Kent Centre

Kent Centre

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1973
District abolished	1994
First contested	1974
Last contested	1991

Kent Centre was a provincial electoral district in New Brunswick. It was created from the multi-member riding of Kent in the 1973 electoral redistribution, and was abolished in the 1994 electoral redistribution.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Kent (1827–1974)
48th	1974–1978		Alan R. Graham	Liberal
49th	1978–1982
50th	1982–1987
51st	1987–1991
52nd	1991–1995
Riding dissolved into Kent (1994–2013)

Election results

1991 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alan Graham	3,025	69.11	-8.54
	Confederation of Regions	Percy Beers	626	14.30	–
	New Democratic	Neil Gardner	379	8.66	+2.22
	Progressive Conservative	David MacDonald	347	7.93	-7.98
Total valid votes			4,377	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-11.42

1987 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alan R. Graham	3,232	77.65	+14.00
	Progressive Conservative	Sammy Arsenault	662	15.91	-13.51
	New Democratic	Neil Gardner	268	6.44	+1.33
Total valid votes			4,162	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+13.76

1982 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alan R. Graham	2,691	63.65	+3.23
	Progressive Conservative	Fernand Savoie	1,244	29.42	-0.66
	New Democratic	Derrold H. Barnes	216	5.11	-1.29
	Independent	Ronald S. MacDonald	77	1.82	–
Total valid votes			4,228	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+1.94

1978 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Alan Robert Graham	2,352	60.42	+2.72
	Progressive Conservative	Claude Giruan Warren	1,171	30.08	-9.12
	New Democratic	John B. LaBossiere	249	6.40	+3.29
	Parti acadien	Pierrette Leblanc	121	3.11	–
Total valid votes			3,893	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+5.92

1974 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Alan Graham	2,024	57.70
	Progressive Conservative	Lloyd Girvan	1,375	39.20
	New Democratic	Lawrence Murphy	109	3.11
Total valid votes			3,508	100.0
The previous multi-member riding of Kent elected 3 (of 3) Liberals in the last election. One Progressive Conservative was elected in a 1971 by-election. Alan R. Graham was one of three incumbents.

External links

• Website of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick