1973 New Brunswick electoral redistribution

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The 1973 New Brunswick electoral redistribution was the most radical redistribution of electoral districts in the history of New Brunswick, Canada. Under this redistribution, New Brunswick changed from a mixture of multi-member districts and single-member districts to a scheme of only single-member districts, from bloc voting electoral system to first past the post.

As the number of members per district had been re-evaluated as recently as 1967, the number of members was not changed, and multi-member districts were simply subdivided to form single-member districts.

Prior to the redistribution, New Brunswick had had the longest and deepest experience of multi-member districts of any province in Canada. The Block voting system in use though denied voters the proportional representation that they might otherwise have enjoyed.^[1]

Transition of districts

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Former electoral district	New electoral districts
Albert	Albert; Riverview
Bathurst	unchanged
Campbellton	unchanged
Carleton	Carleton Centre; Carleton North; Carleton South
Charlotte	Charlotte Centre; Charlotte-Fundy; Charlotte West; St. Stephen-Milltown
Edmundston	unchanged
Fredericton	Fredericton North; Fredericton South
Gloucester	Caraquet; Nepisiguit-Chaleur; Nigadoo-Chaleur; Shippagan-les-Îles; Tracadie
Kent	Kent Centre; Kent North; Kent South
Kings	Kings Centre; Kings East; Kings West
Madawaska	Madawaska Centre; Madawaska-les-Lacs; Madawaska South
Moncton	Moncton East; Moncton North; Moncton West
Northumberland	Bay du Vin; Chatham; Miramichi Bay; Miramichi-Newcastle; Southwest Miramichi
Queens	Queens North; Queens South
Restigouche	Dalhousie; Restigouche East; Restigouche West
Saint John Centre	Saint John Harbour; Saint John North; Saint John Park; Saint John South
Saint John East	East Saint John; Saint John-Fundy
Saint John West	unchanged
Sunbury	Oromocto; Sunbury
Victoria	Grand Falls; Victoria-Tobique
Westmorland	Memramcook; Petitcodiac; Shediac; Tantramar
York	York North; York South

List of electoral districts

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(each district returns one member)

Preceded by 1967	New Brunswick electoral redistributions	Succeeded by 1994

References

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^ Wikipedia: Electoral district (Canada)

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