Carl Urquhart is a former

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in the

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, Canada. He was elected to the

Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick A legislature is an deliberative assembly, assembly with the authority to make laws for a Polity, political entity such as a Sovereign state, country or city. They are often contrasted with the Executive (government), executive and Judiciary, ...

in the 2006 election as the Progressive Conservative MLA for

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. He represented that district until the 2014 election, when he was reelected in the redistributed riding of

Carleton-York Carleton-York is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was contested for the first time in the 2014 general election. It was created in the 2013 redistribution of electoral boundaries. Th ...

. Urquhart was re-elected in the 2018 provincial election and served as a Minister under

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Blaine Higgs Blaine Myron Higgs (born March 1, 1954) is a Canadian politician who is the 34th and current premier of New Brunswick since 2018 and leader of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party) since 2016. Higgs graduated from the U ...

. He did not re-offer in the 2020 election.

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Living people Members of the Executive Council of New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick MLAs 21st-century Canadian politicians Year of birth missing (living people) {{NewBrunswick-MLA-stub