Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville

Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville
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)	25,576
Electors	17,937
Census divisions	Halifax Regional Municipality

Hammonds Plains—Upper Sackville 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 those communities comprising the western suburbs of the Halifax Regional Municipality, namely Hammonds Plains, Yankeetown, Pockwock, Upper Sackville and Lucasville.

The electoral district was created in 2003, drawing parts of the electoral districts of Sackville-Beaver Bank (now defunct) and Timberlea-Prospect. The electoral district was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was largely replaced by the new electoral district of Hammonds Plains-Lucasville.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years		Party
59th	2003-20	Barry Barnet	Progressive Conservative
60th	2006-2009	Barry Barnet	Progressive Conservative
61st	2009–2013	Mat Whynott	New Democratic

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Mat Whynott	4815	50.03	+13.98
	Liberal	Patrick Doyle	2381	24.74	+4.71
	Progressive Conservative	Barry Barnet	2218	23.05	-18.97
	Green	Shawn Redmond	210	2.18	+0.29

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Barry Barnet	3704	42.02
	New Democratic Party	Mat Whynott	3178	36.05
	Liberal	Pam Streeter	1766	20.03
	Green	Scott Kleghorn	167	1.89	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Barry Barnet	3322	41.14
	Liberal	Pam Streeter	2419	29.96
	New Democratic Party	Brenda Haley	2229	27.6
	Marijuana	Melanie Patriquen	105	1.3

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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