 New Brunswick electoral district | |||
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| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick | ||
| MLA |
Liberal | ||
| District created | 2023 | ||
| First contested | 2024 | ||
Belle-Baie-Belledune is an upcoming provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick. It was created out of parts of Restigouche-Chaleur and Bathurst West-Beresford.
It was created in 2023 and will be first contested during the 2024 New Brunswick general election. It is the largest successor of now abolished Restigouche-Chaleur. The riding largely comprises Belle-Baie and Belledune, with a part of the Chaleur Rural District. [1]
| Belle-Baie-Belledune | ||||
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| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| 61st | 2024–Present | Marco LeBlanc | Liberal | |
| 2024 New Brunswick general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Marco LeBlanc | 5,053 | 63.08 | +4.28 | ||||
| Green | Rachel Boudreau | 1,411 | 17.61 | -7.59 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Louis Robichaud | 1,254 | 15.65 | -0.35 | ||||
| New Democratic | Tyler (Ty) Boulay | 293 | 3.66 | |||||
| Total votes | 8,011 | 100.0% | ||||||
| Turnout | - | |||||||
| Eligible voters | - | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | |||||||
| 2020 provincial election redistributed results [2] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | % | ||
| Liberal | 58.8 | ||
| Green | 25.2 | ||
| Progressive Conservative | 16.0 | ||
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