Cumberland North is a provincial

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, that 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 ...

. Prior to 1993, it was part of

Cumberland East Cumberland East was a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elected one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It existed from 1949 to 1993. It was formed in 1949 when Cumberland County was divided into three new distri ...

. The communities of

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and Pugwash are within its boundaries.

Geography

Cumberland North covers .

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This electoral district has elected the following

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Election results

1993 general election

1997 by-election

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Ernie Fage Ernest Fage (born August 15, 1953) is a Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Cumberland North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1997 to 2009. First elected as a Progressive Conservative in a 1997 by-election, F ...

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1998 general election

1999 general election

2003 general election

2006 general election

2009 general election

2013 general election

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Brian Skabar Brian Skabar (born February 25, 1952) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2009 provincial election. Skabar won the riding of Cumberland North for the New Democratic Party. He obtained 40 per cen ...

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2017 general election

2021 general election

;Notes # For both the 2009 and 2021 general elections in this riding, the results of both the Independent and Progressive Conservative candidates are compared to the PC total in the respective previous elections. In both races, the incumbent sought re-election as an Independent after being elected as a PC MLA in the previous election.

External links

riding profileJune 13, 2006 Nova Scotia Provincial General Election Poll By Poll Results

References

Election Summary From 1867 - 20071993 Poll by Poll Results1988 Poll by Poll Results1984 Poll by Poll Results1981 Poll by Poll Results1978 Poll by Poll Results1974 Poll by Poll Results1970 Poll by Poll Results1967 Poll by Poll Results
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