The 2014 Provincial Election in New Brunswick J.P. Lewis, Tom Bateman, and Don Desserud Dr. J.P. Lewis, Department of History An
Canadian Political Science Review Vol. 11 No. 1 2017 The 2014 Provincial Election in New Brunswick J.P. Lewis, Tom Bateman, and Don Desserud1 1 Dr. J.P. Lewis, Department of History and Politics, University of New Brunswick at Saint John, Saint John, NB; Dr. Thomas Bateman, Department of Political Science, Saint Thomas University, Fredericton, NB; Dr. Donald Desserud, Department of Political Science, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI. The authors would like to thank Mother Nature for providing an unusual number of "snow days," which gave them the time they needed to finish this paper. Introduction: New Brunswick's 38th General Election was held 22 September 2014.2 Brian Gallant's Liberals defeated incumbent David Alward's Progressive Conservatives (PCs), winning 27 seats to the PCs' 21.3 Three other parties contested the election: the New Democratic Party (NDP), under Dominic Cardy; the Greens, under David Coon; and the People's Alliance of New Brunswick (PANB), under Kris Austin. Opinion polls taken at the outset of the official election campaign period predicted a Liberal landslide. However, the Liberal lead eroded over the course of the campaign, and the final results were much closer than had been predicted earlier. Two hundred and twenty candidates stood for election, 15 fewer than in 2010. Seventy-one of these candidates were women, the same number as ran in 2010, but more than double the number that ran in 2006 and 2003 (see Table 6). The popular vote for the Liberals was 42.5 percent, the PCs 34.5 percent, the Greens 6.6 percent, and the NDP 12.0 percent.
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