Riding background
This riding is in northern New Brunswick and includes the communities of Atholville, Balmoral, Eel River Crossing, Kedgwick, Saint-Quentin, and Tide Head.
Candidates
Liberal: Gilles LePage (incumbent)
- Served as the Minister of Labour, Employment and Population Growth until dissolution.
Progressive Conservative: David Moreau
NDP: Beverly Mann
- Works as a nurse at a nursing home in Campbellton
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Green: Charles Theriault
- A documentarian and author living in Kedgwick. Ran as an independent candidate in the Restigouche West riding during the 2014 election.
KISS N.B. Travis Pollock
History:
2014
Restigouche-West was a new riding created as a result of a redistricting process in 2013.
New riding includes sections of two former provincial ridings: Campbellton-Restigouche Centre and Restigouche-la-Vallee. Both were held by PC MLAs before 2014.
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In 2014 Liberal candidate Gilles LePage won with 58 per cent of the vote, defeating Martin Coulombe, PC incumbent for the former Restigouche-la-Valee, who got only 20.1 per cent of the vote.
Independent candidate Charles Theriault took 17.8 per cent of the vote, and NDP candidate Gilles Cyr captured 4.1 per cent.
2010:
In 2010, Campbellton-Restigouche Centre and Restigouche-la-Vallee elected Progressive Conservative MLAs. Both were new to politics and defeated Liberal incumbents.
Martine Coulombe defeated Liberal Burt Paulin in Restigouche-la-Vallee and Greg Davis defeated Liberal Roy Boudreau in Campbellton-Restigouche Centre.
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