Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe

Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe
New Brunswick electoral district
	Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe in relation to the other New Brunswick ridings (2012 boundaries)
Coordinates:	46.118°N 64.801°W
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Ginette Petitpas Taylor; Liberal
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District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2021)[1]	100,237
Electors (2019)	74,572
Area (km²)[2]	168
Pop. density (per km²)	596.6
Census division(s)	Albert, Westmorland
Census subdivision(s)	Cities: ; Dieppe (part) ; Moncton ; Towns: ; Riverview (part)

Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe (formerly known as Moncton) is a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968.

Political geography

The riding of Moncton was created in 1966 when the district of Westmorland was split. The other riding is now called Beauséjour. The riding's initial area consisted of the city of Moncton and town of Dieppe, two parishes in Westmorland County (Moncton and Salisbury), and the Parish of Coverdale in Albert County.

As the Moncton area grew in population the riding shrank. The area of Albert County outside the town of Riverview was removed in 1976, a large area north of Moncton was removed in 1987, and the Petitcodiac and Salisbury areas were removed in 1997, to the point where the riding no longer has any largely rural areas. In 1998, Riverview and Dieppe were added to the riding's name. In 2003, the more suburban areas of Riverview and the southern part of Dieppe were removed. Finally, in 2014, the remaining suburban areas of Dieppe were given to Beauséjour.

The riding includes the entire city of Moncton and most of the town of Riverview and the city of Dieppe excluding the north east section, i.e., Melanson Road and up to the city limits.[3][4]

The neighbouring ridings are Beauséjour and Fundy Royal.

As per the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, this riding will lose 8% of its territory to Beauséjour.

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
2001	83,191	—
2006	89,334	+7.4%
2011 (2003 rep.)	98,539	+10.3%
2011 (2013 rep.)	89,484	−9.2%

According to the Canada 2011 Census; 2013 representation[5]

Ethnic groups: 93.4% White, 2.0% Aboriginal, 1.6% Black
Languages: 63.6% English, 34.9% French
Religions: 78.3% Christian (47.8% Catholic, 8.9% Baptist, 7.9% United Church, 4.9% Anglican, 8.8% Other), 19.7% No religion
Median income (2010): $28,162
Average income (2010): $35,584

History

Moncton has elected some well-known and controversial Members of Parliament. Former mayor Leonard Jones, who took a tough stance against French language education, won the Progressive Conservative Party nomination for the 1974 election, but party leader Robert Stanfield refused to sign his nomination papers because of Jones' opposition to party policy on Official bilingualism. Jones ran and won as an independent candidate.

Dennis Cochrane, later the leader of the New Brunswick PC Party, represented the city for one term in the 1980s, and Conservative, Robert Goguen, is the riding's current representative in the House of Commons.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years		Party
Moncton Riding created from Westmorland
28th	1968–1972	Charlie Thomas	Progressive Conservative
29th	1972–1974	Charlie Thomas	Progressive Conservative
30th	1974–1979	Leonard Jones	Independent
31st	1979–1980	Gary McCauley	Liberal
32nd	1980–1984	Gary McCauley	Liberal
33rd	1984–1988	Dennis Cochrane	Progressive Conservative
34th	1988–1993	George Rideout	Liberal
35th	1993–1997	George Rideout	Liberal
Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe
36th	1997–2000	Claudette Bradshaw	Liberal
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008	Brian Murphy
40th	2008–2011	Brian Murphy
41st	2011–2015	Robert Goguen	Conservative
42nd	2015–2019	Ginette Petitpas Taylor	Liberal
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present

Election results

Graph of election results in Moncton, Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe (1966-, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)