Daniel Allain wins the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative leadership

Votes counted

2 543 Daniel Allain 1 797 Don Monahan

Allain won 2,543 votes, or 58.6 per cent, against 1,797 for Don Monahan, the MLA for Arcadia-Butternut Valley-Maple Hills, in a mail-in vote counted Saturday in Fredericton.

In his victory speech, Allain vowed to bring the party back to the centre-right: “We are at our best when we are socially progressive, fiscally conservative.”

— Daniel Allain, new PC leader

Background

A former Moncton East MLA and minister, Allain was dropped from cabinet by Blaine Higgs in June 2023 and did not run in 2024, citing the party's shift to the right on social issues.