Glace Bay (electoral district)
Glace Bay is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
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Provincial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Nova Scotia House of Assembly | ||
MLA |
Liberal | ||
District created | 1925 | ||
First contested | 1928 | ||
Last contested | 2017 | ||
Demographics | |||
Population (2011) | 15,487 | ||
Electors (2012) | 12,236 | ||
Area (km²) | 23 | ||
Pop. density (per km²) | 673.3 | ||
Census divisions | Cape Breton County | ||
Census subdivisions | Cape Breton RM |
The Member of the Legislative Assembly since 2010 is Geoff MacLellan of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
It was created in 1933 when the district of Cape Breton was divided into five electoral districts, one of which was named Cape Breton East. In 2001, the district name was changed to Glace Bay. In 2003, the district lost a small area at its southern tip to Cape Breton West.[1]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
This riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:
Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|---|
63rd | 2017–present | Geoff MacLellan | Liberal | |
62nd | 2013–2017 | |||
61st | 2010–2013 | |||
2009–2010 | Dave Wilson | Liberal | ||
60th | 2006–2009 | |||
59th | 2003–2006 | |||
58th | 2000–2003 | |||
57th | 1998–1999 | Reeves Matheson | Independent | |
1998 | New Democratic | |||
56th | 1993–1998 | John MacEachern | Liberal | |
55th | 1988–1993 | |||
54th | 1984–1988 | Donnie MacLeod | Progressive Conservative | |
53rd | 1981–1984 | |||
52nd | 1980–1981 | |||
1978–1980 | Jeremy Akerman | New Democratic | ||
51st | 1974–1978 | |||
50th | 1970–1974 | |||
49th | 1967–1970 | Layton Fergusson | Progressive Conservative | |
48th | 1953–1967 | |||
47th | 1960–1963 | |||
46th | 1956–1960 | |||
45th | 1953–1956 | Russell Cunningham | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation | |
44th | 1949–1953 | |||
43rd | 1945–1949 | |||
42nd | 1941–1945 | Douglas Neil Brodie | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation | |
41st | 1937–1941 | Lauchlin Currie | Liberal | |
40th | 1933–1937 |
Election results
2017 Nova Scotia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
Liberal | Geoff MacLellan | 3,316 | 46.66 | -33.7 | ||||
Progressive Conservative | John White | 2,938 | 41.35 | +36.21 | ||||
New Democratic | Lois MacDougall | 715 | 10.06 | -4.44 | ||||
Atlantica | Steven MacNeil | 137 | 1.92 | |||||
Total valid votes | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Geoff MacLellan | 5,547 | 80.36 | ||
NDP | Mary Beth MacDonald | 1,001 | 14.50 | ||
PC | Thomas Bethell | 355 | 5.14 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Geoff MacLellan | 3,901 | 53.91 | ||
NDP | Myrtle Campbell | 2,281 | 31.52 | ||
PC | Michelle Wheelhouse | 759 | 10.48 | ||
Independent | Edna Lee | 195 | 2.69 | ||
Atlantica | Dan Wilson | 56 | 0.77 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Dave Wilson | 3,380 | 47.60 | ||
NDP | Myrtle Campbell | 2,829 | 39.84 | ||
PC | Tom MacPherson | 810 | 11.41 | ||
Green | Todd Pettigrew | 82 | 1.15 | – |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Dave Wilson | 3,327 | 43.08 | ||
NDP | Myrtle Turnbull Campbell | 2,234 | 28.93 | ||
PC | Mark Bettens | 2,074 | 26.85 | ||
Green | Todd Pettigrew | 88 | 1.14 | – |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Dave Wilson | 4,420 | 54.48 | ||
NDP | Vince Hall | 2,342 | 28.87 | ||
PC | Mark Bettens | 1,351 | 16.65 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Dave Wilson | 4,017 | 43.33 | ||
NDP | Cecil Saccary | 3,609 | 38.93 | ||
PC | Brad Kerr | 1,644 | 17.74 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Dave Wilson | 3,704 | 40.12 | ||
NDP | Cecil Saccary | 3,699 | 40.06 | ||
PC | Brad Kerr | 1,043 | 11.30 | ||
Independent | Gerard Burke | 787 | 8.52 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
NDP | Reeves Matheson | 5,002 | |||
Liberal | Clarence Routledge | 2,859 | |||
PC | Henry Boutilier | 1,651 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John MacEachern | 7,566 | |||
NDP | Terry McVarish | 1,659 | |||
PC | Greg Hicks | 1,069 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John MacEachern | 5,739 | |||
PC | Bruce Clark | 4,014 | |||
NDP | Terry McVarish | 1,590 |
1984 Nova Scotia general election: Cape Breton East | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | ||||||
Progressive Conservative | Donnie MacLeod | 4,787 | ||||||
Liberal | Cha Keliher | 3,579 | ||||||
Cape Breton Labour | Michael Blais Matheson | 1,724 | ||||||
New Democratic | Jim Jobe | 1,351 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PC | Donnie MacLeod | 4,699 | |||
Liberal | Shelly McNeil | 3,053 | |||
NDP | Joe Kanary | 1,849 | |||
Independent | Blair Matheson | 716 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PC | Donnie MacLeod | 4,505 | |||
NDP | Reeves Matheson | 2,996 | |||
Liberal | Vincent Kachafanas | 2,904 | |||
Independent | Ignatius V. Kennedy | 101 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
NDP | Jeremy Akerman | 5,135 | |||
PC | Frank Edwards | 3,182 | |||
Liberal | Vincent Kachafanas | 3,109 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
NDP | Jeremy Akerman | 5,929 | |||
Liberal | Vincent Kachafanas | 3,443 | |||
PC | Fred Adshade | 1,611 | |||
Independent | Archie MacDonald | 183 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
NDP | Jeremy Akerman | 5,334 | |||
PC | N. Layton Fergusson | 3,807 | |||
Liberal | Robert MacKay | 2,037 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PC | N. Layton Fergusson | 5,094 | |||
NDP | James Aitchison | 3,048 | |||
Liberal | William O'Leary | 1,417 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PC | N. Layton Fergusson | 5,870 | |||
NDP | John L. MacKinnon | 2,881 | |||
Liberal | Bernard Currie | 1,359 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PC | N. Layton Fergusson | 4,862 | |||
CCF | James Aitchison | 4,243 | |||
Liberal | William O'Leary | 1,567 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PC | N. Layton Fergusson | 4,324 | |||
Liberal | C. Roy MacDonald | 3,058 | |||
CCF | Russell Cunningham | 2,864 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CCF | Russell Cunningham | 5,096 | |||
Liberal | Joseph McIntyre | 3,934 | |||
PC | William Wilton | 1,356 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CCF | Russell Cunningham | 4,543 | |||
Liberal | Chas. Roy MacDonald | 3,829 | |||
PC | Thomas H. Dickson | 2,093 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CCF | Russell Cunningham | 5,332 | |||
Liberal | Gus McGillivary | 2,719 | |||
PC | Kenneth Daniel Beaton | 1,002 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CCF | Douglas Neil Brodie | 6,222 | |||
Liberal | Lauchlin D. Currie | 4,052 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Lauchlin D. Currie | 4,172 | |||
Labour | William T. Mercer | 3,396 | |||
Conservative | Roderick Kerr | 2,832 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | Lauchlin D. Currie | 3,655 | |||
Conservative | Daniel R. Cameron | 3,632 | |||
United Farmers | James B. McLachlan | 1,737 | |||
CCF | William T. Mercer | 297 |
References
- Glace Bay - Constituency History Nova Scotia Legislature
External links
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