Sunbury (federal electoral district)

For the New Brunswick provincial electoral district, see Sunbury (provincial electoral district).

Sunbury was a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1904.

Sunbury

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1867
District abolished	1892
First contested	1867
Last contested	1891
Demographics
Census division(s)	Sunbury

It was created by the British North America Act 1867, and abolished in 1892 when it was merged into Sunbury—Queen's riding.

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Sunbury
1st	1867–1872		Charles Burpee	Liberal
2nd	1872–1874
3rd	1874–1878
4th	1878–1882
5th	1882–1887
6th	1887–1891		Robert Duncan Wilmot Jr.	Conservative
7th	1891–1896
Riding dissolved into Sunbury—Queen's

Election results

v t e 1867 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles Burpee	664
	Unknown	William E. Perley	425
Source: Canadian Elections Database[1]

v t e 1872 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles Burpee	acclaimed
Source: Canadian Elections Database[2]

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles Burpee	556
	Unknown	William E. Perley	495
Source: lop.parl.ca

v t e 1878 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles Burpee	558
	Conservative	William Dell Perley	517

v t e 1882 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Charles Burpee	618
	Conservative	William Dell Perley	537

v t e 1887 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	Robert Duncan Wilmot	588
	Liberal	Charles Burpee	555

v t e 1891 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes
	Conservative	R.D. Wilmot	712
	Liberal	Geo. E. Day	427

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada