Tracadie-Sheila (electoral district)

Tracadie-Sheila

New Brunswick electoral district
The riding of Tracadie-Sheila (as it exists from 2014) in relation to other New Brunswick electoral districts
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
MLA	Serge Rousselle Liberal
District created	1994
First contested	1995
Last contested	2014
Demographics
Population (2011)	14,438[1]
Electors (2013)	11,315[2]

Tracadie-Sheila is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It is centred on the town of Tracadie-Sheila and is 95% French speaking.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Tracadie
53rd	1995–1999		Elvy Robichaud	Progressive Conservative
54th	1999–2003
55th	2003–2006
56th	2006–2010		Claude Landry	Progressive Conservative
57th	2010–2014
58th	2014–Present		Serge Rousselle	Liberal

Election results

2014–present

New Brunswick general election, 2014
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Serge Rousselle	5,916	64.61	+45.65
	Progressive Conservative	Claude Landry	2,195	23.97	-24.86
	New Democratic	François Rousselle	861	9.40	-22.81
	Green	Nancy Benoit	121	1.32	–
	Independent	Donald Thomas	64	0.70	–
Total valid votes			9,157	100.0
Total rejected ballots			30	0.33
Turnout			9,187	76.92
Eligible voters			11,943
	Liberal notional gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+35.26
[3]

1995–2010

New Brunswick general election, 2010
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Claude Landry	3,806	48.83	-4.55
	New Democratic	Roger Duguay	2,511	32.21	–
	Liberal	Norma McGraw	1,478	18.96	-24.36
Total valid votes			7,795	100.0
Total rejected ballots			86	1.09	-0.66
Turnout			7,881	83.10	+3.78
Eligible voters			9,484
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-18.38
[4]

New Brunswick general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Claude Landry	4,043	53.38	-2.94
	Liberal	Serge Rousselle	3,281	43.32	+7.76
	Independent	Stéphane Richardson	250	3.30	–
Total valid votes			7,574
Total rejected ballots			135	1.75	-0.39
Turnout			7,709	79.32	-5.79
Eligible voters			9,718
	Progressive Conservative notional hold		Swing		-5.35
Independent candidate Stéphane Richardson earned 4.82% fewer votes than when he ran for the New Democratic Party in 2003. Changes are not based on redistributed results.
[5]

New Brunswick general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Elvy Robichaud	4,583	56.32	-6.62
	Liberal	Weldon McLaughlin	2,894	35.56	+1.79
	New Democratic	Stéphane Richardson	661	8.12	+4.83
Total valid votes			8,138
Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots			178	2.14
Turnout			8,316	85.11
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-4.20

New Brunswick general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Elvy Robichaud	5,453	62.94	+11.48
	Liberal	Serge Rousselle	2,926	33.77	-12.67
	New Democratic	Claudette Duguay	285	3.29	+1.19
Total valid votes			8,664
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+12.08

New Brunswick general election, 1995
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Elvy Robichaud	4,214	51.46
	Liberal	George McLaughlin	3,803	46.44
	New Democratic	Aldoria Noel	172	2.10
Total valid votes			8,189

See also

• Tracadie (electoral district)

References

1. http://www.gnb.ca/elections/pdf/2013Boundaries/2013-EBRC-CDCER-Report-Rapport-Final.pdf
2. http://www.gnb.ca/elections/pdf/2013Boundaries/2013-EBRC-CDCER-Report-Rapport-Final.pdf
3. Elections New Brunswick (2014). "Declared Results, 2014 New Brunswick election". Retrieved 15 October 2014.
4. Elections New Brunswick (2010). "Thirty-seventh General Election - Report of the Chief Electoral Officer" (PDF). Retrieved 29 December 2014.
5. Elections New Brunswick (2006). "Thirty-sixth General Election - Report of the Chief Electoral Officer" (PDF). Retrieved 12 January 2015.

External links

• Website of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick