Kings Centre
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The riding of Kings Centre in relation to other electoral districts in Greater Saint John.
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Provincial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick | ||
MLA |
Progressive Conservative |
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District created | 2013 | ||
First contested | 2014 | ||
Demographics | |||
Population (2011) | 14,727 | ||
Electors (2013) | 10,952 | ||
Census divisions | Kings, Queens, Charlotte |
Kings Centre is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was first contested in the 2014 general election, having been created in the 2013 redistribution of electoral boundaries. It drew most of its population the former districts of Fundy-River Valley and Hampton-Kings, as well as from a small part of Kings East.
The district includes the western and north-central parts of Kings County, including the Kingston Peninsula and Village of Norton, as well as the Town of Grand Bay-Westfield and small parts of Queens and Charlotte Counties to its north and west.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
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Riding created from Fundy-River Valley, Hampton-Kings and Kings East | ||||
58th | 2014–Present | Bill Oliver | Progressive Conservative |
Election results
New Brunswick general election, 2014 | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
Progressive Conservative | Bill Oliver | 2,431 | 35.66 | |||||
Liberal | Shannon Merrifield | 2,110 | 30.95 | |||||
New Democratic | Daniel Anderson | 1,642 | 24.09 | |||||
Independent | Colby Fraser | 323 | 4.74 | |||||
Green | Mark Connell | 311 | 4.56 | |||||
Total valid votes | 6,817 | 100.0 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 18 | 0.26 | ||||||
Turnout | 6,835 | 60.18 | ||||||
Eligible voters | 11,357 | |||||||
This riding was created from parts of Fundy-River Valley, Hampton-Kings and Sussex-Fundy-St. Martins, all of which elected a Progressive Conservative in the previous election. Neither of the three incumbents ran in this election. | ||||||||
Source: Elections New Brunswick[1] |
References
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