Beauséjour

Beauséjour extends across southeastern New Brunswick, taking in most of Westmorland County east and north of Moncton along with a large portion of Kent County. The riding runs from the suburbs of Dieppe to the Northumberland Strait shoreline, passing through Acadian farming and fishing communities along the way. The Confederation Bridge connects the riding to Prince Edward Island at Cape Jourimain.

Candidates

Dominic LeBlanc (Liberal) — One of the longest-serving Liberals in Atlantic Canada, LeBlanc had represented Beauséjour since his first election in 2000. The son of former Governor General Roméo LeBlanc — who himself served as the Liberal MP for the predecessor riding of Westmorland-Kent — he earned degrees from the University of Toronto, the University of New Brunswick law school, and Harvard Law School. He practised law in Shediac and Moncton before entering politics. Prior to the 2019 campaign, he served as Minister of Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs. LeBlanc spent most of the campaign recovering in a Montreal hospital from a stem cell transplant to treat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, unable to campaign in the riding.

Laura Reinsborough (Green Party) — Born and raised in Sackville, New Brunswick, with Acadian roots in Bouctouche, Reinsborough was the director of Food For All NB, a provincially funded network working on food security. She ran a strong grassroots campaign that dramatically increased the Green Party’s vote share in the riding.

Vincent Cormier (Conservative) — Cormier carried the Conservative banner in a riding where the party had historically struggled against the Liberal incumbent.

Jean-Marc Bélanger (NDP) — Bélanger represented the NDP in the riding.

Nancy Mercier ran for the People’s Party of Canada.

About the Riding

Beauséjour is one of New Brunswick’s most strongly Acadian ridings, with roughly 61 percent of residents reporting French as their mother tongue. The riding’s economy blends the bilingual service-sector growth of the greater Moncton area with the seasonal fishing and tourism industries of the Northumberland Strait coast. Shediac, which bills itself as the "Lobster Capital of the World," hosts one of Atlantic Canada’s largest community festivals and sits at the centre of the riding’s tourism economy. Cap-Pelé and Bouctouche are home to seafood processing operations and commercial fishing fleets. Sackville, near the Nova Scotia border, hosts Mount Allison University, a nationally ranked undergraduate institution and a significant local employer. Dieppe, whose eastern and southern portions fall within the riding, was one of the fastest-growing communities in Atlantic Canada. The seasonal employment cycle and access to employment insurance remained persistent federal concerns, alongside health care capacity for an aging population, rural broadband expansion, and infrastructure investment to keep pace with suburban growth in the Shediac-Dieppe corridor. LeBlanc’s deep family roots and political seniority had made Beauséjour one of the safest Liberal seats in New Brunswick for two decades.