Liberal incumbent John Herron has lost his New Brunswick riding to Conservative Rob Moore.

• CANADA VOTES 2004: Fundy

Moore received less than 35 per cent of the popular vote, while NDP Pat Hanratty came in third with 16 per cent.

John Herron (file photo)

Moore is a lawyer and helped organize the Canadian Alliance in the riding in the late 1990s, running in 2000.

Herron represented the riding for two terms as a Progressive Conservative, but spoke against the merger. He said he believes the union of the Alliance and Progressive Conservative parties has swung his former party too far to the right for his comfort.

This area has given its support to the Progressive Conservatives in every election for the past 80 years, save for 1993, when Liberal Paul Zed won office. Zed was then beaten in 1997 by Herron.

In February 2004, Herron announced that he would leave the newly merged Conservatives to sit as an Independent and would run as a Liberal in this election.