The riding's initial area consisted of the city of Moncton and town of Dieppe, two parishes in Westmorland County (Moncton and Salisbury), and the Parish of Coverdale in Albert County.

As per the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, this riding lost 8% of its territory to Beauséjour.

Ethnic groups: 93.4% White, 2.0% Aboriginal, 1.6% Black Languages: 63.6% English, 34.9% French Religions: 78.3% Christian (47.8% Catholic, 8.9% Baptist, 7.9% United Church, 4.9% Anglican, 8.8% Other), 19.7% No religion Median income (2010): $28,162 Average income (2010): $35,584 Moncton has elected some well-known and controversial members of Parliament.

Former mayor Leonard Jones, who took a tough stance against French language education, won the Progressive Conservative Party nomination for the 1974 election, but party leader Robert Stanfield refused to sign his nomination papers because of Jones' opposition to party policy on Official bilingualism.

Change for the Canadian Alliance are based on the 1997 results of its predecessor, the Reform Party.