Fredericton West-Hanwell

Fredericton West-Hanwell

New Brunswick electoral district
File:Fredericton West-Hanwell (2014-).png The riding of Fredericton West-Hanwell in relation to other Fredericton electoral districts. The parts of the riding within Fredericton are gold, the balance of the riding is red.
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
MLA	Brian Macdonald Progressive Conservative
District created	2013
First contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2011)	16,147
Electors (2013)	11,127
Census divisions	York
Census subdivisions	Fredericton, Hanwell, Kingsclear

Fredericton West-Hanwell is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It will first be contested in the 2014 general election, having been created in the 2013 redistribution of electoral boundaries by combining portions of the Fredericton-Silverwood and York electoral districts.

The district includes the southwestern part of the City of Fredericton as well as to adjacent communities: Hanwell and Kingsclear, as well as the Kingsclear First Nation.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from York (1995–2014) and Fredericton-Silverwood
58th	2014–Present		Brian Macdonald	Progressive Conservative

Election results

New Brunswick general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Brian Macdonald	2,971	35.21
	New Democratic	Dominic Cardy	2,502	29.65
	Liberal	Bernadine Gibson	2,384	28.25
	Green	Gayla MacIntosh	582	6.90
Total valid votes			8,439	100.0
Total rejected ballots			23	0.27
Turnout			8,462	69.67
Eligible voters			12,146
This riding was created from parts of the former riding of York and Fredericton-Silverwood, both elected a Progressive Conservative in the previous election. Brian Macdonald was the incumbent from Fredericton-Silverwood.
Source: Elections New Brunswick

External links

• Website of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick