| Prov-Status: | active |
| Province: | Nova Scotia |
| Prov-Rep-Party: | Progressive Conservative |
| Prov-Rep: | John A. MacDonald |
| Demo-Census-Date: | 2011 |
| Demo-Pop: | 23266 |
| Prov-Election-First: | 1949 |
| Prov-Election-Last: | 2024 |
| Demo-Electors: | 17,303 |
| Demo-Area: | 1653 |
| Prov-Created: | 1949 |
| Demo-Cd: | Hants County |
Hants East is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
Its Member of the Legislative Assembly since 2021 has been John A. MacDonald of the Progressive Conservative Party.
The district has existed since 1949. Earlier, it and Hants West were together in Hants.
The land area of Hants East is 1653km2.[1]
This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64th | 2021-Present | John A. MacDonald | Progressive Conservative | |||
| 63rd | 2017–2021 | Margaret Miller | Liberal | |||
| 62nd | 2013–2017 | |||||
| 61st | 2009–2013 | John MacDonell | New Democratic | |||
| 60th | 2006-2009 | |||||
| 59th | 2003-2006 | |||||
| 58th | 1999-2003 | |||||
| 57th | 1998-1999 | |||||
| 56th | 1993-1998 | Bob Carruthers | Liberal | |||
| 55th | 1988-1993 | Jack Hawkins | Liberal | |||
| 54th | 1984-1988 | Cora Etter | Progressive Conservative | |||
| 53rd | 1981-1984 | Jack Hawkins | Liberal | |||
| 52nd | 1978-1981 | G. Patrick Hunt | Progressive Conservative | |||
| 51st | 1974-1978 | Jack Hawkins | Liberal | |||
| 50th | 1970-1974 | |||||
| 49th | 1967-1970 | Albert J. Ettinger | Progressive Conservative | |||
| 48th | 1963-1967 | |||||
| 47th | 1962-1963 | |||||
| 1960-1962 | Ernest M. Ettinger | Progressive Conservative | ||||
| 46th | 1956-1960 | |||||
| 45th | 1953-1956 | Alfred E. Reid | Liberal | |||
| 44th | 1949-1953 | Ernest M. Ettinger | Progressive Conservative | |||
| 2017 provincial election redistributed results[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |||
| 3,500 | 43.88 | ||||
| 2,747 | 34.44 | ||||
| 1,345 | 16.86 | ||||
| 384 | 4.81 | ||||
|-|Liberal|Margaret Miller|align="right"|4,512|align="right"|47.39|align="right"||-|New Democratic Party|John MacDonell|align="right"|3,412|align="right"|35.84|align="right"||-|Progressive Conservative|Kim Allan Williams|align="right"|1,597|align="right"|16.77|align="right"||}