Cape Breton North

Cape Breton North
Nova Scotia electoral district

Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Nova Scotia House of Assembly
District created	1933
District abolished	2013
Last contested	2009
Demographics
Population (2011)	16,008
Electors	14,397
Census divisions	Cape Breton Regional Municipality
Census subdivisions	North Sydney Sydney Mines

Cape Breton North is a former provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada that existed from 1933-2013. It elected one member to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. In its last configuration, the district included North Sydney, Sydney Mines and Point Aconi, all within the Cape Breton Regional Municipality.

The electoral district was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was largely replaced by the new electoral districts of Northside-Westmount and Victoria-The Lakes.

Demographics

Population: 18,450
Unemployment: 16%
Average income: $21,100

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The electoral district was represented by the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:

Legislature	Years		Party
40th	1933-1937	Joseph Macdonald	Conservative
41st	1937-1941	George Belcher Murray	Liberal
42nd	1941-1945	Alexander O'Handley	Liberal
43rd	1945-1949
44th	1949-1953
45th	1953-1956
46th	1956-1960	John M. Macdonald	Progressive Conservative
47th	1960-1963	Tom McKeough	Progressive Conservative
48th	1963-1967
49th	1967-1970
50th	1970-1974
51st	1974-1978
52nd	1978-1981	Len J. Arsenault	New Democratic
53rd	1981-1984	Brian Young	Progressive Conservative
54th	1984-1988
55th	1988-1993
56th	1993-1997	Ron Stewart	Liberal
56th	1997-1998	Russell MacLellan	Liberal
57th	1998-1999
58th	1999-2001
58th	2001-2003	Cecil Clarke	Progressive Conservative
59th	2003-2006
60th	2006-2009
61st	2009-2011
61st	2011-2013	Eddie Orrell	Progressive Conservative

Election results

June 21, 2011 By-election^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Eddie Orrell	3975	54.88
	New Democratic Party	Russell MacDonald	2265	31.27
	Liberal	Brian McGean	931	12.85
	Atlantica	Jonathan Dean	72	0.99

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Cecil Clarke	3477	44.47
	New Democratic Party	Russell MacDonald	3312	42.36
	Liberal	Ken Jardine	921	11.78
	Green	Chris Milburn	108	1.38	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Cecil Clarke	4310	50.71
	New Democratic Party	Russell MacDonald	2195	25.83
	Liberal	Fred Tilley	1869	21.99
	Green	Mark Doucet	125	1.47	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Cecil Clarke	3754	43.46
	Liberal	Mike White	3170	36.70
	New Democratic Party	Cecil Snow	1714	19.84

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Russell MacLellan	4222	48.69
	New Democratic Party	Archie MacKinnon	2587	29.83
	Progressive Conservative	Murray Johnston	1863	21.48

References

↑ http://electionsnovascotia.ca/results/byelections/2011%20Cape%20Breton%20North%20By-election%20Results.pdf

Government of Nova Scotia. "Election Summary From 1867 - 2006" (PDF). Elections Statistics. Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
Elections Nova Scotia, Complete Results and Statistics (September 6, 1988). Retrieved December 14, 2007.
Elections Nova Scotia, Complete Results and Statistics (May 25, 1993). Retrieved December 14, 2007.
Elections Nova Scotia, Complete Results and Statistics (March 24, 1998). Retrieved December 14, 2007.
Elections Nova Scotia, Complete Results and Statistics (July 27, 1999). Retrieved December 14, 2007.
Elections Nova Scotia, Complete Results and Statistics (August 5, 2003). Retrieved December 14, 2007.
Elections Nova Scotia, Complete Results and Statistics (June 13, 2006). Retrieved December 14, 2007.
Elections Nova Scotia, Complete Poll by Poll Results (June 9, 2009). Retrieved August 5, 2009.

External links

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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