Madawaska South

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Madawaska South
New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created 1973
District abolished 1994
First contested 1974
Last contested 1991

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

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Assembly Years Member Party
Riding created from Madawaska
48th  1974–1978     Daniel Daigle Liberal
49th  1978–1982     Héliodore Côté Liberal
50th  1982–1987     Percy Mockler Progressive Conservative
51st  1987–1991     Pierrette Ringuette-Maltais Liberal
52nd  1991–1995
Riding dissolved into Madawaska-la-Vallée

Election results

New Brunswick general election, 1991
Party Candidate Votes % ∆%
Liberal Pierrette Ringuette-Maltais 2,843 59.64 +7.70
Progressive Conservative Théo Poitras 1,715 35.98 -9.46
New Democratic Julien Tardif 209 4.38 +1.76
Total valid votes 4,767 100.0  
Liberal hold Swing +8.58


New Brunswick general election, 1987
Party Candidate Votes % ∆%
Liberal Pierrette Ringuette-Maltais 2,597 51.94 +7.62
Progressive Conservative Percy P. Mockler 2,272 45.44 -8.41
New Democratic Jean-Claude Bosse 131 2.62 +0.79
Total valid votes 5,000 100.0  
Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +8.02


New Brunswick general election, 1982
Party Candidate Votes % ∆%
Progressive Conservative Percy Mockler 2,561 53.85 +19.13
Liberal Héliodore Côté 2,108 44.32 -1.18
New Democratic Paul Murphy 87 1.83
Total valid votes 4,756 100.0  
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +10.16


New Brunswick general election, 1978
Party Candidate Votes % ∆%
Liberal Héliodore Côté 1,832 45.50 -11.23
Progressive Conservative Jean-Marc Violette 1,398 34.72 -5.29
Independent Père Léo Theriault 659 16.37
Parti acadien Jacques Lapointe 137 3.40 +0.13
Total valid votes 4,026 100.0  
Liberal hold Swing -2.97
Independent candidate Léo Theriault lost 23.64 percentage points from his 1974 performance running as a Progressive Conservative.
New Brunswick general election, 1974
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Daniel Daigle 1,893 56.73
Progressive Conservative Léo Theriault 1,335 40.01
Parti acadien Jeanne-D'Arc Fortin 109 3.27
Total valid votes 3,337 100.0  
The previous multi-member riding of Madawaska returned three Liberals in the previous election, with Daniel Daigle being one of three incumbents.

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