Restigouche (provincial electoral district)

For the former federal electoral district in New Brunswick, see Restigouche (federal electoral district).

Restigouche was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It used a bloc voting system to elect candidates, and was created from Gloucester in 1838. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.

Restigouche

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1838
District abolished	1973
First contested	1843
Last contested	1970

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
Riding created from Gloucester
13th	1843 – 1846		Andrew Barberie	Ind.		Peter Stewart	Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850					John Montgomery	Ind.
15th	1851 – 1854
16th	1854 – 1856		Chipman Botsford	Ind.
17th	1856 – 1857		Andrew Barberie	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861		John McMillan	Ind.
19th	1862 – 1865
20th	1865 – 1866					Alexander C. DesBrisay	Conf.
21st	1866 – 1867
	1867 – 1870		William Montgomery	Ind.
22nd	1870
	1870 – 1874					John Phillips	Lib.
23rd	1875 – 1878		Archibald McKenzie	Ind.
24th	1879 – 1882		Joseph Cunard Barberie	Lib.		Thomas F. Kenny	Lib.-Con.
25th	1883 – 1885					Charles H. LaBillois	Cons.
	1885 – 1886		William Murray	Lib.-Con.
26th	1886 – 1890
27th	1890 – 1892
28th	1892 – 1895		William A. Mott	Ind.
29th	1896 – 1899
30th	1899 – 1903
31st	1903 – 1908		Henry F. McLatchy	Ind.
32nd	1908 – 1912		William Currie	Liberal
33rd	1912 – 1917		David A. Stewart	Cons.		Arthur Culligan	Cons.
34th	1917 – 1920		Arthur T. Leblanc	Lib.		William Currie	Lib.
35th	1921 – 1925		David A. Stewart	Cons.		Henry Diotte	Cons.
36th	1925 – 1930
37th	1931 – 1935
38th	1935 – 1939		Hedley Francis Gregory Bridges	Lib.		Philibert LeBlanc	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1944		David A. Stewart	Cons.		Edward Samuel Mooers	Lib.
40th	1944 – 1945		Benoît Michaud	Lib.
	1945 – 1948		Jean-Baptiste D'Astous	Lib.
41st	1948 – 1952
42nd	1952 – 1956		Douglas B. Pettigrew	PC		J. Roger Pichette	PC		Fred Somers	PC
43rd	1957 – 1960
44th	1960 – 1963		Georges Dumont	Lib.		John D. Alexander	Lib.		Patrick Guérette	Lib.
45th	1963 – 1967					Raymond Doucett	Lib.
46th	1967 – 1968		Wilfred Sénéchal	Lib.					J. M. Joffre Daigle	Lib.
	1968 – 1970								Charles Van Horne	PC
47th	1970 – 1974		Edèse J. Bujold	Lib.		Rayburn Doucett	Lib.		J. Alfred Russell	Lib.
Riding dissolved into Dalhousie, Restigouche East and Restigouche West

Election results

1970 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Edèse Bujold	5,966	Y
	Liberal	Rayburn D. Doucett	5,605	Y
	Liberal	J. Alfred Roussel	5,321	Y
	Progressive Conservative	John Potter	5,260
	Progressive Conservative	Roger McIntyre	5,011
	Progressive Conservative	George Thibeault	4,508
	New Democratic	Ralph Rose	264

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 9 September 1968
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Progressive Conservative	J. C. Van Horne	5,447	Y
	Liberal	O. R. M. Brimsacle	5,292

1967 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Liberal	Raymond D. Doucett	6,649	Y
	Liberal	Dr. Joffre Daigle	5,579	Y
	Liberal	J. H. Wilfred Sénéchal	5,579	Y
	Progressive Conservative	J. C. Van Horne	5,362
	Progressive Conservative	Edmund LeBLanc	5,141
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Pettigrew	5,140