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Saint John Harbour is a provincial

Provinces and territories of Canada

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electoral district

Electoral district

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for the Legislative Assembly

Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

The Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick is located in Fredericton. It was established de jure when the colony was created in 1784, but only came in to session in 1786 following the first elections in late 1785. Until 1891, it was the lower house in a bicameral legislature when its upper house...

of New Brunswick

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

, Canada

Canada

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. It was represented from its creation for the 1995 election

New Brunswick general election, 1995

The 33rd New Brunswick general election was held on September 11, 1995, to elect 55 members to the 53rd New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. The election marked the debut of Bernard Valcourt as a provincial politician, and as leader of a...

until October 13, 2005 by Elizabeth Weir

Elizabeth Weir

Elizabeth Jane Weir is a lawyer and politician in New Brunswick, Canada. She was elected leader of the New Democratic Party of New Brunswick in 1988 and became an opposition voice to the Liberal government, which held all 58 seats in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick.Born in Belfast,...

, the leader of the New Democratic Party of New Brunswick from 1988 to September 25, 2005. Liberal

New Brunswick Liberal Association

The New Brunswick Liberal Association , more popularly known as the New Brunswick Liberal Party or Liberal Party of New Brunswick, is one of the two major political parties in the Canadian province of New Brunswick...

Ed Doherty had then taken the spot by winning a by-election

By-election

A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....

on November 14, 2005 and was re-elected in the 2006 general election

New Brunswick general election, 2006

The 36th New Brunswick general election was held on September 18, 2006, to elect 55 members to the 56th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada....

.

It is currently represented by Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick

The Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick is a centre-right political party in New Brunswick, Canada. It has its origins in the pre-Canadian confederation Conservative Party that opposed the granting of responsible government to the colony...

Carl Killen

Carl Killen is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2010 provincial election. He represents the electoral district of Saint John Harbour as a member of the Progressive Conservatives....

who was elected in the 2010 general election.

Prior to the New Brunswick electoral redistribution of 1994

New Brunswick electoral redistribution, 1994

The New Brunswick electoral redistribution of 1994 was the first re-alignment of electoral districts in New Brunswick, Canada, since 1973. Under this redistribution, several districts were changed significantly due to considerable population shifts from the northern part of the province to the...

another riding called Saint John Harbour existed. The former Saint John Harbour district was split in two with part being merged with Saint John South to form this current Saint John Harbour district, while the other half of the former Harbour district became a part of Saint John Lancaster.

Redistribution changes

This district was created in the early 1990s

New Brunswick electoral redistribution, 1994

using all of the district of Saint John South and a small portion of the old Saint John Harbour district, resulting in some confusion as most of what had been known as Saint John Harbour became a part of Saint John Portland.

In the 2006 redistribution

New Brunswick electoral redistribution, 2006

The New Brunswick electoral redistribution of 2006 was undertaken as a result of legislation introduced by Bernard Lord, the Premier of New Brunswick, Canada, on June 9, 2005...

it underwent only minor changes.

Earlier results (1995-2003)

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|New Democratic

New Brunswick New Democratic Party

The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is a social-democratic provincial political party in New Brunswick, Canada linked with the federal New Democratic Party .-Origins and early history:...

|Elizabeth Weir

Elizabeth Weir

|align="right"|2901
|align="right"|51.8%
|align="right"|*
|-

|Liberal

New Brunswick Liberal Association

|Robert Higgins
|align="right"|1813
|align="right"|32.3%
|align="right"|*
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick

|Lloyd Betts
|align="right"|702
|align="right"|12.5%
|align="right"|*
|-

|Confederation of Regions
|Roland Griffith
|align="right"|137
|align="right"|2.4%
|align="right"|*
|-

|Natural Law

Natural Law Party of Canada

The Natural Law Party of Canada was the Canadian branch of the international Natural Law Party founded in 1992 by a group of educators, business leaders, and lawyers who practiced Transcendental Meditation....

New Brunswick New Democratic Party

The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is a social-democratic provincial political party in New Brunswick, Canada linked with the federal New Democratic Party .-Origins and early history:...

hold*.
|align="right"|Majority
|align="right"|1088
|align="right"|19.4%
|}

* This was a new riding created out of a merger of the whole of the electoral district of Saint John South and a part of the former district of Saint John Harbour. Weir was the incumbent from Saint John South.
|-

|New Democratic

New Brunswick New Democratic Party

The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is a social-democratic provincial political party in New Brunswick, Canada linked with the federal New Democratic Party .-Origins and early history:...

|Elizabeth Weir

Elizabeth Weir

|align="right"|2398
|align="right"|46.6%
|align="right"|-5.2%
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick

|Tim Clarke
|align="right"|1349
|align="right"|26.2%
|align="right"|+13.7%
|-

|Liberal

New Brunswick Liberal Association

|Mark Thomas McNulty
|align="right"|1347
|align="right"|26.2%
|align="right"|-6.1%
|-

|Natural Law

Natural Law Party of Canada

New Brunswick New Democratic Party

The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is a social-democratic provincial political party in New Brunswick, Canada linked with the federal New Democratic Party .-Origins and early history:...

hold.
|align="right"|Majority
|align="right"|1049
|align="right"|20.4%
|}
|-

|New Democratic

New Brunswick New Democratic Party

The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is a social-democratic provincial political party in New Brunswick, Canada linked with the federal New Democratic Party .-Origins and early history:...

|Elizabeth Weir

Elizabeth Weir

|align="right"|1929
|align="right"|43.4%
|align="right"|-3.2%
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick

|Dennis Boyle
|align="right"|1286
|align="right"|28.9%
|align="right"|+2.7%
|-

|Liberal

New Brunswick Liberal Association

New Brunswick New Democratic Party

The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is a social-democratic provincial political party in New Brunswick, Canada linked with the federal New Democratic Party .-Origins and early history:...

hold.
|align="right"|Majority
|align="right"|643
|align="right"|14.5%
|}

2005 by-election

Elizabeth Weir

, who had held this riding since its creation, resigned on October 13, 2005 and Premier of New Brunswick

Premier of New Brunswick

The Premier of New Brunswick is the first minister for the Canadian province of New Brunswick. They are the province's head of government and de facto chief executive....

Bernard Lord

Bernard Lord, ONB, QC, is a Canadian politician and lobbyist. Lord served as the 30th Premier of New Brunswick from 1999 to 2006.-Early life:...

called a by-election

By-election

A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections....

for the riding on October 15. The by-election was held on November 14, 2005 and was from the outset thought to be a close race between Lord's Progressive Conservatives

Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick

and the Liberals

New Brunswick Liberal Association

with Weir's New Democrats

New Brunswick New Democratic Party

The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is a social-democratic provincial political party in New Brunswick, Canada linked with the federal New Democratic Party .-Origins and early history:...

unlikely to be able to compete without her personal popularity, particularly against the large organizations the other parties were likely to bring into the riding from around the province.

In the end the Liberals won the race in a landslide, more than doubling their vote over the previous election, with an absolute majority of 55% in a race with four candidates. Bernard Lord placed his reputation on the line, according to pundits, due to his choice of a high profile candidate and his announcing over $50 million in spending over the course of the four week campaign. As a result, many viewed this election as a huge blow to Lord's leadership and that it, along with two years of opinion polling showing Lord's PCs trailing the Liberals, the beginning of the end of his government.

The by-election also had immediate province-wide repercussions, bringing the standings in the legislature to 27 government, 27 opposition and the speaker. These standings would mean that the absence of one government member - even if he or she did not vote with the opposition - could defeat the government.

Candidates

Ed Doherty

The New Brunswick Liberal Association

New Brunswick Liberal Association

nominated local ophthalmologist Ed Doherty as their candidate on October 18, 2005. He won the nomination by acclamation after past candidate Anne-Marie Mullin dropped out of the race to back Doherty.

Doherty is well known in the community as a volunteer in numerous community and international groups and was a candidate against Paul Zed

Paul Zed

Paul Zed is a Canadian lawyer, professor, and politician.Paul Zed was born in Toronto on December 31, 1956 and received his early education from local Saint John, NB schools, graduating from St...

for the federal Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

The Liberal Party of Canada , colloquially known as the Grits, is the oldest federally registered party in Canada. In the conventional political spectrum, the party sits between the centre and the centre-left. Historically the Liberal Party has positioned itself to the left of the Conservative...

nomination for Saint John

Saint John (electoral district)

Saint John is a federal electoral district in southern New Brunswick, Canada. With its predecessor ridings, St. John—Albert and Saint John—Lancaster, the area has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1917...

in the 2004 election

Canadian federal election, 2004

The Canadian federal election, 2004 , was held on June 28, 2004 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 38th Parliament of Canada. The Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin lost its majority, but was able to form a minority government after the elections...

.

Michelle Hooton

Lord's Progressive Conservative Party

Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick

nominated star candidate

Star candidate

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Saint John

Saint John, New Brunswick

City of Saint John , or commonly Saint John, is the largest city in the province of New Brunswick, and the first incorporated city in Canada. The city is situated along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy at the mouth of the Saint John River. In 2006 the city proper had a population of 74,043...

deputy mayor

Deputy Mayor

Deputy mayor is an elective or appointive office of the second-ranking official in many local governments. Many elected deputy mayors are members of the city council who are given the title and serve as acting mayor in the mayor's absence...

Michelle Hooton on October 17, 2005. Hooton was placed 1st out of 50 candidates in the 2004 municipal election which, by precedent, made her deputy mayor. Lord invoked rules in the PC Party constitution

Constitution

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which allowed him to bar any other candidates from the race as the by-election had already called and, as a result, Hooton was acclaimed at the nomination for the PC Party.

Glen Jardine

Glen Jardine registered as an independent

Independent (politician)

In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...

candidate. He owned a local furniture store and several apartment buildings in the riding but lived outside of its boundaries. Jardine said that he is politically aligned closely with the Liberals but could not organize a run against Ed Doherty for the nomination in the quick turnaround time between the election call and the candidate selection. He said he had planned to move to the riding in the following year.

Dan Robichaud

Dan Robichaud was nominated by the New Brunswick New Democratic Party

New Brunswick New Democratic Party

The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is a social-democratic provincial political party in New Brunswick, Canada linked with the federal New Democratic Party .-Origins and early history:...

, whose Elizabeth Weir held the riding prior to the by-election, on October 20. Robichaud, with 10 votes, defeated Sharon Flatt, with 6 votes, an environmental activist, and Terry Albright the past president of the New Brunswick NDP, with only 3 votes, on the first ballot.

Robichaud, who owned a local stained glass

Stained glass

The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant buildings...

business, was making his second attempt at elected politics. He ran in 2004 for Saint John city council and finished 42nd out of 50 candidates.

Timeline

October 13, 2005 - Elizabeth Weir resigns from the seat to accept the post of President and CEO of the new Energy Efficiency and Conservation Agency.
October 14, 2005 - Michelle Hooton announces she will be a candidate for the Progressive Conservatives in the by-election.
October 15, 2005 - The Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives both hold their conventions
Political convention
In politics, a political convention is a meeting of a political party, typically to select party candidates.In the United States, a political convention usually refers to a presidential nominating convention, but it can also refer to state, county, or congressional district nominating conventions...

, which were previously scheduled. Bernard Lord, the premier and leader of the PCs, drops the writ
Writ of election
A writ of election is a writ issued by the government ordering the holding of a special election for a political office.In the United Kingdom and in Canada, this is the only way of holding an election for the House of Commons...

at his convention.
October 17, 2005 - Hooton is acclaimed as PC candidate.
October 18, 2005 - Dr. Ed Doherty is acclaimed as Liberal candidate.
October 20, 2005:
- Glen Jardine files papers to run as an indepedenent
  Independent (politician)
  In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do...
  
  .
- Dan Robichaud is elected as New Democratic Party candidate in a three-way race, though only 19 people voted at his nominating meeting.
October 21, 2005 - The Liberals announce their platform for the by-election, promising to invest $
Canadian dollar
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50 million in and around the riding if they win the next general election. The Liberals highlight that the majority of this money would come from federal funding which is available but Lord has refused to accept based on the conditions attached thereto. They argue that Lord is putting politics ahead of people.
November 1, 2005 - An all candidates debate is co-hosted by Rogers Cable
Rogers Cable
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and the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal newspaper
Newspaper
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, Independent Glen Jardine does not participate due to his late announcement as a candidate. The debate is televised twice, once on each of the two following days.
November 8, 2005 - An all candidates debate is held live on popular radio talk show Talk of the Town on CFBC. All four candidates participate.
November 9, 2005 - Michelle Hooton unveils her platform. Unlike the Liberal candidate, she does this individually. Where the Liberals promised what they would do with Doherty as a part of their team, Hooton promised what she would try to change from within the government if she was elected. She promised to change the government's position on nursing home payments, powers of municipalities in dealing with slum landlords, harbour cleanup, the St. Joseph's Hospital and affordable housing caps. She also pledged to build a new justice complex, a skateboard park, several community police stations and focus on waterfront development.
November 11, 2005 - A Telegraph Journal / Corporate Research Associates poll reveals a runaway lead for Doherty. The poll shows Doherty at 31%, Hooton at 10%, Robichaud at 9% and Jardine at 1% with 34% undecided. Undecided voters were asked if they were leaning toward any candidate and, with leaning voters factored in, the result was Doherty 53%, Hooton 20%, Robichaud 19% and Jardine 2%.
November 14, 2005 - Ed Doherty wins the election in a landslide. He takes the stage to read his victory speech at 9:05 local time (1 hour, 5 minutes after the polls have closed) to announce Michelle Hooton has conceded to him. As of his announcement, he is ahead of Hooton by more than a 2 to 1 margin.

Results

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|Liberal

New Brunswick Liberal Association

|Ed Doherty
|align="right"|2367
|align="right"|55.3%
|align="right"|+27.6%
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick

|Michelle Hooton
|align="right"|1136
|align="right"|26.5%
|align="right"|-2.4%
|-

|New Democratic

New Brunswick New Democratic Party

The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is a social-democratic provincial political party in New Brunswick, Canada linked with the federal New Democratic Party .-Origins and early history:...

|Dan Robichaud
|align="right"|734
|align="right"|17.1%
|align="right"|-26.3%
|-

|Independent

Independent (politician)

New Brunswick Liberal Association

gain.
|align="right"|Majority
|align="right"|1231
|align="right"|28.7%
|}

2006 election

Liberal Ed Doherty faced NDP candidate Dan Robichaud, whom he had run against in the 2005 by-election, as well as Conservative candidate Idee Inyangudor, an aide to a member of the cabinet

Executive Council of New Brunswick

The Executive Council of New Brunswick is the cabinet of that Canadian province....

and perennial candidate

Perennial candidate

A perennial candidate is one who frequently runs for public office with a record of success that is infrequent, if existent at all. Perennial candidates are often either members of minority political parties or have political opinions that are not mainstream. They may run without any serious hope...

David Raymond Amos.

The results were as follows (comparisons to the last general election):
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|Liberal

New Brunswick Liberal Association

|Ed Doherty
|align="right"|2690
|align="right"|60.86%
|align="right"|+33.2%
|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick

|Idee Inyangudor
|align="right"|1139
|align="right"|25.77%
|align="right"|-3.1%
|-

|New Democratic

New Brunswick New Democratic Party

The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is a social-democratic provincial political party in New Brunswick, Canada linked with the federal New Democratic Party .-Origins and early history:...

|Dan Robichaud
|align="right"|547
|align="right"|12.38%
|align="right"|-31.0%
|-

|Independent

Independent (politician)

New Brunswick Liberal Association

hold.
|align="right"|Majority
|align="right"|1551
|align="right"|35.09%
|}

2010 election

|-

|Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick

|Carl Killen

Carl Killen

|align="right"|1334
|align="right"|30.66
|align="right"|+4.89
|-

|Liberal

New Brunswick Liberal Association

|Ed Doherty
|align="right"|1325
|align="right"|30.45
|align="right"|-30.41
|-

|New Democratic

New Brunswick New Democratic Party

The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is a social-democratic provincial political party in New Brunswick, Canada linked with the federal New Democratic Party .-Origins and early history:...

John Campbell

- British political figures :* John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun , Lord Chancellor of Scotland, President of the Privy Council* John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll , Scottish soldier, Lord Steward, Lord Lieutenant of Surrey...

|align="right"|253
|align="right"|5.81%
|align="right"| -
|-

|Green

Green Party of New Brunswick

The Green Party of New Brunswick was formed in November 2008 to run in provincial elections. It is a registered Green political party in New Brunswick, Canada.,...

|Patty Higgins
|align="right"|237
|align="right"|5.45%
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