Saint John (provincial electoral district)
New Brunswick electoral district | |
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Defunct provincial electoral district | |
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick |
District created | 1785 |
District abolished | 1795 |
First contested | 1785 |
Last contested | 1793 |
Saint John was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was split into the ridings of Saint John City and Saint John County in 1795.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
[edit]Legislature | Years | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | Member | Party | ||||||
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1st[1] | 1786 – 1792 | William Pagan | Ind. | Jonathan Bliss | Ind. | Christopher Billop | Ind. | Ward Chipman | Ind. | John McGeorge | Ind. | Stanton Hazard | Ind. | ||||||
2nd | 1793 – 1795 | William Thomson | Ind. | George Younghusband | Ind. | Edward Sands | Ind. | Bradford Gilbert | Ind. | Elias Hardy | Ind. | ||||||||
Riding dissolved into Saint John City and Saint John County |
Election results
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ The members elected for St. John were known as the Government candidates. Another group of candidates, Tertuluss Dickinson, Richard Lightfoot, Richard Bonsall, Peter Grim, Jonathan Boggs and Alexander Reid, received a majority of the votes but were unsuccessful because of the actions of the sheriff in validating the votes. A petition from the voters of St. John was addressed to the governor but was ignored. History of New Brunswick, J Hannay Archived 2011-05-16 at the Wayback Machine