Kings—Hants

Kings—Hants

Nova Scotia electoral district
Kings—Hants in relation to the other Nova Scotia federal electoral districts
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	Scott Brison Liberal
District created	1966
First contested	1968
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2006)	81,531
Electors (2011)	64,593
Area (km²)	4,118
Pop. density (per km²)	19.8
Census divisions	Hants, Kings
Census subdivisions	East Hants, West Hants, Kentville, Wolfville, Windsor

Kings—Hants (formerly Annapolis Valley—Hants) is a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968. Its population in 2006 was 81,531.

It is a largely rural and fairly conservative riding, but its conservatism is in the Red Tory tradition of the rest of the Maritimes, i.e., there is a strong concern for social programs.

Contents 1 Demographics 2 Geography 3 History 3.1 Members of Parliament 4 Election results 4.1 Kings—Hants 4.2 Annapolis Valley—Hants 5 See also 6 External links

Demographics

Ethnic groups:

• White: 95.7%
• First Nations: 2.1%
• Black: 1.5%

Languages:

• English: 96.1%
• French: 1.2%
• German: 0.6%
• Dutch: 0.5%
• Other: 2.6%

Religions:

• Protestant: 63.8%
• Catholic: 18.3%
• Other Christian: 1.2%
• No religious affiliation: 15.9%

Education:

• No certificate, diploma or degree: 28.8%
• High school certificate: 22.6%
• Apprenticeship or trade certificate or diploma: 13.0%
• Community college, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma: 18.8%
• University certificate or diploma: 16.7%

Median Age:

• 41.5

Median total income:

• $22,074

Average total income:

• $28,340

Median household income:

• $46,918

Average household income:

• $55,136

Median family income:

• $55,346

Average family income:

• $63,097

Unemployment:

• 7.6%

Geography

The district includes all of Hants County and the eastern part of Kings. Communities include East Hants, West Hants, Kentville, Windsor and Wolfville. The area is 4,440 sq. km.

History

The electoral district was created as "Annapolis Valley in 1966 from parts of Colchester—Hants and Digby—Annapolis—Kings ridings.

In 1996, it was renamed "Kings—Hants". In 2003, it was given its current boundaries: the area encompassed by the provincial electoral district of Kings West was removed from Kings—Hants and added to West Nova.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Colchester—Hants and Digby—Annapolis—Kings prior to 1966
Annapolis Valley
28th	1968–1972		Pat Nowlan	Progressive Conservative
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
Annapolis Valley-Hants
31st	1979–1980		Pat Nowlan	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
34th	1988–1993
35th	1993–1997		John Murphy	Liberal
Kings—Hants
36th	1997–2000		Scott Brison	Progressive Conservative
	2000		Joe Clark	Progressive Conservative
37th	2000–2003		Scott Brison	Progressive Conservative
	2003–2004			Liberal
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–present

Election results

Kings—Hants

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Scott Brison	15,887	39.56	-4.62
	Conservative	David Morse	14,714	36.63	+10.49
	New Democrat	Mark Rogers	8,043	20.03	-1.98
	Green	Sheila Richardson	1,520	3.78	-2.46
Total valid votes/Expense limit			40,164	100.00
Total rejected ballots			200	0.50
Turnout			40,364	62.24
Eligible voters			64,850

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Scott Brison	16,641	44.18	-1.38	$61,623
	Conservative	Rosemary Segado	9,846	26.14	-6.02	$60,523
	New Democrat	Carol Harris	8,291	22.01	+2.98	$19,591
	Green	Brendan MacNeill	2,353	6.24	+4.04	$2,915
	Christian Heritage	Jim Hnatiuk	528	1.40		$11,346
Total valid votes/Expense limit			37,659	100.00		$79,171

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Scott Brison	19,492	45.57	-1.04
	Conservative	Bob Mullan	13,762	32.17	+2.05
	New Democrat	Mary Dewolfe	8,138	19.03	+1.34
	Green	Sheila Richardson	947	2.21	-1.41
	Marijuana	Chummy Anthony	436	1.02
Total valid votes			42,775	100.00

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Scott Brison	17,555	46.61	+16.38
	Conservative	Bob Mullan	11,344	30.12	-20.73
	New Democrat	Skip Hambling	6,663	17.69	+1.12
	Green	Kevin Stacey	1,364	3.62
	Christian Heritage	Jim Hnatiuk	493	1.31
	Independent	Richard Hennigar	242	0.64	+0.34
Total valid votes			37,661	100.00

Changes for Liberal candidate Scott Brison from 2000 are based on the Liberal Party's results. He received +6.32% votes from his results as a Progressive Conservative.

Conservative Party change is based on the combination of Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party totals.

Change for independent candidate Richard Hennigar are based on his 2000 results as a Natural Law candidate.

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Scott Brison	17,612	40.29	-13.16
	Liberal	Claude O'Hara	13,213	30.23	-0.03
	New Democrat	Kaye Johnson	7,244	16.57	-10.57
	Canadian Alliance	Gerry Fulton	4,618	10.56	-5.58
	Marijuana	Jim King	669	1.53
	Independent	Kenneth MacEachern	140	0.32
	Natural Law	Richard Hennigar	133	0.30	-0.28
	Communist	Graham Jake MacDonald	85	0.19	-0.33
Total valid votes			43,714	100.00

All changes are based on the 2000 by-election, except the Liberal Party and the Natural Law Party, which did not field a candidate; and Communist Party candidate Graham Jake MacDonald, who ran as an Independent.

By-election on 11 September 2000 On the resignation of Scott Brison, 24 July 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Joe Clark	14,525	53.45	+17.18
	New Democrat	Kaye Johnson	7,375	27.14	+8.17
	Canadian Alliance	Gerry Fulton	4,385	16.14	+2.75
	Not affiliated	Alex Neron	670	2.47
	Independent	John C. Turmel	221	0.81
Total valid votes			27,176	100.00

Changes for the Canadian Alliance from 1997 are based on the results of its predecessor, the Reform Party.

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Scott Brison	17,401	36.27	+16.04
	Liberal	John Murphy	14,515	30.26	-9.23
	New Democrat	Philip A. Brown	9,101	18.97	+13.97
	Reform	Lloyd Schmidt	6,424	13.39	+0.57
	Natural Law	James McLelland	278	0.58	-0.47
	Independent	Graham Jake MacDonald	251	0.52
Total valid votes			47,970	100.00

Annapolis Valley—Hants

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	John Murphy	18,238	39.49	-0.59
	Progressive Conservative	Jim White	9,344	20.23	-23.94
	Independent	Pat Nowlan	8,958	19.40	-24.77
	Reform	John Merriam	5,919	12.82
	New Democrat	Dick Terfry	2,308	5.00	-7.52
	Christian Heritage	Jack Enserink	614	1.33	-1.47
	National	Steve Mockford	484	1.05
	Natural Law	John Runkle	319	0.69
Total valid votes			46,184	100.00

Changes from the 1988 election for both Progressive Conservative candidate Jim White and Independent candidate Pat Nowlan are based on the same 1988 result, when Pat Nowlan ran as a Progressive Conservative.

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	20,763	44.17	-9.68
	Liberal	John Murphy	18,840	40.08	+11.62
	New Democrat	Keith Collins	5,886	12.52	-3.43
	Christian Heritage	Jack Enserink	1,318	2.80
	Not affiliated	Rik Gates	200	0.43
Total valid votes			47,007	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	23,580	53.85	+11.88
	Liberal	Howard Fuller	12,463	28.46	-2.87
	New Democrat	Peggy Hope-Simpson	6,987	15.95	-9.34
	Rhino	Graham Macdermott	762	1.74	+0.90
Total valid votes			43,792	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	17,152	41.97	-8.15
	Liberal	Jim Munro	12,804	31.33	+1.41
	New Democrat	Bob Levy	10,338	25.29	+5.33
	Rhino	Mark Moors	343	0.84
	Independent	Dick Killam	233	0.57
Total valid votes			40,870	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	20,103	50.12
	Liberal	Frank C. Bezanson	12,001	29.92
	New Democrat	Bob Levy	8,008	19.96
Total valid votes			40,112	100.00

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	19,174
	Liberal	Brian Bruce	15,712
	New Democrat	John Patrick O'Meara	1,366
	Marxist–Leninist	Ronald John Brunton	135
	Social Credit	Frank Dimock	121

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	20,962
	Liberal	Tom Calkin	12,800
	New Democrat	Virginia Pickett	1,788
	Social Credit	W. Lincoln Hatt	299

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Nowlan	17,435
	Liberal	Alexander C. Williamson	12,342
	New Democrat	Donald L. McKay	1,007

See also

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

External links

• Riding history for Annapolis Valley—Hants (1976–1996) from the Library of Parliament
• Riding history for Kings—Hants (1996– ) from the Library of Parliament

Federal ridings in Nova Scotia Liberal Cape Breton—Canso • Halifax West • Kings—Hants • Sydney-Victoria Conservative Central Nova • Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley • South Shore—St. Margaret's • West Nova New Democratic Dartmouth—Cole Harbour • Halifax • Sackville—Eastern Shore

Federal ridings in Atlantic Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Avalon • Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor • Humber—St. Barbe—Baie Verte • Labrador • Random—Burin—St. George's • St. John's East • St. John's South—Mount Pearl Nova Scotia Cape Breton—Canso • Central Nova • Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley • Dartmouth—Cole Harbour • Halifax • Halifax West • Kings—Hants • Sackville—Eastern Shore • South Shore—St. Margaret's • Sydney—Victoria • West Nova Prince Edward Island Cardigan • Charlottetown • Egmont • Malpeque New Brunswick Acadie—Bathurst • Beauséjour • Fredericton • Fundy Royal • Madawaska—Restigouche • Miramichi • Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe • New Brunswick Southwest • Saint John • Tobique—Mactaquac