Miramichi West (electoral district)
| New Brunswick electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick | ||
| MLA | |||
| District created | 2023 | ||
| First contested | 2024 | ||
Miramichi West (French: Miramichi-Ouest) is an provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick. It was created out of the western portions of Miramichi Bay-Neguac and Southwest Miramichi-Bay du Vin.
District created
It was created in 2023 and will be first contested in the 2024 New Brunswick general election. It covers the western and more rural portions of Miramichi Bay-Neguac and Southwest Miramichi-Bay du Vin. The riding covers the northwestern and southern areas in the Greater Miramichi Rural District, the Miramichi River Valley, Doaktown, and Upper Miramichi. The riding also includes Eel Ground First Nation and Metepenagiag Miꞌkmaq Nation.[1]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Miramichi West | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created from Miramichi Bay-Neguac and Southwest Miramichi-Bay du Vin |
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| 61st | 2024–2025 | Michael Dawson | Progressive Conservative | |
Election results
| 2024 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Michael Dawson | 3,814 | 57.1% | +9.6 | ||||
| Liberal | Mark Hambrook | 2,254 | 33.7% | +11.2 | ||||
| Green | Genevieve MacRae | 273 | 4.1% | +2.3 | ||||
| People's Alliance | Rhonda L'Huillier | 229 | 3.4% | -23.0 | ||||
| Independent | Richard Sutherland | 112 | 1.7% | |||||
| Total valid votes | 6,682 | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
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| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | |||||||
| Source: Elections New Brunswick[2] | ||||||||
| 2020 provincial election redistributed results[3] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | % | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 47.5 | ||
| People's Alliance | 26.4 | ||
| Liberal | 22.5 | ||
| New Democratic Party | 1.8 | ||
| Green | 1.8 | ||