Cape Breton-Richmond

Nova Scotia electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Nova Scotia House of Assembly

MLA

Michel Samson
Liberal

District created

2012

Last contested

2013

Demographics

Area (km²)

1,795

Census divisions

Cape Breton County, Richmond County, Inverness

Census subdivisions

Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Chapel Island 5, Port Hawkesbury, Richmond, Subd. A, Richmond, Subd. B, Richmond, Subd. C

Cape Breton-Richmond is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It was created in 2012 from all of Richmond and small parts of Inverness and Cape Breton West.^[1] The riding is represented by Michel Samson of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The electoral district is represented by the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
62nd	2013–present		Michel Samson	Liberal

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2013
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Michel Samson	4369
	Progressive Conservative	Joe Janega	1696
	New Democratic Party	Bert Lewis	1667

References

↑ http://www.cbc.ca/elections/nsvotes2013/features/view/district-finder
↑ "Samson crushes opposition in Cape Breton-Richmond" Cape Breton Post, October 8, 2013.

Summary of Official Results by District (2013 election). Elections Nova Scotia, retrieved November 25, 2013.

External links

2013 riding profile

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

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