title: Kent Centre
text: # Kent Centre
  
  Kent Centre was a provincial electoral district in New Brunswick. It was created from the multi-member riding of Kent in the 1973 electoral redistribution, and was abolished in the 1994 electoral redistribution.
  
  ## Members of the Legislative Assembly
  
  | Assembly | Years | Member | Party |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Riding created from Kent (1827–1974) |||||
  | 48th | 1974–1978 | Alan R. Graham | Liberal |
  | 49th | 1978–1982 | Alan R. Graham | Liberal |
  | 50th | 1982–1987 | Alan R. Graham | Liberal |
  | 51st | 1987–1991 | Alan R. Graham | Liberal |
  | 52nd | 1991–1995 | Alan R. Graham | Liberal |
  | Riding dissolved into Kent (1994–2013) |||||
  
  ## Election results
  
  1991 New Brunswick general election :
  
  | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Liberal | Alan Graham | 3,025 | 69.11 | -8.54 |
  | | Confederation of Regions | Percy Beers | 626 | 14.30 | – |
  | | New Democratic | Neil Gardner | 379 | 8.66 | +2.22 |
  | | Progressive Conservative | David MacDonald | 347 | 7.93 | -7.98 |
  | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 4,377 | 100.0 |
  | | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | Swing | -11.42 |
  
  1987 New Brunswick general election :
  
  | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Liberal | Alan R. Graham | 3,232 | 77.65 | +14.00 |
  | | Progressive Conservative | Sammy Arsenault | 662 | 15.91 | -13.51 |
  | | New Democratic | Neil Gardner | 268 | 6.44 | +1.33 |
  | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 4,162 | 100.0 |
  | | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | Swing | +13.76 |
  
  1982 New Brunswick general election :
  
  | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Liberal | Alan R. Graham | 2,691 | 63.65 | +3.23 |
  | | Progressive Conservative | Fernand Savoie | 1,244 | 29.42 | -0.66 |
  | | New Democratic | Derrold H. Barnes | 216 | 5.11 | -1.29 |
  | | Independent | Ronald S. MacDonald | 77 | 1.82 | – |
  | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 4,228 | 100.0 |
  | | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | Swing | +1.94 |
  
  1978 New Brunswick general election :
  
  | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Liberal | Alan Robert Graham | 2,352 | 60.42 | +2.72 |
  | | Progressive Conservative | Claude Giruan Warren | 1,171 | 30.08 | -9.12 |
  | | New Democratic | John B. LaBossiere | 249 | 6.40 | +3.29 |
  | | Parti acadien | Pierrette Leblanc | 121 | 3.11 | – |
  | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 3,893 | 100.0 |
  | | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | Swing | +5.92 |
  
  1974 New Brunswick general election :
  
  | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | | Liberal | Alan Graham | 2,024 | 57.70 |
  | | Progressive Conservative | Lloyd Girvan | 1,375 | 39.20 |
  | | New Democratic | Lawrence Murphy | 109 | 3.11 |
  | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 3,508 | 100.0 |
  | The previous multi-member riding of Kent elected 3 (of 3) Liberals in the last election. One Progressive Conservative was elected in a 1971 by-election. Alan R. Graham was one of three incumbents. |||||||
  