Cole Harbour (electoral district)

Cole Harbour
Nova Scotia electoral district

Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Nova Scotia House of Assembly
District created	1978, 2003
District abolished	1993, 2013
Last contested	2013
Demographics
Population (2011)	19,934
Electors	15,720
Area (km²)	12.00
Census divisions	Halifax Regional Municipality

Cole Harbour is a former provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada which existed between 1978-1993 and 2003-2013. It elected one member to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. In its last configuration, the electoral district included the community of Cole Harbour in the Halifax Regional Municipality.

The riding was re-created in the 2003 redistribution from 78 percent of Dartmouth-Cole Harbour and 29 percent of Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage.

The electoral district was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was largely replaced by the new electoral district of Cole Harbour-Portland Valley.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The electoral district was represented by the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:

Legislature	Years		Party
61st	2009–2013	Darrell Dexter	New Democratic
60th	2006-2009
59th	2003-2006
Riding re-created from Dartmouth-Cole Harbour and Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage
Riding abolished
55th	1988-1993	David Nantes	Progressive Conservative
54th	1984-1988
53rd	1981-1984
52nd	1978-1981

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
New Democratic Party	Darrell Dexter	5,847	68.83
Liberal	Tony Ince	1,519	17.88
Progressive Conservative	Mike Josey	930	10.95
Green	Donna Toews	199	2.34	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
New Democratic Party	Darrell Dexter	5,327	61.47
Progressive Conservative	Shiela McKeand	1,788	20.63
Liberal	Stephen John Edward Beehan	1,347	15.54
Green	Michael McFadden	206	2.38	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
	Candidate	Votes	%
New Democratic Party	Darrell Dexter	4,979	55.50
Progressive Conservative	Brian Thomas	2,367	26.39
Liberal	Peter Foy	1,523	16.98
Nova Scotia Party	Jessica Gould	102	1.14

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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