South Shore—St. Margarets (formerly South Shore—St. Margaret's and South Shore) is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1968. It covers the South Shore region of Nova Scotia.
South Shore—St. Margaret's in relation to the other Nova Scotia federal electoral districts | |||
| Federal electoral district | |||
| Legislature | House of Commons | ||
| MP |
Conservative | ||
| District created | 1966 | ||
| First contested | 1968 | ||
| Last contested | 2021 | ||
| District webpage | profile, map | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2016)[1] | 91,830 | ||
| Electors (2021) | 79,797 | ||
| Area (km²)[1] | 8,475 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 10.8 | ||
| Census division(s) | HRM, Lunenburg County, Queens County, Shelburne County | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Bridgewater, Clark's Harbour, Chester, Liverpool, Lunenburg, Mahone Bay, Shelburne | ||
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 83,694 | — |
| 2006 | 82,855 | −1.0% |
| 2011 (2003 redist.) | 82,254 | −0.7% |
| 2011 (2013 redist.) | 92,561 | +12.5% |
| 2016 | 91,830 | −0.8% |
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It was created in 1966 mostly from Queens—Lunenburg and Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare. In 2003, the district added portions of Halifax West.
After the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, the riding gained 11% of its new territory from Halifax West.
This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Shore Riding created from Queens—Lunenburg and Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare |
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| 28th | 1968–1972 | Lloyd Crouse | Progressive Conservative | |
| 29th | 1972–1974 | |||
| 30th | 1974–1979 | |||
| 31st | 1979–1980 | |||
| 32nd | 1980–1984 | |||
| 33rd | 1984–1988 | |||
| 34th | 1988–1993 | Peter McCreath | ||
| 35th | 1993–1997 | Derek Wells | Liberal | |
| 36th | 1997–2000 | Gerald Keddy | Progressive Conservative | |
| 37th | 2000–2003 | |||
| 2003–2004 | Conservative | |||
| South Shore—St. Margaret's | ||||
| 38th | 2004–2006 | Gerald Keddy | Conservative | |
| 39th | 2006–2008 | |||
| 40th | 2008–2011 | |||
| 41st | 2011–2015 | |||
| South Shore—St. Margarets | ||||
| 42nd | 2015–2019 | Bernadette Jordan | Liberal | |
| 43rd | 2019–2021 | |||
| 44th | 2021–present | Rick Perkins | Conservative | |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Rick Perkins | 20,454 | 40.90 | +12.83 | ||||
| Liberal | Bernadette Jordan | 18,575 | 37.15 | -4.52 | ||||
| New Democratic | Olivia Dorey | 9,541 | 19.08 | +3.16 | ||||
| Green | Thomas Trappenberg | 1,434 | 2.87 | -14.47 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 50,004 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 400 | |||||||
| Turnout | 50,404 | 63.16 | -4.53 | |||||
| Registered voters | 79,797 | |||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[3] | ||||||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Bernadette Jordan | 21,886 | 41.67 | −15.26 | $101,013.68 | |||
| Conservative | Rick Perkins | 14,744 | 28.07 | +5.51 | $86,186.65 | |||
| New Democratic | Jessika Hepburn | 8,361 | 15.92 | −0.91 | none listed | |||
| Green | Thomas Trappenberg | 6,070 | 11.56 | +8.65 | $3,255.40 | |||
| People's | Robert Monk | 667 | 1.27 | New | none listed | |||
| Independent | Steven Foster | 376 | 0.72 | New | $662.21 | |||
| Independent | Shawn McMahon | 165 | 0.31 | New | $0.00 | |||
| Veterans Coalition | Jason Matthews | 125 | 0.24 | New | none listed | |||
| Christian Heritage | Kevin Schulthies | 124 | 0.24 | New | $234.83 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 52,518 | 100.0 | $109,434.66 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 439 | 0.83 | +0.40 | |||||
| Turnout | 52,957 | 67.69 | −2.14 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 78,238 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | −10.38 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[4] | ||||||||
| 2015 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Bernadette Jordan | 30,045 | 56.93 | +38.97 | $74,989.98 | |||
| Conservative | Richard Clark | 11,905 | 22.56 | –19.42 | $77,116.91 | |||
| New Democratic | Alex Godbold | 8,883 | 16.83 | –19.24 | $119,217.64 | |||
| Green | Richard Biggar | 1,534 | 2.91 | –1.09 | $126.74 | |||
| Independent | Trevor Bruhm | 257 | 0.49 | – | $1,450.37 | |||
| Communist | Ryan Barry | 151 | 0.20 | – | – | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 52,775 | 100.00 | $217,269.80 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 226 | 0.43 | ||||||
| Turnout | 53,001 | 69.83 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 75,904 | |||||||
| Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | +29.20 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[5][6] | ||||||||
| 2011 federal election redistributed results[7] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Conservative | 19,709 | 41.98 | |
| New Democratic | 16,939 | 36.08 | |
| Liberal | 8,431 | 17.96 | |
| Green | 1,875 | 3.99 | |
| 2011 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Gerald Keddy | 17,948 | 43.14 | +7.15 | $65,637.06 | |||
| New Democratic | Gordon Earle | 15,033 | 36.14 | +2.79 | $79,480.73 | |||
| Liberal | Derek Wells | 7,037 | 16.92 | -6.93 | $57,461.22 | |||
| Green | Kris MacLellan | 1,579 | 3.80 | -1.43 | $41.21 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 41,597 | 100.0 | $86,455.81 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 282 | 0.67 | +0.20 | |||||
| Turnout | 41,879 | 62.23 | +2.03 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 67,296 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +2.18 | ||||||
| Sources:[8][9] | ||||||||
| 2008 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Gerald Keddy | 14,388 | 35.99 | -0.79 | $64,451.93 | |||
| New Democratic | Gordon Earle | 13,456 | 33.65 | +5.20 | $80,797.19 | |||
| Liberal | Bill Smith | 9,536 | 23.85 | -4.64 | $54,540.83 | |||
| Green | Michael Oddy | 2,090 | 5.23 | +2.32 | $105.90 | |||
| Christian Heritage | Joseph Larkin | 513 | 1.28 | -2.08 | $1,140.54 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 39,983 | 100.0 | $83,679 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 190 | 0.47 | +0.05 | |||||
| Turnout | 40,173 | 60.20 | -0.36 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 66,733 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -3.00 | ||||||
| 2006 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Gerald Keddy | 15,108 | 36.85 | -1.05 | $54,773.43 | |||
| New Democratic | Gordon Earle | 11,689 | 28.51 | +2.81 | $40,850.21 | |||
| Liberal | Darian Huskilson | 11,629 | 28.36 | -3.72 | $40,530.60 | |||
| Christian Heritage | James Hnatiuk | 1,376 | 3.36 | – | $8,815.18 | |||
| Green | Kate Morris Boudreau | 1,198 | 2.92 | -1.39 | $2,624.42 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 41,000 | 100.0 | $78,403 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 173 | 0.42 | ||||||
| Turnout | 41,173 | 60.56 | +0.04 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 67,983 | |||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | -1.93 | ||||||
| 2004 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Gerald Keddy | 14,954 | 37.90 | -12.58 | $55,398.71 | |||
| Liberal | John Chandler | 12,658 | 32.08 | -3.04 | $47,623.99 | |||
| New Democratic | Gordon Earle | 10,140 | 25.70 | +11.33 | $40,934.28 | |||
| Green | Kate Boudreau | 1,700 | 4.31 | – | $1,478.43 | |||
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | 39,452 | 100.0 | $75,387 | |||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 182 | 0.46 | ||||||
| Turnout | 39,634 | 60.52 | -1.08 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 65,487 | |||||||
| Conservative notional gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | -4.77 | ||||||
| Changes from 2000 are based on redistributed results. Change for the Conservative Party is based on the combined totals of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance. | ||||||||
| 2000 federal election redistributed results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | 15,083 | 37.89 | |
| Liberal | 13,979 | 35.12 | |
| New Democratic | 5,718 | 14.37 | |
| Alliance | 5,013 | 12.59 | |
| Others | 12 | 0.03 | |
| 2000 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gerald Keddy | 14,328 | 39.69 | 3.70 | ||||
| Liberal | Derek Wells | 12,677 | 35.12 | 6.10 | ||||
| Alliance | Evan Walters | 4,697 | 13.01 | -0.49 | ||||
| New Democratic | Bill Zimmerman | 4,394 | 12.17 | -8.55 | ||||
| Total rejected, unmarked and declined ballots | 192 | 0.5 | ||||||
| Turnout | 36,096 | 61.47 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 58,726 | |||||||
| 1997 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Gerald Keddy | 14,136 | 36.00 | +3.38 | ||||
| Liberal | Derek Wells | 11,397 | 29.02 | -17.92 | ||||
| New Democratic | Blandford Nickerson | 8,137 | 20.72 | +15.72 | ||||
| Reform | Anne Matthiasson | 5,302 | 13.50 | -0.02 | ||||
| Natural Law | Terry Harnish | 298 | 0.76 | -0.02 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 39,270 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1993 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Derek Wells | 17,351 | 46.94 | +4.37 | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Peter McCreath | 12,058 | 32.62 | -13.84 | ||||
| Reform | Anne Matthiasson | 4,999 | 13.52 | |||||
| New Democratic | Eric Hustvedt | 1,847 | 5.00 | -5.15 | ||||
| National | A. James Donahue | 422 | 1.14 | |||||
| Natural Law | Richard Robertson | 287 | 0.78 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 36,964 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1988 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Peter McCreath | 18,547 | 46.46 | -10.23 | ||||
| Liberal | Mike Delory | 16,995 | 42.57 | 13.55 | ||||
| New Democratic | Bill Zimmerman | 4,052 | 10.15 | -4.14 | ||||
| Libertarian | David Morgan | 329 | 0.82 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 39,923 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1984 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Lloyd Crouse | 22,347 | 56.69 | 12.30 | ||||
| Liberal | Paul Blades | 11,439 | 29.02 | -9.29 | ||||
| New Democratic | Bill Zimmerman | 5,633 | 14.29 | -1.82 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 39,419 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1980 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Lloyd Crouse | 16,139 | 44.39 | -12.74 | ||||
| Liberal | Jim Kinley | 13,926 | 38.31 | +6.36 | ||||
| New Democratic | John Yates | 5,856 | 16.11 | +5.19 | ||||
| Rhinoceros | Martha Tudor | 433 | 1.19 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 36,354 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1979 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Lloyd Crouse | 20,867 | 57.14 | +2.60 | ||||
| Liberal | Ted McFetridge | 11,666 | 31.94 | -7.02 | ||||
| New Democratic | John Yates | 3,988 | 10.92 | +5.08 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 36,521 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1974 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Lloyd Crouse | 18,206 | 54.54 | -2.77 | ||||
| Liberal | Bill Martin | 13,006 | 38.96 | +3.32 | ||||
| New Democratic | Bob Manthorne | 1,950 | 5.84 | -1.22 | ||||
| Social Credit | Edward Peterson | 222 | 0.66 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 33,384 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1972 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Lloyd Crouse | 18,653 | 57.30 | -1.23 | ||||
| Liberal | John Kinley | 11,602 | 35.64 | -3.28 | ||||
| New Democratic | Richard Stuart | 2,297 | 7.06 | +4.51 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 32,552 | 100.00 | ||||||
| 1968 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Lloyd Crouse | 17,547 | 58.53 | |||||
| Liberal | John Kinley | 11,668 | 38.92 | |||||
| New Democratic | Aubrey Harding | 764 | 2.55 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 29,979 | 100.00 | ||||||
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