South Shore—St. Margarets

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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.

Nova Scotia electoral district

South Shore—St. Margaret's in relation to the other Nova Scotia federal electoral districts

Federal electoral district

Legislature

House of Commons

Rick Perkins
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

Demographics

Historical population
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%

From the 2006 census [2]

Ethnic groups:

White: 97.1%
First Nations: 1.5%
Black: 0.6%

Languages:

English: 96.9%
French: 1.2%
German: 0.6%
Other: 1.1%

Religions:

Protestant: 71.5%
Catholic: 11.5%
Other Christian: 1.1%
No affiliation: 15.4%

Education:

No certificate, diploma or degree: 34.5%
High school certificate: 21.2%
Apprenticeship or trade certificate or diploma: 12.2%
Community college, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma: 17.4%
University certificate or diploma: 14.7%

Median Age:

45.2

Median total income:

$20,580

Average total income:

$27,987

Median household income:

$44,108

Average household income:

$53,111

Median family income:

$52,772

Average family income:

$61,279

Unemployment:

10.3%

Geography

It consists of:

the counties of Shelburne, Queens and Lunenburg;

and

the western part of the Halifax Regional Municipality, i.e., the part lying west of a line drawn south from the intersection of the boundary between the regional municipality and the County of Hants with the western shoreline of Pockwock Lake along the shoreline to the western extremity of Ponhook Cove, then south in a straight line for approximately 2.7 km to the mouth of the Pockwock River at Wrights Lake, southeast in a straight line for approximately 3.8 km to the northern extremity of Stillwater Lake, south along that lake, southwest along Route 213 (Hammonds Plains Road) to Trunk 3, southeast in a straight line for approximately 18.6 km to the mouth of the Nine Mile River, southwest along Shad Bay (passing west of Cochrans Island) to the Atlantic Ocean.

History

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.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
South Shore Riding created from Queens—Lunenburg and Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare
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		Progressive Conservative
37th	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	Bernadette Jordan	Liberal
44th	2021–present	Rick Perkins	Conservative

Election results

Graph of election results in South Shore, South Shore—St. Margaret's, South Shore—St. Margarets (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

Graph of election results in South Shore—St. Margarets (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2021 general election

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
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]

2019 general election

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
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 general election

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

South Shore—St. Margaret's

Graph of election results in South Shore—St. Margaret's (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2011 general election

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 general election

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 general election

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 general election

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

South Shore

Graph of election results in South Shore (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

2000 general election

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 general election

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 general election

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 general election

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 general election

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 general election

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 general election

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 general election

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 general election

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 general election

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

References

"(Code 12009) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2011.
Riding history for South Shore–St. Margaret's (2003– ) from the Library of Parliament
Campaign expenses from Elections Canada website

Notes

Statistics Canada: 2012
http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/data/cen06/profiles/detail_b/FED12009.pdf South Shore-St. Margaret's census profile
"Election night results". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
"Results Validated by the Returning Officer". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
"October 19, 2015 Election Results — South Shore—St. Margarets (Validated results)". Elections Canada. October 21, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
"Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates". Archived from the original on August 15, 2015. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections
Elections Canada – Official voting results, Forty-first general election, 2011
Elections Canada – Candidate's electoral campaign return, 41st general election

External links

Candidate info from their own or the political parties websites:

v t e Federal ridings in Nova Scotia
Liberal	Cape Breton—Canso Central Nova Dartmouth—Cole Harbour Halifax Halifax West Kings—Hants Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook Sydney—Victoria
Conservative	Cumberland—Colchester South Shore—St. Margarets West Nova

Historical federal ridings in Nova Scotia

v t e Federal ridings in Atlantic Canada
Newfoundland and Labrador	Avalon Bonavista—Burin—Trinity Coast of Bays—Central—Notre Dame Labrador Long Range Mountains St. John's East St. John's South—Mount Pearl
Nova Scotia	Cape Breton—Canso Central Nova Cumberland—Colchester Dartmouth—Cole Harbour Halifax Halifax West Kings—Hants Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook South Shore—St. Margarets Sydney—Victoria West Nova
Prince Edward Island	Cardigan Charlottetown Egmont Malpeque
New Brunswick	Acadie—Bathurst Beauséjour Fredericton Fundy Royal Madawaska—Restigouche Miramichi—Grand Lake Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe New Brunswick Southwest Saint John—Rothesay Tobique—Mactaquac

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Demographics

Geography

History

Members of Parliament

Election results

South Shore—St. Margarets

2021 general election

2019 general election

2015 general election

South Shore—St. Margaret's

2011 general election

2008 general election

2006 general election

2004 general election

South Shore

2000 general election

1997 general election

1993 general election

1988 general election

1984 general election

1980 general election

1979 general election

1974 general election

1972 general election

1968 general election

See also

References

Notes

External links