Eastern Shore (electoral district)

Eastern Shore

Nova Scotia electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Nova Scotia House of Assembly

Kevin Murphy
Liberal

District created

1993

Last contested

Demographics

Population (2011)

15,720

11,765

Area (km²)

1,003.00

Pop. density (per km²)

15.7

Census divisions

Census subdivisions

Halifax Regional Municipality

Eastern Shore is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
62nd	2013-Present		Kevin Murphy	Liberal
61st	2009-2013		Sid Prest	New Democratic
60th	2006-2009		Bill Dooks	Progressive Conservative
59th	2003-2006
58th	1999-2003
57th	1993-1999		Keith Colwell	Liberal

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2013
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Kevin Murphy	3,770	52.99
	New Democratic Party	Sid Prest	1,922	27.01
	Progressive Conservative	Steve Brine	1,423	20.00

Nova Scotia general election, 2009^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	New Democratic Party	Sid Prest	3628	49.22
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Dooks	2557	34.69
	Liberal	Loretta Halleran	992	13.46
	Green	Michael Marshall	194	2.63

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Dooks	3232	45.93
	New Democratic Party	Sid Prest	2871	40.80
	Liberal	Judith Cabrita	746	10.6
	Green	Elizabeth van Dreunen	188	2.67	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Dooks	3073	45.02
	New Democratic Party	Sid Prest	2427	35.57
	Liberal	Randy Carter	1326	19.41

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Dooks	3637
	Liberal	Keith Colwell	2695
	New Democratic Party	Mary-Alice Tzagarakis	1970
	Nova Scotia Party	Jack Friis	388

Nova Scotia general election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Keith Colwell	3,760
	Progressive Conservative	Tom McInnes	3,523
	New Democratic Party	Gary Moore	1,369

References

↑ http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/dist22.pdf

External links

Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts

Current

Historic

to 2013:	Argyle Cape Breton North Cape Breton Nova Cape Breton South Cape Breton West Clare Cole Harbour Dartmouth South-Portland Valley Digby-Annapolis Guysborough-Sheet Harbour Halifax Clayton Park Halifax Fairview Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville Preston Queens Richmond Shelburne Truro-Bible Hill

to 2003:	Bedford-Fall River Cape Breton East Cape Breton The Lakes Dartmouth South Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Halifax Bedford Basin Sackville-Beaver Bank Victoria

to 1993:	Annapolis East Annapolis West Colchester South Cumberland Centre Cumberland East Cumberland West Digby Guysborough Halifax Cornwallis Halifax Eastern Shore Halifax St. Margarets Inverness North Inverness South Lunenburg Centre Lunenburg East Sackville

to 1978:	Colchester Halifax Cobequid

to 1967:	Halifax Centre Halifax County Dartmouth Halifax East Halifax North Halifax Northwest Halifax South Halifax West

to 1956:	Kings

to 1949:	Cumberland Hants Pictou

to 1933:	Halifax Richmond and Cape Breton West

to 1925:	Cape Breton

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