Queens (New Brunswick provincial electoral district)

Queens

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

Queens 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.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party
1st	1786 – 1792		Samuel Dickinson	Independent		John Yeamans	Independent
2nd	1793 – 1795		James Peters	Independent
3rd	1795 – 1802
4th	1802 – 1809
5th	1809 – 1816
6th	1817 – 1819		Samuel Scovil	Independent		Richard Yeamans	Independent
7th	1820
8th	1821 – 1827					William Peters	Independent
9th	1827 – 1830		Harry Peters	Independent		Charles Harrison	Independent
10th	1831 – 1834		Thomas Gilbert	Independent
11th	1835 – 1837					Hugh Johnston, Jr.	Independent
12th	1837 – 1842
13th	1843 – 1846					John Earle	Independent
14th	1847 – 1850					Hugh Johnston, Jr.	Independent
15th	1851 – 1854					John Earle	Independent
16th	1854 – 1856		Samuel H. Gilbert	Independent		John Ferris	Liberal
17th	1856 – 1857		John Earle	Independent
18th	1857 – 1861		Samuel H. Gilbert	Independent
19th	1862 – 1865
20th	1865 – 1866		Joseph B. Perkins	Independent		Gideon D. Bailey	Independent
21st	1866 – 1867		John Ferris	Liberal		Robert Thorne Babbit	Independent
	1867 – 1870		Walter S. Butler	Independent
22nd	1870 – 1871		Gideon D. Bailey	Independent
	1871 – 1872					Ebenezer Williams	Independent
	1872 – 1874		Walter S. Butler	Independent
23rd	1875 – 1878					Francis Woods	Liberal
24th	1879 – 1882
25th	1883 – 1886		Thomas Hetherington	Liberal		Albert Palmer	Liberal
26th	1886 – 1890
27th	1890 – 1892
28th	1892					Laughlin Farris	Liberal
	1892 – 1895		Andrew George Blair	Liberal
29th	1896
	1896 – 1899		Isaac W. Carpenter	Independent
30th	1899 – 1903
31st	1903 – 1908
32nd	1908 – 1912		Harry W. Woods	Independent		Arthur R. Slipp	Independent
33rd	1912 – 1917
34th	1917 – 1920		George Herbert King	Liberal		Judson Hetherington	Liberal
35th	1921 – 1925
36th	1925 – 1930		W. Benton Evans	Conservative		J. Arthur Moore	Conservative
37th	1931 – 1935
38th	1935 – 1939		Frederic McGrand	Liberal		W. M. Jenkins	Liberal
39th	1939 – 1944		W. Benton Evans	Conservative		J. Arthur Moore	Conservative
40th	1944 – 1948		Edward S. Darrah	Liberal		Hardie C. Parker	Liberal
41st	1948 – 1952
42nd	1952 – 1956		Wilfred Bishop	Progressive Conservative		J. Arthur Moore	Progressive Conservative
43rd	1957 – 1960
44th	1960 – 1963
45th	1963 – 1967
46th	1967 – 1970					Robert McCready	Liberal
47th	1970 – 1974
Riding dissolved into Queens North and Queens South

Election results

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	Wilfred Bishop	2,609	Y
	Liberal	Robert M. McCready	2,439	Y
	Progressive Conservative	Lloyd Nickerson	2,367
	Liberal	Victor C. McMann	1,968
	New Democratic	William Arthur Bradley	128