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  NB Legislative Assembly
INCUMBENT
  PartyLiberal
Name New Brunswick Liberal Association
Won10/21/2024
Votes31 (63.27%)
Margin15 (+30.61%)
Term10/22/2024 - 10/16/2028
Leadership
  Speaker  Francine Landry 1 24 +100.00%
Votes/Standings
  NB Legislative Assembly - Popular Vote  New Brunswick Liberal Association 0 24 +13.20%
Provincial Legislature
  Albert-Riverview  Sherry Wilson 5 24 +21.18%
  Arcadia-Butternut Valley-Maple Hills  Don Monahan 1 24 +25.53%
  Bathurst  René Legacy 2 24 +22.42%
  Beausoleil-Grand-Bouctouche-Kent  Benoît Bourque 4 24 +44.93%
  Belle-Baie-Belledune  Marco LeBlanc 1 24 +45.46%
  Caraquet  Isabelle Thériault 3 24 +78.60%
  Carleton-Victoria  Margaret C. Johnson 2 24 +34.28%
  Carleton-York  Richard Ames 2 24 +31.68%
  Champdoré-Irishtown  Lyne Chantal Boudreau 1 24 +18.24%
  Dieppe-Memramcook  Natacha Vautour 1 24 +48.20%
  Edmundston-Vallée-des-Rivières  Jean-Claude D'Amours 3 24 +66.45%
  Fredericton North  Luke Randall 1 24 +17.05%
  Fredericton South-Silverwood  Susan Holt 1 24 +25.99%
  Fredericton-Grand Lake  Kris Austin 3 24 +26.41%
  Fredericton-Lincoln  David Coon 4 24 +16.34%
  Fredericton-York  Ryan P. Cullins 2 24 +12.80%
  Fundy-The Isles-Saint John Lorneville  Ian Lee 1 24 +28.52%
  Grand Falls-Vallée-des-Rivières-Saint-Quentin  Chuck Chiasson 4 24 +31.00%
  Hampton-Fundy-St. Martins  John Herron 1 24 +2.70%
  Hanwell-New Maryland  Cindy Miles 1 24 +0.62%
  Hautes-Terres-Nepisiguit  Luc Robichaud 1 24 +52.55%
  Kent North  Pat Finnigan 1 24 +7.72%
  Kings Centre  Bill Oliver 4 24 +16.52%
  Madawaska Les Lacs-Edmundston  Francine Landry 4 24 +39.54%
  Miramichi Bay-Neguac  Sam Johnston 1 24 +13.29%
  Miramichi East  Michelle Conroy 3 24 +9.97%
 Miramichi West     
  Moncton Centre  Rob McKee 3 24 +28.47%
  Moncton East  Alexandre Cédric Doucet 1 24 +34.33%
  Moncton Northwest  Tania Sodhi 1 24 +2.78%
  Moncton South  Claire Johnson 1 24 +19.89%
  Oromocto-Sunbury  Mary E. Wilson 3 24 +19.90%
  Quispamsis  Aaron Kennedy 1 24 +2.32%
  Restigouche East  Guy H. Arseneault 3 24 +19.54%
  Restigouche West  Gilles LePage 4 24 +36.32%
  Riverview  Rob Weir 1 24 +4.66%
  Rothesay  Alyson Townsend 1 24 +8.80%
  Saint Croix  Kathy Bockus 2 24 +16.75%
  Saint John East  Glen Savoie 4 24 +0.47%
  Saint John Harbour  David Hickey 1 24 +30.83%
  Saint John Portland-Simonds  John Dornan 1 24 +15.79%
  Saint John West-Lancaster  Kate Elman Wilcott 1 24 +9.74%
  Shediac Bay-Dieppe  Robert Gauvin 3 24 +49.31%
  Shediac-Cap-Acadie  Jacques LeBlanc 3 24 +26.26%
  Shippagan-Les-Îles  Éric Mallet 2 24 +58.69%
  Sussex-Three Rivers  Tammy Scott-Wallace 2 24 +5.99%
  Tantramar  Megan Mitton 3 24 +23.60%
  Tracadie  Keith Chiasson 3 24 +12.78%
  Woodstock-Hartland  Bill Hogan 2 24 +20.77%


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Description New Brunswick's system of government, like the federal system in Ottawa and those in other provinces, is based on the British parliamentary system.

It is the only officially bilingual province in Canada, having passed into law an Official Languages Act which recognizes the equality of the English and French languages in the legislature, courts, public service and schools.

Under our system of parliamentary democracy, each of the 55 members of the provincial Legislative Assembly is elected individually to represent the voters in one constituency or district.

Although a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) need not be affiliated with an organized political party, historically it has been the case in New Brunswick for members to belong to either the Liberal Party or the Progressive Conservative Party. Only those two parties have been able to win sufficient seats in a general election to form a government. The first member of the legislature to represent the New Democratic Party was elected in 1982. The first members of the Confederation of Regions Party were elected in 1991.

Following a provincial election, the political party with the largest number of elected representatives forms the government. The leader of the party with the majority of seats, the premier, is also an MLA. The premier appoints a cabinet from among the members of his party elected to the legislature. Cabinet ministers are, in our system, collectively responsible to the Legislative Assembly, and thus to the people at large, for implementing legislation (laws) passed by the legislature and for conducting government affairs.

The legislature meets once and sometimes twice a year. It can be dissolved at any time by the lieutenant-governor on the advice of the premier or, in the event the government is defeated, by a vote in the legislature. The latter circumstance is an indication the Legislative Assembly has lost confidence in the government.

The party with the second largest number of seats in the legislature forms the official Opposition, and its leader becomes leader of the Opposition. There can be more than one opposition party and that with the largest number of members is styled the official Opposition.

The role of the Opposition is to question the government policies and actions, and to offer alternatives to government policies.

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