Halifax Armdale is a provincial electoral district in

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, that elects one member of the

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. This Halifax district covers the growing population of the Fairmount, Armdale and Cowie Hill areas. The northern boundary is Highway 102, the eastern boundary is Joseph Howe Drive and the Northwest Arm, while the southern boundary is Frog Pond Park in Armdale. The district was created in 1992 as Halifax Fairview and encompassed the Cowie Hill area, formerly part of Halifax Atlantic; the Fairview area, formerly part of Halifax Bedford Basin; and the area west of the CNR tracks, formerly part of

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. In 2013, following the recommendations of the 2012 Electoral Boundaries Commission, it was renamed Halifax Armdale and gained 18 per cent of the district of Halifax Atlantic, including the area east of Herring Cove Road and north of the Frog Pond Park. It lost the area north of Highway 102 and east of Northwest Arm Drive and Dunbrack Street to

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Geography

Halifax Armdale has a relatively small landmass at .

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following

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Election results

1993 general election

1996 by-election

, - , New Democratic Party , Eileen O'Connell , style="text-align:right", 4,434 , style="text-align:right", 65.24 , style="text-align:right", 19.72 , - , Progressive Conservative , Rosanna Liberatore , style="text-align:right", 1,250 , style="text-align:right", 18.39 , style="text-align:right", –1.36 , -

1998 general election

1999 general election

2001 by-election

, - , New Democratic Party , Graham Steele , style="text-align:right", 2,164 , style="text-align:right", 58.17 , style="text-align:right", 11.94 , - , - , Progressive Conservative , Narayana Swamy , style="text-align:right", 466 , style="text-align:right", 12.53 , style="text-align:right", –14.55 , -

2003 general election

2006 general election

2009 general election

2013 general election

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Lena Diab Lena Metlege Diab (born 1965) is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2013 provincial election. A member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party, she represented the electoral district of Halifax Armdale u ...

, style="text-align:right", 3,208 , style="text-align:right", 49.34 , style="text-align:right", 28.32 , - , New Democratic Party , Drew Moore , style="text-align:right", 2,233 , style="text-align:right", 34.34 , style="text-align:right", –29.37 , - , Progressive Conservative , Irvine Carvery , style="text-align:right", 1,061 , style="text-align:right", 16.32 , style="text-align:right", 4.17

2017 general election

2021 general election

References

External links

2013 riding profile
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