Glen Savoie

Glen Savoie
MLA for Saint John-Fundy
In office October 12, 2010 – August 21, 2014
Preceded by	Stuart Jamieson
Succeeded by	riding dissolved
MLA for Saint John East
Incumbent
Assumed office November 17, 2014
Preceded by	Gary Keating
Personal details
Political party	Progressive Conservative

Glen Savoie is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in the 2010 provincial election. He represented the electoral district of Saint John-Fundy as a member of the Progressive Conservatives^[1] until the 2014 provincial election on September 22, 2014, when he was defeated by Gary Keating in the redistributed riding of Saint John East.

Following Keating's resignation, just 22 days after the election, Savoie ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the resulting by-election,^[2] and won reelection to the legislature on November 17.^[3]

Electoral record

New Brunswick general election, 2010
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Glen Savoie	2,908	52.02	+14.17
	Liberal	Gary Keating	1,734	31.02	-24.44
	New Democratic	Lise Lennon	592	10.59	+3.90
	Green	Mathew Ian Clark	185	3.31	–
	People's Alliance	Glenn McAllister	171	3.06	–
Total valid votes			5,590	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+19.30

New Brunswick general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Gary Keating	2,332	37.02	+3.96
	Progressive Conservative	Glen Savoie	2,323	36.88	-0.96
	New Democratic	Phil Comeau	1,167	18.53	-5.16
	Green	Sharon Murphy	353	5.60	+0.20
	People's Alliance	Jason Inness	124	1.97
Total valid votes			6,299	100.0
Total rejected ballots			26	0.41
Turnout			6,325	54.88
Eligible voters			11,526
	Liberal notional gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+2.46
Voting results declared after judicial recount.
Source: Elections New Brunswick[4]

New Brunswick provincial by-election, 17 November 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Glen Savoie	2,225	44.31	+7.43
	Liberal	Shelley Rinehart	1,398	27.84	-9.18
	New Democratic	Dominic Cardy	1,099	21.88	+3.36
	Green	Sharon Murphy	262	5.22	-0.39
	People's Alliance	Arthur Watson	38	0.76	-1.21
Total valid votes			5,022	100.00
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+8.31

References

1. New Brunswick Votes 2010: Saint John-Fundy. cbc.ca, September 27, 2010.
2. "Gary Keating entitled to $5K for 3 weeks as MLA". CBC News, October 29, 2014.
3. "PC Glen Savoie wins Saint John East byelection". CBC News, November 17, 2014.
4. Elections New Brunswick (6 Oct 2014). "Declared Results, 2014 New Brunswick election". Retrieved 16 Oct 2014.