Timberlea—Prospect 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 ...

in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Its Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since 2013 has been Iain Rankin of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party. The district was created in 1967 from the former electoral district of

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, under the name Halifax-St. Margaret's. Upon the recommendations of the 1992 Electoral Boundaries Commission report, it was renamed Timberlea-Prospect. At this same time, it lost the St. Margaret's Bay area to

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, the Hammonds Plains, Lucasville, and Pockwock Road area to

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, and the Bedford area to Bedford-Fall River. In 2003, it lost the Bayside and West Dover areas to

. In 2013, on the recommendations of the 2012 Electoral Boundaries Commission, it lost the Stillwater Lake area to

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and a small number of streets in the Williamswood and Harrietsfield areas to

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. It gained the Susies Lake and Quarrie Lake areas from

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Geography

Timberlea-Prospect has of land area.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:

Election results

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

2013 general election

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, Linda Moxsom-Skinner , align="right", 2,230 , align="right", 25.90 , align="right", -44.31 , - , Progressive Conservative , Dr. Bruce Pretty , align="right", 1,608 , align="right", 18.86 , align="right", +10.17 , -

2017 general election

2021 general election

References

External links

2006 riding profile2003 riding profile
{{Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts Politics of Halifax, Nova Scotia