The 1973 New Brunswick electoral redistribution was the most radical redistribution of electoral districts in the history of New Brunswick, Canada. Under this redistribution, New Brunswick changed from a mixture of multi-member districts and single-member districts to a scheme of only single-member districts, from bloc voting electoral system to first past the post.

As the number of members per district had been re-evaluated as recently as 1967, the number of members was not changed, and multi-member districts were simply subdivided to form single-member districts.

Prior to the redistribution, New Brunswick had had the longest and deepest experience of multi-member districts of any province in Canada. The Block voting system in use though denied voters the proportional representation that they might otherwise have enjoyed.^[1]

Transition of districts[edit]

List of electoral districts[edit]

(each district returns one member)

• Albert
• Bathurst
• Bay du Vin
• Campbellton
• Caraquet
• Carleton Centre
• Carleton North
• Carleton South
• Charlotte Centre
• Charlotte-Fundy
• Charlotte West
• Chatham
• Dalhousie
• East Saint John
• Edmundston
• Fredericton North
• Fredericton South
• Grand Falls
• Kent Centre
• Kent North
• Kent South
• Kings Centre
• Kings East
• Kings West
• Madawaska Centre
• Madawaska-les-Lacs
• Madawaska South
• Memramcook
• Miramichi Bay
• Miramichi-Newcastle
• Moncton East
• Moncton North
• Moncton West
• Nepisiguit-Chaleur
• Nigadoo-Chaleur
• Oromocto
• Petitcodiac
• Queens North
• Queens South
• Restigouche East
• Restigouche West
• Riverview
• Saint John-Fundy
• Saint John Harbour
• Saint John North
• Saint John Park
• Saint John South
• Saint John West
• St. Stephen-Milltown
• Shediac
• Shippagan-les-Îles
• Southwest Miramichi
• Sunbury
• Tantramar
• Tracadie
• Victoria-Tobique
• York North
• York South

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