Chester—St. Margaret's 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 ...

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, Canada, that elects one member of the

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. It is located on the South Shore. The constituency was created in 1956 as a division of Lunenburg County. It was called Lunenburg East from 1956 to 1993. In 1993, the district was renamed Chester—St. Margaret's and gained Tancook Islands from

Lunenburg Centre Lunenburg is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. From 1867 to 1956, the district included all of Lunenburg County.

and St. Margaret's Bay from Halifax St. Margarets. In 2003, it gained the communities of West Dover and Bayside. In 2012, the district lost the Upper Tantallon area north of Highway 103 to

Hammonds Plains-Lucasville Hammonds Plains-Lucasville is 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 with 43 per cent of the former district of Hammonds Plains-Upper Sac ...

. The district includes the Municipality of

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and the communities in the

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along the coast of St. Margarets Bay including

Peggys Cove Peggy's Cove is a small rural community located on the eastern shore of St. Margarets Bay in the Halifax Regional Municipality, which is the site of Peggys Cove Lighthouse (established 1868). Geography Peggy's Cove is 43 kilometers (26 miles) s ...

. Major towns in the riding include Hubbards,

, Western Shore, Boutiliers Point and Head of St. Margarets Bay.

Geography

The land area of Chester-St. Margaret's is .

Statistics

Avg. Income: $27,440 (2003)
Population: 19,720 (2003)
Post-secondary education: 36% (2003)

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following

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Election results

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

2005 by-election

, - , Progressive Conservative , Judy Streatch , align="right", 2,955 , align="right", 36.18 , align="right", -1.15 , - ,

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, Rick Fraughton , align="right", 2,548 , align="right", 31.20 , align="right", +6.95 , - ,

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Hinrich Bitter-Suermann Hinrich Bitter-Suermann (born March 10, 1940) is a German-Canadian pathologist and professor of surgery specialized in organ transplantation. Education Bitter-Suermann studied 1959-1965 medicine and sciences at Würzburg University, Götting ...

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2006 general election

2009 general election

2013 general election

, - ,

Denise Peterson-Rafuse Denise J. Peterson-Rafuse is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Chester-St. Margaret's in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 2009 to 2017 as a member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party. Early life and ed ...

, align="right", 3,341 , align="right", 35.25 , align="right", -12.84 , - , Progressive Conservative , Janet Elizabeth Irwin , align="right", 3,193 , align="right", 33.69 , align="right", +6.22 , - ,

, Timothy Whitman Harris , align="right", 2,943 , align="right", 31.06 , align="right", +9.95

2017 general election

2021 general election

References

External links

cbc riding profile

riding mapChester-St.Margaret's June 21, 2005 By-Election Poll-by-Poll ResultsJune 13, 2006 Nova Scotia Provincial General Election Poll by Poll Results
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