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♂ Blaine Myron Higgs
aliasBlaine Higgs
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 In office
New Brunswick
Government
 Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 5 0 5
* Includes a post-dated race
Birth 1 March 1954
Age 70 years + 1 month
First mandate 27 September 2010 → 13 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 56 years + 6 months
 
 
Special notes
None
 
Blaine Myron Higgs (1954– )
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Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
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Higgs has belonged to three political parties. The New Brunswick premier began as a Liberal but left that party due to his opposition to bilingualism. Trying to become the leader of the province's Confederation of Region Party (CORe), he said, "We do not have an obligation to cater to those people who can speak the common language, English, and refuse to do so." After that party had disappeared, he joined the Pro­gres­sive Conservatives and was first elected as the MLA for Quispamsis in 2010.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 13 6 27 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 58–60
PC
 1 Party leader 62–70 22 Oct 2016 — 7 6 5
2. NB 58–59
PC
 1 Opposition Leader 62–64 22 Oct 2016 — 02 Nov 2018 2 0 11
3. NB 59–60
PC
 1 Premier 64–70 03 Nov 2018 — 5 5 24

Electoral history

Races * 5  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Mary L. Schryer  f  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊕ Alexander M. White  m 
 
Eligible: 11,652 Votes: 8,074 Participation: 69.29% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
57		 New Brunswick
27 September 2010
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 6210(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
56
PC
 1/4 4,076 50.67% +1,324 Loser:
LIB
 2,752 34.21% Mary L. Schryer

Service: 3 years 11 months 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,814 Votes: 7,583 Participation: 64.19% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
58		 New Brunswick
22 September 2014
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 7295(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:37 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
PC
 1/5 3,884 51.35% +1,494 Loser:
LIB
 2,390 31.60% Mary L. Schryer

Service: 4 years 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,118 Votes: 8,261 Participation: 68.17% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
59		 New Brunswick
24 September 2018
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
 PC  3 Nov 2018
ID: 13226(F) — 3 Jul 2023 15:18 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
64
PC
 1/5 4,691 56.87% +2,613 Loser:
LIB
 2,078 25.19% Aaron B. Kennedy
After his election:
3 Nov 2018 64
LIB
 →
PC
 Change of government (became part of government)
Service: 1 year 11 months 20 days (Oppo. & Gov't)
Eligible: 12,008 Votes: 8,389 Participation: 69.86% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
60		 New Brunswick
14 September 2020
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 31418(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:37 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
66
PC
 1/5 5,697 68.11% +4,472 Loser:
LIB
 1,225 14.64% Robert Hunt

Service: 3 years 7 months 13 days (Gov't)
Quispamsis
Post-dated race
Provincial
61		 New Brunswick
21 October 2024
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 39205(P) — 10 Mar 2024 12:34 ET
✓
 Incumbent will likely be re-elected (Party leader) (Gov't)
Age
70
PC
 1/5   62.45%   Loser:
LIB

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Blaine Higgs		 07 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
Blaine Higgs		 07 Apr 2024

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