Members will gather at the Fredericton Convention Centre to find out who will be the next leader of New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative Party.
Party is picking new leader after divisive contest in wake of 2024 defeat
Jacques Poitras · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 17, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago
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Either Daniel Allain, right, a former PC cabinet minister, and current PC MLA Don Monahan, left, will become their party’s next leader. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative Party will have a new leader today.
Members will gather at the Fredericton Convention Centre to learn which of two candidates prevailed in mail-in balloting: former cabinet minister Daniel Allain or rookie MLA Don Monahan.
The party says the result will be announced around 4:45 p.m. There will be no voting at the convention. The deadline for mail-in ballots to arrive was Wednesday.
The race began last year to replace former premier Blaine Higgs, who resigned in October 2024 after the Liberals decisively defeated the PCs in a provincial election.
It has been a divisive contest.
Allain has rounded up a large number of endorsements from key party officials,
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