Madawaska (provincial electoral district)

Madawaska

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1874
District abolished	1973
First contested	1874
Last contested	1970

Madawaska was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was created from Victoria in 1874, and used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
Riding created from Victoria
23rd	1875 – 1878		Lévite Thériault	Ind.
24th	1879 – 1882
25th	1882		P. Lynott	Ind.
	1882 – 1886	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Conservative (historical) |	Mathias Nadeau	Cons.
26th	1886 – 1890		Lévite Thériault	Ind.
27th	1890 – 1892
28th	1892 – 1895
29th	1896 – 1899	Template:Canadian politics/party colours/Conservative (historical) |	Alphonse Bertrand	Cons.		Cyprien Martin	Lib.
30th	1899 – 1903		Frederick LaForest	Ind.		Narcisse A. Gagnon	Ind.
31st	1903		Thomas Clair	Lib.
	1903 – 1908					Cyprien Martin	Lib.
32nd	1908 – 1912		Charles L. Cyr	Ind.		Jesse W. Baker	Ind.
33rd	1912 – 1917		Louis-Auguste Dugal	Lib.		Joseph H. Pelletier	Ind.
34th	1917 – 1920					Joseph-Enoil Michaud	Lib.
35th	1921 – 1922		Donat L. Daigle	Ind.
	1922 – 1925		Lorne J. Violette	Lib.
36th	1925 – 1930
37th	1931 – 1935
38th	1935 – 1939		Joseph Gaspard Boucher	Lib.		Pio Laporte	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1944
40th	1944 – 1948					J. Hervé Proulx	Lib.
41st	1948 – 1952					Clarence Bourque	Lib.		Docithe Nadeau	Lib.
42nd	1952 – 1956	rowspan="2" Template:Canadian politics/party colours/PC |	William Bird	PC	rowspan="2" Template:Canadian politics/party colours/PC |	Lucien Fortin	PC	rowspan="2" Template:Canadian politics/party colours/PC |	Edgar Fournier	PC
43rd	1957 – 1960
44th	1960 – 1963		Laurier Lévesque	Lib.		J. Adrien Lévesque	Lib.		Jean Marc Michaud	Lib.
45th	1963 – 1967								Fred E. Soucy	Lib.
46th	1967 – 1970								Gérald Clavette	Lib.
47th	1970 – 1974					Daniel G. Daigle	Lib.
Riding dissolved into Madawaska Centre, Madawaska-les-Lacs and Madawaska South

Election results

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Gérald Clavette	4,766	Y
	Liberal	Laurier Lévesque	4,696	Y
	Liberal	Daniel Daigle	4,670	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Guy Charest	3,304
	Progressive Conservative	Guildard A. Pelletier	3,195
	Progressive Conservative	Renaud Gagné	3,125

1967 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Gérald Clavette	4,303	Y
	Liberal	J. Adrien Lévesque	4,235	Y
	Liberal	Laurier Lévesque	4,187	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Guy Charest	3,679
	Progressive Conservative	Noe Lévesque	3,574
	Progressive Conservative	Everard Tardif	3,548

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 9 October 1882
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Conservative	Mathias Nadeau	accl.	Y

1882 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Independent	Patrick Lynott	343	Y
	Liberal	Lévite Thériault	342
	Conservative	Mathias Nadeau	294

1878 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Lévite Thériault	accl.	Y

1874 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Lévite Thériault	475	Y
	Independent	John Lynch	210
	Independent	Prudent A. Babin	ret.