| Prov-Status: | active |
| Province: | Nova Scotia |
| Prov-Rep-Party: | Progressive Conservative |
| Prov-Rep: | Melissa Sheehy-Richard |
| Demo-Census-Date: | 2011 |
| Demo-Pop: | 19058 |
| Prov-Election-First: | 1949 |
| Prov-Election-Last: | 2021 |
| Demo-Electors: | 15352 |
| Demo-Area: | 1319 |
| Prov-Created: | 1949 |
| Demo-Cd: | Hants County |
Hants West is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
The district has existed since 1949. Earlier, it and Hants East were together in Hants.
Hants West has a 1319km2 landmass.[1]
This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44th | 1949-1953 | George B. Cole | Liberal | ||
| 45th | 1953-1956 | George Henry Wilson | Progressive Conservative | ||
| 46th | 1956-1960 | ||||
| 47th | 1960-1963 | ||||
| 48th | 1963-1967 | Norman T. Spence | Progressive Conservative | ||
| 49th | 1967-1970 | ||||
| 50th | 1970-1974 | Robert D. Lindsay | Liberal | ||
| 51st | 1974-1978 | ||||
| 52nd | 1978-1981 | Ron Russell | Progressive Conservative | ||
| 53rd | 1981-1984 | ||||
| 54th | 1984-1988 | ||||
| 55th | 1988-1993 | ||||
| 56th | 1993-1998 | ||||
| 57th | 1998-1999 | ||||
| 58th | 1999-2003 | ||||
| 59th | 2003-2006 | ||||
| 60th | 2006-2009 | Chuck Porter | Progressive Conservative | ||
| 61st | 2009-2013 | ||||
| 62nd | 2013–2014 | ||||
| 2014-2016 | Independent | ||||
| 2016–2017 | Liberal | ||||
| 63rd | 2017–2021 | ||||
| 64th | 2021–present | Melissa Sheehy-Richard | Progressive Conservative | ||
|-|Progressive Conservative|Chuck Porter|align="right"|4,468|align="right"|50.75|align="right"||-|Liberal|Claude Sherman O'Hara|align="right"|3,279|align="right"|37.24|align="right"||-|New Democratic Party| Brian Stephens|align="right"|888|align="right"|10.28|align="right"||}
| 2017 provincial election redistributed results[2] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |||
| 4,708 | 54.74 | ||||
| 2,488 | 28.93 | ||||
| 1,071 | 12.45 | ||||
| 261 | 3.03 | ||||
| 73 | 0.85 | ||||