Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe

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New Brunswick electoral district

Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe in relation to the other New Brunswick ridings

Federal electoral district

Legislature

House of Commons

Robert Goguen
Conservative

District created

1966

First contested

1968

Last contested

2011

District webpage

profile, map

Demographics

Population (2011)^[1]

98,539

Electors (2011)

74,660

Area (km²)^[2]

185.95

Pop. density (per km²)

529.9

Census divisions

Albert, Westmorland

Census subdivisions

Cities:
Dieppe (part)
Moncton
Towns:
Riverview (part)

Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe (formerly known as Moncton) is a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968. Its population in 2006 was 89,334.

Geography

The riding includes the entire city of Moncton and most of the town of Riverview and the city of Dieppe excluding the north east section, i.e., Melanson Road and up to the city limits.^[3]

The neighbouring ridings are Beauséjour and Fundy Royal.

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
2001	83,191	—
2006	89,334	+7.4%
2011	98,539	+10.3%

History

The riding of Moncton was created in 1966 when the district of Westmorland was split. The other riding is now called Beausejour. The riding's initial area consisted of the city of Moncton and town of Dieppe, two parishes in Westmorland County (Moncton and Salisbury), and the Parish of Coverdale in Albert County.

As the Moncton area grew in population, the riding shrank. The area of Albert County outside the town of Riverview was removed in 1976, a large area north of Moncton was removed in 1987, and the Petitcodiac and Salisbury areas were removed in 1997, to the point where the riding no longer has any largely rural areas. In 1998, Riverview and Dieppe were added to the riding's name.

Moncton has elected some well-known and controversial Members of Parliament. Former mayor Leonard Jones, who took a tough stance against French language education, won the Progressive Conservative Party nomination for the 1974 election, but party leader Robert Stanfield refused to sign his nomination papers because of Jones' opposition to party policy on Official bilingualism. Jones ran and won as an independent candidate.

Dennis Cochrane, later the leader of the New Brunswick PC Party, represented the city for one term in the 1980s, and Conservative, Robert Goguen, is the riding's current representative in the House of Commons.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years		Party
Westmorland prior to 1968
Moncton
28th	1968–1972	Charlie Thomas	Progressive Conservative
29th	1972–1974	Charlie Thomas	Progressive Conservative
30th	1974–1979	Leonard Jones	Independent
31st	1979–1980	Gary McCauley	Liberal
32nd	1980–1984	Gary McCauley	Liberal
33rd	1984–1988	Dennis Cochrane	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993	George Rideout	Liberal
35th	1993–1997	George Rideout	Liberal
Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe
36th	1997–2000	Claudette Bradshaw	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008	Brian Murphy	Liberal
40th	2008–2011	Brian Murphy	Liberal
41st	2011–present	Robert Goguen	Conservative

Election results