2010 New Brunswick general election

2010 New Brunswick general election

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55 seats of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick 28 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	69.56% [1]
First party Second party Third party   NDP Leader David Alward Shawn Graham Roger Duguay Party Progressive Conservative Liberal New Democratic Leader since October 18, 2008 May 11, 2002 October 13, 2007 Leader's seat Woodstock Kent Ran in Tracadie-Sheila (lost) Last election 26 seats, 47.5% 29 seats, 47.1% 0 seats, 5.1% Seats before 21 32 0 Seats won 42 13 0 Seat change 21 19 Popular vote 181,776 128,113 38,737 Percentage 48.84% 34.42% 10.41% Swing 1.34pp 12.68pp 5.26pp
Popular vote by riding. As this is an FPTP election, seat totals are not determined by popular vote, but instead via results by each riding.
Premier before election Shawn Graham Liberals Premier after election David Alward Progressive Conservatives

The 2010 New Brunswick general election was held on September 27, 2010, to elect 55 members to the 57th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. The incumbent Liberal government won 13 seats, while the opposition Progressive Conservatives won a landslide majority of 42 seats in the legislature. As leader of the PC party, David Alward became New Brunswick's 32nd premier.

The Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick – acting on the advice of the Premier – would have originally been able to call an election earlier or as late as 2011; however a bill in the 56th Legislature has fixed election dates to the fourth Monday of September every four years beginning with this election.^[2]

With the defeat of Liberals, this election marked the first time in New Brunswick's history that a political party was voted out of office after just one term.^[3]