Madawaska (provincial electoral district)

Madawaska
New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created1874
District abolished1973
First contested1874
Last contested1970

Madawaska was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was created from Victoria in 1874, and 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
Riding created from Victoria
23rd 1875 – 1878     Lévite Thériault Ind.
24th 1879 – 1882
25th 1882     P. Lynott[1] Ind.
1882 – 1886     Mathias Nadeau Cons.
26th 1886 – 1890     Lévite Thériault Ind.
27th 1890 – 1892
28th 1892 – 1895
29th 1896 – 1899     Alphonse Bertrand Cons.     Cyprien Martin Lib.
30th 1899 – 1903     Frederick LaForest Ind.     Narcisse A. Gagnon Ind.
31st 1903     Thomas Clair Lib.
1903 – 1908     Cyprien Martin Lib.
32nd 1908 – 1912     Charles L. Cyr Ind.     Jesse W. Baker Ind.
33rd 1912 – 1917     Louis-Auguste Dugal Lib.     Joseph H. Pelletier Ind.
34th 1917 – 1920     Joseph-Enoil Michaud[2] Lib.
35th 1921 – 1922     Donat L. Daigle Ind.
1922 – 1925     Lorne J. Violette Lib.
36th 1925 – 1930
37th 1931 – 1935
38th 1935 – 1939     Joseph Gaspard Boucher Lib.     Pio Laporte[3] Lib.
39th 1939 – 1944
40th 1944 – 1948     J. Hervé Proulx Lib.
41st 1948 – 1952     Clarence Bourque Lib.     Docithe Nadeau Lib.
42nd 1952 – 1956     William Bird PC     Lucien Fortin PC     Edgar Fournier PC
43rd 1957 – 1960
44th 1960 – 1963     Laurier Lévesque Lib.     J. Adrien Lévesque Lib.     Jean Marc Michaud Lib.
45th 1963 – 1967     Fred E. Soucy Lib.
46th 1967 – 1970     Gérald Clavette Lib.
47th 1970 – 1974     Daniel G. Daigle Lib.
Riding dissolved into Madawaska Centre, Madawaska-les-Lacs and Madawaska South

Election results

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Liberal Gérald Clavette 4,766 Y
Liberal Laurier Lévesque 4,696 Y
Liberal Daniel Daigle 4,670 Y
Progressive Conservative Guy Charest 3,304
Progressive Conservative Guildard A. Pelletier 3,195
Progressive Conservative Renaud Gagné 3,125
1967 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Liberal Gérald Clavette 4,303 Y
Liberal J. Adrien Lévesque 4,235 Y
Liberal Laurier Lévesque 4,187 Y
Progressive Conservative Guy Charest 3,679
Progressive Conservative Noe Lévesque 3,574
Progressive Conservative Everard Tardif 3,548
New Brunswick provincial by-election, 9 October 1882
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Conservative Mathias Nadeau accl. Y
1882 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Independent Patrick Lynott 343 Y
Liberal Lévite Thériault 342
Conservative Mathias Nadeau 294
1878 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Liberal Lévite Thériault accl. Y
1874 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Liberal Lévite Thériault 475 Y
Independent John Lynch 210
Independent Prudent A. Babin ret.

References

  1. ^ resigned
  2. ^ elected to federal seat
  3. ^ died in 1939

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