Under the legislature's standing rules, a party must win five seats or 20 per cent of the vote to be recognized as an official party. Neither the Greens or the People's Alliance met those benchmarks.

Details on the incident are limited and agencies are not offering comment.

'Students were showing up with their leases and IDs who are New Brunswickers and were still being told that they couldn't vote.'

While Shippagan-Lamèque-Miscou has historically been a Progressive Conservative riding, the Liberal candidate won 83.8 per cent of the votes.

Some of the women elected include Sherry Wilson of Moncton Southwest, Tammy Scott-Wallace of Sussex–Fundy–St. Martins, Arlene Dunn of Saint John Harbour and Dorothy Shephard of Saint John Lancaster.

Kris Austin said he respected the decision by New Brunswickers to elect a PC majority government but admitted that this was not a normal election and these were not normal times. 

David Coon is projected to retain his seat in the riding of Fredericton South with a majority of the vote. 

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Elections New Brunswick has warned that results could take time to trickle in.

On the streets of Fredericton, New Brunswick's capital, there are mixed opinions about whether voters should be going to the polls during a pandemic.