1973 New Brunswick electoral redistribution

The 1973 New Brunswick electoral redistribution was the most radical redistribution of electoral districts in the history of New Brunswick, Canada. Under this redistribution, New Brunswick changed from a mixture of multi-member districts and single-member districts to a scheme of only single-member districts, from bloc voting electoral system to first past the post.

As the number of members per district had been re-evaluated as recently as 1967, the number of members was not changed, and multi-member districts were simply subdivided to form single-member districts.

Prior to the redistribution, New Brunswick had had the longest and deepest experience of multi-member districts of any province in Canada. The Block voting system in use though denied voters the proportional representation that they might otherwise have enjoyed.

Transition of districts

Former electoral district	New electoral districts
Albert	Albert; Riverview
Bathurst	unchanged
Campbellton	unchanged
Carleton	Carleton Centre; Carleton North; Carleton South
Charlotte	Charlotte Centre; Charlotte-Fundy; Charlotte West; St. Stephen-Milltown
Edmundston	unchanged
Fredericton	Fredericton North; Fredericton South
Gloucester	Caraquet; Nepisiguit-Chaleur; Nigadoo-Chaleur; Shippagan-les-Îles; Tracadie
Kent	Kent Centre; Kent North; Kent South
Kings	Kings Centre; Kings East; Kings West
Madawaska	Madawaska Centre; Madawaska-les-Lacs; Madawaska South
Moncton	Moncton East; Moncton North; Moncton West
Northumberland	Bay du Vin; Chatham; Miramichi Bay; Miramichi-Newcastle; Southwest Miramichi
Queens	Queens North; Queens South
Restigouche	Dalhousie; Restigouche East; Restigouche West
Saint John Centre	Saint John Harbour; Saint John North; Saint John Park; Saint John South
Saint John East	East Saint John; Saint John-Fundy
Saint John West	unchanged
Sunbury	Oromocto; Sunbury
Victoria	Grand Falls; Victoria-Tobique
Westmorland	Memramcook; Petitcodiac; Shediac; Tantramar
York	York North; York South

List of electoral districts

(each district returns one member)

• Albert
• Bathurst
• Bay du Vin
• Campbellton
• Caraquet
• Carleton Centre
• Carleton North
• Carleton South
• Charlotte Centre
• Charlotte-Fundy
• Charlotte West
• Chatham
• Dalhousie
• East Saint John
• Edmundston
• Fredericton North
• Fredericton South
• Grand Falls
• Kent Centre
• Kent North
• Kent South
• Kings Centre
• Kings East
• Kings West
• Madawaska Centre
• Madawaska-les-Lacs
• Madawaska South
• Memramcook
• Miramichi Bay
• Miramichi-Newcastle
• Moncton East
• Moncton North
• Moncton West
• Nepisiguit-Chaleur
• Nigadoo-Chaleur
• Oromocto
• Petitcodiac
• Queens North
• Queens South
• Restigouche East
• Restigouche West
• Riverview
• Saint John-Fundy
• Saint John Harbour
• Saint John North
• Saint John Park
• Saint John South
• Saint John West
• St. Stephen-Milltown
• Shediac
• Shippagan-les-Îles
• Southwest Miramichi
• Sunbury
• Tantramar
• Tracadie
• Victoria-Tobique
• York North
• York South

Preceded by 1967

New Brunswick electoral redistributions

Succeeded by 1994