Victoria-The Lakes Explained

Prov-Status:active
Province:Nova Scotia
Prov-Rep-Party:Progressive Conservative
Prov-Rep:Keith Bain
Demo-Census-Date:2011
Demo-Pop:11518
Prov-Election-First:1867
Prov-Election-Last:2021
Demo-Electors:11,823
Demo-Area:3482
Prov-Created:1867
Demo-Cd:Victoria County,
Cape Breton RM

Victoria—The Lakes 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 (MLA) since the 2017 election has been Keith Bain of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

It was created in 1867 as Victoria, composing all of Victoria County. In 1993, the district gained the area north of the southern border of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park.[1] In 2003, Victoria was renamed Victoria-The Lakes. It lost the top of Inverness County to Inverness and gained some of the rural areas of Cape Breton The Lakes.

Geography

Victoria-The Lakes has a landmass of 3482km2.[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:

LegislatureYearsMemberParty
64th2021–presentKeith BainProgressive Conservative
63rd2017-2021
62nd2013–2017   Pam EykingLiberal
61st2009–2013Keith BainProgressive Conservative
60th2006-2009
59th2003-2006   Gerald SampsonLiberal
58th1999-2003   Kennie MacAskillLiberal
57th1998-1999
56th1993-1998
55th1988-1993
54th1984-1988Fisher HudsonProgressive Conservative
53rd1981-1984
52nd1980-1981
1978-1980   Peter John NicholsonLiberal
51st1974-1978   Maynard MacAskillLiberal
50th1970-1974Fisher HudsonProgressive Conservative
49th1967-1970
48th1963-1967   Carleton L. MacMillanLiberal
47th1960-1963
46th1956-1960
45th1953-1956
44th1949-1953
43rd1945-1949John Malcolm Campbell
42nd1941-1945
41st1937-1941
40th1933-1937Frederick Walker BaldwinLiberal-Conservative

Election results

2013

|- |Liberal Party of Nova Scotia|Pam Eyking|align="right"| 3,150|align="right"| 38.99|align="right"| +8.39|- |Progressive Conservative|Keith Bain|align="right"| 2,847|align="right"| 35.24|align="right"| -3.44|- |New Democratic Party| John Frank Tomey|align="right"| 1,907|align="right"| 23.60|align="right"| -3.28|-| Independent | Stewart M. (Stemer) MacLeod|align="right"| 176|align="right"| 2.18|align="right"| +0.28|}

2021

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://nslegislature.ca/pdfs/about/ConstituencyHistories/inverness.pdf Inverness - Constituency History
  2. Web site: Find Your Electoral District for the 41st Provincial General Election . enstools.electionsnovascotia.ca . Elections Nova Scotia . 22 July 2021.