new brunswick general election, 1982

The 1982 election in the Canadian province of New Brunswick saw Richard Hatfield's Progressive Conservative Party win its largest majority ever to that time. (Bernard Lord beat this record in 1999.) The Opposition Liberal Party had changed leaders four times since the eve of the 1978 election. It chose Doug Young just months before the vote in a divisive contest that came down to a final ballot against Joseph A. Day. The Liberals, divided by their recent leadership contest, ran a lackluster campaign which allowed Hatfield's personal popularity to carry many seats that had been Liberal strongholds for generations. This election was the last appearance of the Parti Acadien and saw the New Democratic Party of New Brunswick elect Bob Hall as its first ever Member of the Legislative Assembly.

Results

olspan="5"\|1982 New Brunswick Election Results
owspan="2"\|Party	rowspan="2"\|Leader	colspan="2"\|Results
eats	% of votes cast

a href="/encyclopedia/Progressive-Conservative-Party-of-New-Brunswick" title="Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick">Progressive Conservative	Richard Hatfield	align=center\|39	align=center\|47.45%

a href="/encyclopedia/Liberal-Party-of-New-Brunswick" title="Liberal Party of New Brunswick">Liberal	Doug Young	align=center\|18	align=center\|41.3%

a href="/encyclopedia/New-Democratic-Party-of-New-Brunswick" title="New Democratic Party of New Brunswick">New Democratic	George Little	align=center\|1	align=center\|10.2%

Parti Acadien	Louise Blanchard	align=center\|0	align=center\|0.87%

Independents		align=center\|0	align=center\|0.18%
otal		align=center\|58	align=center\|100.0%

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