Moncton Centre (electoral district)
 New Brunswick electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
.png) The riding of Moncton Centre in relation to other southeastern New Brunswick electoral districts | |||
| Coordinates: | 46°06′50″N 64°48′04″W / 46.114°N 64.801°W | ||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick | ||
| MLA |
Liberal | ||
| District created | 2013 | ||
| First contested | 2014 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2011) | 15,273 | ||
| Electors (2013) | 11,368 | ||
| Census division(s) | Westmorland | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Moncton | ||
Moncton Centre is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was contested in the 2014 general election, having been created in the 2013 redistribution of electoral boundaries.
The district includes the geographic centre of Moncton, but excludes the downtown which falls in Moncton South.
It draws about 60% of its population from the old Moncton East and about 40% from the old district of Moncton North. Moncton East incumbent Chris Collins won the 2014 election.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riding created from Moncton East (1974–2014) and Moncton North | ||||
| 58th | 2014–2018 | Chris Collins | Liberal | |
| 2018–2018 | Independent | |||
| 59th | 2018–Present | Rob McKee | Liberal | |
Election results
| 2018 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Rob McKee | 2,698 | 43.59 | -9.39 | ||||
| Independent | Chris Collins | 1,200 | 19.39 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Claudette Boudreau-Turner | 982 | 15.87 | -9.35 | ||||
| Green | Jean-Marie Nadeau | 771 | 12.46 | +4.40 | ||||
| People's Alliance | Kevin McClure | 309 | 4.99 | |||||
| New Democratic | Jessica Caissie | 229 | 3.70 | -10.04 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 6,189 | 99.76 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 15 | 0.24 | -0.20 | |||||
| Turnout | 6,204 | 59.11 | +0.72 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 10,495 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -14.39 | ||||||
| 2014 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Chris Collins | 3,339 | 52.98 | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Marie-Claude Blais | 1,589 | 25.21 | |||||
| New Democratic | Luc Leblanc | 866 | 13.74 | |||||
| Green | Jeffrey McCluskey | 508 | 8.06 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 6,302 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 28 | 0.44 | ||||||
| Turnout | 6,330 | 58.39 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 10,841 | |||||||
| This riding was created from parts of the previous riding of Moncton East and Moncton North, which elected a Liberal and a Progressive Conservative, respectively, in the previous election. Chris Collins was the incumbent from Moncton East, and Marie-Claude Blais was the incumbent from Moncton North. | ||||||||
| Source: Elections New Brunswick[1] | ||||||||
References
- ^ Elections New Brunswick (6 Oct 2014). "Declared Results, 2014 New Brunswick election". Archived from the original on 2014-10-14. Retrieved 15 Oct 2014.