Carleton Centre

Carleton Centre

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1973
District abolished	1994
First contested	1974
Last contested	1991

Carleton Centre was a provincial electoral district in New Brunswick. It was created in the 1973 electoral redistribution from the multi-member riding of Carleton, and was abolished in the 1994 electoral redistribution.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Carleton (1834–1974)
48th	1974–1978		Richard Hatfield	Progressive Conservative
49th	1978–1982
50th	1982–1987
51st	1987–1991		Allison DeLong	Liberal
52nd	1991–1995
Riding dissolved into Carleton (1995–2014) and Woodstock

Election results

New Brunswick general election, 1991
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Allison DeLong	2,087	42.95	-14.84
	Progressive Conservative	Mary Hatfield	1,387	28.54	-9.88
	Confederation of Regions	Lois M. Clark	1,281	26.36	–
	New Democratic	Linda Marie Lawrence	104	2.14	-1.65
Total valid votes			4,859	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-2.48

New Brunswick general election, 1987
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Allison Winston DeLong	2,787	57.79	+12.57
	Progressive Conservative	Richard B. Hatfield	1,853	38.42	-13.43
	New Democratic	Kathryn Campbell	183	3.79	+0.86
Total valid votes			4,823	100.0
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+13.00

New Brunswick general election, 1982
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Richard B. Hatfield	2,266	51.85	-2.24
	Liberal	David E. Crouse	1,976	45.22	-0.69
	New Democratic	L. William Maxon	128	2.93	–
Total valid votes			4,370	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-0.78

New Brunswick general election, 1978
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Richard B. Hatfield	2,043	54.09	-7.97
	Liberal	David Crouse	1,734	45.91	+7.97
Total valid votes			3,777	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-7.97

New Brunswick general election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Richard B. Hatfield	2,033	62.06
	Liberal	Aage Skaarup	1,243	37.94
Total valid votes			3,276	100.0
The former multi-member riding of Carleton went totally Progressive Conservative in the last election, with Richard Hatfield being one of three incumbents.

External Links

• Website of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick