Big losers, big winners of N.B. election night

With the election of a Liberal majority in New Brunswick, here's a breakdown of some of the major wins and losses.

Some big losses:

• New Brunswick Premier and PC Leader Blaine Higgs lost his seat in Quispamsis to Liberal Aaron Kennedy. This win for Kennedy also means that NDP Leader Alex White was defeated.

• Jill Green, the social development minister, lostin Fredericton North to Liberal Luke Randall.

• Rjean Savoie, the minister responsible for the Regional Development Corp.,was unseated by Liberal Sam Johnston in Miramichi Bay-Neguac.

• Greg Turner, the minister of post-secondary education, training and labour, lost to Liberal Claire Johnson in Moncton South.

• Ernie Steeves, the finance minister,lost to Liberal Tania Sodhi in Moncton Northwest.

• Ted Flemming, the attorney general,lost to Liberal Alyson Townsend in Rothesay.

• Faytene Grasseschi, a Christian conservative activist who was running for the PCs in Hampton-Fundy-St. Martins, lost to Liberal John Herron, a former Progressive Conservative MP.

• Green Kevin Arseneau, who served as the MLA for Kent North since 2018, lost to Liberal Pat Finnigan, reducing the Greens to two seats.

• Bathurst Mayor Kim Chamberlain, running for the PCs in Bathurst, lost to Ren Legacy, who was re-elected for the Liberals.

• People's Alliance Leader Rick DeSaulniers lost to Kris Austin, the former Alliance leader who became a PC cabinet minister,in Fredericton-Grand Lake.

• Kevin Arseneau, one of three Green members of the last legislature, lost in Kent North to Pat Finnigan of the Liberals, aformer MP.

Notable wins:

• Dr. John Dornan won the Saint John Portland-Simonds seat. Dornan was the CEO of Horizon Health and was fired by Premier Blaine Higgs in 2022 and was awarded a payout after filing for unjust dismissal.

• Liberal David Hickey, a city councillor, won in Saint John Harbour, a riding that has swung between PCs and Liberals in recent years.

• Green Megan Mitton was re-elected, winning Tantramar with a 48.9 per cent share of the vote against Liberal John Higham, the co-chair of Sackville's Rural Health Action Group.

• Sherry Wilson, the minister responsible for addictions and mental health,held ontoAlbert-Riverview. She had faced criticism during the campaign after she compared New Brunswick's original 2SLGBTQ+ policy to Indigenous residential schoolson the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

• Mary Wilson, the minister responsible for military affairs,wonin Oromocto-Sunbury.

• Margaret Johnson, the agriculture minister, won Carleton-Victoria.

• Richard Ames, the transportation minister, wonin Carleton-York.

• Bill Hogan, the education minister, won in Woodstock-Hartland.

• Kathy Bockus, the minister for seniors,woninSaint Croix.

• Glen Savoie, the former house leader, won in Saint John East.

• Tammy Scott-Wallace, the tourism minister, won in Sussex-Three Rivers