Clare is a provincial

electoral district An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity ...

Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Most of the population are native Eng ...

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which existed between 1949-2013 and since 2021. Prior to 1949, Clare was part of Digby district. It elects one member of the

Nova Scotia House of Assembly The Nova Scotia House of Assembly (french: Assemblée législative de la Nouvelle-Écosse; gd, Taigh Seanaidh Alba Nuadh), or Legislative Assembly, is the deliberative assembly of the General Assembly of Nova Scotia of the province of Nova Scotia ...

. The electoral district includes most of the

Municipality of the District of Clare Clare, officially named the Municipality of the District of Clare, is a List of district municipalities in Nova Scotia#District municipality, district municipality in western Nova Scotia, Canada. Statistics Canada classifies the district municip ...

, an

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area occupying the southwestern half of

Digby County Digby County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. History It was named after the Township of Digby; this was named in honour of Rear Admiral Robert Digby, who dispatched HMS ''Atalanta'' to convey Loyalists from New York City in ...

. For four consecutive elections from 1988 to 1999, the district had the highest voter turnout in the province. The electoral district was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was largely replaced by the new electoral district of

Clare-Digby Clare-Digby was a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elected one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The riding was created in 2012 with 100 per cent of the former district of Clare and 76 per cent of the former d ...

. It was re-created our of Clare-Digby following the 2019 Electoral Boundary Review.

Geography

The land area of Clare is .

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The electoral district was represented by the following

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Election results

1949 general election

1953 general election

1956 general election

1960 general election

1963 general election

1967 general election

1970 general election

1974 general election

1978 general election

1981 general election

1984 general election

1988 general election

1993 general election

1998 general election

1999 general election

2003 general election

2006 general election

2009 general election

2017 general election (transposed)

2021 general election

References

External links

riding profileJune 13, 2006 Nova Scotia Provincial General Election Poll by Poll Results
{{coord missing, Nova Scotia Former provincial electoral districts of Nova Scotia