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57th New Brunswick Legislature

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ2817715 ↗
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The 57th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly was created following a general election in 2010. Its members were sworn in on October 12, 2010, it held its first meeting October 27, 2010, to elect a speaker, and it was officially opened on November 23, 2010, with a speech from the throne. It was dissolved on Thursday, August 21, 2014, with an election called for September 22, 2014.

Leadership

Dale Graham was elected speaker on October 27, 2010.

David Alward was the Premier of New Brunswick. The government house leader was Paul Robichaud.

The parliamentary opposition was provided by Liberals leader Brian Gallant. The opposition house leader was Bill Fraser.

Members

All of the current members were elected at the general election on September 27, 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “57th New Brunswick Legislature” 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.