New BrunswickVoters in the provincial riding of Miramichi West will go to the polls on Oct. 6 to elect a new member of the New Brunswick legislature.Voters who have been without representation since March will go the polls next monthJacques Poitras · CBC News · Posted: Sep 04, 2025 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours agoCommunities on the Miramichi River have been waiting since late March to have an elected representative in Fredericton. The byelection date is set for Oct. 6. (Roger Cosman/CBC)Voters in the provincial riding of Miramichi West will elect a new member of the New Brunswick legislature on Oct. 6.That’s the date a provincial byelection will be held, according to a cabinet order published on the government’s website.Premier Susan Holt hasn’t yet officially announced the date, but the document was available online Thursday morning.Miramichi West has been without an elected representative since March 25, when Progressive Conservative MLA Mike Dawson resigned to become a Conservative candidate in the federal election.The document shows that Holt’s cabinet set the date on Aug. 28 and that the writ for the byelection — the formal process to establish voting day and start the campaign — would be issued Sept. 5.From left, Liberal candidate Hannah Fulton Johnston, Green Party candidate Genevieve MacRae and PC candidate Kevin Russell have put their names in the draw for Miramichi West. (Jacques Poitras/CBC, Green Party of New Brunswick)On Wednesday, Holt told reporters in Upper Miramichi, where she was attending a government announcement, that the byelection call was “coming soon.” She said she hadn’t called it sooner because people didn’t want to go to the polls during the summer.Last week, several Miramichi West residents told CBC News that the area should have had an MLA in place by now to represent their interests.By law, the premier had until Sept. 25 to call the byelection.The Liberals have nominated Hannah Fulton Johnston as their candidate, the PCs have chosen Kevin Russell and the Greens will run Genevieve MacRae.ABOUT THE AUTHORJacques Poitras has been CBC’s provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. He grew up in Moncton and covered Parliament in Ottawa for the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. He has reported on every New Brunswick election since 1995 and won awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association, the National Newspaper Awards and Amnesty International. He is also the author of five non-fiction books about New Brunswick politics and history.
After 6 months without an MLA, the Miramichi West byelection is set for Oct. 6
