Tantramar (electoral district)
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Tantramar is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was created in the 1973 electoral redistribution and first used in the 1974 election. It underwent only very minor changes in the 1994 redistribution. This was the first seat to elect a New Democrat to the legislature.
[edit] Results
| 1974 New Brunswick election: Tantramar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Lloyd Folkins | 2402 | 45.4% | * | |
| Liberal | John Bryden | 2094 | 39.5% | * | |
| New Democratic | Colin McCabe | 800 | 15.1% | * | |
| P.C. gain*. | Majority | 308 | 5.8% | ||
* This was a new district created out of the old multi-member district of Westmorland
| 1978 New Brunswick election: Tantramar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Lloyd George Folkins | 2019 | 39.0% | -6.4% | |
| New Democratic | Robert Arthur Hall | 1924 | 37.2% | +22.1% | |
| Liberal | James G. Purdy | 1232 | 23.8% | -15.7% | |
| P.C. hold. | Majority | 95 | 1.8% | ||
| 1982 New Brunswick election: Tantramar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| New Democratic | Robert Arthur Hall | 2503 | 42.4% | +5.2% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Irvin D. Robinson | 2063 | 35.0% | -4.0% | |
| Liberal | John Gideon Carter | 1334 | 22.6% | -1.2% | |
| N.D.P. gain. | Majority | 440 | 7.5% | ||
| 1987 New Brunswick election: Tantramar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Marilyn Trenholme | 3160 | 52.1% | +29.5% | |
| New Democratic | Robert Hall | 1825 | 30.1% | -12.3% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Lloyd G. Folkins | 1085 | 17.9% | -17.1% | |
| Liberal gain. | Majority | 1335 | 22.0% | ||
| 1991 New Brunswick election: Tantramar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Marilyn Trenholme | 3008 | 49.5% | -2.6% | |
| New Democratic | Robert Hall | 1419 | 23.4% | -6.7% | |
| Confederation of Regions | Clarke Edgar Sheppard | 1091 | 18.0% | * | |
| Progressive Conservative | William R. Campbell | 556 | 9.2% | -8.7% | |
| Liberal hold. | Majority | 1589 | 26.2% | ||
* CoR did not contest the previous election
| 1995 New Brunswick election: Tantramar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Liberal | Marilyn Trenholme | 3414 | 62.0% | +12.5% | |
| New Democratic | Berkeley Fleming | 844 | 15.3% | -8.1% | |
| Progressive Conservative | H. Eric Wheeler | 654 | 11.9% | +2.7% | |
| Confederation of Regions | Julia Elnora Stevens | 553 | 10.0% | -8.0% | |
| Liberal hold. | Majority | 2570 | 46.7% | ||
| 1997 Tantramar by-election | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Peter Mesheau | 1597 | 34.1% | +22.2% | |
| Liberal | Ross Monk | 1558 | 33.2% | -28.8% | |
| New Democratic | Heather Patterson | 1417 | 30.2% | +14.9% | |
| Confederation of Regions | Greg Hargrove* | 118 | 2.5% | -7.5% | |
| P.C. gain. | Majority | 39 | 0.8% | ||
* Greg Hargrove was the leader of CoR running as a parachute candidate
| 1999 New Brunswick election: Tantramar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Peter Mesheau | 3311 | 62.8% | +28.7% | |
| New Democratic | Heather Patterson | 990 | 18.8% | -11.4% | |
| Liberal | Kirk W. Meldrum | 925 | 17.5% | -15.7% | |
| Independent | Frank Comeau | 47 | 0.9% | * | |
| P.C. hold. | Majority | 2321 | 44.0% | ||
* Neither Comeau nor another independent ran in the previous election
| 2003 New Brunswick election: Tantramar | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Progressive Conservative | Peter Mesheau | 2922 | 58.3% | -4.5% | |
| Liberal | Susan Purdy | 1569 | 31.3% | +13.8% | |
| New Democratic | Geoff Martin | 522 | 10.4% | -8.4% | |
| P.C. hold. | Majority | 1353 | 27.0% | ||
