The 1917 New Brunswick general election was held on 24 February 1917, to elect 48 members to the
34th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the
province
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of
New Brunswick
New Brunswick (french: Nouveau-Brunswick, , locally ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both English and ...
,
Canada
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. Although political parties had no standing in law, the twenty-one
MLAs that formed the government declared themselves to be
Conservatives
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, while the twenty-seven opposition MLAs declared themselves to be
Liberals.
The incumbent Conservative government, under newly appointed leader
James Alexander Murray
James Alexander Murray (9 November 1864 in Moncton, New Brunswick – 16 February 1960) was a Conservative politician and the 16th premier of New Brunswick. Murray was first elected to the legislature in 1908 and served as Minister of Agriculture ...
, the third Conservative Premier since the previous election, was defeated after having been embroiled in several years of financial scandals.
References
1917 elections in Canada
Elections in New Brunswick
1917 in New Brunswick
February 1917 events
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