Victoria—The Lakes is a provincial

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, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Its

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(MLA) since the 2017 election has been Keith Bain of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. It was created in 1867 as Victoria, composing all of

Victoria County Victoria County is the name of several locations: In Australia: *Victoria County, Western Australia * County of Victoria, South Australia In Canada: * Victoria County, New Brunswick * Municipality of the County of Victoria and the eponymous histo ...

. In 1993, the district gained the area north of the southern border of the

Cape Breton Highlands National Park Cape Breton Highlands National Park is a Canadian national park on northern Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. The park was the first national park in the Atlantic provinces of Canada and covers an area of . It is one of 42 in Canada's system ...

. In 2003, Victoria was renamed Victoria-The Lakes. It lost the top of Inverness County to

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and gained some of the rural areas of

Cape Breton The Lakes Cape Breton The Lakes was a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elected one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It was created in 1978 out of areas which were formerly included in the Cape Breton North, Cape Breton ...

Geography

Victoria-The Lakes has a landmass of .

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following

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Election results

2013 general election

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Pam Eyking Pam Eyking (née Cullen; born 1962)Pam Ey ...

, align="right", 3,150 , align="right", 38.99 , align="right", +8.39 , - , Progressive Conservative , Keith Bain , align="right", 2,847 , align="right", 35.24 , align="right", -3.44 , - ,

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, John Frank Tomey , align="right", 1,907 , align="right", 23.60 , align="right", -3.28 , - , Independent , Stewart M. (Stemer) MacLeod , align="right", 176 , align="right", 2.18 , align="right", +0.28

2017 general election

2021 general election

References

External links

CBC riding profile (2003)
{{Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts