Chester-St. Margaret's

Chester—St. Margaret's is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It is located on the South Shore.

The constituency was created in 1993. It includes the Municipality of Chester and the communities in the Halifax Regional Municipality along the coast of St. Margarets Bay including Peggys Cove. Major towns in the riding include Hubbards, Chester, Western Shore, Boutiliers Point and Head of St. Margarets Bay.

Statistics

Avg. Income: $27,440 (2003)
Population: 19,720 (2003)
Post-secondary education: 36% (2003)

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

Legislature	Years		Party
61st	2009–Present	Denise Peterson-Rafuse	New Democratic
60th	2006-2009	Judy Streatch	Progressive Conservative
59th	2005-2006	Judy Streatch	Progressive Conservative
59th	2003-2005	John Chataway	Progressive Conservative
58th	1999-2003	John Chataway	Progressive Conservative
57th	1998-1999	Hinrich Bitter-Suermann	New Democratic
57th	1998	Hinrich Bitter-Suermann	Progressive Conservative
56th	1993-1998	Jim Barkhouse	Liberal

Nova Scotia general election, 2013
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Denise Peterson-Rafuse
	Progressive Conservative	Janet Elizabeth Irwin
	Liberal	Timothy Whitman Harris

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Denise Peterson-Rafuse	4835	48.09
	Progressive Conservative	Judy Streatch	2762	27.47
	Liberal	Jo-Ann Grant	2122	21.11
	Green	Ryan Cameron	335	3.33	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Judy Streatch	3950	42.67
	New Democratic Party	Jane Matheson	2833	30.60
	Liberal	Rick Fraughton	2192	23.68
	Green	Joanne MacKinnon	282	3.05	–

Chester-St. Margaret's By-election, June 21, 2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Judy Streatch	2955	36.18
	New Democratic Party	Hinrich Bitter-Suermann	2434	29.80
	Liberal	Rick Fraughton	2548	31.20
	Green	Michael Oddy	210	2.57	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	John Chataway	3453	37.33
	New Democratic Party	Hinrich Bitter-Suermann	3413	36.90
	Liberal	Milt Larsen	2243	24.25
	Nova Scotia Party	Sue Gault	141	1.52

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	John Chataway	4,193
	New Democratic Party	Hinrich Bitter-Suermann	3,098
	Liberal	Karen Willis Duerden	1,971

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