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==Candidates==

New boundaries are in effect as a result of an [[New Brunswick electoral redistribution, 2013|electoral redistribution]] replacing the districts used in the [[New Brunswick general election, 2006|2006]] and [[New Brunswick general election, 2010|2010]] elections. Candidates had to file their nomination papers by September 2, 2014 to appear on the ballot.<ref>[http://www1.gnb.ca/elections/en/prov14sep22/provcandidatelist-e.asp?ELECTIONID=48 gnb.ca: Unofficial List of Candidates - Provincial Election (9/22/2014)], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140903092703/http://www1.gnb.ca/elections/en/prov14sep22/provcandidatelist-e.asp?ELECTIONID=48 archive.org copy]</ref>

'''Legend'''
*'''bold''' denotes cabinet minister or party leader
*''italics'' denotes a potential candidate who has not received his/her party's nomination
*† denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election
*<nowiki>*</nowiki> denotes an incumbent seeking re-election in a new district

===Northern===

{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=NB|Progressive Conservatives|Liberal|NDP|Green|Other}}
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|'''[[Donald Arseneault]]'''
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|[[Daniel Guitard]]
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|'''[[Brian Kenny (politician)|Brian Kenny]]'''
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|'''[[Denis Landry]]'''
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|[[Wilfred Roussel]]
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|'''[[Serge Rousselle]]'''
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===Miramichi===

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|'''[[Lisa Harris (politician)|Lisa Harris]]'''
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|[[Jake Stewart]]
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===Southeastern===

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|[[Bertrand LeBlanc]]
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|[[Benoît Bourque]]
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|'''[[Brian Gallant]]'''
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|[[Bernard LeBlanc]]
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|'''[[Roger Melanson]]'''
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| style="background:whitesmoke;"|[[Moncton East (electoral district)|Moncton East]]
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|[[Monique LeBlanc]]
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|[[Chris Collins (Canadian politician)|Chris Collins]]
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|[[Ernie Steeves]]
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|[[Bruce Fitch]]
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|[[Brian Keirstead]]
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|[[Ross Wetmore]]
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|[[Bruce Northrup]]
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|[[Gary Crossman]]
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|'''[[Blaine Higgs]]'''
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|[[Ted Flemming]]
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|[[Glen Savoie]]
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|{{Canadian_politics/party_colours/Progressive Conservatives}}|
|[[Trevor Holder]]
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|'''[[Ed Doherty (politician)|Ed Doherty]]'''
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|[[Dorothy Shephard]]
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|[[Bill Oliver (politician)|Bill Oliver]]
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|'''[[Rick Doucet]]'''
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|'''[[John Ames (politician)|John Ames]]'''
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===Capital Region===

{{Canadian politics/candlist header|province=NB|Progressive Conservatives|Liberal|NDP|Green|Other}}
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|[[Jody Carr]]
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|[[Pam Lynch]]
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|[[Jeff Carr (Canadian politician)|Jeff Carr]]
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| style="background:whitesmoke;"|[[Fredericton South (electoral district)|Fredericton South]]
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|'''[[David Coon]]'''
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|[[Kirk MacDonald (politician)|Kirk MacDonald]]
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|[[Brian Macdonald (politician)|Brian Macdonald]]
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|[[Carl Urquhart]]
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===Upper River Valley===

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|[[Stewart Fairgrieve]]
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|[[Andrew Harvey (politician)|Andrew Harvey]]
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|[[Chuck Chiasson]]
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|[[Madeleine Dubé]]
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Revision as of 17:07, 6 June 2017

39th New Brunswick general election
← 2014 On or before September 24, 2018 (2018-09-24) 40th →
49 seats in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
25 seats needed for a majority
 
Leader Brian Gallant Blaine Higgs
Party Liberal Progressive Conservative
Leader since October 27, 2012 October 22, 2016
Leader's seat Shediac Bay-Dieppe Quispamsis
Last election 27 seats, 42.72% 21 seats, 34.64%
Current seats 26 22
 
Leader David Coon Rosaire L'Italien (interim) Kris Austin
Party Green New Democratic People's Alliance of New Brunswick
Leader since September 22, 2012 2017 leadership election 2010
Leader's seat Fredericton South N/A N/A
Last election 1 seat, 6.61% 0 seats, 12.98% 0 seats, 2.14%
Current seats 1 0 0
Incumbent Premier

Brian Gallant
Liberal



The 39th New Brunswick general election is tentatively scheduled to be held on September 24, 2018,[1][2] to elect 49 members to the 59th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada.

The Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick – acting on the advice of the Premier – could alter the date by one week or one month in either direction if there is a conflict due to religious or culture reasons, or a federal election.[3]

Timeline

  • September 22, 2014 – The New Brunswick Liberal Association, led by Brian Gallant, won a majority government, defeating incumbent Premier David Alward's Progressive Conservatives, which became the second single-term government in New Brunswick's history.[4]
  • September 23, 2014 - Alward announces his resignation as Progressie Conservative leader.
  • October 14, 2014 - Gary Keating resigns as the Liberal member for Saint John East.
  • October 18, 2014 - Bruce Fitch became interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party.
  • November 17, 2014 - Glen Savoie is elected as member the Progressive Conservative MLA for Saint John East, following the resignation of Gary Keating; NDP leader Dominic Cardy comes in third.
  • December 10, 2014 - The NDP executive rejects Cardy's resignation as leader, urging him to continue and offering him a salary as he has been working as leader on a volunteer basis.
  • May 22, 2015 - David Alward resigns as member for Carleton.
  • October 5, 2015 - Stewart Fairgrieve holds the Carleton seat for the PCs in a byelection.[5]
  • October 22, 2016 - Blaine Higgs becomes the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in a leadership election.[6]
  • January 1, 2017 - Dominic Cardy resigns as leader of the NDP, and as a party member.[7][8]
  • January 8, 2017 - Rosaire L'Italien is chosen as interim leader of the NDP by the party's executive.[9]

Opinion polls

Polling Firm Last Day of Polling Link Liberal PC NDP Green PA
MQO Research April 17, 2017 [1] 43 32 15 5 5
Corporate Research Associates March 1, 2017 [2] 51 30 12 5 2
MQO Research January 22, 2017 [3] 50 30 11 7 1
Corporate Research Associates November 30, 2016 [4] 53 30 7 9 2
MQO Research October 15, 2016 [5] 54 25 12 8 2
Corporate Research Associates August 31, 2016 [6] 54 28 8 8 2
MQO Research July 19, 2016 [7] 50 28 10 8 5
Corporate Research Associates June 1, 2016 [8] 52 25 12 9 2
MQO Research April 16, 2016 [9] 51 28 11 9 2
Corporate Research Associates March 2, 2016 [10] 45 27 18 8 2
Corporate Research Associates November 30, 2015 [11] 55 25 12 7 1
Corporate Research Associates September 10, 2015 [12] 36 28 25 10 2
Corporate Research Associates June 9, 2015 [13] 38 28 23 11 1
Corporate Research Associates March 2, 2015 [14] 54 27 9 10 1
Corporate Research Associates November 26, 2014 [15] 52 23 14 9 1
Election 2014 September 22, 2014 HTML 42.72 34.64 12.98 6.61 2.14

Candidates

New boundaries are in effect as a result of an electoral redistribution replacing the districts used in the 2006 and 2010 elections. Candidates had to file their nomination papers by September 2, 2014 to appear on the ballot.[10]

Legend

  • bold denotes cabinet minister or party leader
  • italics denotes a potential candidate who has not received his/her party's nomination
  • † denotes an incumbent who is not running for re-election
  • * denotes an incumbent seeking re-election in a new district

Northern

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Progressive Conservatives Liberal NDP Green Other
Restigouche West Gilles LePage
Campbellton-Dalhousie Donald Arseneault
Restigouche-Chaleur Daniel Guitard
Bathurst West-Beresford Brian Kenny
Bathurst East-Nepisiguit-Saint-Isidore Denis Landry
Caraquet Hédard Albert†
Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou Wilfred Roussel
Tracadie-Sheila Serge Rousselle

Miramichi

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Progressive Conservatives Liberal NDP Green Other
Miramichi Bay-Neguac Lisa Harris
Miramichi Bill Fraser
Southwest Miramichi-Bay du Vin Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Jake Stewart

Southeastern

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Progressive Conservatives Liberal NDP Green Other
Kent North Bertrand LeBlanc
Kent South Benoît Bourque
Shediac Bay-Dieppe Brian Gallant
Shediac-Beaubassin-Cap-Pelé Victor Boudreau
Memramcook-Tantramar Bernard LeBlanc
Dieppe Roger Melanson
Moncton East Monique LeBlanc
Moncton Centre Chris Collins
Moncton South Cathy Rogers
Moncton Northwest Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Ernie Steeves
Moncton Southwest Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Sherry Wilson
Riverview Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Bruce Fitch
Albert Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Brian Keirstead
Gagetown-Petitcodiac Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Ross Wetmore

Southern

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Progressive Conservatives Liberal NDP Green Other
Sussex-Fundy-St. Martins Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Bruce Northrup
Hampton Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Gary Crossman
Quispamsis Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Blaine Higgs
Rothesay Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Ted Flemming
Saint John East Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Glen Savoie
Portland-Simonds Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Trevor Holder
Saint John Harbour Ed Doherty
Saint John Lancaster Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Dorothy Shephard
Kings Centre Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Bill Oliver
Fundy-The Isles-Saint John West Rick Doucet
Charlotte-Campobello John Ames

Capital Region

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Progressive Conservatives Liberal NDP Green Other
Oromocto-Lincoln Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Jody Carr
Fredericton-Grand Lake Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Pam Lynch
New Maryland-Sunbury Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Jeff Carr
Fredericton South David Coon
Fredericton North Stephen Horsman
Fredericton-York Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Kirk MacDonald
Fredericton West-Hanwell Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Brian Macdonald
Carleton-York Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Carl Urquhart

Upper River Valley

Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Progressive Conservatives Liberal NDP Green Other
Carleton Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Stewart Fairgrieve
Carleton-Victoria Andrew Harvey
Victoria-la-Vallée Chuck Chiasson
Edmundston-Madawaska Centre Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Progressive Conservatives| Madeleine Dubé
Madawaska-les-Lacs-Edmundston Francine Landry

References

  1. ^ Legislative Assembly Act, Section 2(4).
  2. ^ "Thirty-eighth general election September 22, 2014" (PDF). Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
  3. ^ Section 2(6) of the Legislative Assembly Act
  4. ^ McHardie, Daniel (September 23, 2014). "N.B. election 2014 results: Brian Gallant's Liberals win amid vote-count fiasco". CBC News. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
  5. ^ "PC Stewart Fairgrieve says jobs a factor in byelection win". CBC News. October 6, 2015. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  6. ^ McHardie, Daniel (October 22, 2016). "Blaine Higgs wins New Brunswick Progressive Conservative leadership race". CBC News. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  7. ^ Ross, Shane (January 1, 2017). "NDP Leader Dominic Cardy resigns amid party 'infighting'". CBC News. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
  8. ^ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cardy-return-possible-1.3918699
  9. ^ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/ndp-interim-leader-rosaire-l-italien-1.3927522
  10. ^ gnb.ca: Unofficial List of Candidates - Provincial Election (9/22/2014), and archive.org copy
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