Clare (electoral district)

Clare
Nova Scotia electoral district

Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Nova Scotia House of Assembly
District created	1949
District abolished	2013
Last contested	2009
Demographics
Population (2011)	8,307
Electors	6,905
Census divisions	Digby County
Census subdivisions	Municipality of the District of Clare

Clare is a former provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada which existed between 1949-2013. It elected one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. In its last configuration, the electoral district included the Municipality of the District of Clare, an Acadian area occupying the southwestern half of Digby County.

The electoral district was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was largely replaced by the new electoral district of Clare-Digby.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years		Party
61st	2009–2013	Wayne Gaudet	Liberal
60th	2006-2009
59th	2003-2006
58th	1999-2003
57th	1998-1999
56th	1993-1998
55th	1988-1993	Guy LeBlanc	Progressive Conservative
54th	1984-1988	Guy LeBlanc	Progressive Conservative
53rd	1981-1984	Chester Melanson	Liberal
52nd	1978-1981	Benoit Comeau	Liberal
51st	1974-1978
50th	1970-1974
49th	1967-1970
48th	1963-1967	Hector J. Pothier	Progressive Conservative
47th	1960-1963	Pierre E. Belliveau	Liberal
46th	1956-1960
45th	1953-1956
44th	1949-1953	Desire J. Comeau	Progressive Conservative

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wayne Gaudet	3,392	64.68
	New Democratic Party	Paul Comeau	1,326	25.29
	Progressive Conservative	Jimmy Doucet	459	8.75
	Green	Diane Bean	67	1.28	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wayne Gaudet	2,803	48.53
	Progressive Conservative	Arnold LeBlanc	1,622	28.08
	New Democratic Party	Paul Comeau	1,269	21.97
	Green	Diane Doucet-Bean	82	1.42	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wayne Gaudet	3,547	61.55
	Progressive Conservative	Marc Boudreau	1,456	25.26
	New Democratic Party	Don Melanson	760	13.19

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Wayne Gaudet	2,705
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Comeau	2,355
	New Democratic Party	Don Melanson	1,078
	Nova Scotia Party	Anne Marie Boyer	43

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

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, June 26, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.