Tracadie and Sheila were separate communities whose municipal governments were merged into the Town of Grand Tracadie-Sheila on January 1, 1992.

[3] The new entity also encompassed a non-incorporated sector north of the town which was located in the civil parish of Saumarez.

[4] The eighteen LSDs that were included in their entirety were Benoit, Brantville, Gauvreau-Petit Tracadie, Haut-Sheila, Leech, the parish of Inkerman, the parish of Saumarez, Pointe-à-Bouleau, Pont LaFrance, Pont Landry, Portage River-Tracadie Beach, Rivière à la Truite, Saint Irénée and Alderwood, Saint-Pons, Sainte-Rose, Saumarez, Upper Portage River (Haut-Rivière-du-Portage), and Val-Comeau.

The council of the RM of Tracadie comprises eleven elected officials including a mayor and ten councillors.

[4] The current mayor is Denis Losier,[8] a retired 55-year-old school principal who was a rookie politician when he was elected in 2016.