1974 New Brunswick general election

Canadian provincial election September 2023 1974 New Brunswick general election New Brunswick parliamentary no no 1970 New Brunswick general election 1970 47th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly November 18, 1974 members 1978 New Brunswick general election 1978 58 seats of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick 30 NB PC nohash Richard Hatfield 1967 NB PC name Carleton Centre 32 33 1 46.86% 1.54% Lib NB Liberal nohash Robert Higgins 1971 NB Liberal name Saint John Park 26 25 1 47.52% 1.08 New Brunswick general election, 1974 results by riding.svg 300px Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each riding. Premier Richard Hatfield NB PC name Richard Hatfield Premier after election NB PC name No The 1974 New Brunswick general election was held on November 18, 1974, to elect 58 members to the 48th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. It saw Richard Hatfield's Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick win its second majority government with a gain of one seat despite losing the popular vote to Robert J. Higgins's New Brunswick Liberal Party. For the second election in a row, the Conservatives received a majority in the parliament despite receiving fewer votes than the Liberals. Despite the Hatfield government's involvement in the failed Bricklin SV-1 automobile plant and a series of kickback schemes, there were few surprises during the campaign. Hatfield had made inroads in the Acadian community since the 1970 election, winning three francophone seats in by-elections. The Acadian support proved key during Hatfield's entire term as premier. This was the first New Brunswick election in which candidates contested only single-member ridings, established as a result of the 1973 electoral redistribution; previous elections had each county as an electoral district electing a varying number of members, based on their respective populations, with multi-member districts predominating. Results thumb|right|250px|Rendition of party representation in the 48th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly decided by this election #6495ED Progressive Conservatives (33) #F08080 Liberals (25) Summary of the 1974 Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick election resultsFrank B. Feigert Canada Votes, 1935-1988 https://books.google.com/books?id=03WHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR11 1989 Duke University Press 160 9780822308942 |- bgcolor=CCCCCC !rowspan="2" colspan="2"|Party !rowspan="2"|Party leader !rowspan="2"|# ofcandidates !colspan="4"|Seats !colspan="3"|Popular vote |- bgcolor=CCCCCC |align="center"|1970 |align="center"|Dissolution |align="center"|Elected |align="center"|Change |align="center"|# |align="center"|% |align="center"|% Change NB PC row |align=left|Progressive Conservative |align=left|Richard Hatfield |align="right"|58 |align="right"|32 |align="right"|32 |align="right"|33 |align="right"|+1 |align="right"|145,304 |align="right"|46.86 |align="right"|-1.54 NB Liberal row |align=left|Liberal |align=left|Robert Higgins |align="right"|58 |align="right"|26 |align="right"|26 |align="right"|25 |align="right"|-1 |align="right"|147,372 |align="right"|47.53 |align="right"|-1.08 NB NDP row |align=left|New Democratic |align=left|Albert Richardson |align="right"|35 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|9,092 |align="right"|2.93 |align="right"|+0.10 NB Independent row |align=left|Parti Acadien |align=left|Euclide Chaisson |align="right"|13 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|3,607 |align="right"|1.16 |align="right"| |- NB Independent row |align=left|Independents |align=left| |align="right"|11 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|0 |align="right"|4,723 |align="right"|1.52 |align="right"| |- |} Popular vote #ddd 600px 410px Liberal NB Liberal 47.53 PC NB PC 46.86 New Democratic NB NDP 2.93 Others NB Independent 2.68Seats summary #ddd 600px 410px PC NB PC 56.90 Liberal NB Liberal 43.10 References Further reading Saywell John John Saywell Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, 1974 1976 University of Toronto Press Toronto 9780802021960 https://archive.org/details/canadianannualre0002unse_d8f4 registration Category:1974 elections in Canada Category:Elections in New Brunswick Category:1974 in New Brunswick Category:November 1974 in Canada