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Legislature
  
House of Commons

First contested
  
1968

District webpage
  
profile, map

Elector
  
75,904

District created
  
1966

Last contested
  
2015

Province
  
Nova Scotia

South Shore—St. Margarets

MP
  
Bernadette Jordan Liberal

Census divisions
  
Halifax Regional Municipality

South Shore—St. Margarets (formerly South Shore—St. Margaret's and South Shore) is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968. It covers the South Shore region of Nova Scotia.

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It was created in 1966 mostly from Queens—Lunenburg and Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare. In 2003, the district added portions of Halifax West.

The western portion of the riding is heavily Conservative and Gerald Keddy lost votes from this side of the riding in the 2006 election when he was only one of a handful of Conservative MP's to support same-sex marriage. The Region of Queens Municipality is leaning NDP as they won this part of the riding in 2008 by a slim margin. The eastern portion of the riding is slightly leaning Conservative.

Demographics

From the 2006 census

Ethnic groups:

  • White: 97.1%
  • First Nations: 1.5%
  • Black: 0.6%

    • Languages:

  • English: 96.9%
  • French: 1.2%
  • German: 0.6%
  • Other: 1.1%

    • Religions:

  • Protestant: 71.5%
  • Catholic: 11.5%
  • Other Christian: 1.1%
  • No affiliation: 15.4%

    • Education:

  • No certificate, diploma or degree: 34.5%
  • High school certificate: 21.2%
  • Apprenticeship or trade certificate or diploma: 12.2%
  • Community college, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma: 17.4%
  • University certificate or diploma: 14.7%

    • Median Age:

  • 45.2

    • Median total income:

  • $20,580

    • Average total income:

  • $27,987

    • Median household income:

  • $44,108

    • Average household income:

  • $53,111

    • Median family income:

  • $52,772

    • Average family income:

  • $61,279

    • Unemployment:

  • 10.3%

    • Geography

    It consists of:

  • the counties of Shelburne, Queens and Lunenburg;

    • and

  • the western part of the Halifax Regional Municipality, i.e., the part lying west of a line drawn south from the intersection of the boundary between the regional municipality and the County of Hants with the western shoreline of Pockwock Lake along the shoreline to the western extremity of Ponhook Cove, then south in a straight line for approximately 2.7 km to the mouth of the Pockwock River at Wrights Lake, southeast in a straight line for approximately 3.8 km to the northern extremity of Stillwater Lake, south along that lake, southwest along Route 213 (Hammonds Plains Road) to Trunk 3, southeast in a straight line for approximately 18.6 km to the mouth of the Nine Mile River, southwest along Shad Bay (passing west of Cochrans Island) to the Atlantic Ocean.

    • History

    As per the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, this riding will gain 11% of its new territory from Halifax West for the 42nd Canadian federal election.

    Members of Parliament

    This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

    References

    South Shore—St. Margarets Wikipedia
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