Clayton Park West (electoral district) explained

Prov-Status:active
Province:Nova Scotia
Prov-Rep-Party:PC
Prov-Rep:Adegoke Fadare
Prov-Election-First:1978
Prov-Election-Last:2024
Demo-Electors:17712[1]
Demo-Area:9
Prov-Created:1978
Demo-Cd:Halifax Regional Municipality

Clayton Park West is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

The riding was created in 1978 as Halifax Bedford Basin from a portion of Halifax Cobequid.[2] In 2003, the district lost a northern area to Bedford and was renamed Halifax Clayton Park. Following the 2012 electoral boundary review, the district was renamed Clayton Park West. It gained Birch Cove and Kearney Lake areas from Bedford-Birch Cove and the Kearney Lake area from Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville. It lost the Susies Lake and Quarrie Lake areas to Timberlea-Prospect; the areas south of Mount Saint Vincent University and Lacewood Drive as well as the Washmill Lake Drive area the Fairview-Clayton Park.[3]

Geography

The land area of Clayton Park West is 9km2.[4]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:

Election results

2017

2017 provincial election redistributed results[5]
PartyVote%
 align=right 3,312 align=right 45.63
 align=right 1,899 align=right 26.16
 align=right 1,513 align=right 20.84
 align=right 402 align=right 5.54
 align=right 133 align=right 1.83

2013

|-|Liberal|Diana Whalen|align="right"|5,569|align="right"|67.48|align="right"|N/A|-|New Democratic Party|Blake Wright|align="right"|1,448|align="right"|17.55|align="right"|N/A|-|Progressive Conservative|Jaime D. Allen|align="right"|1,236|align="right"|14.98|align="right"|N/A|-|}

1978

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Financial Return for Candidate; Summary of Election Expenses . electionsnovascotia.ca . Elections Nova Scotia . 18 March 2020.
  2. http://nslegislature.ca/pdfs/about/ConstituencyHistories/clayton%20park%20west.pdf Clayton Park West Constituency History
  3. http://nslegislature.ca/pdfs/about/ConstituencyHistories/clayton%20park%20west.pdf Constituency History - Clayton Park West
  4. Web site: Find Your Electoral District for the 41st Provincial General Election . enstools.electionsnovascotia.ca . Elections Nova Scotia . 22 July 2021.
  5. Web site: 12 April 2021. Transposition of Votes from the 2017 Provincial General Election to 2019 Electoral District Boundaries. live. 15 August 2021. Elections Nova Scotia. https://web.archive.org/web/20210717154626/https://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/TranspositionofVotesReport_2017PGE_2019ElectoralDirstricts_reportApril2021.pdf . 17 July 2021 .