New Brunswick Liberal Association

The New Brunswick Liberal Association (French: Association libérale du Nouveau-Brunswick), commonly known as the New Brunswick Liberal Party, or Liberal Party of New Brunswick, is one of the two major provincial political parties in New Brunswick, Canada. The party descended from both the Confederation Party and the Anti-Confederation Party whose members split into left-wing and right-wing groups following the creation of Canada as a nation in 1867. It is the current governing party in the province, led by premier Susan Holt.

The current political organization emerged in the 1880s to serve as an organization housing the supporters of Premier Andrew G. Blair and, later, federal Liberal Party of Canada leader Wilfrid Laurier.

Today, the New Brunswick Liberal Party follows the centre-left tradition. They compete with the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick to form the government. The Green Party of New Brunswick is the only other party that has seats in the legislature. The New Brunswick New Democratic Party is not currently represented in the legislature.

Prior to 2017, the party and its counterparts in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island were formally the provincial branch of the Liberal Party of Canada. The party became an independent and autonomous political party when the national party ended its confederated organizational model in 2016 and severed formal governance relationship with all provincial liberal parties, and has established governance structure that are distinct and elected separately from the provincial board of the national party. However, the party continues to have strong informal organizational ties to and substantially overlapping membership with the national party.