New Brunswick election: Restigouche West

Riding background

Restigouche-West was a new riding created in the 2013 redistricting.

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)

• Serving as Minister of Labour, Employment and Population Growth.

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Progressive Conservative: Candidate pending

NDP: Candidate pending

Green: Charles Theriault

People’s Alliance: Candidate pending

KISS N.B. Candidate pending

Independent:

History

2014

Liberal candidate Gilles LePage won with 58 per cent of the vote, defeating PC candidate Martin Coulombe, who was the incumbent MLA for Restigouche-la-Valee.

Coulombe 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 MLAs.

Martine Coulombe defeated Liberal Burt Paulin in Restigouche-la-Vallee and Greg Davis defeated Liberal Roy Boudreau in Campbellton-Restigouche Centre.