Madawaska South

Madawaska South was a provincial electoral district in New Brunswick. It was created from the multi-member riding of Madawaska in the 1973 electoral redistribution, and abolished in the 1994 electoral redistribution.

Madawaska South

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1973
District abolished	1994
First contested	1974
Last contested	1991

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Madawaska
48th	1974–1978		Daniel Daigle	Liberal
49th	1978–1982		Héliodore Côté	Liberal
50th	1982–1987		Percy Mockler	Progressive Conservative
51st	1987–1991		Pierrette Ringuette	Liberal
52nd	1991–1995
Riding dissolved into Madawaska-la-Vallée

Election results

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 29 November 1993 On the resignation of Pierrette Ringuette
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Mockler	2,590
	Liberal	Nicole Thériault	2,182
	New Democratic	Noëlla T. Simard	65
Total valid votes			4,837
	Progressive Conservative gain		Swing		{{{3}}}
Source: The Legislative Library of New Brunswick[1]

1991 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Pierrette Ringuette	2,843	59.64	+7.70
	Progressive Conservative	Théo Poitras	1,715	35.98	-9.46
	New Democratic	Julien Tardif	209	4.38	+1.76
Total valid votes			4,767	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+8.58

1987 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Pierrette Ringuette	2,597	51.94	+7.62
	Progressive Conservative	Percy P. Mockler	2,272	45.44	-8.41
	New Democratic	Jean-Claude Bosse	131	2.62	+0.79
Total valid votes			5,000	100.0
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+8.02

1982 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Percy Mockler	2,561	53.85	+19.13
	Liberal	Héliodore Côté	2,108	44.32	-1.18
	New Democratic	Paul Murphy	87	1.83	–
Total valid votes			4,756	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+10.16

1978 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Héliodore Côté	1,832	45.50	-11.23
	Progressive Conservative	Jean-Marc Violette	1,398	34.72	-5.29
	Independent	Père Léo Theriault	659	16.37	–
	Parti acadien	Jacques Lapointe	137	3.40	+0.13
Total valid votes			4,026	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-2.97
Independent candidate Léo Theriault lost 23.64 percentage points from his 1974 performance running as a Progressive Conservative.

1974 New Brunswick general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Daniel Daigle	1,893	56.73
	Progressive Conservative	Léo Theriault	1,335	40.01
	Parti acadien	Jeanne-D'Arc Fortin	109	3.27
Total valid votes			3,337	100.0
The previous multi-member riding of Madawaska returned three Liberals in the previous election, with Daniel Daigle being one of three incumbents.