Prov-Status: | active |
Province: | Nova Scotia |
Prov-Rep-Party: | PC |
Prov-Rep: | Scott Armstrong |
Demo-Census-Date: | 2011 |
Demo-Pop: | 17979 |
Prov-Election-First: | 1978 |
Prov-Election-Last: | 2024 |
Demo-Electors: | 13,640 |
Demo-Area: | 3096 |
Prov-Created: | 1978 |
Demo-Cd: | Colchester County, Halifax RM |
Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
The district was created in 1978 from Colchester, and was called Colchester South until 1993. In 1993, the name was changed to Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley and it gained the Salmon River and Musquodoboit Valley areas from Bedford-Musquodoboit Valley, and Millbrook 27 from Truro-Bible Hill.[1] It includes the southern half of Colchester County (not including the Truro area) plus the Musquodoboit Valley region of the Halifax Regional Municipality.
The landmass of Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley is 3096km2.[2]
This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
Legislature | Years | Member | Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
65th | 2024–present | Scott Armstrong | Progressive Conservative | ||
64th | 2021–2024 | Larry Harrison | |||
63rd | 2017-2021 | ||||
62nd | 2013–2017 | ||||
61st | 2009–2013 | Gary Burrill | |||
60th | 2006–2009 | Brooke Taylor | Progressive Conservative | ||
59th | 2003–2006 | ||||
58th | 1999–2003 | ||||
57th | 1998–1999 | ||||
56th | 1993–1998 | ||||
1993 | Ken Streatch | Progressive Conservative | |||
55th | 1988-1993 | R. Colin Stewart | |||
54th | 1984-1988 | ||||
53rd | 1981-1984 | ||||
52nd | 1978-1981 |
2017 provincial election redistributed results[3] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Vote | % | |||
3,650 | 50.58 | ||||
1,944 | 26.94 | ||||
1,623 | 22.49 |
|- |Progressive Conservative|Larry Harrison |align="right"|3,304 |align="right"|42.27|align="right"|+13.28|- |New Democratic Party|Gary Burrill|align="right"|2,293 |align="right"|29.33 |align="right"|-18.76|- |Liberal| Tom Martin|align="right"|2,220 |align="right"|28.40 |align="right"|+7.79|}