Halifax Needham

Halifax Needham is a provincial electoral district in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It has existed since 1967, though its boundaries have changed periodically.

The current Member of the Legislative Assembly is Maureen MacDonald of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party.

Halifax Needham encompasses what is largely known as the North End of Halifax. It has been held by members of each major political party in Nova Scotia at different times, the riding was once the home of Liberal Premier Gerald Regan before going to Progressive Conservative Edmund L. Morris for the majority of the 1980s. Morris once served as an Member of Parliament for Halifax under Progressive Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker before becoming the Mayor of Halifax. He served in Cabinet as Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Municipal Affairs, Fisheries and Community Services.

When he stepped down in 1988, the Progressive Conservatives lost the seat in that election to Gerry O'Malley. Liberal Minister of Supply and Services Gerry O'Malley was unseated in 1998. Maureen MacDonald has held the seat since 1998 and this seat is now considered a safe seat for the NDP.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:

Legislature	Years		Party
61st	2009–Present	Maureen MacDonald	New Democratic
60th	2006-2009
59th	2003-2006
58th	1999-2003
57th	1998-1999
56th	1993-1998	Gerry O'Malley	Liberal
55th	1988-1993	Gerry O'Malley	Liberal
54th	1984-1988	Edmond L. Morris	Progressive Conservative
53rd	1981-1984
52nd	1980-1981
52nd	1978-1980	Gerald Regan	Liberal
51st	1974-1978
50th	1970-1974
49th	1967-1970

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2013
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Maureen MacDonald	3,391	44.03	-23.80
	Liberal	Chris Poole	3,115	40.45	+19.22
	Progressive Conservative	Mary D.S. Hamblin	834	10.83	+4.65
	Green	Kris MacLellan	361	4.69	-0.08

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Maureen MacDonald	5337	67.83
	Liberal	Graham Estabrooks	1670	21.23
	Progressive Conservative	Jason Cameron	486	6.18
	Green	Kris MacLellan	375	4.77	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Maureen MacDonald	4438	60.62
	Progressive Conservative	Andrew Black	1330	18.17
	Liberal	Dr. Errol Guam	1220	16.66
	Green	Amanda Myers	333	4.55	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Maureen MacDonald	3709	50.26
	Liberal	Mike Rogers	2178	29.51
	Progressive Conservative	Linda Carvery	1377	18.66
	Nova Scotia Party	Blair Baxter	116	1.57

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Maureen MacDonald	3525	44.95
	Progressive Conservative	Linda Carvery	2185	27.86
	Liberal	Mike Rogers	1970	25.12
	Nova Scotia Party	Scott Higgins	162	2.07

Nova Scotia general election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Maureen MacDonald	4837	58.5
	Liberal	Gerry O'Malley	2506	30.3
	Progressive Conservative	Atho Kartsaklis	924	11.2

Nova Scotia general election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gerry O'Malley	4527
	New Democratic Party	Innis MacDonald	3555
	Progressive Conservative	Ron Walker Milsom	1852
	Natural Law Party	Ian Temple	85

Nova Scotia general election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gerry O'Malley	3469
	New Democratic Party	Maureen MacDonald	2693
	Progressive Conservative	Randy Dewell	2116

Nova Scotia general election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Edmund Morris	3173
	New Democratic Party	Maureen MacDonald	2514
	Liberal	Walter Fitzgerald	2208
	Labour	Bernice Kaizer	44

Nova Scotia general election, 1981
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Edmund Morris	3300
	Liberal	Dan Clarke	2801
	New Democratic Party	Phil Davis	2572

Nova Scotia by- election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Edmund Morris	2618
	Liberal	Dan Clarke	2592
	New Democratic Party	Burnley "Rocky" Jones	700

Nova Scotia general election, 1978
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gerald Regan	3553
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Curran	3416
	New Democratic Party	James "Dusty" Miller	1222

Nova Scotia general election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gerald Regan	4364
	Progressive Conservative	James H. Vaughan	1854
	New Democratic Party	Martin Dolin	879

Nova Scotia general election, 1970
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gerald Regan	4514
		MacKeen	2887
		Sinclair	392

Nova Scotia general election, 1967
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Gerald A. Regan	3354
		Cecil Moore	3252
		Buddy Daye	355

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Coordinates: 44°39′48″N 63°36′00″W / 44.6632°N 63.600°W / 44.6632; -63.600

Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts

Current

Historic

to 2013:	Argyle Cape Breton North Cape Breton Nova Cape Breton South Cape Breton West Clare Cole Harbour Dartmouth South-Portland Valley Digby-Annapolis Guysborough-Sheet Harbour Halifax Clayton Park Halifax Fairview Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville Preston Queens Richmond Shelburne Truro-Bible Hill

to 2003:	Bedford-Fall River Cape Breton East Cape Breton The Lakes Dartmouth South Dartmouth-Cole Harbour Halifax Bedford Basin Sackville-Beaver Bank Victoria

to 1993:	Annapolis East Annapolis West Colchester South Cumberland Centre Cumberland East Cumberland West Digby Guysborough Halifax Cornwallis Halifax Eastern Shore Halifax St. Margarets Inverness North Inverness South Lunenburg Centre Lunenburg East Sackville

to 1978:	Colchester Halifax Cobequid

to 1967:	Halifax Centre Halifax County Dartmouth Halifax East Halifax North Halifax Northwest Halifax South Halifax West

to 1956:	Kings

to 1949:	Cumberland Hants Pictou

to 1933:	Halifax Richmond and Cape Breton West

to 1925:	Cape Breton

See also: 2013 election
List of elections
Politics of Nova Scotia

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