Guysborough-Sheet Harbour

Guysborough-Sheet Harbour
Nova Scotia electoral district

Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Nova Scotia House of Assembly
District created	2003
District abolished	2013
Last contested	2009
Demographics
Population (2011)	11,170
Electors	9,505
Census divisions	Guysborough County, Halifax Regional Municipality
Census subdivisions	Municipality of the District of St. Mary's, Municipality of the District of Guysborough

Guysborough—Sheet Harbour is a former provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada which existed from 2003-2013. It elected one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. In its last configuration, the electoral district included the entirety of Guysborough County (including the Municipality of the District of St. Mary's, Municipality of the District of Guysborough, Town of Canso and Town of Mulgrave, as well as a section in the eastern part of the Halifax Regional Municipality.

The electoral district was created in 2003 by merging sections of the electoral districts of Guysborough-Port Hawkesbury as well as Eastern Shore. The electoral district was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was largely replaced by the new electoral district of Guysborough–Eastern Shore–Tracadie.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years		Party
61st	2009–2013	Jim Boudreau	NDP
60th	2006-2009	Ron Chisholm	Progressive Conservative
59th	2003-2006	Ron Chisholm	Progressive Conservative

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ronnie Chisholm
	New Democratic Party	Jim Boudreau
	Liberal	Lloyd Hines
	Green	Amy Florian			–

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ronnie Chisholm	2765	40.83
	New Democratic Party	Jim Boudreau	2540	37.51
	Liberal	David Horton	1379	20.36
	Green	Marike Finlay	88	1.3	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Ronnie Chisholm	2587
	Liberal	Gordon MacDonald	2199
	New Democratic Party	Jim Boudreau	2023

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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