Tobique—Mactaquac

Tobique—Mactaquac

New Brunswick electoral district
Tobique-Mactaquac in relation to other New Brunswick federal electoral districts
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	T. J. Harvey Liberal
District created	1996
First contested	1997
Last contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	70,632
Electors (2015)	53,129
Area (km²)	15,130
Pop. density (per km²)	4.7
Census divisions	Carleton, Victoria, York
Census subdivisions	Grand Falls / Grand-Sault, Fredericton, , Bright, Douglas, Drummond, Kent, Saint Marys, Wakefield

Tobique—Mactaquac is a federal electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.

The district includes the counties of Carleton and Victoria as well as the Parish and Village of Saint-André and the eastern part of the County of York (excluding the City of Fredericton and vicinity). The neighbouring ridings are Madawaska—Restigouche, Miramichi, Fredericton, and New Brunswick Southwest.

The electoral district was created in 1996 from portions of the old ridings of Carleton—Charlotte, Fredericton—York—Sunbury, and Madawaska—Victoria. Its creation was very controversial, as it included areas with both large anglophone and francophone populations, while neighbouring communities were placed in other ridings. This seemingly went against the "communities of interest" criterion in drawing electoral boundaries.

On two separate occasions Tobique—Mactaquac has been involved in party nomination controversies. In the 1997 election, the Liberals were alleged to have rigged their meeting to choose Pierrette Ringuette-Maltais, the Member of Parliament for the defunct Madawaska—Victoria riding. The meeting was held in Grand Falls, near her hometown and at the far northern end of the riding. Because of sound problems, only her speech was carried over the loudspeakers. Ringuette-Maltais lost the election to Gilles Bernier of the Progressive Conservatives.