Saint John (provincial electoral district)

Saint John

New Brunswick electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
District created	1785
District abolished	1795
First contested	1785
Last contested	1793

Saint John was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It used a bloc voting system to elect candidates. It was split into the ridings of Saint John City and Saint John County in 1795.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Legislature	Years	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party	Member		Party
1st[1]	1786 – 1792		William Pagan	Ind.		Jonathan Bliss	Ind.		Christopher Billop	Ind.		Ward Chipman	Ind.		John McGeorge	Ind.		Stanton Hazard	Ind.
2nd	1793 – 1795				William Thomson	Ind.		George Younghusband	Ind.		Edward Sands	Ind.		Bradford Gilbert	Ind.		Elias Hardy	Ind.
Riding dissolved into Saint John City and Saint John County

References

1. The members elected for St. John were known as the Government candidates. Another group of candidates, Tertuluss Dickinson, Richard Lightfoot, Richard Bonsall, Peter Grim, Jonathan Boggs and Alexander Reid, actually received a majority of the votes but were unsuccessful because of the actions of the sheriff in validating the votes. A petition from the voters of St. John was addressed to the governor but was ignored. History of New Brunswick, J Hannay