Westmorland (provincial electoral district)

For the former New Brunswick federal electoral district, see Westmorland (federal electoral district).

Westmorland

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

Westmorland 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		Amos Botsford[1]	Ind.		Charles Dixon	Ind.		Samuel Gay	Ind.		Andrew Kinnear	Ind.
2nd	1793 – 1795					Thomas Chandler	Ind.		William Black	Ind.		Thomas Dixson	Ind.
3rd	1795 – 1802					Samuel Gay	Ind.		Ralph Siddall	Ind.
4th	1802 – 1809					Benjamin Wilson	Ind.		James Easterbrooks	Ind.
5th	1809 – 1812					Titus Knapp	Ind.					John Chapman	Ind.
	1813 – 1816		William Botsford[2]	Ind.
6th	1817 – 1819					Rufus Smith	Ind.
7th	1820											Joseph Crandall[3]	Ind.
8th	1821 – 1823								Benjamin Wilson	Ind.
	1823 – 1824											Malcolm Wilmot	Ind.
	1824 – 1827		William Crane	Ind.
9th	1827 – 1830					Edward Barron Chandler	Ind.		Philip Palmer	Ind.		Robert Scott	Ind.
10th	1831 – 1834								Rufus Smith	Ind.
11th	1835 – 1837								Philip Palmer	Ind.		Daniel Hanington	Ind.
12th	1837 – 1842					William Wilson	Ind.
13th	1843 – 1846		William Hazen Botsford	Ind.		John Smith	Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850					William Wilson	Ind.		Amand Landry	Ind.
15th	1851 – 1853		William Crane[4]	Ind.		Bliss Botsford	Ind.		Robert B. Chapman	Ind.
	1853 – 1854		Amand Landry	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856					Albert James Smith[5]	Lib.		James Steadman	Ind.
17th	1856 – 1857								Bliss Botsford	Ind.		Robert K. Gilbert	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861		James Steadman	Ind.
19th	1862 – 1865								Amand Landry	Ind.		William J. Gilbert	Ind.
20th	1865 – 1866		Bliss Botsford	Ind.
21st	1866 – 1867											Angus McQueen	Ind.
	1867 – 1870					Joseph Lytle Moore[6]	Ind.
22nd	1870 – 1871								Pierre-Amand Landry	Cons.
	1871 – 1874		Daniel Lionel Hanington	Lib.-Con.		John A. Humphrey	Lib.-Con.
23rd	1875 – 1878		Edward J. Smith	Lib.					Thomas Pickard	Lib.
24th	1879 – 1882		Daniel Lionel Hanington	Lib.-Con.		Amasa E. Killam	Lib.-Con.		Pierre-Amand Landry	Cons.		Joseph Laurence Black	Ind.
25th	1882 – 1883					John A. Humphrey	Lib.-Con.					Charles A. Black	Cons.
	1883 – 1886								Amasa E. Killam	Lib.-Con.
26th	1886 – 1890											Joseph Laurence Black	Ind.
27th	1890 – 1891					Henry Absalom Powell[7]	Lib.-Con.		Olivier-Maximin Melanson	Lib.-Con.		Henry T. Stevens[8]	Ind.
	1891 – 1892											Joseph A. McQueen	Lib.
28th	1892 – 1895		John W. Y. Smith[9]	Ind.					Amasa E. Killam	Lib.-Con.		W. Woodbury Wells[10]	Lib.
29th	1896 – 1897		Ambrose D. Richard	Cons.		Frederick W. Sumner	Cons.
	1897 – 1899								Clifford William Robinson	Lib.
30th	1899 – 1901		William F. Humphrey	Ind.		Olivier-Maximin Melanson	Lib.-Con.
	1901 – 1903											Arthur Bliss Copp	Lib.
31st	1903 – 1908		Francis J. Sweeney	Lib.		Clement M. Leger	Lib.
32nd	1908 – 1912
33rd	1912 – 1916		William F. Humphrey	Ind.		Frank Bunting Black	Cons.		Olivier-Maximin Melanson	Lib.-Con.		Patrick G. Mahoney[11]	Ind.
	1916 – 1917											Ernest A. Smith	Lib.
34th	1917 – 1920		Francis J. Sweeney	Lib.		Clement M. Leger	Lib.		Fred Magee	Lib.
35th	1921 – 1925		Frederick L. Estabrooks	Lib.		A. Chase Fawcett	UF					Reid McManus	Lib.
36th	1925 – 1930		Merville A. Oulton[12]	Cons.		Antoine Joseph Léger	Cons.		Herbert M. Wood	Cons.		Medley G. Siddall	Cons.
37th	1930
	1931 – 1935		Lewis Smith	Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939		Austin Claude Taylor[13]	Lib.		Frank Copp	Lib.		E. R. McDonald	Lib.		Simeon Melanson	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1944								Édouard S. Léger	Lib.		A. W. McQueen	Lib.
40th	1944 – 1948											L. C. Dysart	Lib.
41st	1948 – 1952
42nd	1952 – 1956					Donald C. Harper[14]	Lib.		Joseph E. LeBlanc	Lib.		Cléophas Léger	Lib.
43rd	1957 – 1960
44th	1960 – 1963		Percy Mitton	Lib.
45th	1963 – 1965
	1965 – 1967					W. Wynn Meldrum	Lib.
46th	1967 – 1970
47th	1970 – 1974		William J. McNevin	Lib.
Riding dissolved into Memramcook, Petitcodiac, Shediac and Tantramar

Election results

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Joseph E. Leblanc	10,683	13.10	Y
	Liberal	Wendell W. Meldrum	10,495	12.87	Y
	Liberal	William J. McNevin	10,284	12.61	Y
	Liberal	J. Cléophas Léger	10,141	12.43	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Frank K. Wortman	9,516	11.67
	Progressive Conservative	William Sloan	9,316	11.42
	Progressive Conservative	Max Gordon	9,143	11.21
	Progressive Conservative	Alfred Leger	8,713	10.68
	New Democratic	Colin McCabe	1,188	1.46
	New Democratic	Beatrice Boudreau	1,110	1.36
	New Democratic	Kevin Noon	982	1.20
Total number of valid votes			81,571	100.00
Number of electors who cast votes/Turnout			22,326	82.03
Eligible voters			27,216

1967 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	W. W. Meldrum	11,785	15.00	Y
	Liberal	Joseph E. Leblanc	11,656	14.84	Y
	Liberal	Percy Mitton	11,346	14.44	Y
	Liberal	J. Cléophas Léger	11,314	14.40	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Wortman	8,476	10.79
	Progressive Conservative	Mark Yeoman	8,243	10.49
	Progressive Conservative	Leopold Leger	7,952	10.12
	Progressive Conservative	George Cormier	7,780	9.90
Total number of valid votes			78,552	100.00

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 27 September 1965 Death of Donald C. Harper
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Wendell W. Meldrum	10,570	66.24	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Robert V. Landry	5,388	33.76
Total number of valid votes			15,958

1963 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Donald C. Harper	11,284	14.18	Y
	Liberal	Percy Mitton	11,195	14.07	Y
	Liberal	Joseph E. Leblanc	11,083	13.93	Y
	Liberal	Joseph C. Léger	11,072	13.92	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Lutes	8,779	11.04
	Progressive Conservative	Harvey Hicks	8,770	11.02
	Progressive Conservative	Louis Landry	8,699	10.93
	Progressive Conservative	Sylvain Léger	8,672	10.90
Total number of valid votes			79,554

1960 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Donald C. Harper	11,889	14.16	Y
	Liberal	Percy Mitton	11,832	14.09	Y
	Liberal	Joseph E. Leblanc	11,811	14.07	Y
	Liberal	Joseph C. Léger	11,759	14.00	Y
	Progressive Conservative	James Henderson	9,269	11.04
	Progressive Conservative	Harvey Hicks	9,213	10.97
	Progressive Conservative	Louis Landry	9,138	10.88
	Progressive Conservative	Régis LeBlanc	9,060	10.79
Total number of valid votes			83,971

1956 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	11,159	13.84	Y
	Liberal	Joseph E. Leblanc	11,012	13.66	Y
	Liberal	Joseph C. Léger	11,005	13.65	Y
	Liberal	Donald C. Harper	10,962	13.60	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Aurèle Young	9,147	11.35
	Progressive Conservative	Howard Trueman	9,132	11.33
	Progressive Conservative	Louis Landry	9,128	11.32
	Progressive Conservative	Roy Beckwith	9,069	11.25
Total number of valid votes			80,614

1952 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	11,829	13.72	Y
	Liberal	Donald C. Harper	11,569	13.42	Y
	Liberal	Joseph E. Leblanc	11,487	13.33	Y
	Liberal	Joseph C. Léger	11,375	13.20	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Robert S. Black	8,998	10.44
	Progressive Conservative	Aurèle Young	8,763	10.17
	Progressive Conservative	Roy Beckwith	8,755	10.16
	Progressive Conservative	George Belliveau	8,472	9.83
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Percy Mitton	1,274	1.48
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Claude P. Milton	1,259	1.46
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George A. Wilson	1,259	1.44
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Joseph O. LeBlanc	1,182	1.37
Total number of valid votes			86,204

1948 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	13,203	16.91	Y
	Liberal	Frank H. Copp	12,895	16.52	Y
	Liberal	Langton C. Dysart	12,794	16.39	Y
	Liberal	Edouard S. Léger	12,647	16.20	Y
	Conservative	J. Lawrence Black	5,143	6.59
	Conservative	Percy J. Eagles	5,136	6.58
	Conservative	Ambrose Léger	4,832	6.19
	Conservative	M. J. Esliger	4,812	6.16
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Percy Mitton	2,261	2.90
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Gordon Wilson	2,208	2.83
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Joseph Breau	2,127	2.72
Total number of valid votes			78,058

1944 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	9,465	13.02	Y
	Liberal	Frank H. Copp	9,148	12.59	Y
	Liberal	Langton C. Dysart	9,076	12.49	Y
	Liberal	Edouard S. Léger	8,913	12.26	Y
	Conservative	Charles Cass	6,493	8.93
	Conservative	Carl C. Allen	6,323	8.70
	Conservative	William H. Humphrey	6,313	8.69
	Conservative	Eloi J. Léger	5,949	8.18
	Co-operative Commonwealth	R. J. Caldwell	2,840	3.91
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Edward R. McDonald	2,740	3.77
	Co-operative Commonwealth	G. W. R. Myles	2,740	3.77
	Co-operative Commonwealth	P. A. Bannister	2,685	3.69
Total number of valid votes			72,685

1939 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	9,999	14.85	Y
	Liberal	Frank H. Copp	9,692	14.39	Y
	Liberal	Alexander W. McQueen	9,725	14.44	Y
	Liberal	Edouard S. Léger	9,593	14.25	Y
	Conservative	Carl C. Allen	7,132	10.59
	Conservative	Emmerson C. Rice	7,104	10.55
	Conservative	Medley G. Siddall	7,096	10.54
	Conservative	Ferdinand J. Robidoux	6,992	10.38
Total number of valid votes			67,333

1935 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	10,558	15.49	Y
	Liberal	Frank H. Copp	10,491	15.39	Y
	Liberal	Edward McDonald	10,418	15.28	Y
	Liberal	Siméon Melanson	10,230	15.01	Y
	Conservative	William Humphrey	6,807	9.98
	Conservative	Herbert M. Wood	6,719	9.68
	Conservative	Medley G. Siddall	6,625	9.72
	Conservative	Antoine J. Léger	6,327	9.28
Total number of valid votes			68,178

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 7 October 1930 Resignation of Merville A. Oulton
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Conservative	Lewis Smith	Acclaimed	Y

1930 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Conservative	Herbert M. Wood	7,156	12.98	Y
	Conservative	Merville A. Oulton	7,060	12.81	Y
	Conservative	Medley G. Siddall	7,051	12.79	Y
	Conservative	Antoine J. Léger	6,927	12.57	Y
	Liberal	Austin C. Taylor	6,841	12.41
	Liberal	William C. Rayworth	6,819	12.37
	Liberal	Reid McManus	6,671	12.10
	Liberal	Alphonse T. LeBlanc	6,603	11.98
Total number of valid votes			54,896

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 26 September 1925 Upon Antoine J. Léger being appointed to cabinet
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Conservative	Antoine J. Léger	Acclaimed	Y

1925 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Conservative	Herbert Wood	6,690	13.11	Y
	Conservative	Merville Oulton	6,662	13.06	Y
	Conservative	Medley Siddall	6,572	12.88	Y
	Conservative	Antoine Léger	6,486	12.71	Y
	Liberal	Fred Magee	6,224	12.20
	Liberal	Ferdinand Bourgeois	6,147	12.05
	Liberal	Reid McManus	6,140	12.03
	Liberal	Fred Estabrooks	6,109	11.97
Total number of valid votes			51,030

1920 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Fred Magee	4,875	13.30	Y
	Liberal	Fred Estabrooks	4,707	12.84	Y
	United Farmers	Albert Fawcett	4,648	12.68	Y
	Liberal	Reid McManus	4,645	12.67	Y
	Liberal	Ferdinand Bourgeois	4,515	12.31
	United Farmers	Arthur Robinson	4,513	12.31
	United Farmers	Frank Reilly	4,412	12.12
	United Farmers	Matthias Arsenault	4,319	11.78
Total number of valid votes			36,664

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 23 April 1917 Upon Ernest A. Smith being appointed to cabinet
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Ernest A. Smith	Acclaimed	Y

1917 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Ernest Smith	3,585	13.84	Y
	Liberal	Fred Magee	3,583	13.84	Y
	Liberal	Frank Sweeney	3,491	13.48	Y
	Liberal	Clément Léger	3,487	13.47	Y
	Conservative	Albert Trites	2,981	11.51
	Conservative	Frank Black	2,980	11.51
	Conservative	Patrick Mahoney	2,919	11.27
	Conservative	Antoine Léger	2,868	11.08
Total number of valid votes			36,664

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 30 May 1916 Upon Patrick G. Mahoney being appointed to cabinet
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Ernest A. Smith	3,190	50.55	Y
	Conservative	Patrick Mahoney	3,121	49.45
Total number of valid votes			6,311

1912 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Conservative	Frank Black	3,550	13.67	Y
	Conservative	Patrick Mahoney	3,539	13.63	Y
	Conservative	William Humphrey	3,501	13.49	Y
	Conservative	Oliver Melanson	3,436	13.23	Y
	Liberal	Arthur Copp	3,045	11.73
	Liberal	Fred Magee	2,992	11.52
	Liberal	I. Newton Killam	2,976	11.46
	Liberal	Clément Léger	2,923	11.26
Total number of valid votes			25,962

1908 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Clifford Robinson	4,469	13.60	Y
	Liberal	Arthur Copp	4,364	13.28	Y
	Liberal	Frank Sweeney	4,352	13.24	Y
	Liberal	Clément Léger	4,217	12.83	Y
	Conservative	Frederick Sumner	3,925	11.94
	Conservative	Frank Black	3,892	11.84
	Conservative	Patrick Mahoney	3,851	11.72
	Conservative	Oliver Melanson	3,790	11.53
Total number of valid votes			32,860

1903 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Arthur Copp	4,151	14.10	Y
	Liberal	Clifford Robinson	4,138	14.05	Y
	Liberal	Francis Sweeney	4,026	13.67	Y
	Liberal	Clément Léger	3,949	13.41	Y
	Conservative	William Humphrey	3,601	12.23
	Conservative	Frank Black	3,545	12.04
	Conservative	Oliver Melanson	3,523	11.96
	Conservative	Patrick Mahoney	2,515	8.54
Total number of valid votes			29,448

1899 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Independent	William Humphrey	4,097	12.81	Y
	Liberal	Clifford Robinson	4,064	12.71	Y
	Liberal–Conservative	Oliver Melanson	4,038	12.63	Y
	Liberal	William Wells	4,022	12.58	Y
	Unknown	Frank Black	3,986	12.47
	Unknown	Frederick Sumner	3,985	12.46
	Unknown	Ambroise Richard	3,922	12.27
	Unknown	Arthur Copp	3,857	12.06
Total number of valid votes			31,971

1895 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal–Conservative	Amasa Killam	Acclaimed	Y
	Conservative	Ambroise Richard	Acclaimed	Y
	Conservative	Frederick Sumner	Acclaimed	Y
	Liberal	William Wells	Acclaimed	Y

1892 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Independent	John Smith	3,492	13.13	Y
	Liberal–Conservative	Amasa Killam	3,463	13.02	Y
	Liberal–Conservative	Henry Powell	3,367	12.66	Y
	Liberal	William Wells	3,321	12.48	Y
	Unknown	Ambroise Richard	3,317	12.47
	Unknown	William Wells	3,254	12.23
	Unknown	Frederick Sumner	3,240	12.18
	Unknown	Oliver Melanson	3,147	11.83
Total number of valid votes			26,601

1890 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal–Conservative	Oliver Melanson	4,338	22.77	Y
	Liberal–Conservative	Henry Powell	3,235	16.98	Y
	Independent	Henry Stevens	3,079	16.16	Y
	Liberal–Conservative	Daniel Hanington	3,037	15.94	Y
	Unknown	Amasa Killam	2,687	14.10
	Unknown	Josiah Anderson	2,675	14.04
Total number of valid votes			19,051

1886 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Independent	Joseph Black	2,678	13.22	Y
	Liberal–Conservative	Amasa Killam	2,658	13.12	Y
	Liberal–Conservative	Daniel Hanington	2,654	13.10	Y
	Liberal–Conservative	John Humphrey	2,593	12.80	Y
	Unknown	Edward J. Smith	2,588	12.78
	Unknown	E. Gaudet	2,573	12.70
	Unknown	William Robinson	2,415	11.92
	Unknown	Tilman Landry	2,096	10.35
Total number of valid votes			20,255

1882 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Conservative	Pierre Landry	2,743	19.22	Y
	Conservative	Charles Black	2,585	18.12	Y
	Liberal–Conservative	Daniel Hanington	2,545	17.84	Y
	Liberal–Conservative	John Humphrey	2,544	17.83	Y
	Unknown	Amasa Killam	2,023	14.18
	Unknown	Angus McQueen	1,829	12.82
Total number of valid votes			14,269

1878 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal–Conservative	Amasa Killam	2,766	15.27	Y
	Independent	Joseph Black	2,738	15.12	Y
	Conservative	Pierre Landry	2,737	15.11	Y
	Liberal–Conservative	Daniel Hanington	2,710	14.96	Y
	Unknown	Josiah Wood	1,922	10.61
	Unknown	Angus McQueen	1,880	10.38
	Unknown	John Humphrey	1,788	9.87
	Unknown	John McKenzie	1,568	8.66
Total number of valid votes			18,109

1874 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Liberal	Edward Smith	2,024	13.78	Y
	Independent	Angus McQueen	1,989	13.54	Y
	Liberal–Conservative	John Humphrey	1,953	13.30	Y
	Liberal	Thomas Pickard	1,912	13.02	Y
	Unknown	Daniel Hanington	1,789	12.18
	Unknown	Pierre Landry	1,709	11.64
	Unknown	Titus Hicks	1,657	11.28
	Unknown	John McKenzie	1,654	11.26
Total number of valid votes			14,687

References

1. died in 1812
2. appointed judge
3. declared ineligible because he was a preacher
4. died in 1853
5. elected to federal seat
6. died in 1871
7. 1890 election appealed but re-elected in subsequent by-election in 1891
8. 1890 election appealed; lost subsequent by-election in 1891
9. "The Statistical Year-book of Canada for". 1893.
10. died in 1901
11. named to cabinet; lost subsequent by-election
12. resigned
13. named to Senate
14. died in 1965