Kings (New Brunswick provincial electoral district)

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

Kings

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1785
District abolished	1973
First contested	1785
Last contested	1970

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
1st	1786 – 1792		John Coffin[1]	Ind.		Ebenezer Foster	Ind.
2nd	1793 – 1795					David Fanning	Ind.
3rd	1795 – 1802
4th	1802 – 1809					George Leonard, Jr.	Ind.
5th	1809					George Pitfield[1]	Ind.
	1810 – 1816		Jasper Belding	Ind.		George Leonard, Jr.	Ind.
6th	1817 – 1819		James Brittain	Ind.		David B. Wetmore	Ind.
7th	1820		Samuel Freeze	Ind.
8th	1821 – 1827		John C. Vail	Ind.
9th	1827 – 1830		Samuel Freeze	Ind.		John Humbert	Ind.
10th	1831 – 1834		John C. Vail	Ind.
11th	1835 – 1837		William McLeod	Ind.		Samuel Freeze[2]	Ind.
12th	1837 – 1842
13th	1843 – 1846		Sylvester Zobieski Earle, Sr.	Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850					William McLeod	Ind.		John C. Vail	Ind.
15th	1851 – 1854		Matthew McLeod	Ind.		George Ryan	Ind.		Henry W. Purdy	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856
17th	1856 – 1857		Sylvester Zobieski Earle, Sr.	Ind.		Hugh McMonagle	Ind.		Walter Scovil	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861		Matthew McLeod	Ind.		Edwin Arnold Vail	Ind.
19th	1862 – 1865		George Ryan	Ind.
20th	1865 – 1866		George Otty	Ind.
21st	1866 – 1870		George Ryan	Ind.		William P. Flewelling	Ind.		John Flewelling	Ind.
22nd	1870 – 1873		George Otty[3]	Ind.		Edwin Arnold Vail	Ind.		John Herbert Crawford[4]	Lib.
	1873 – 1874		James William Nowlan	Lib.
23rd	1875 – 1878		John Flewelling	Ind.		Robert E. McLeod	Ind.
24th	1879 – 1882		Finnemore E. Morton	Ind.		Edwin Arnold Vail[5]	Ind.
25th	1883
	1883 – 1885								Gabriel Flewelling	Lib.-Con.
	1885 – 1886					William Pugsley	Lib.
26th	1886 – 1890		Albert Scott White	Lib.-Con.					George L. Taylor	Lib.-Con.
27th	1890 – 1892
28th	1892 – 1895					George G. Scovil	Lib.		Gabriel Flewelling	Lib.-Con.
29th	1896 – 1899								George William Fowler	Lib.-Con.
30th	1899 – 1902								William Pugsley	Lib.
	1902 – 1903		Ora P. King	Ind.
31st	1903 – 1908
32nd	1908 – 1912		George Burpee Jones[6]	Cons.		Frederick M. Sproule	Ind.		James Alexander Murray	Cons.
33rd	1912 – 1917					Hedley V. Dickson	Cons.
34th	1917 – 1920
35th	1921 – 1922								Ormond W. Wetmore	Lib.
	1922 – 1925		James D. McKenna	Lib.
36th	1925 – 1930		Alfred Johnson Brooks	Cons.					J. W. Smith	Cons.
37th	1931 – 1935					Jack Fairweather	Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939		Walter W. V. Foster	Lib.		Colin C. McDonald	Lib.		W. A. Jeffries	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1944		Elmore T. Kennedy[7]	Cons.		Hugh Mackay	Cons.		Harry A. McMackin	Cons.
40th	1944 – 1948			PC			PC		John Woods	PC
41st	1948 – 1952
42nd	1952 – 1956					Cyril Sherwood	PC		Gordon Fairweather[6]	PC
43rd	1957 – 1960		Harry N. Jonah[3]	PC
44th	1960 – 1962
	1962 – 1963		John B. M. Baxter, Jr.	PC					George E. Horton	PC
45th	1963 – 1967
46th	1967 – 1970
47th	1970 – 1974
Riding dissolved into Kings Centre, Kings East and Kings West

Election results

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	John B. M. Baxter	7,995
	Progressive Conservative	C. B. Sherwood	7,695
	Progressive Conservative	George Horton	7,593
	Liberal	Ralph H. London	4,185
	Liberal	Edward W. B. McLean	4,079
	Liberal	Michael J. Leclair	3,885
	New Democratic	Allan Hermitage	740

1967 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	Cyril Sherwood	7,485
	Progressive Conservative	John B. M. Baxter, Jr.	7,288
	Progressive Conservative	George E. Horton	7,162
	Liberal	? Alward	4,472
	Liberal	? Dearborn	4,435
	Liberal	? Nibbet	4,334

References

1. unseated after an appeal
2. died in 1844
3. resigned after being named judge
4. died in 1882
5. died in 1885
6. elected to federal seat
7. died in 1953