Riding profile

Saint John--Kennebecasis

Federal riding — NB · Urban · atlantic

The question

Saint John--Kennebecasis: a safe seat for the Liberal Party?

Editorial read

Saint John--Kennebecasis, an urban riding in New Brunswick, elected a member with the Liberal Party in the previous cycle, with a 21-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Liberal Party ahead at 57% vote share, against 31% for the Conservative Party, and the probability of a close race is negligible. Linguistic profile: 1% francophone, 94% anglophone.

Sitting member

Wayne Long

Sits with Liberal

Since
2025-04-28
Parliament
45th

Current forecast

Liberal

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
25.7
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Liberal 56.8%
  • Conservative 31.1%
  • NDP 6.0%
  • Green 2.0%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Liberal Conservative NDP Green
HereSaint John--Kennebecasis 56.8%31.1%6.0%2.0%
Provincial averageNew Brunswick 51.3% +5.5 35.2% −4.1 4.8% +1.2 2.1%
National averageCanada 41.9% +14.9 34.8% −3.7 14.2% −8.2 2.1% −0.1

Provincial averages computed across the 343 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Previous election · FED 2025

Won by
Liberal
Margin
20.7 pts
Turnout
69.5%
Margin shift vs current projection
+5.0 pts

Detailed result · FED 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Wayne Long Elected Liberal 26,129 58.1 Parliamentarian
Melissa Young Conservative 16,787 37.3 Executive Officer
Armand Cormier NDP 1,206 2.7 Software Developer
David MacFarquhar Green 737 1.6 Data Scientist
Austin Venedam Other 108 0.2 Labourer

Demographics

Who lives here

Linguistic profile

  • Francophone 1.4%
  • Anglophone 94.0%
  • Non-francophone (other) 4.6%

Data source : Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

Last model run
Cycle
fed_46