Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook Explained

Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook
Province:	Nova Scotia
Fed-Status:	active
Fed-District-Number:	12008
Fed-Created:	1996
Fed-Election-First:	1997
Fed-Election-Last:	2021
Fed-Rep:	Darrell Samson
Fed-Rep-Party:	Liberal
Demo-Pop-Ref:	^[1]
Demo-Area-Ref:	^[2]
Demo-Census-Date:	2021
Demo-Pop:	89524
Demo-Electors:	72197
Demo-Electors-Date:	2021
Demo-Area:	645.18
Demo-Cd:	Halifax
Demo-Csd:	Halifax

Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook (formerly known as Sackville—Eastern Shore and Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore) is a federal electoral district in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.

Demographics

From the 2006 census ^[3]

Ethnic groups:

European Canadian

89.9%

African Canadian

3.8%

First Nations

2.2%

Chinese Canadian

0.4%

Arab Canadian

0.3%

Other: 0.8%

Languages:

English

95.0%

French

3.1%

German

0.4%

Arabic

0.3%

Other: 1.2%

Religions:

Protestant

51.3%

Catholic

36.8%

Other Christian: 1.2%
No religious affiliation: 10.2%

Education:

No certificate, diploma or degree: 22.7%
High school certificate: 23.9%
Apprenticeship or trade certificate or diploma: 13.0%
Community college, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma: 21.7%
University certificate or diploma: 18.6%

Median Age:

38.4

Median total income:

$29,212

Average total income:

$34,589

Median household income:

$64,588

Average household income:

$72,245

Median family income:

$71,566

Average family income:

$78,873

Unemployment:

5.9%

Geography

The district includes the part of the Halifax Regional Municipality located on the Atlantic coast between Lake Charlotte and Jeddore Harbour in the east to Halifax Harbour in the west excluding the community of Dartmouth and the community of Eastern Passage. It also includes HRM's northern suburbs in the Sackville River valley north to the boundary with Hants County. The land area is 645.18km2.^[4]

History

The electoral district was created in 1996 from Central Nova and Dartmouth ridings, and was known as "Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore" from 1999 to 2003. MP Peter Stoffer tabled a Private Members Bill to change the name of the riding to "Sackville—Preston—Eastern Shore". As per the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, this riding was largely dissolved into the new riding of Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook (94%), with small portions going to Central Nova (4%) and Dartmouth—Cole Harbour (2%).

Following the 2022 federal electoral redistribution, the riding will largely be replaced by Sackville—Bedford—Preston. It gains the Bedford, Hammonds Plains and Lucasville areas from Halifax West; it gains the area north of Highways 111 and 118 plus the Lake Charles area from Dartmouth—Cole Harbour; and it loses the Lawrencetown, Porters Lake and the Chezzetcook areas to Central Nova.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Election results

Sackville—Bedford—Preston

2021 federal election redistributed results^[5]
Party	Vote	%
		22,199	44.65
		12,424	24.99
		12,317	24.78
		1,732	3.48
		1,019	2.05
	Others	23	0.05