Beauséjour (electoral district)

Beauséjour (known from 1997 to 2004 as Beauséjour—Petitcodiac, [boseʒuʁ pətitkɔdjak]) is a federal electoral district (riding) in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada, which has been represented in the House of Commons since 1988. It replaced Westmorland—Kent, which was represented from 1968 to 1988.

Beauséjour

New Brunswick electoral district
From the 2015 federal election to 2025 From the 2025 federal election Interactive map of riding boundaries
Coordinates:	46.307°N 64.689°W / 46.307; -64.689
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Dominic LeBlanc Liberal
District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2025
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2021)[1]	88,797
Electors (2025)[2]	77,308
Area (km²)[3]	3,995.89
Pop. density (per km²)	22.2
Census division(s)	Kent, Westmorland
Census subdivision(s)	Dieppe (part), Shediac, Cap-Acadie, Tantramar, Maple Hills (part), Beausoleil, Beaurivage, Grand-Bouctouche, Champdoré, Memramcook

Beauséjour is largely Acadian and Francophone, with a significant Anglophone section in the southern section of the riding.

The riding consists of most of Westmorland County to the east and north of Moncton, and a large portion of Kent County. Major towns in the riding include Shediac, Cap-Pelé, Sackville, Bouctouche, Richibucto and the southern and eastern portions of Dieppe. The neighbouring ridings are Miramichi—Grand Lake, Fundy Royal, Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, and Cumberland—Colchester in Nova Scotia; it is connected to the riding of Malpeque on Prince Edward Island by the Confederation Bridge.

Since 2000, its member of Parliament (MP) has been Dominic LeBlanc of the Liberal Party.

Political geography

Westmorland—Kent was created in 1966 from Kent, and part of Westmorland that was not included in the Moncton riding. It was abolished when it was incorporated into the new riding of Beauséjour in 1987.

Beauséjour was created in 1987 primarily from Westmorland—Kent, incorporating parts of Moncton and Northumberland—Miramichi ridings. Between a 1990 by-election and 1993, it was the seat of Liberal leader and later Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

In 1997, it was renamed "Beauséjour—Petitcodiac", and expanded to include most of Albert County and the Petitcodiac area of western Westmorland County. This created a "doughnut" around Greater Moncton, which was a separate district.

In 2003, Beauséjour—Petitcodiac was abolished when it was redistributed into a new Beauséjour riding and into Fundy riding.

The new Beauséjour riding was created primarily from Beauséjour—Petitcodiac, incorporating parts of Miramichi and Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe ridings.

in the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, the riding lost a large portion of western Kent County to Miramichi—Grand Lake and a portion of Moncton Parish to Fundy Royal, but gained a portion of western Dieppe from Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe.

Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, it lost its territory in Moncton to Moncton—Dieppe.

Demographics

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
2001	73,871	—
2006	76,279	+3.3%
2011	78,076	+2.4%
2016	82,292	+5.4%
2021	88,797	+7.9%

According to the 2021 Canadian census; 2023 representation^[4]

Racial groups: 91.8% White, 3.9% Indigenous, 1.2% Filipino
Languages: 61.3% French, 38.3% English
Religions: 74.5% Christian (58.8% Catholic, 3.5% Baptist, 2.7% United Church, 2.0% Anglican, 7.5% Other), 23.7% No religion
Median income (2020): $39,600
Average income (2020): $47,800

Political history

Former Governor General of Canada Roméo LeBlanc represented Beauséjour from 1972 to 1984. His son, Dominic LeBlanc, is its current MP.

Former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien represented Beauséjour for a short time in the early 1990s after he won the Liberal leadership. Chrétien did not have a seat in the House of Commons at the time, and the sitting MP stepped down to allow him to run in a by-election.

Since its creation, the riding has voted Liberal in every election except 1997, when it elected Angela Vautour of the New Democratic Party. Vautour switched to the Progressive Conservatives midway through her term, and was defeated in 2000.

Federal riding associations

Riding associations are the local branches of the national political parties:

Party		Association name	CEO	HQ city
	Conservative Party of Canada	Association du Parti conservateur Beauséjour	Andre Leblanc	Shediac
	Green Party of Canada	Beauséjour Green Party Association	John D. Filliter	Cap-Acadie
	Liberal Party of Canada	Beauséjour Federal Liberal Association	Francis R. LeBlanc	Dieppe
	New Democratic Party	Beauséjour Federal NDP Riding Associaiton	Shannon Cruickshank	Ottawa, Ontario
	People's Party of Canada	Northeastern New Brunswick Regional PPC Association	Nancy Mercier	Shediac

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Westmorland—Kent Riding created from Kent and Westmorland
28th	1968–1972		Guy Crossman	Liberal
29th	1972–1974		Roméo LeBlanc
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988		Fernand Robichaud
Beauséjour
34th	1988–1990		Fernand Robichaud	Liberal
	1990–1993		Jean Chrétien
35th	1993–1997		Fernand Robichaud
Beauséjour—Petitcodiac
36th	1997–1999		Angela Vautour	New Democratic
	1999–2000			Progressive Conservative
37th	2000–2004		Dominic LeBlanc	Liberal
Beauséjour
38th	2004–2006		Dominic LeBlanc	Liberal
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–2019
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–2025
45th	2025–present

Election results

Graph of election results in Westmorland—Kent, Beauséjour(1987-1997), Beauséjour—Petitcodiac, Beauséjour(2003-) (1966-, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

Beauséjour

Graph of election results in Beauséjour (2003-, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2025

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	36,139	60.60	+5.07
	Conservative	Nathalie Vautour	19,862	33.31	+13.89
	New Democratic	Alex Gagne	1,448	2.43	−8.55
	Green	Josh Shaddick	1,291	2.16	−3.53
	People's	Eddie Cornell	503	0.84	−6.74
	Libertarian	Donna Allen	388	0.65	N/A
Total valid votes/expense limit			59,631	99.42
Total rejected ballots			350	0.58	-0.01
Turnout			59,981	77.36	+9.83
Eligible voters			77,532
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		−4.41
Source: Elections Canada[5][6]
Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations.

2021

2021 federal election redistributed results[7]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	27,275	55.54
	Conservative	9,538	19.42
	New Democratic	5,390	10.97
	People's	3,723	7.58
	Green	2,797	5.70
	Free	390	0.79
Total valid votes		49,113	99.41
Rejected ballots		293	0.59
Registered voters/ estimated turnout		73,154	67.54

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	27,313	55.6	+9.1	$66,501.84
	Conservative	Shelly Mitchell	9,526	19.4	+1.8	$14,489.19
	New Democratic	Evelyne Godfrey	5,394	11.0	+3.7	$516.68
	People's	Jack Minor	3,723	7.6	+5.6	$11,448.76
	Green	Stella Anna Girouard	2,798	5.7	−21.0	$864.18
	Free	Isabelle Sauriol Chiasson	391	0.8	N/A	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			49,145	99.4	–	$107,726.91
Total rejected ballots			294	0.6
Turnout			49,439	68.0	−10.0
Registered voters			72,726
	Liberal hold		Swing		+5.5
Source: Elections Canada[8]

2019

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	24,948	46.47	−22.54	$83,393.36
	Green	Laura Reinsborough	14,305	26.65	+22.16	$74,321.26
	Conservative	Vincent Cormier	9,438	17.58	+6.21	$39,043.98
	New Democratic	Jean-Marc Bélanger	3,940	7.34	−7.79	none listed
	People's	Nancy Mercier	1,054	1.96	New	$6,338.64
Total valid votes/expense limit			53,685	100.0		$101,392.80
Total rejected ballots			475	0.88	+0.28
Turnout			54,160	77.99	−2.49
Eligible voters			69,444
	Liberal hold		Swing		−22.35
Source: Elections Canada[9][10]

2015

2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	36,534	69.02	+28.33	$77,614.48
	New Democratic	Hélène Boudreau	8,009	15.13	–8.30	$24,161.02
	Conservative	Ann Bastarache	6,017	11.37	–20.35	–
	Green	Kevin King	2,376	4.49	+0.32	$1,009.07
Total valid votes/Expense limit			52,936	99.40		$200,494.19
Total rejected ballots			320	0.60
Turnout			53,256	80.48
Eligible voters			66,170
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+18.31
Source: Elections Canada[11][12]

2011 federal election redistributed results[13]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	18,507	40.69
	Conservative	14,425	31.71
	New Democratic	10,655	23.43
	Green	1,896	4.17

2011

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	17,399	39.08	-7.68	$60,854.20
	Conservative	Evelyn Chapman	14,811	33.27	+4.12	$75,052.19
	New Democratic	Susan Levi-Peters	10,397	23.35	+6.47	$13,825.57
	Green	Natalie Arsenault	1,913	4.30	-2.89	$0.00
Total valid votes/Expense limit			44,520	100.0		$84,184.30
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			534	1.19	-0.16
Turnout			45,054	71.21	+1.96
Eligible voters			63,267
	Liberal hold		Swing		-5.90
Sources:[14][15]

2008

2008 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	20,059	46.76	-0.95	$56,379.70
	Conservative	Omer Léger	12,506	29.15	-3.03	$54,871.67
	New Democratic	Chris Durrant	7,242	16.88	+0.13	$7,113.77
	Green	Mike Milligan	3,087	7.19	+4.79	$1,748.46
Total valid votes/Expense limit			42,894	100.0		$81,263
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			586	1.35	+0.15
Turnout			43,480	69.25	-5.97
Eligible voters			62,790
	Liberal hold		Swing		+1.04

2006

2006 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	22,012	47.55	-5.73	$58,009.11
	Conservative	Omer Léger	14,919	32.23	+4.04	$54,029.29
	New Democratic	Neil Gardner	7,717	16.67	+1.96	$10,068.80
	Green	Anna Girouard	1,290	2.79	-1.03	$1,869.49
	Independent	Frank Comeau	357	0.77	–	$460.29
Total valid votes/Expense limit			46,295	100.0		$75,255
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			561	1.20	-0.50
Turnout			46,856	75.22	+8.62
Eligible voters			62,291
	Liberal hold		Swing		-4.88

2004

2004 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	21,934	53.28	+0.59	$51,654.26
	Conservative	Angela Vautour	11,604	28.19	-11.64	$51,129.02
	New Democratic	Omer Bourque	6,056	14.71	+7.24	$7,476.46
	Green	Anna Girouard	1,574	3.82	–	$1,201.17
Total valid votes/Expense limit			41,168	100.0		$73,195
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			712	1.70
Turnout			41,880	68.29	-2.28
Eligible voters			61,327
	Liberal notional hold		Swing		+6.12
Changes from 2000 are based on redistributed results. Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.

2000 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	21,533	52.69
	Progressive Conservative	12,663	30.98
	Alliance	3,616	8.85
	New Democratic	3,053	7.47
	Others	5	0.01

Beauséjour—Petitcodiac, 1997–2003

Graph of election results in Beauséjour—Petitcodiac (1997-2003, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	21,465	47.10	+12.27
	Progressive Conservative	Angela Vautour	14,631	32.11	+16.11
	Alliance	Tom Taylor	6,256	13.73	+3.55
	New Democratic	Inka Milewski	3,217	7.06	-31.93
Total valid votes			45,569	100.00

Change for Progressive Conservative candidate Angela Vautour are based on the party's results in 1997. She personally received 6.88% fewer votes based on her results as an NDP candidate. Change for the Canadian Alliance for 1997 are based on the results of its predecessor, the Reform Party.

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Angela Vautour	18,504	38.99	+33.25
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	16,529	34.83	-41.20
	Progressive Conservative	Ian Hamilton	7,592	16.00	+0.78
	Reform	Raymond Braun	4,833	10.18
Total valid votes			47,458	100.00

Beauséjour, 1987–1997

Graph of election results in Beauséjour (1987-1997, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Fernand Robichaud	29,830	76.03	+24.58
	Progressive Conservative	Ian Hamilton	5,970	15.22	-12.02
	New Democratic	David Bailie	2,253	5.74	-31.62
	National	James Bannister	738	1.88
	Christian Heritage	Mae Boudreau-Pedersen	445	1.13	+0.28
Total valid votes			39,236	100.00

Main article: 1990 Beauséjour federal by-election

All changes are from the 1990 by-election, with the exception of the Progressive Conservative Party, who did not field a candidate.

Canadian federal by-election, 10 December 1990
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
On the resignation of Fernand Robichaud, 24 September 1990
	Liberal	Jean Chrétien	17,332	51.45	-7.16
	New Democratic	Guy Cormier	12,587	37.36	+27.12
	Confederation of Regions	Margie Bowes-Legood	2,789	8.28	+4.37
	Independent	Alonzo LeBlanc	450	1.34
	Christian Heritage	Mae Boudreau-Pedersen	286	0.85
	Rhinoceros	Bryan Gold	246	0.73
Total valid votes			33,690	100.00

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Fernand Robichaud	22,650	58.61	+16.86
	Progressive Conservative	Omer Léger	10,525	27.24	-10.72
	New Democratic	Lyman Dean	3,958	10.24	-10.05
	Confederation of Regions	Russell Bowes	1,511	3.91
Total valid votes			38,644	100.00

Westmorland—Kent, 1966–1987

Graph of election results in Westmorland—Kent (1966-1987, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Fernand Robichaud	14,709	41.75	-25.37
	Progressive Conservative	Louis LeBlanc	13,371	37.96	+21.39
	New Democratic	Claire Doiron	7,148	20.29	+3.98
Total valid votes			35,228	100.00

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Roméo LeBlanc	21,625	67.12	+3.36
	Progressive Conservative	Harvey Mesheau	5,339	16.57	-4.75
	New Democratic	René Vannieuwenhuizen	5,255	16.31	+1.39
Total valid votes			32,219	100.00

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Roméo LeBlanc	19,695	63.76	+1.42
	Progressive Conservative	Lionel Mills	6,584	21.32	-3.44
	New Democratic	René Vannieuwenhuizen	4,609	14.92	+4.58
Total valid votes			30,888	100.00

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Roméo LeBlanc	16,340	62.34	+6.35
	Progressive Conservative	Michel Leger	6,490	24.76	-6.02
	New Democratic	John LaBossiere	2,710	10.34	+2.35
	Social Credit	John Arseneault	671	2.56	-2.68
Total valid votes			26,211	100.00

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Roméo LeBlanc	14,747	55.99	+2.67
	Progressive Conservative	Michel Leger	8,107	30.78	-7.48
	New Democratic	John LaBossiere	2,104	7.99	-0.44
	Social Credit	Henry Landry	1,381	5.24	-
Total valid votes			26,339	100.00

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Guy F. Crossman	11,519	53.32
	Progressive Conservative	Frédéric Arseneault	8,265	38.26
	New Democratic	John Judson	1,821	8.43
Total valid votes			21,605	100.00

Student vote results

2011

In 2011, a student vote was conducted at participating Canadian schools to parallel the 2011 Canadian federal election results. The vote was designed to educate students and simulate the electoral process for persons who have not yet reached the legal majority. Schools with a large student body that reside in another electoral district had the option to vote for candidates outside of the electoral district then where they were physically located.^[16]

2011 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Dominic LeBlanc	504	41.96
	New Democratic	Susan Levi-Peters	318	26.48
	Green	Natalie Arsenault	191	15.90
	Conservative	Evelyn Chapman	188	15.65
Total valid votes			1,497	100.00

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada