{{Short description|Canadian businessman and politician}} {{Update|date=September 2019}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Rodney H. Weston | honorific_suffix = | image = | riding = Saint John | parliament = Canadian | term_start = October 14, 2008 | term_end = August 4, 2015 | predecessor = Paul Zed | successor = Wayne Long | constituency_AM2 = Saint John-Fundy | assembly2 = New Brunswick Legislative | term_start2 = 1999 | term_end2 = 2003 | predecessor2 = Stuart Jamieson | successor2 = Stuart Jamieson | office3 = Chairman of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans | term_start3 = February 3, 2009 | term_end3 = August 4, 2015 | predecessor3 = Fabian Manning | successor3 = Scott Simms | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1964|03|28}} | birth_place = Saint John, New Brunswick | death_date = | death_place = | party = Conservative | spouse = Dawn Connolly | profession = Small business owner/operator | footnotes = }}

'''Rodney H. Weston''' (born March 28, 1964) is a businessman and politician in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented the Saint John electoral district as a Member of Parliament from 2008 until 2015.

==Biography== Weston was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Lester and Phyllis Weston. He was a post-secondary student at New Brunswick Community College.

Weston owned and operated a gas station and also was a trucking contractor as well as chief of the St. Martins Volunteer Fire Department.

Weston entered public life in his service as deputy mayor for St. Martins.

Weston ran to represent the riding of Saint John-Fundy in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as a Progressive Conservative member in the 1995 New Brunswick general election, coming second to Liberal incumbent Stuart Jamieson. He defeated Jamieson in 1999 and was Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries & Aquaculture from 2001 to 2003. In 2003, Jamieson defeated Weston when he ran for re-election. After the election, the province's premier, Bernard Lord, hired him as his chief of staff.<ref>[http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/news/ex/2003e0812ex.htm Deputy minister appointments, promotions, new assignments, Office of the Premier]</ref>

In his first foray into federal politics, in 2008, Weston was elected as Conservative MP for the electoral district of Saint John, defeating incumbent Liberal Paul Zed. He was re-elected in 2011 but did not hold his seat, in the now renamed Saint John—Rothesay, when at the 2015 Canadian federal election the Liberal Party of Canada won every seat east of Quebec. Weston personally lost to challenger Wayne Long, a business figure in Saint John.

Weston ran in Saint John—Rothesay again in 2019 but was not elected, coming second behind Long.

==Electoral record== ===Federal=== {{2019 Canadian federal election/Saint John—Rothesay}} {{2015 Canadian federal election/Saint John—Rothesay}} {{2011 Canadian federal election/Saint John—Rothesay}} {{2008 Canadian federal election/Saint John—Rothesay}}

===Provincial=== {{CANelec/top|NB|2003|Saint John-Fundy|percent=yes|change=yes}} {{CANelec|NB|Liberal|Stuart Jamieson|2,698|47.68|+15.54}} {{CANelec|NB|PC|'''Rodney Weston'''|2,271|40.14|-17.60}} {{CANelec|NB|NDP|Liam Freill|517|9.14|+0.93}} {{CANelec|NB|Grey|Marjorie MacMurray|172|3.04|&ndash;}} {{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|5,658|100.0 &nbsp;}} {{CANelec/gain|NB|Liberal|PC|+16.57}} {{end}}

{{CANelec/top|NB|1999|Saint John-Fundy|percent=yes|change=yes}} {{CANelec|NB|PC|'''Rodney Weston'''|3,473|57.74|+19.71}} {{CANelec|NB|Liberal|Stuart Jamieson|1,933|32.14|-8.98}} {{CANelec|NB|NDP|Robert E. Holmes-Lauder|494|8.21|-8.06}} {{CANelec|NB|CoR|David Lytle|115|1.91|-1.85}} {{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|6,015|100.0 &nbsp;}} {{CANelec/gain|NB|PC|Liberal|+14.34}} {{end}}

{{CANelec/top|NB|1995|Saint John-Fundy|percent=yes|change=yes}} {{CANelec|NB|Liberal|Stuart Jamieson|2,447|41.12|+9.60}} {{CANelec|NB|PC|'''Rodney Weston'''|2,263|38.03|+9.07}} {{CANelec|NB|NDP|Aubrey Fougere|968|16.27|+3.35}} {{CANelec|NB|CoR|Bernard Toole|224|3.76|-22.85}} {{CANelec|CA|Natural Law|Phyllis Johnston|49|0.82|&ndash;}} {{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|5,951|100.0 &nbsp;}} {{CANelec/hold|NB|Liberal|+0.26}} {{end}}

== References == {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.gnb.ca/legis/publications/bio2000.pdf New Brunswick MLAs, New Brunswick Legislative Library] (pdf) *{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=17266}}

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