Sunbury (1785–1973 electoral district)

Sunbury was an electoral district in New Brunswick. It was abolished in 1973 as New Brunswick moved from bloc voting to a single-member first past the post system. It was dissolved into the new ridings of Sunbury and Oromocto.

Sunbury (1785–1973)

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
1st	1786 – 1792		William Hubbard	Independent		Richard Vandeburg	Independent
2nd	1793 – 1795		John Agnew	Independent		James Glenie	Independent
3rd	1795 – 1802		Samuel Denny Street	Independent
4th	1802 – 1809		Elijah Miles	Independent
5th	1809 – 1816		Samuel Denny Street	Independent		James Taylor	Independent
6th	1817 – 1819		Elijah Miles	Independent		William Wilmot	Independent
7th	1820					James Taylor	Independent
8th	1821 – 1824					Amos Perley[1]	Independent
	1824 – 1827					William Wilmot	Independent
9th	1827 – 1830		Thomas O. Miles	Independent		George Hayward	Independent
10th	1831 – 1834
11th	1835 – 1837					George Hayward, Jr.	Independent
12th	1837 – 1842		Henry T. Partelow	Independent
13th	1843 – 1846		William Scoullar	Independent		Whitehead S. Barker	Independent
14th	1847 – 1850		George Hayward	Independent		Thomas O. Miles	Independent
15th	1851 – 1854					William Scoullar	Independent
16th	1854 – 1856					Enoch Lunt	Independent
17th	1856 – 1857		William E. Perley	Liberal-Conservative		David Tapley	Independent
18th	1857 – 1861
19th	1862 – 1865					John Glasier	Liberal
20th	1865 – 1866
21st	1866 – 1868
	1868 – 1870					John S. Covert[2]	Liberal
22nd	1870 – 1874		Archibald Harrison	Liberal
23rd	1875 – 1878		William E. Perley	Liberal-Conservative
24th	1879 – 1881
	1881 – 1882					James S. White	Independent
25th	1883					George A. Sterling[3]	Liberal
	1883 – 1886					Arthur Glasier	Liberal
26th	1886 – 1890		Charles B. Harrison	Liberal
27th	1890 – 1892					William E. Perley	Liberal-Conservative
28th	1892 – 1895
29th	1896 – 1899					David Morrow	Independent
30th	1899 – 1903		Parker Glasier	Conservative		John Douglas Hazen[4]	Conservative
31st	1903 – 1908
32nd	1908 – 1911
	1911 – 1912					George A. Perley	Independent
33rd	1912 – 1917
34th	1917 – 1920		David W. Mersereau	Liberal		Robert H. Smith	Liberal
35th	1921 – 1925
36th	1925 – 1930		Allan D. Taylor	Conservative		Ewart C. Atkinson	Conservative
37th	1931 – 1935
38th	1935 – 1939		Gabriel F. Smith	Liberal		Walter C. Lawson	Liberal
39th	1939 – 1944		Frederic McGrand	Liberal
40th	1944 – 1948					Gordon R. Lawson	Liberal
41st	1948 – 1952
42nd	1952 – 1956		Paul Fearon	Progressive Conservative		Paul Mersereau	Progressive Conservative
43rd	1957 – 1960
44th	1960 – 1963		R. Lee MacFarlane	Liberal		William R. Duffie	Liberal
45th	1963 – 1967
46th	1967 – 1970		Douglas A. Flower	Liberal
47th	1970 – 1974		Reginald W. Mabey	Progressive Conservative		Horace Smith	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Oromocto and Sunbury (1974–1994)

Election results

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	Reginald W. Mabey	4,209
	Progressive Conservative	Horace Smith	4,110
	Liberal	William R. Duffie	3,427
	Liberal	Douglas Flower	2,902
	New Democratic	William Robert Ross	226
	New Democratic	Lawrence John Lamont	205

1967 New Brunswick general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	William R. Duffie	4,653
	Liberal	Douglas A. Flower	3,980
	Progressive Conservative	? Mockler	3,341
	Progressive Conservative	? Fearon	3,152

References

1. died in 1822
2. died in 1881
3. died in 1883
4. named to federal cabinet