Moncton Northwest () is a provincial

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for the

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. It was first be contested in the 1995 general election, having been created in the 1994 redistribution of electoral boundaries with the name Moncton Crescent. The district was first created in 1995 out of Petitcodiac, then the most populous electoral district in the province. It took its name from the fact that its shape was a

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over the north of the city of

Moncton Moncton (; ) is the most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of New Brunswick. Situated in the Petitcodiac River Valley, Moncton lies at the geographic centre of the The Maritimes, Maritime Provinces. Th ...

. It lost much of its easternmost territory in the 2006 redistribution and lost much of its crescent shape. It lost more territory in

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but gained parts of Petitcodiac and was renamed Moncton Northwest. Moncton Northwest Roads Map

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Election results

Moncton Northwest

Moncton Crescent

References

External links

Website of the Legislative Assembly of New BrunswickMap of riding as of 2018
New Brunswick provincial electoral districts Politics of Moncton {{Canada-constituency-stub