Cole Harbour is a provincial

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, that elects one member of the

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. In 1978, Halifax Cobequid was divided into four separate ridings, one of which was named Cole Harbour. Upon the recommendations of the 1992 Electoral Boundaries Report, the riding was split into

Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage Cole Harbour—Eastern Passage was a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elected one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The district was created in 1992 from Cole Harbour. In 2003, the district lost an area so ...

and Dartmouth-Cole Harbour. The district of Cole Harbour was re-created in the 2003 redistribution and was composed of 78 percent of Dartmouth-Cole Harbour and 29 percent of Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage. In 2012, following the Electoral Boundaries Commission review, this district was renamed Cole Harbour-Portland Valley and it lost a portion of the Westphal area to

Preston-Dartmouth Preston-Dartmouth was a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The riding was created in 2012 as Dartmouth-Preston, with 100 per cent of the former district of Preston, 1 ...

and gained the area east of Bell Lake from

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and the Portland Hills area from

Dartmouth South-Portland Valley Dartmouth South is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The riding is currently represented by Claudia Chender of the NDP. The district was created in 1966, under the ...

. Following the 2019 electoral boundary review, the riding reverted back to its former name of Cole Harbour, while losing territory to the new riding of Cole Harbour-Dartmouth, exchanging some territory with

(re-named Preston) and gaining territory from Eastern Shore and

Geography

The land area of Cole Harbour is .

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following

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Election results

1978 general election

1981 general election

1984 general election

1988 general election

2003 general election

2006 general election

2009 general election

2013 general election

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Tony Ince Tony Ince (born 1958) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2013 provincial election, representing the electoral district of Cole Harbour for the Nova Scotia Liberal Party where he defeated the in ...

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Darrell Dexter Darrell Elvin Dexter (born 1957) is a Canadian lawyer, journalist and former naval officer who served as the 27th premier of Nova Scotia from 2009 to 2013. A member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party, he served as party leader from 2001 to ...

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2017 general election

2021 general election

References

External links

October 8, 2013 Nova Scotia General Election Results - Cole harbour-Portland Valley2006 riding profileJune 13, 2006 Nova Scotia Provincial General Election Poll by Poll Results2003 riding profile
{{Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts Politics of Halifax, Nova Scotia