Next Year: | 2009 |
Candidate1: | Becky Kent |
Seats For Election: | Riding of Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage |
Next Election: | 2009 Nova Scotia general election |
Before Election: | Kevin Deveaux |
Map Size: | 200px |
Country: | Nova Scotia |
MLA | |
Posttitle: | Elected MLA |
Previous Year: | 2006 |
After Election: | Becky Kent |
Swing1: | 20.01% |
Election Name: | 2007 Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage provincial by-election |
Type: | Parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Party Colour: | no |
Party Name: | no |
Previous Election: | 2006 Nova Scotia general election |
Image1: | NDP |
Popular Vote1: | 2,459 |
Percentage1: | 44.39% |
Candidate2: | Michael Eddy |
Popular Vote2: | 1,863 |
Percentage2: | 33.63% |
Swing2: | 14.71% |
Image3: | Lib |
Candidate3: | Kelly Rambeau |
Popular Vote3: | 958 |
Percentage3: | 17.30% |
Swing3: | 2.07% |
A provincial by-election was held in Nova Scotia on 2 October 2007 to fill the vacancy in the House of Assembly riding of Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage.[1] The byelection resulted from the resignation of New Democrat MLA Kevin Deveaux.[2] New Democrat Becky Kent won the byelection by almost 600 votes.[3]
|- |New Democratic Party|Becky Kent|align="right"|2,459|align="right"|44.39|align="right"|-20.01|- |Progressive Conservative Party|Michael Eddy|align="right"|1,863|align="right"|33.63|align="right"|+14.71|- |Liberal Party|Kelly Rambeau|align="right"|958|align="right"|17.30|align="right"|+2.07|-|}