Carleton-York: Difference between revisions

{{Threeshort otherdescription|Provincial electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada}}
{{use mdy dates|date=December uses2021}}
{{about|the New Brunswick electoral district used from 2014 onward|the district used from 1995-2014|York (1995-2014 provincial electoral district)|the former [[Plurality-at-large voting|multi member district]]|York (1785-1974 electoral district)|}}

| image = File:New Brunswick riding of Carleton-York (20142023-).png

| caption = The riding of Carleton-York (as it exists from 2023) in relation to other New Brunswick electoral districts

| prov-election-last = 2024

| prov-rep = [[Richard Ames (Canadian politician)|Richard Ames]]

| prov-rep-link party = PC

'''Carleton-York''' is a [[provinces and territories of Canada|provincial]] [[electoral district (Canada)|electoral district]] for the [[Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick|Legislative Assembly]] of [[New Brunswick]], [[Canada]]. It willwas firstcontested befor contestedthe first time in the [[2014 New Brunswick general election, 2014|2014 general election]],. havingIt beenwas created in the [[New Brunswick electoral redistribution, 2013|2013 redistribution of electoral boundaries]].

The district draws its population from the northwestern parts of York County and southern parts of Carleton County, the boundaries commission initially proposed it be named '''"York'''" which might have been confused with [[York (1995-2014 provincial electoral district)|its immediate predecessor of the same name]] which was based in southwestern York County. The two districts share only about 12% of population in common. Accordingly, a committee of the legislative assembly changed the name to Carleton-York before the district could be contested.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2014.06.0713.html|title=Names of three electoral districts changed|date=19 June 2014}}</ref>

[[File:York_2006_vs_2014York 2006 vs 2014.png|thumb|leftright|The electoral districts of York (2006-2014) and York (2014-) as they relate to York County and its municipalities.]]

The new district includes all of Carleton County south of (but not including) the [[Woodstock, New Brunswick|Town of Woodstock]], as well asand northwestern parts of York County including [[Nackawic, New Brunswick|Nackawic-Millville]], [[Meductic,Lakeland New Brunswick|Meductic]], [[Canterbury, New Brunswick|CanterburyRidges]] and [[Harvey, New Brunswick|Harvey]].