Cole Harbour (electoral district)

Cole Harbour
Nova Scotia electoral district

Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Nova Scotia House of Assembly
District created	2003
District abolished	2013
Last contested	2013
Demographics
Population (2011)	19,934
Electors	15,720
Area (km²)	12.00
Census divisions	Halifax Regional Municipality

Cole Harbour is a former provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada which existed between 2003-2013. It elected one member to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. In its last configuration, the electoral district included the community of Cole Harbour in the Halifax Regional Municipality.

The electoral district was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was largely replaced by the new electoral district of Cole Harbour-Portland Valley.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years		Party
61st	2009–2013	Darrell Dexter	New Democratic
60th	2006-2009
59th	2003-2006

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Darrell Dexter	4979	55.50
	Progressive Conservative	Brian Thomas	2367	26.39
	Liberal	Peter Foy	1523	16.98
	Nova Scotia Party	Jessica Gould	102	1.14

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Darrell Dexter	5327	61.47
	Progressive Conservative	Shiela McKeand	1788	20.63
	Liberal	Stephen John Edward Beehan	1347	15.54
	Green	Michael McFadden	206	2.38	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Darrell Dexter	5847	68.83
	Liberal	Tony Ince	1519	17.88
	Progressive Conservative	Mike Josey	930	10.95
	Green	Donna Toews	199	2.34	–

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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