2024 New Brunswick general election

2024 New Brunswick general election

October 21, 2024

49 seats in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
25 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout66.1% ( 0.04 pp)
  First party Second party
 
Leader Susan Holt Blaine Higgs
Party Liberal Progressive Conservative
Leader since August 6, 2022 October 22, 2016
Leader's seat Fredericton South-Silverwood Quispamsis
(lost re-election)
Last election 17 seats, 34.35% 27 seats, 39.34%
Seats before 16 25
Seats won 31 16
Seat change 15 9
Popular vote 180,803 131,329
Percentage 48.24% 35.04%
Swing 13.89% 4.30%

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader David Coon Rick DeSaulniers
Party Green People's Alliance
Leader since September 22, 2012 April 22, 2022
Leader's seat Fredericton-Lincoln Ran in Fredericton-Grand Lake (lost)
Last election 3 seats, 15.24% 2 seats, 9.19%
Seats before 3 0
Seats won 2 0
Seat change 1
Popular vote 51,558 3,265
Percentage 13.76% 0.87%
Swing 1.48% 8.32%


Premier before election

Blaine Higgs
Progressive Conservative

Premier after election

Susan Holt
Liberal

The 2024 New Brunswick general election was held on October 21, 2024, where 49 members were elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick. It was formally called upon the dissolution of the 60th New Brunswick Legislature on September 19, 2024.

The incumbent Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick (PC) government, led by Premier Blaine Higgs since 2018, sought re-election to a third consecutive term. The party was defeated by the New Brunswick Liberal Association, led by Susan Holt, with them set to form a majority government in a landslide victory. Higgs was defeated in his own riding of Quispamsis, the first time since 1987 that a sitting New Brunswick Premier lost in their own riding. Upon taking office, Holt became the first woman premier of New Brunswick.