| Prov-Status: | active |
| Province: | Nova Scotia |
| Prov-Rep-Party: | PC |
| Prov-Rep: | Tory Rushton |
| Demo-Census-Date: | 2011 |
| Demo-Pop: | 13202 |
| Prov-Election-First: | 1993 |
| Prov-Election-Last: | 2021 |
| Demo-Electors: | 10,889 |
| Demo-Electors-Date: | 2018 |
| Demo-Area: | 3263 |
| Prov-Created: | 1993 |
| Demo-Cd: | Cumberland County |
| Demo-Csd: | Cumberland, Subd. A, Cumberland Subd. B, Cumberland Subd. C, Cumberland Subd. D, Oxford, Parrsboro (dissolved in 2016) |
Cumberland South is a provincial electoral district in Cumberland Country, Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The riding was created before the 1993 election from most of Cumberland West and Cumberland Centre ridings and a small part of Cumberland East.
The communities of Oxford, Parrsboro and Springhill are within its boundaries.
The Member of the Legislative Assembly since 1998 has been held by the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. A Tory stronghold, Cumberland South has been dominated by Progressive Conservative Murray Scott for over a decade and now Tory Rushton
The 2012 redistribution saw the riding gain territory from Cumberland North.[1]
The land area of Cumberland South is 3263km2.[2]
This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64th | 2021-Present | Tory Rushton | Progressive Conservative | ||
| 63rd | 2018–2021 | ||||
| 2017–2018 | Jamie Baillie | ||||
| 62nd | 2013–2017 | ||||
| 61st | 2010–2013 | ||||
| 2009-2010 | Murray Scott | ||||
| 60th | 2006–2009 | ||||
| 59th | 2003–2006 | ||||
| 58th | 1999–2003 | ||||
| 57th | 1998–1999 | ||||
| 56th | 1993–1998 | Guy Brown | Liberal | ||
|-|Progressive Conservative|Jamie Baillie|align="right"|3,262|align="right"|57.20%|align="right"|-10.26|New Democratic Party|Scott McKee|align="right"|276|align="right"|4.84%|align="right"|-21.06|}
|-|Progressive Conservative|Jamie Baillie|align="right"| 3,655|align="right"| 51.0%|align="right"| -6.2|-|Liberal|Kenny Jackson|align="right"| 2,884|align="right"| 40.2%|align="right"| +2.2|-|New Democratic Party|Larry Duchesne|align="right"| 486|align="right"| 6.8%|align="right"| +2.0|-|-|}