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Tobique—Mactaquac is a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.

Political geographyEdit

The district includes the counties of Carleton and Victoria as well as the Parish and Village of Saint-André and the eastern part of the County of York (excluding the City of Fredericton and vicinity). The neighbouring ridings are Madawaska—Restigouche, Miramichi, Fredericton, and New Brunswick Southwest. Across the border to Maine, it neighbours the Maine District 2 of the United States House of Representatives.

The electoral district was created in 1996 from portions of the old ridings of Carleton—Charlotte, Fredericton—York—Sunbury, and Madawaska—Victoria. Its creation was very controversial, as it included areas with both large anglophone and francophone populations, while neighbouring communities were placed in other ridings. This seemingly went against the "communities of interest" criterion in drawing electoral boundaries.

Following the 2012 federal electoral distribution, this riding gained territory from Fredericton and lost a small territory to the new riding of Miramichi—Grand Lake.

Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, the riding gained the Parishes of Dumfries, Prince William, Manners Sutton, and Kingsclear, and the municipalities of Hanwell, and Harvey and the Indian Reserve of Kingsclear 6 from New Brunswick Southwest, while its border with Fredericton—Oromocto (replacing Fredericton) was rerouted to follow the northern border of the City of Fredericton (2023 borders), and it lost the parishes of Drummond and Grand Falls and the municipalities of Saint-André, Grand Falls and Drummond to Madawaska—Restigouche.

DemographicsEdit

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Racial groups: 91.8% White, 5.8% Indigenous
Languages: 92.8% English, 4.8% French
Religions: 60.1% Christian (15.5% Catholic, 13.4% Baptist, 6.4% United Church, 6.0% Anglican, 4.6% Pentecostal, 1.9% Methodist, 1.4% Presbyterian, 11.0% Other), 38.1% No religion
Median income (2020): $36,800
Average income (2020): $45,280

HistoryEdit

On two separate occasions Tobique—Mactaquac has been involved in party nomination controversies. In the 1997 election, the Liberals were alleged to have rigged their meeting to choose Pierrette Ringuette, the Member of Parliament for the defunct Madawaska—Victoria riding. The meeting was held in Grand Falls, near her hometown and at the far northern end of the riding. Because of sound problems, only her speech was carried over the loudspeakers. Ringuette-Maltais lost the election to Gilles Bernier of the Progressive Conservatives.

In the 2004 election, the Conservative Party selected Adam Richardson, who had run for the Canadian Alliance in the 2000 election, but the national head office refused to sign his nomination papers, apparently because of Richardson's demands that party leader Stephen Harper apologize for allegedly derogatory comments about Atlantic Canadians. The eventual Conservative candidate, Mike Allen, lost to Liberal incumbent Andy Savoy.

Members of ParliamentEdit

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

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Election resultsEdit

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Tobique—Mactaquac, 2023 representation orderEdit

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Party Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |   Conservative 16,954 52.83
Template:Canadian party colour |   Liberal 7,269 22.65
Template:Canadian party colour |   New Democratic 3,702 11.53
Template:Canadian party colour |   People's 2,320 7.23
Template:Canadian party colour |   Green 1,574 4.90
Template:Canadian party colour |   Independent 275 0.86
Total valid votes 32,094 99.33
Rejected ballots 218 0.67
Registered voters/ estimated turnout 51,479 62.77

Tobique—Mactaquac, 2013 representation orderEdit

This riding gained territory from Fredericton and lost territory to Miramichi—Grand Lake for the 42nd Canadian federal election. Template:2021 Canadian federal election/Tobique—Mactaquac Template:2019 Canadian federal election/Tobique—Mactaquac Template:2015 Canadian federal election/Tobique—Mactaquac

2011 federal election redistributed results<ref>Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections</ref>
Party Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |   Conservative 21,410 62.14
Template:Canadian party colour |   New Democratic 6,594 19.14
Template:Canadian party colour |   Liberal 5,591 16.23
Template:Canadian party colour |   Green 853 2.48
Template:Canadian party colour |   Others 7 0.02

Tobique—Mactaquac, 2003 representation orderEdit

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2000 federal election redistributed results
Party Vote %
Template:Canadian party colour |   Progressive Conservative 11,708 33.80
Template:Canadian party colour |   Liberal 11,225 32.41
Template:Canadian party colour |   Alliance 10,428 30.11
Template:Canadian party colour |   New Democratic 1,273 3.68

Tobique—Mactaquac, 1996 representation orderEdit

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