List of post-confederation New Brunswick general elections
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This article provides a summary of results for the
Beginning with the
The chart on the upper right shows the information graphically, with the most recent elections towards the right. It shows that New Brunswick has effectively a two-party system – the Liberals (red) and the Conservatives (blue); along with the one-off success of the Confederation of Regions party (green) in 1991. It also shows the Liberal party's clean sweep of seats in 1987, one of the few instances in history when a party won all the seats in a national or sub-national legislature. Since provincial parties were officially recognised, the Liberal party have won eleven out of twenty elections.
This article only covers elections since the province became part of the Canadian Confederation in 1867. Prior to becoming part of Canada, New Brunswick was a British colony; and the New Brunswick House of Assembly was first formed in 1784 – when New Brunswick separated from Nova Scotia.
1866–1934
New Brunswick joined the
Election | Total seats |
Government | Opposition | Other Parties | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | May–June, 1866 | 41 | 33 (Confederationist) |
8 (Constitutionalist) |
|
2nd | June–July, 1870 | 41 | 24 (coalition) |
16 | Neutral 1 |
3rd | May–June, 1874 | 41 | 35 | 5 | Neutral 1 |
4th | June, 1878 | 41 | 31 | 10 | |
5th | June, 1882 | 41 | 22 | 18 (Liberal) |
Neutral 1 |
6th | April 26, 1886 | 41 | 33 (Liberal) |
8 (Conservative) |
|
7th | January 20, 1890 | 41 | 26 (Liberal) |
15 (Conservative) |
|
8th | October, 1892 | 41 | 25 (Liberal) |
12 (Conservative) |
Neutral 4 |
9th | October, 1895 | 46 | 34 (Liberal) |
9 (Conservative) |
Neutral 3 |
10th | February 18, 1899 | 46 | 40 (Liberal) |
4 (Conservative) |
Neutral 2 |
11th | February 28, 1903 | 46 | 33 (Liberal) |
10 (Conservative) |
Neutral 3 |
12th | March 3, 1908 | 46 | 31 (Conservative) |
12 (Liberal) |
Neutral 2 |
13th | June 20, 1912 | 48 | 44 (Conservative) |
2 (Liberal) |
Neutral 2 |
14th | February 24, 1917 | 48 | 27 (Liberal) |
21 (Conservative) |
|
15th | October 9, 1920 | 48 | 24 (Liberal) |
13 (Conservative) |
Opposition (United Farmers) 9 Opposition (Farmer-Labour) 2 |
16th | August 10, 1925 | 48 | 37 (Conservative) |
11 (Liberal) |
|
17th | June 19, 1930 | 48 | 31 (Conservative) |
17 (Liberal) |
1935–present
Between 1935 and
Election | Total seats |
Conservative[A] | Liberal | NDP | Other Parties | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
18th | June 27, 1935 | 48 | 5 | 43 | |||
19th | November 20, 1939 | 48 | 19 | 29 | |||
20th | August 28, 1944 | 48 | 12 | 36 | |||
21st | June 28, 1948 | 52 | 5 | 47 | |||
22nd | September 22, 1952 | 52 | 36 | 16 | |||
23rd | June 18, 1956 | 52 | 37 | 15 | |||
24th | June 27, 1960 | 52 | 21 | 31 | |||
25th | April 22, 1963 | 52 | 20 | 32 | |||
26th | October 13, 1967 | 58 | 26 | 32 | |||
27th | October 26, 1970 | 58 | 32 | 26 | |||
28th | November 18, 1974 | 58 | 33 | 25 | |||
29th | October 23, 1978 | 58 | 30 | 28 | |||
30th | October 12, 1982 | 58 | 39 | 18 | 1 | ||
31st | October 13, 1987 | 58 | 0 | 58 | |||
32nd | September 23, 1991 | 58 | 3 | 46 | 1 | 8 (Confederation of Regions[B]) | |
33rd | September 11, 1995 | 55 | 6 | 48 | 1 | ||
34th | June 7, 1999 | 55 | 44 | 10 | 1 | ||
35th | June 9, 2003 | 55 | 28 | 26 | 1 | ||
36th | September 18, 2006 | 55 | 26 | 29 | |||
37th | September 27, 2010 | 55 | 42 | 13 | |||
38th | September 22, 2014 | 49 | 21 | 27 | 1 (Green Party) | ||
39th | September 24, 2018 | 49 | 22 | 21 | 3 (Green Party), 3 (People's Alliance) | ||
40th | September 14, 2020 | 49 | 27 | 17 | 3 (Green Party), 2 (People's Alliance) |
Notes
- A Includes results for Progressive Conservatives.
- B The Confederation of Regions Party only contested the 1991, 1995 and 1999 elections.
See also
- Timeline of Canadian elections
- General elections in New Brunswick (pre-Confederation)
- List of political parties in New Brunswick
References
- ^ "Status of Legislation". www1.gnb.ca.
Bibliography
- "New Brunswick Votes 2006". CBC.ca. Retrieved 2006-12-23. (results back to 1956)
- Doyle, Arthur T. (1984). Elections in New Brunswick, 1784-1984. Fredericton: Brunswick Press. ISBN 0-88838-391-6.