South Shore—St. Margaret's

South Shore—St. Margaret's

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
MP	Gerald Keddy Conservative
District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	82,254
Electors (2011)	66,733
Area (km²)	8,234.95
Pop. density (per km²)	10
Census divisions	HRM, Lunenburg County, Queens County, Shelburne County
Census subdivisions	Bridgewater, Clark's Harbour, Chester, Liverpool, Lunenburg, Mahone Bay, Shelburne

South Shore–St. Margaret's is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968. It covers the South Shore region of Nova Scotia.

It was created in 1966 mostly from Queens—Lunenburg and Shelburne—Yarmouth—Clare. In 2003, the district added portions of Halifax West.

The western portion of the riding is heavily Conservative and Gerald Keddy lost votes from this side of the riding in the 2006 election when he was only one of a handful of Conservative MP's to support same-sex marriage. The Region of Queens Municipality is leaning NDP as they won this part of the riding in 2008 by a slim margin. The eastern portion of the riding is slightly leaning Conservative.

Demographics

From the 2006 census

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 and Lunenburg;
• the Region of Queens Municipality; 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

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Queens–Lunenburg and Shelburne–Yarmouth–Clare prior to 1966
South Shore
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	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997		Derek Wells	Liberal
36th	1997–2000		Gerald Keddy	Progressive Conservative
37th	2000–2004
South Shore–St. Margaret's
38th	2004–2006		Gerald Keddy	Conservative
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Conservative	Gerald Keddy	17,948	43.14	+7.15
	New Democratic	Gordon Earle	15,033	36.14	+2.79
	Liberal	Derek Wells	7,037	16.92	-6.93
	Green	Kris MacLellan	1,579	3.80	-1.43
Total valid votes/Expense limit			41,597	100.00
Total rejected ballots			282	0.67	–
Turnout			41,879	62.73	–
Eligible voters			66,763	–	–

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp	Expenditures
	Conservative	Gerald Keddy	14,388	35.99	-0.79	$65,891
	New Democratic	Gordon Earle	13,456	33.65	+5.20	$80,860
	Liberal	Bill Smith	9,536	23.85	-4.64	$55,036
	Green	Michael Oddy	2,090	5.23	+2.32	$94
	Christian Heritage	Joseph Larkin	513	1.28	-2.08	$1,141
Total valid votes/Expense limit			39,983	100.00	$83,679
	Conservative hold		Swing	-3.0

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Conservative	Gerald Keddy	15,108	36.85	-1.05
	New Democratic	Gordon Earle	11,689	28.51	+2.81
	Liberal	Darian Huskilson	11,629	28.36	-3.72
	Christian Heritage	James Hnatiuk	1,376	3.36
	Green	Kate Morris Boudreau	1,198	2.92	-1.39
Total valid votes			41,000	100.00
	Conservative hold		Swing	-1.93

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Conservative	Gerald Keddy	14,954	37.90	-14.80
	Liberal	John Chandler	12,658	32.08	-3.04
	New Democratic	Gordon Earle	10,140	25.70	+13.53
	Green	Kate Boudreau	1,700	4.31
Total valid votes			39,452	100.00

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	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 valid votes			36,096	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	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

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	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

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	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

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	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

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	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

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	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

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	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

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	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

Canadian federal election, 1968
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

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

References

• "(Code 12009) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=FED&Code1=12009&Geo2=PR&Code2=12&Data=Count&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All. Retrieved 2011-03-03. 
• Riding history for South Shore–St. Margaret's (2003– ) from the Library of Parliament
• Campaign expenses from Elections Canada website

External links

Candidate info from their own or the political parties websites:

• Gordon Earle (NDP)
• Gerald Keddy (Conservative)
• Joseph Larkin (Christian Heritage)
• Michael Oddy (Green Party)
• Dr. Bill Smith (Liberal)