 As leader of the PC party, David Alward became New Brunswick's 32nd premier.The Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick – acting on the advice of the Premier – would have originally been able to call an election earlier or as late as 2011; however a bill in the 56th Legislature has fixed election dates to the fourth Monday of September every four years beginning with this election.With the defeat of Liberals, this election marked the first time in New Brunswick's history that a political party was voted out of office after just one term.