Kent North

Kent North
New Brunswick electoral district
	The riding of Kent North (as it exists from 2023) in relation to other New Brunswick electoral districts
Coordinates:	46.680°N 65.238°W
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
MLA	Pat Finnigan; Liberal
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District created	1973
First contested	1974
Last contested	2024
Demographics
Population (2011)	15,720
Electors (2013)	11,811
Census division(s)	Kent County, Northumberland County
Census subdivision(s)	Richibucto, Nouvelle-Arcadie, Saint-Louis-de-Kent, Saint-Louis Parish, Acadieville Parish, Carleton Parish, Harcourt, Saint-Charles Parish, Five Rivers, Elsipogtog First Nation, Richibucto-Village

Kent North (French: Kent-Nord) is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada.

Coordinates:46.680°N 65.238°W

LegislatureLegislative Assembly of New Brunswick

MLA

Pat Finnigan
Liberal

District created1973

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The district was established in the 1973 redistribution which saw New Brunswick move from a system of plurality-at-large voting (with multi-member ridings) to a first-past-the-post voting system (with single-member ridings). It took the northern third of the former three-member district for Kent County. In the 1994 redistribution, it added the Rogersville area from Northumberland County and was renamed Rogersville-Kouchibouguac. In the 2006 redistribution, it lost minor territory to Kent, but it regained that territory in 2013 as well as additional territory in the Five Rivers and Elsipogtog areas. Following the 2013 changes, it returned to its original name of Kent North.

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Assembly	Years		Party
Kent North Riding created from Kent
48th	1974–1978	Joseph Daigle	Liberal
49th	1978–1982	Joseph Daigle
50th	1982–1987	Conrad Landry
51st	1987–1991
52nd	1991–1995
Rogersville-Kouchibouguac
53rd	1995–1999	Kenneth Johnson	Liberal
54th	1999–2003	Rose-May Poirier	Progressive Conservative
55th	2003–2006
56th	2006–2010
57th	2010–2014	Bertrand LeBlanc	Liberal
Kent North
58th	2014–2018	Bertrand LeBlanc	Liberal
59th	2018–2020	Kevin Arseneau	Green
60th	2020–2024	Kevin Arseneau	Green
61st	2024–Present	Pat Finnigan	Liberal

v t e 2024 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Pat Finnigan	3,928	44.81	+9.0
	Green	Kevin Arseneau	3,251	37.09	-5.9
	Progressive Conservative	Carl Cosby	1,441	16.44	-2.2
	People's Alliance	Carole Boudreau	145	1.65	+1.1
Total valid votes			8,765	99.72
Total rejected ballots			25	0.28
Turnout			8,790	67.00
Eligible voters			13,119
	Liberal gain from Green		Swing		+7.5
Source: Elections New Brunswick^[3]

2020 provincial election redistributed results^[4]
Party		%
	Green	43.0
	Liberal	35.8
	Progressive Conservative	18.6
	Independent	1.6
	People's Alliance	0.6
	New Democratic	0.4

2020 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Kevin Arseneau	4,021	47.47	+1.55
	Liberal	Bertrand LeBlanc	2,933	34.62	-2.74
	Progressive Conservative	Stephen Robertson	1,363	16.09	+3.50
	Independent	Roger Richard	154	1.82	-1.94
Total valid votes			8,471
Total rejected ballots			15	0.18	-0.33
Turnout			8,486	69.44	-2.70
Eligible voters			12,220
	Green hold		Swing		+2.15
Source: Elections New Brunswick^[5]

2018 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Green	Kevin Arseneau	4,056	45.91	+27.74
	Liberal	Emery Comeau	3,301	37.37	-12.65
	Progressive Conservative	Katie Robertson	1,112	12.59	-4.01
	Independent	Roger Richard	194	2.20	+2.20
	New Democratic	Neil Gardner	171	1.94	-11.83
Total valid votes			8,834	100.0
Total rejected ballots			45
Turnout			8,879	72.58	-2.42
Eligible voters			12,234
	Green gain from Liberal		Swing		+20.19
Source: Elections New Brunswick^[6]

Kent North

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Electoral history

Kent North (2014–present)

Rogersville-Kouchibouguac

Kent North (1974–1995)

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2014 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bertrand LeBlanc	4,699	50.02	+3.98
	Green	Rébeka Frazer-Chiasson	1,707	18.17	–
	Progressive Conservative	Nancy Blanchard	1,559	16.60	-25.84
	New Democratic	Allan Marsh	1,294	13.77	+2.25
	People's Alliance	Raven-Chanelle Arsenault-Augustine	135	1.44	–
Total valid votes			9,394	100.0
Total rejected ballots			46	0.49
Turnout			9,440	75.00
Eligible voters			12,587
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		-7.10
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1974 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Joseph Z. Daigle	2,479	59.71
	Progressive Conservative	Willie G. Ferguson	1,213	29.21
	Parti acadien	Gilles Theriault	236	5.68
	Independent	Arcade Fontaine	224	5.39
Total valid votes			4,152	100.0
The previous multi-member riding of Kent elected 3 (of 3) Liberals in the previous election. One Progressive Conservative was elected in the 1971 by-election. None of the three incumbents ran in this riding.