Bedford Basin (electoral district)
 Nova Scotia electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Nova Scotia House of Assembly | ||
| MLA |
Progressive Conservative | ||
| District created | 2019 | ||
| First contested | 2021 | ||
| Last contested | 2024 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Electors | 13,113 | ||
| Area (km²)[1] | 23 | ||
| Census division(s) | Halifax Regional Municipality | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Halifax Regional Municipality | ||
Bedford Basin is a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia that came into effect for the 2021 Nova Scotia general election. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia.
The riding was created by the 2019 provincial redistribution out of parts of Bedford and Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank .
The riding contains the neighbourhoods of Oakmount, Bedford Common, Glen Moir, Paper Mill Lake and part of Millview in the community of Bedford, Nova Scotia, part of the Halifax Regional Municipality.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
[edit]This riding has elected the following MLAs:
| Bedford Basin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created from Bedford and Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank | ||||
| 64th | 2021–2024 | Kelly Regan | Liberal | |
| 65th | 2024–present | Tim Outhit | Progressive Conservative | |
Election results
[edit]2024
[edit]| 2024 Nova Scotia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ** Preliminary results — Not yet official ** | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Tim Outhit | 3,688 | 60.11 | +34.35 | ||||
| Liberal | Doris Robbins | 1,311 | 21.37 | -29.50 | ||||
| New Democratic | Ryan Lutes | 1,136 | 18.52 | -2.84 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 6,135 | 99.43 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 35 | 0.57 | +0.25 | |||||
| Turnout | 6,170 | 46.97 | -8.54 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 13,136 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | +31.93 | ||||||
2021
[edit]| 2021 Nova Scotia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Kelly Regan | 3,700 | 50.87 | –1.88 | $54,231.55 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Nick Driscoll | 1,874 | 25.76 | –5.10 | $22,733.12 | |||
| New Democratic | Jacob Wilson | 1,554 | 21.36 | +9.59 | $28,624.28 | |||
| Green | Madeleine Taylor | 146 | 2.01 | –2.61 | $685.50 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 7,274 | 99.68 | – | $77,511.59 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 23 | 0.32 | ||||||
| Turnout | 7,297 | 55.51 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 13,146 | |||||||
| Liberal notional hold | Swing | +1.61 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Nova Scotia[2] | ||||||||
2017 redistributed results
[edit]| 2017 provincial election redistributed results[3] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Liberal | 3,596 | 52.74 | |
| Progressive Conservative | 2,104 | 30.86 | |
| New Democratic | 803 | 11.78 | |
| Green | 315 | 4.62 | |
References
[edit]- ^ "Electoral District Information". Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ "Provincial General Election 2021-08-17- Official Results" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
- ^ "Transposition of Votes from the 2017 Provincial General Election to 2019 Electoral District Boundaries" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. 12 April 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.