Margaret Rideout

Margaret Rideout

Member of Parliament for Westmorland
In office 1964 – 1968
Preceded by	Sherwood Rideout
Succeeded by	riding dissolved

Born	June 16, 1923 Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
Political party	Liberal
Occupation	homemaker

Margaret Isabel Rideout, née Saunders (born June 16, 1923) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Westmorland in the Canadian House of Commons from 19634 to 1968. She was the first woman elected to the House of Commons from New Brunswick.

A Liberal, Rideout first won the riding in a 1964 by-election following the death of Sherwood Rideout, her husband and the district's incumbent Member of Parliament. She was re-elected in 1965, and was named parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Health and Welfare in 1966. She served in that role until the 1968 election, when she was defeated by Charlie Thomas in the redistricted riding of Moncton.

She was subsequently named a citizenship judge.