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1925 New Brunswick general election

Canadian provincial election

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ3586337 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1925 New Brunswick general election was held on 10 August 1925, to elect 48 members to the 36th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly, the governing house of the province of New Brunswick, Canada. Although political parties had no standing in law, thirty-seven MLAs declared themselves to be Conservatives, and eleven declared themselves to be Liberals resulting in the defeat of the government of Peter Veniot.

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Further reading

Hopkins, J. Castell, ed. (1925). The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1924–25. Toronto: The Annual Review Company.

Hopkins, J. Castell, ed. (1926). The Canadian Annual Review of Public Affairs, 1925–26. Toronto: The Annual Review Company.

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This entry incorporates text from “1925 New Brunswick general election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.