Victoria-The Lakes

Victoria-The Lakes

Nova Scotia electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Nova Scotia House of Assembly

Pam Eyking
Liberal

District created

2003

Last contested

Demographics

Population (2011)

11,518

11,823

Area (km²)

3,438

Pop. density (per km²)

3.4

Census divisions

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 2013 election has been Pamela Eyking of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party, who defeated Keith Bain of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia by 303 votes.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
62nd	2013–Present		Pam Eyking	Liberal
61st	2009–2013		Keith Bain	Progressive Conservative
60th	2006-2009		Keith Bain	Progressive Conservative
59th	2003-2006		Gerald Sampson	Liberal
Cape Breton—The Lakes and Victoria prior to 2003

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2013
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Party of Nova Scotia	Pam Eyking	3,150	38.99
	Progressive Conservative	Keith Bain	2,847	35.24
	New Democratic Party	John Frank Tomey	1,907	23.60
	Independent	Stewart M. (Stemer) MacLeod	176	2.18

Nova Scotia general election, 2009^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Keith Bain	2,417	38.68	-8.8
	Liberal	Gerald Sampson	1,912	30.60	-5.34
	New Democratic Party	Fraser Patterson	1,680	26.88	+14.94
	Green	Jim O'Brien	143	2.74	-0.45
	Independent	Stemer MacLeod	97	1.90	-0.35

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Keith Bain	3,001	47.48
	Liberal	Gerald Sampson	2,272	35.94
	New Democratic Party	Joan O'Liari	755	11.94
	Green	Michelle Smith	173	2.74	–
	Independent	Stemer MacLeod	120	1.90

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Gerald Sampson	2,284	36.44
	Progressive Conservative	Keith Bain	2,036	32.48
	New Democratic Party	Nancy MacKeigan	934	14.90
	Independent	Brian Boudreau	750	11.97
	Independent	Stemer MacLeod	120	4.21

References

↑ http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/dist50.pdf

External links

CBC riding profile (2003)

Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts

Current

Historic

to 2013:	Argyle Cape Breton North Cape Breton Nova Cape Breton South Cape Breton West Clare Cole Harbour Dartmouth South-Portland Valley Digby-Annapolis Guysborough-Sheet Harbour Halifax Clayton Park Halifax Fairview Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville Preston Queens Richmond Shelburne Truro-Bible Hill

to 2003:	Bedford-Fall River Cape Breton East Cape Breton The Lakes Dartmouth South Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Halifax Bedford Basin Sackville-Beaver Bank Victoria

to 1993:	Annapolis East Annapolis West Colchester South Cumberland Centre Cumberland East Cumberland West Digby Guysborough Halifax Cornwallis Halifax Eastern Shore Halifax St. Margarets Inverness North Inverness South Lunenburg Centre Lunenburg East Sackville

to 1978:	Colchester Halifax Cobequid

to 1967:	Halifax Centre Halifax County Dartmouth Halifax East Halifax North Halifax Northwest Halifax South Halifax West

to 1956:	Kings

to 1949:	Cumberland Hants Pictou

to 1933:	Halifax Richmond and Cape Breton West

to 1925:	Cape Breton

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