Charlotte (provincial electoral district, 1785–1974) explained

Prov-Status:	defunct
Province:	New Brunswick
Prov-Election-First:	1785
Prov-Election-Last:	1970
Prov-Created:	1785
Prov-Abolished:	1973

Charlotte was a New Brunswick electoral district. It existed from the first legislature in 1785 until it was abolished in 1973 when New Brunswick went from bloc voting to single-member ridings. The riding of St. Stephen-Milltown was briefly separated from this riding between 1924 and 1926.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
1st	1786 – 1792			William Payne	Ind.			James Campbell	Ind.		Robert Pagan	Ind.		Peter Clinch	Ind.
2nd	1793 – 1795			Daniel McMaster	Ind.			Hugh Mackay	Ind.
3rd	1795 – 1802			James Campbell	Ind.			David Owen	Ind.						David Mowatt	Ind.
4th	1802 – 1809			Ninian Lindsay	Ind.			Hugh Mackay	Ind.						Joseph Porter	Ind.
5th	1809 – 1816			John Dunn	Ind.			Donald McDonald	Ind.					Colin Campbell	Ind.
6th	1817 – 1819		Hugh Mackay	Ind.		Joseph Porter	Ind.
7th	1820								John Campbell	Ind.
8th	1821 – 1827						Peter Stubs				Ind.		Joseph N. Clarke^[1]	Ind.
9th	1827 – 1828					Colin Campbell	Ind.		Thomas Wyer	Ind.
	1828 – 1829												Patrick Clinch	Ind.
	1829 – 1830												Joseph N. Clarke	Ind.
10th	1831 – 1834		James Brown	Ind.		Patrick Clinch	Ind.					George S. Hill	Ind.
11th	1835 – 1837
12th	1837 – 1842					Robert Thomson	Ind.
13th	1843 – 1846								James Boyd	Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850											William Porter	Ind.
15th	1851 – 1854			John James Robinson				Ind.						Bartholomew R. Fitzgerald	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856		Arthur Hill Gillmor	Lib.		John McAdam	Lib.-Con.		James Boyd	Ind.			James Brown	Ind.
17th	1856 – 1857												George Dixon Street	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861									James Brown	Ind.			James W. Chandler	Ind.
19th	1862 – 1864						George S. Grimmer^[2]	Lib.		James Boyd	Ind.		James G. Stevens	Ind.
	1864 – 1865						John McAdam	Lib.-Con.
20th	1865 – 1866						George F. Hill	Lib.						Robert Thomson	Ind.
21st	1866 – 1867		John McAdam^[3]	Lib.-Con.			James G. Stevens^[4]	Ind.		Francis Hibbard	Ind.			James W. Chandler	Ind.
	1867 – 1870						Henry Frye	Ind.					Benjamin Robert Stephenson	Lib.
22nd	1870 – 1872					Joseph Donald	Ind.
	1872 – 1874			John Cameron Brown				Lib.
23rd	1875 – 1878			James Murchie	Lib.			James McKay	Lib.		Thomas Cottrell				Lib.
24th	1879 – 1882			George F. Hill	Lib.		James E. Lynott	Ind.
25th	1883 – 1886			John McAdam	Lib.-Con.					James Mitchell	Lib.		George F. Hibbard	Ind.
26th	1886 – 1890		William Douglas	Cons.		James Russell	Ind.
27th	1890 – 1892
28th	1892 – 1895		George F. Hill	Lib.								James O'Brien	Lib.
29th	1896 – 1899
30th	1899 – 1903										William F. Todd			Lib.
31st	1903 – 1908		Henry I. Taylor	Cons.		Thomas A. Hartt	Cons.		Ward C.H. Grimmer	Cons.		George J. Clarke	Cons.
32nd	1908 – 1912
33rd	1912 – 1917					Scott D. Guptill	Cons.
34th	1917 – 1920									R. Watson Grimmer	Cons.			Harry D. Smith	Cons.
35th	1921 – 1925									John M. Flewelling	Cons.			John W. Scovil	Lib.
36th	1925 – 1930									James S. Lord	Cons.	see St. Stephen-Milltown
37th	1931 – 1935									George H. I. Cockburn	Cons.			Harry Marshall Groom	Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939			Alexander Dyas	Lib.		J.J. Hayes Doone	Lib.		R. Fraser Keay	Lib.		Foster Calder	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1944
40th	1944 – 1948		Hugh S. Balkam	Lib.								Owen Morse	Lib.
41st	1948 – 1952							William N. Campbell	Lib.					Leigh Williamson	Lib.
42nd	1952 – 1956		Norman Buchanan	PC		C. Douglas Everett	PC		Lorne B. Groom^[5]	PC			Vance R. Huntley	PC
43rd	1957 – 1960												Gale S. McLaughlin	PC
44th	1960 – 1963		Kenneth J. Webber	Lib.		Henry G. Irwin	Lib.		Leon G. Small	Lib.		Alfred Hawkins	Lib.
45th	1963 – 1967
46th	1967 – 1970		John E. Rigby^[6]	PC		G.W.N. Cockburn	PC		Leland McGaw	PC		DeCosta Young	PC
47th	1970 – 1972
	1973 – 1974			James N. Tucker, Jr.										PC
Riding dissolved into Charlotte Centre, Charlotte-Fundy, Charlotte West and St. Stephen-Milltown

Notes and References

1. election appealed
2. resigned to accept appointment as Clerk of the Peace
3. elected to federal seat
4. resigned after being named as a judge
5. resigned to run for a federal seat
6. died in office