Lamont 205
1967 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Liberal William R. Duffie 4,653  Y
Liberal Douglas A. Flower 3,980  Y
Progressive Conservative ? Mockler 3,341
Progressive Conservative ? Fearon 3,152


References

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  1. ^ died in 1822
  2. ^ died in 1881
  3. ^ died in 1883
  4. ^ named to federal cabinet