provincial
Provincial may refer to:
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* Provincial city (disambiguation)
* Provincial minister (disambiguation)
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electoral district
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for the
Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
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, Canada.
The district was established in
1973
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as Madawaska les Lacs when New Brunswick moved from a system of bloc voting to the
first past the post
In a first-past-the-post electoral system (FPTP or FPP), formally called single-member plurality voting (SMP) when used in single-member districts or informally choose-one voting in contrast to ranked voting, or score voting, voters cast their ...
electoral system. It had previously been a part of the
Madawaska County
Madawaska County (2016 population 32,741), also known as the "New Brunswick Panhandle", is located in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada. Over 90% of the county's population speaks French. Its Francophone population are known as "Brayons." Fore ...
electoral district which returned three members.
It the 1994 electoral redistribution, it added parts of the old district of
Madawaska Centre
Madawaska Centre was a provincial electoral district in New Brunswick. It was created in the 1973 electoral redistribution from the multi-member riding of Madawaskaand abolished in the 1994 electoral redistribution.
Members of the Legislativ ...
and it underwent only very minor boundary changes in
2006
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.
In
2013
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, it added more of the city of
Edmundston
Edmundston is a city in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada.
On 1 January 2023, Edmundston will expanded, annexing the village of Rivière-Verte and parts of the local service districts of the parish of Saint-Jacques and the parish of Sai ...
to its boundaries and was renamed.
It was formerly one of the safest
francophone
French became an international language in the Middle Ages, when the power of the Kingdom of France made it the second international language, alongside Latin. This status continued to grow into the 18th century, by which time French was the l ...
seats in New Brunswick for the Progressive Conservatives. It was held by the PCs in every election since it was created except for the 1987 election (in which the Liberals won every seat) and the 1991 election (in which the PCs won only 3 seats and the main opposition was the
conservative
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Confederation of Regions Party
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French language
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). Recently, it has elected Liberal MLAs. Its current MLA is