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Kent Centre

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Kent Centre
New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created1973
District abolished1994
First contested1974
Last contested1991

Kent Centre was a provincial electoral district in New Brunswick. It was created from the multi-member riding of Kent in the 1973 electoral redistribution, and was abolished in the 1994 electoral redistribution.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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Assembly Years Member Party
Riding created from Kent (1827–1974)
48th  1974–1978     Alan R. Graham Liberal
49th  1978–1982
50th  1982–1987
51st  1987–1991
52nd  1991–1995
Riding dissolved into Kent (1994–2013)

Election results

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1991 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Alan Graham 3,025 69.11 -8.54
Confederation of Regions Percy Beers 626 14.30
New Democratic Neil Gardner 379 8.66 +2.22
Progressive Conservative David MacDonald 347 7.93 -7.98
Total valid votes 4,377 100.0  
Liberal hold Swing -11.42
1987 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Alan R. Graham 3,232 77.65 +14.00
Progressive Conservative Sammy Arsenault 662 15.91 -13.51
New Democratic Neil Gardner 268 6.44 +1.33
Total valid votes 4,162 100.0  
Liberal hold Swing +13.76
1982 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Alan R. Graham 2,691 63.65 +3.23
Progressive Conservative Fernand Savoie 1,244 29.42 -0.66
New Democratic Derrold H. Barnes 216 5.11 -1.29
Independent Ronald S. MacDonald 77 1.82
Total valid votes 4,228 100.0  
Liberal hold Swing +1.94
1978 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Alan Robert Graham 2,352 60.42 +2.72
Progressive Conservative Claude Giruan Warren 1,171 30.08 -9.12
New Democratic John B. LaBossiere 249 6.40 +3.29
Parti acadien Pierrette Leblanc 121 3.11
Total valid votes 3,893 100.0  
Liberal hold Swing +5.92
1974 New Brunswick general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Alan Graham 2,024 57.70
Progressive Conservative Lloyd Girvan 1,375 39.20
New Democratic Lawrence Murphy 109 3.11
Total valid votes 3,508 100.0  
The previous multi-member riding of Kent elected 3 (of 3) Liberals in the last election. One Progressive Conservative was elected in a 1971 by-election. Alan R. Graham was one of three incumbents.
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