1935 New Brunswick General Election
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The 1935 New Brunswick general election was held on June 27, 1935, to elect 48 members to the 38th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the
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of
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, Canada. The incumbent
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government of
Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley (May 21, 1870 – December 26, 1947) was a New Brunswick lawyer, politician and the 21st premier of New Brunswick. Tilley was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada the son of Samuel Leonard Tilley, one of the Fathers o ...
was defeated. This was the first election in which women could run for election to the NB Legislature. But no women MLAs were elected until the
1967 New Brunswick general election The 1967 New Brunswick general election was held on October 23, 1967, to elect 58 members to the 46th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of New Brunswick, Canada. Descript ...
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