Next New Brunswick general election

39th New Brunswick general election

On or before September 24, 2018

49 seats in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick 25 seats needed for a majority   Leader Brian Gallant Blaine Higgs Party Liberal Progressive Conservative Leader since October 27, 2012 October 22, 2016 Leader's seat Shediac Bay-Dieppe Quispamsis Last election 27 seats, 42.72% 21 seats, 34.64% Current seats 26 22   Leader David Coon Dominic Cardy Kris Austin Party Green New Democratic People's Alliance of New Brunswick Leader since September 22, 2012 March 2, 2011 2010 Leader's seat Fredericton South N/A N/A Last election 1 seat, 6.61% 0 seats, 12.98% 0 seats, 2.14% Current seats 1 0 0

Incumbent Premier Brian Gallant Liberal

The 39th New Brunswick general election is tentatively scheduled to be held on September 24, 2018,^[1][2] to elect 49 members to the 59th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada.

The Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick – acting on the advice of the Premier – could alter the date by one week or one month in either direction if there is a conflict due to religious or culture reasons, or a federal election.^[3]

Timeline

• September 22, 2014 – The New Brunswick Liberal Association, led by Brian Gallant, won a majority government, defeating incumbent Premier David Alward's Progressive Conservatives, which became the second single-term government in New Brunswick's history.^[4]
• September 23, 2014 - Alward announces his resignation as Progressie Conservative leader.
• October 14, 2014 - Gary Keating resigns as the Liberal member for Saint John East.
• October 18, 2014 - Bruce Fitch became interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party.
• November 17, 2014 - Glen Savoie is elected as member the Progressive Conservative MLA for Saint John East, following the resignation of Gary Keating; NDP leader Dominic Cardy comes in third.
• December 10, 2014 - The NDP executive rejects Cardy's resignation as leader, urging him to continue and offering him a salary as he has been working as leader on a volunteer basis.
• May 22, 2015 - David Alward resigns as member for Carleton.
• October 5, 2015 - Stewart Fairgrieve holds the Carleton seat for the PCs in a byelection.^[5]
• October 22, 2016 - Blaine Higgs becomes the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in a leadership election.^[6]

Opinion polls

Polling Firm	Last Day of Polling	Link	Liberal	PC	NDP	Green	PA
Corporate Research Associates	August 31, 2016		54	28	8	8	2
Corporate Research Associates	June 1, 2016		52	25	12	9	2
MQO	April 16, 2016		51	28	11	9	2
Corporate Research Associates	March 2, 2016		45	27	18	8	2
Corporate Research Associates	November 30, 2015		55	25	12	7	1
Corporate Research Associates	September 10, 2015		36	28	25	10	2
Corporate Research Associates	June 9, 2015		38	28	23	11	1
Corporate Research Associates	March 2, 2015		54	27	9	10	1
Corporate Research Associates	November 26, 2014		52	23	14	9	1
Election 2014	September 22, 2014	HTML	42.72	34.64	12.98	6.61	2.14

References

1. Legislative Assembly Act, Section 2(4).
2. "Thirty-eighth general election September 22, 2014" (PDF). Elections New Brunswick. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
3. Section 2(6) of the Legislative Assembly Act
4. McHardie, Daniel (September 23, 2014). "N.B. election 2014 results: Brian Gallant's Liberals win amid vote-count fiasco". CBC News. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
5. PC Stewart Fairgrieve says jobs a factor in byelection win