Saint John Centre (electoral district)

Saint John Centre

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1795
District abolished	1973
First contested	1795
Last contested	1970

Saint John Centre was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was created from Saint John in 1795 as Saint John City. It was renamed Saint John Centre in 1967.

It elected multiple members through the bloc voting system -- two members prior to 1892 and four members from 1892 to 1973.

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
Saint John City Riding created from Saint John
3rd	1795 – 1802		George Younghusband	Ind.		Nathan Smith	Ind.
4th	1802 – 1809					John Robinson	Ind.
5th	1809 – 1810		John Garrison	Ind.		Stephen Humbert	Ind.
	1810 – 1816		John Robinson	Ind.
6th	1817 – 1819		Harry Peters	Ind.
7th	1820
8th	1821 – 1827					Hugh Johnston, Jr.	Ind.
9th	1827 – 1830		Gregory Van Horne	Ind.
10th	1831 – 1834		Thomas Barlow	Ind.		William Boyd Kinnear	Ind.
11th	1835 – 1837		Lewis Burns	Ind.		Isaac Woodward	Ind.
12th	1837 – 1842		Thomas Barlow	Ind.
13th	1843 – 1846		Robert Leonard Hazen	Cons.		Lewis Burns	Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850					Isaac Woodward	Ind.
15th	1851		Samuel Leonard Tilley[1]	Cons.		William Hayden Needham	Ind.
	1851 – 1854		James A. Harding	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856					Samuel Leonard Tilley	Cons.
17th	1856 – 1857					Joseph Wilson Lawrence	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861					Samuel Leonard Tilley	Cons.
19th	1862 – 1865		Charles Watters	Ind.
20th	1865 – 1866		Andrew Rainsford Wetmore	Cons.		Jacob Valentine Troop	Ind.
21st	1866 – 1867					Samuel Leonard Tilley[2]	Cons.
	1867 – 1870					William H.A. Keans	Ind.
22nd	1870 – 1874		Aaron Alward	Ind.		William Wedderburn	Ind.
23rd	1875 – 1876		William H.A. Keans[3]	Ind.
	1876 – 1878		Robert Marshall	Lib.
24th	1879 – 1882
25th	1883 – 1886		John Valentine Ellis[2]	Lib.		Ezekiel McLeod	Cons.
26th	1886 – 1887					John Berryman	Lib.
	1887 – 1890		Silas Alward	Lib.
27th	1890 – 1892					A.C. Smith	Ind.
28th	1892 – 1895								Alfred Augustus Stockton	Cons.		William Shaw	Lib.-Con.
29th	1896 – 1899					Charles B. Lockhart	Cons.
30th	1899 – 1903		George Robertson	Ind.		Harrison A. McKeown[4]	Lib.-Con.		Daniel S. Purdy	Ind.
31st	1903 – 1904											Edward Lantalum	Ind.
	1905 – 1908					Robert Maxwell	Ind.
32nd	1908 – 1912		John Edward Wilson	Ind.					James P. McInerney	Ind.		Warren Franklin Hatheway	Cons.
33rd	1912 – 1917					Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley	Cons.		Charles B. Lockhart	Cons.		Phillip Grammen	Ind.
34th	1917 – 1920		John R. Campbell	Cons.					Frank L. Potts	Cons.		William F. Roberts	Lib.
35th	1921 – 1925		Walter Edward Foster	Lib.		Robert Thomas Hayes	Cons.		William Edward Scully	Lib.
36th	1925 – 1930		Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley	Cons.		James Lewis	Cons.		W. Henry Harrison	Cons.		Miles E. Agar	Cons.
37th	1931 – 1935					Walter W. White	Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939		A. P. Paterson	Lib.		William F. Roberts	Lib.		Horace A. Porter	Lib.		E. J. Henneberry	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1944		Ralph McInerney	Cons.		W. Grant Smith	Cons.		W. J. Swanton	Cons.		J. Starr Tait	Cons.
40th	1944 – 1948			PC			PC		Lawrence T. Dow	PC			PC
41st	1948 – 1952		James W. Brittain	Lib.		Harold Gault	Lib.		S. Roy Kelly	Lib.		Robert H. Carlin	Lib.
42nd	1952 – 1956		Donald D. Patterson	PC		Arthur Skaling	PC		Harold S. Prince	PC		George E. McInerney	PC
43rd	1957 – 1960								George L. Keith	PC
44th	1960 – 1963					R. M. Pendrigh	PC
45th	1963 – 1966					Daniel Aloysius Riley[5]	Lib.		John D. MacCallum	Lib.
	1966 – 1967					Stephen Weyman	Lib.
Saint John Center
46th	1967 – 1970		J. Lorne McGuigan	PC		George E. McInerney[6]	PC		Donald D. Patterson	PC		Robert J. Higgins	Lib.
47th	1970 – 1972								Eric Teed	PC
	1973 – 1974					John W. Turnbull	Lib.
Riding dissolved into Saint John Harbour, Saint John North, Saint John Park and Saint John South

Election results

Saint John Centre

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 25 June 1973
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	John W. Turnbull	6,933	Y
	Progressive Conservative	George W. Bate	6,848

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	J. Lorne McGuigan	10,435	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Eric L. Teed	9,943	Y
	Liberal	Robert J. Higgins	9,926	Y
	Progressive Conservative	George E. McInerney	9,750	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Wallace P. MacMurray	9,533
	Liberal	Stephen Weyman	7,766
	Liberal	Joseph G. Boyce	7,726
	Liberal	J. Esmonde Barry	7,566
	New Democratic	Eldon John Richardson	996
	New Democratic	David Hugh Jory	901
	New Democratic	Peter Douglas Gibson	799
	New Democratic	John Caleb Sutton	642
	Independent	Michael Ronald Landers	134

1967 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	J. Lorne McGuigan	11,803	Y
	Progressive Conservative	D.D. Patterson	11,386	Y
	Progressive Conservative	George E. McInerney	11,255	Y
	Liberal	Robert Higgins	10,671	Y
	Progressive Conservative	H.C. "Nig" Tracy	10,651
	Liberal	Stephen Weyman	9,992
	Liberal	John MacCallum	9,689
	Liberal	Jas. W. O'Brien	9,500

Saint John City

References

1. resigned
2. elected to federal seat
3. died in 1876
4. resigned to run federally in 1904
5. appointed chairman of the New Brunswick Motor Carrier Board and Public Utilities Commission in 1966
6. died on 25 November 1972