Preston (electoral district)

Preston

Nova Scotia electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Nova Scotia House of Assembly

MLA

First contested

1993

Last contested

2009

Demographics

Population (2006)

10,024

Electors

7,680

Census divisions

Halifax Regional Municipality

Preston is a former provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada which existed from 1993-2013. It elected one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. In its last configuration, the electoral district included the communities of North Preston, East Preston, and Cherrybrook.

The electoral district was created in 1993 and was conceived to provide representation to the area's rural black community; roughly two-thirds of the population during the district's existence was African Nova Scotian. The electoral district was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was largely replaced by the new electoral district of Preston-Dartmouth.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years		Party
61st	2009–Present	Keith Colwell	Liberal
60th	2006-2009
59th	2003-2006
58th	1999-2003	David Hendsbee	Progressive Conservative
57th	1998-1999	Yvonne Atwell (the first black woman to be elected to the provincial legislature)	New Democratic
56th	1993-1998	Wayne Adams	Liberal

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Keith Colwell	1908	42.20
	New Democratic Party	Janet Sutcliffe	1316	29.11
	Progressive Conservative	Dwayne Provo	1240	27.43
	Green	Sarah Densmore	57	1.26	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Keith Colwell	1853	42.13
	Progressive Conservative	Dwayne Provo	1610	36.83
	New Democratic Party	Douglas Sparks	843	19.17
	Green	David Farrell	82	1.86	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Keith Colwell	1411	33.90
	Progressive Conservative	David Hensbee	1361	32.92
	New Democratic Party	Douglas Sparks	1331	31.97
	Marijuana	Marc-Boris St-Maurice	50	1.21

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	David Hensbee	1800
	New Democratic Party	Yvonne Atwell	1496
	Liberal	Wendell Thomas	509

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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