| Prov-Status: | active |
| Province: | Nova Scotia |
| Prov-Rep-Party: | Progressive Conservative |
| Prov-Rep: | Danielle Barkhouse |
| Demo-Census-Date: | 2011 |
| Demo-Pop: | 20368 |
| Prov-Election-Last: | 2021 |
| Demo-Electors: | 15291 |
| Demo-Area: | 1661 |
| Prov-Created: | 1956 |
| Demo-Cd: | Halifax RM, Lunenburg County |
Chester—St. Margaret's is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It is located on the South Shore.
The constituency was created in 1956 as a division of Lunenburg County. It was called Lunenburg East from 1956 to 1993. In 1993, the district was renamed Chester—St. Margaret's and gained Tancook Islands from Lunenburg Centre and St. Margaret's Bay from Halifax St. Margarets. In 2003, it gained the communities of West Dover and Bayside. In 2012, the district lost the Upper Tantallon area north of Highway 103 to Hammonds Plains-Lucasville.[1]
The district includes the Municipality of Chester and the communities in the Halifax Regional Municipality along the coast of St. Margarets Bay including Peggys Cove. Major towns in the riding include Hubbards, Chester, Western Shore, Boutiliers Point and Head of St. Margarets Bay.
The land area of Chester-St. Margaret's is 1661km2.[2]
Avg. Income: $27,440 (2003)
Population: 19,720 (2003)
Post-secondary education: 36% (2003)
This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64th | 2021-Present | Danielle Barkhouse | Progressive Conservative | ||
| 63rd | 2020-2021 | Hugh MacKay | Independent | ||
| 2017–2020 | Liberal | ||||
| 62nd | 2013–2017 | Denise Peterson-Rafuse | New Democratic | ||
| 61st | 2009–2013 | ||||
| 60th | 2006-2009 | Judy Streatch | |||
| 59th | 2005-2006 | ||||
| 2003-2005 | John Chataway | Progressive Conservative | |||
| 58th | 1999-2003 | ||||
| 57th | 1998-1999 | Hinrich Bitter-Suermann | New Democratic | ||
| 1998 | Progressive Conservative | ||||
| 56th | 1993-1998 | Jim Barkhouse | Liberal | ||
| 55th | 1988-1993 | ||||
| 54th | 1984-1988 | ||||
| 53rd | 1981-1984 | Ron Barkhouse | Progressive Conservative | ||
| 52nd | 1978-1981 | ||||
| 51st | 1974-1978 | ||||
| 50th | 1970-1974 | Maurice L. Zinck | |||
| 49th | 1967-1970 | ||||
| 48th | 1963-1967 | ||||
| 47th | 1960-1963 | ||||
| 46th | 1959-1960 | ||||
| 1956-1959 | R. Clifford Levy | ||||
|- |Progressive Conservative|Judy Streatch|align="right"|2,955|align="right"|36.18|align="right"|-1.15|- |Liberal|Rick Fraughton|align="right"|2,548|align="right"|31.20|align="right"|+6.95|- |New Democratic Party|Hinrich Bitter-Suermann|align="right"|2,434|align="right"|29.80|align="right"|-7.10|-|}
|- |New Democratic Party|Denise Peterson-Rafuse|align="right"|3,341 |align="right"|35.25 |align="right"|-12.84|- |Progressive Conservative|Janet Elizabeth Irwin|align="right"|3,193 |align="right"|33.69 |align="right"|+6.22|- |Liberal|Timothy Whitman Harris |align="right"|2,943 |align="right"|31.06 |align="right"|+9.95|}
| 2017 provincial election redistributed results[3] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |||
| 2,934 | 35.23 | ||||
| 2,867 | 34.43 | ||||
| 2,137 | 25.66 | ||||
| 390 | 4.68 | ||||