Madawaska (provincial electoral district)
Defunct provincial electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada
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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.
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created1874
District abolished1973
First contested1874
 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 |
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[1] | Ind. | |||||||
| 1882 – 1886 | Mathias Nadeau | Cons. | ||||||||
| 26th | 1886 – 1890 | Lévite Thériault | Ind. | |||||||
| 27th | 1890 – 1892 | |||||||||
| 28th | 1892 – 1895 | |||||||||
| 29th | 1896 – 1899 | 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[2] | 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[3] | Lib. | |||||
| 39th | 1939 – 1944 | |||||||||
| 40th | 1944 – 1948 | J. Hervé Proulx | Lib. | |||||||
| 41st | 1948 – 1952 | Clarence Bourque | Lib. | Docithe Nadeau | Lib. | |||||
| 42nd | 1952 – 1956 | William Bird | PC | Lucien Fortin | 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 |  | |||||
| Liberal | Laurier Lévesque | 4,696 | | |||||
| Liberal | Daniel Daigle | 4,670 | | |||||
| 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 | | |||||
| Liberal | J. Adrien Lévesque | 4,235 | | |||||
| Liberal | Laurier Lévesque | 4,187 | | |||||
| 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. | | |||||
| 1882 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Independent | Patrick Lynott | 343 | | |||||
| Liberal | Lévite Thériault | 342 | ||||||
| Conservative | Mathias Nadeau | 294 | ||||||
| 1878 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Liberal | Lévite Thériault | accl. | | |||||
| 1874 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Liberal | Lévite Thériault | 475 | | |||||
| Independent | John Lynch | 210 | ||||||
| Independent | Prudent A. Babin | ret. | ||||||
