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{{Short description|Canadian businessman and politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Update|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = 
| name             = Rodney H. Weston
| honorific-suffix =
| image            = 
| riding           = [[Saint John (electoral district)|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 [[Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans|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|Saint John]], [[New Brunswick]]
| death_date       =
| death_place      =
| party            = [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]]
| spouse           = Dawn Connolly
| residence        =
| 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—Rothesay|Saint John]] [[Electoral district (Canada)|electoral district]] as a [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|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, New Brunswick|St. Martins]].

Weston ran to represent the riding of [[Saint John-Fundy]] in the [[Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick]] as a [[Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick|Progressive Conservative]] member in the [[1995 New Brunswick general election]], coming second to [[New Brunswick Liberal Association|Liberal]] incumbent [[Stuart Jamieson]]. He defeated Jamieson in [[1999 New Brunswick general election|1999]] and was [[Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture (New Brunswick)|Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries & Aquaculture]] from 2001 to 2003. In [[2003 New Brunswick general election|2003]], Jamieson defeated Weston when he ran for re-election. After the election, the province's [[Premier of New Brunswick|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 Canadian federal election|2008]], Weston was elected as [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]] MP for the electoral district of [[Saint John—Rothesay|Saint John]], defeating incumbent [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] [[Paul Zed]]. He was re-elected in [[2011 Canadian federal election|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 Canadian federal election|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 ==
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==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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| post1preceded = [[Paul Robichaud]]
| post1followed = [[David Alward]]

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[[Category:21st-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]
[[Category:Members of the Executive Council of New Brunswick]]
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