Moncton Centre (electoral district)

Moncton Centre

New Brunswick electoral district
File:Riding of Moncton Centre (2014-).png The riding of Moncton Centre in relation to other southeastern New Brunswick electoral districts
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
MLA	Chris Collins Liberal
District created	2013
First contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2011)	15,273
Electors (2013)	11,368
Census divisions	Westmorland
Census subdivisions	Moncton

Moncton Centre is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was contested in the 2014 general election, having been created in the 2013 redistribution of electoral boundaries.

The district includes the geographic centre of Moncton, but excludes the downtown which falls in Moncton South.

It draws about 60% of its population from the old Moncton East and about 40% from the old district of Moncton North. Moncton East incumbent Chris Collins won the 2014 election.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Moncton East (1974–2014) and Moncton North
58th	2014–Present		Chris Collins	Liberal

Election results

New Brunswick general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Chris Collins	3,339	52.98
	Progressive Conservative	Marie-Claude Blais	1,589	25.21
	New Democratic	Luc Leblanc	866	13.74
	Green	Jeffrey McCluskey	508	8.06
Total valid votes			6,302	100.0
Total rejected ballots			28	0.44
Turnout			6,330	58.39
Eligible voters			10,841
This riding was created from parts of the previous riding of Moncton East and Moncton North, which elected a Liberal and a Progressive Conservative, respectively, in the previous election. Chris Collins was the incumbent from Moncton East, and Marie-Claude Blais was the incumbent from Moncton North.
Source: Elections New Brunswick

External links

• Website of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick