Green leader David Coon re-elected for Fredericton-South seat in the 2020 election.
Riding background
This district includes both the downtown and uptown areas of the south side of Fredericton.
Candidates
Liberal: Nicole Picot
Progressive Conservative: Brian MacKinnon
NDP: Geoffrey Noseworthy
Green: David Coon (incumbent)
- Leader of the Green Party
People’s Alliance: Wendell Betts
History
2018
Green Party incumbent David Coon won the seat with 56.3 per cent of the vote. Unlike in 2014, it was not a close race.
Liberal incumbent Susan Holt earned 20.1 per cent of the vote and PC candidate Scott Smith captured 13.7 per cent.
2014
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The new district of Fredericton South was created from Fredericton-Lincoln and Fredericton-Silverwood and was the only region where a third party was elected in 2014.
Coon, who was acclaimed Green Party leader in 2012, won the seat in a tight race.
Coon earned 30.7 per cent of the vote while PC candidate Craig Leonard won 26.2 per cent and Liberal Roy Wiggins earned 21.6 per cent.
2010
Fredericton-Lincoln and Fredericton-Silverwood both went to the Liberals in 2006 but flipped in the 2010 election to the PC party.
Leonard won the Fredericton-Lincoln district with 39.6 per cent of the vote, while Brian Macdonald won Fredericton-Silverwood with 38.5 per cent of the vote. Macdonald defeated Liberal incumbent Rick Miles, who earned 32.7 per cent of the vote.
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