Westmorland (provincial electoral district) explained

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

Westmorland was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was abolished with the 1973 electoral redistribution, when the province moved to single-member ridings.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
1st	1786 – 1792		Amos Botsford^[1]	Ind.			Charles Dixon	Ind.			Samuel Gay	Ind.			Andrew Kinnear	Ind.
2nd	1793 – 1795						Thomas Chandler	Ind.			William Black	Ind.		Thomas Dixson	Ind.
3rd	1795 – 1802						Samuel Gay	Ind.			Ralph Siddall	Ind.
4th	1802 – 1809						Benjamin Wilson	Ind.		James Easterbrooks	Ind.
5th	1809 – 1812					Titus Knapp	Ind.					John Chapman	Ind.
	1813 – 1816		William Botsford^[2]	Ind.
6th	1817 – 1819					Rufus Smith	Ind.
7th	1820											Joseph Crandall^[3]	Ind.
8th	1821 – 1823									Benjamin Wilson	Ind.
	1823 – 1824											Malcolm Wilmot	Ind.
	1824 – 1827		William Crane	Ind.
9th	1827 – 1830					Edward Barron Chandler	Ind.			Philip Palmer	Ind.		Robert Scott	Ind.
10th	1831 – 1834									Rufus Smith	Ind.
11th	1835 – 1837								Philip Palmer	Ind.		Daniel Hanington	Ind.
12th	1837 – 1842						William Wilson							Ind.
13th	1843 – 1846		William Hazen Botsford	Ind.			John Smith							Ind.
14th	1847 – 1850						William Wilson	Ind.						Amand Landry	Ind.
15th	1851 – 1853			William Crane^[4]	Ind.		Bliss Botsford	Ind.		Robert B. Chapman				Ind.
	1853 – 1854		Amand Landry	Ind.
16th	1854 – 1856					Albert James Smith^[5]	Lib.			James Steadman				Ind.
17th	1856 – 1857								Bliss Botsford	Ind.		Robert K. Gilbert	Ind.
18th	1857 – 1861		James Steadman	Ind.
19th	1862 – 1865								Amand Landry	Ind.		William J. Gilbert	Ind.
20th	1865 – 1866		Bliss Botsford	Ind.
21st	1866 – 1867											Angus McQueen	Ind.
	1867 – 1870					Joseph Lytle Moore^[6]	Ind.
22nd	1870 – 1871								Pierre-Amand Landry	Cons.
	1871 – 1874			Daniel Lionel Hanington	Lib.-Con.		John A. Humphrey							Lib.-Con.
23rd	1875 – 1878			Edward J. Smith	Lib.					Thomas Pickard					Lib.
24th	1879 – 1882		Daniel Lionel Hanington	Lib.-Con.			Amasa E. Killam	Lib.-Con.		Pierre-Amand Landry	Cons.			Joseph Laurence Black	Ind.
25th	1882 – 1883					John A. Humphrey	Lib.-Con.					Charles A. Black	Cons.
	1883 – 1886									Amasa E. Killam	Lib.-Con.
26th	1886 – 1890												Joseph Laurence Black	Ind.
27th	1890 – 1891					Henry Absalom Powell<	--^[7] -->^[8]	Lib.-Con.		Olivier-Maximin Melanson	Lib.-Con.			Henry T. Stevens^[9]	Ind.
	1891 – 1892												Joseph A. McQueen	Lib.
28th	1892 – 1895			John W. Y. Smith^[10]			Ind.			Amasa E. Killam	Lib.-Con.		W. Woodbury Wells^[11]	Lib.
29th	1896 – 1897	rowspan="2"		Ambrose D. Richard	Cons.	rowspan="2"		Frederick W. Sumner							Cons.
	1897 – 1899		Clifford William Robinson			Lib.
30th	1899 – 1901				William F. Humphrey		Ind.		Olivier-Maximin Melanson	Lib.-Con.
	1901 – 1903											Arthur Bliss Copp	Lib.
31st	1903 – 1908				Francis J. Sweeney		Lib.		Clement M. Leger	Lib.
32nd	1908 – 1912
33rd	1912 – 1916		William F. Humphrey	Ind.		Frank Bunting Black	Cons.		Olivier-Maximin Melanson	Lib.-Con.			Patrick G. Mahoney^[12]	Ind.
	1916 – 1917											Ernest A. Smith	Lib.
34th	1917 – 1920			Francis J. Sweeney	Lib.			Clement M. Leger	Lib.					Fred Magee	Lib.
35th	1921 – 1925			Frederick L. Estabrooks	Lib.			A. Chase Fawcett	UF				Reid McManus			Lib.
36th	1925 – 1930		Merville A. Oulton^[13]	Cons.		Antoine Joseph Léger	Cons.		Herbert M. Wood	Cons.		Medley G. Siddall	Cons.
37th	1930
	1931 – 1935			Lewis Smith										Cons.
38th	1935 – 1939		Austin Claude Taylor^[14]	Lib.		Frank Copp	Lib.			E. R. McDonald	Lib.			Simeon Melanson	Lib.
39th	1939 – 1944								Édouard S. Léger	Lib.			A. W. McQueen	Lib.
40th	1944 – 1948											L. C. Dysart	Lib.
41st	1948 – 1952
42nd	1952 – 1956				rowspan="4"		Donald C. Harper^[15]	Lib.	rowspan="7"		Joseph E. LeBlanc	Lib.		Cléophas Léger	Lib.
43rd	1957 – 1960
44th	1960 – 1963		Percy Mitton	Lib.
45th	1963 – 1965
	1965 – 1967					W. Wynn Meldrum	Lib.
46th	1967 – 1970
47th	1970 – 1974			William J. McNevin				Lib.
Riding dissolved into Memramcook, Petitcodiac, Shediac and Tantramar

Notes and References

1. died in 1812
2. appointed judge
3. declared ineligible because he was a preacher
4. died in 1853
5. elected to federal seat
6. died in 1871
7. election appealed
8. 1890 election appealed but re-elected in subsequent by-election in 1891
9. 1890 election appealed; lost subsequent by-election in 1891
10. Web site: The Statistical Year-book of Canada for. 1893.
11. died in 1901
12. named to cabinet; lost subsequent by-election
13. resigned
14. named to Senate
15. died in 1965