Halifax Citadel-Sable Island

The constituency consists of the downtown city centre of Halifax and the residential South End. The regional district's area includes four universities (including Dalhousie University and Saint Mary's University) and four hospitals. The constituency also includes Sable Island.

Statistics

Population: 20,560
Average income: $42,680 (highest in province)

History

From 1978 to 1997, a Progressive Conservative seat, Halifax Citadel has since become a major battleground between all three major parties. The seat changed hands in each of the five elections between the 1997 by-election and the 2006 general election and has been won by each major party within the last four elections.

On October 7, 2005, following the resignation of Liberal member Danny Graham, the seat became vacant. A by-election was called for June 27, 2006. That then became void when the 2006 general election was called for June 13, 2006.

In what was one of the most watched ridings during the 2006 provincial election, NDP candidate Leonard Preyra came out in front of former Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Bill Black.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years		Party
62nd	2013–present	Labi Kousoulis	Liberal
61st	2009–2013	Leonard Preyra	New Democratic
60th	2006–2009	Leonard Preyra	New Democratic
59th	2003–2005	Danny Graham	Liberal
58th	1999–2003	Jane Purves	Progressive Conservative
57th	1998–1999	Peter Delefes	New Democratic
56th	1997–1998	Ed Kinley	Liberal
56th	1993–1997	Terry Donahoe	Progressive Conservative
55th	1988–1993	Arthur R. Donahoe	Progressive Conservative
54th	1984–1988
53rd	1981–1984
52nd	1978–1981
51st	1974–1978	Ronald Wallace	Liberal
50th	1970–1974	Ronald Wallace	Liberal
49th	1967–1970	Donald MacKeen Smith	Progressive Conservative

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2013
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Labi Kousoulis	2,966	47.66
	New Democratic Party	Leonard Preyra	1,934	31.08
	Progressive Conservative	Andrew Black	1,094	17.58
	Green	Brynn Horley	198	3.18
	Independent (Atlantica)	Frederic Boileau-Cadieux	31	0.50

Nova Scotia general election, 2009^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Leonard Preyra	3,785	49.17
	Liberal	Gerry Walsh	2,584	33.57
	Progressive Conservative	Ted Larsen	1,000	12.98
	Green	Ryan Watson	329	4.27	+0.04

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Leonard Preyra	3,054	42.03	+10.83
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Black	2,724	37.49	+7.22
	Liberal	Devin Maxwell	1,181	16.25	-21.09
	Green	Nick Wright	307	4.23	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Danny Graham	3,042	37.34	+7.46
	New Democratic Party	Peter Delefes	2,542	31.20	-0.91
	Progressive Conservative	Jane Purves	2,466	30.27	-6.56
	Marijuana	Michael R. Patriquen	59	0.72
	Nova Scotia Party	James A. C. Marchoine	38	0.47	-0.09

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Jane Purves	3,392	36.83	+17.23
	New Democratic Party	Peter Delefes	2,958	32.11	-7.79
	Liberal	Ed Kinley	2,752	29.88	-9.62
	Independent	Art Canning	57	0.62	-0.28
	Nova Scotia Party	Grace Patterson	52	0.56

Nova Scotia general election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Peter Delefes	4,414	39.87	+3.60
	Liberal	Ed Kinley	4,377	39.53	+1.00
	Progressive Conservative	Tara Erskine	2,175	19.64	-4.70
	Independent	Art Canning	106	0.96

Nova Scotia provincial by-election, 4 November 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
Resignation of Terry Donahoe
	Liberal	Ed Kinley	2,795	38.55
	New Democratic	Peter Delefes	2,630	36.27
	Progressive Conservative	Kate Carmichael	1,763	24.31
	Independent	Idris Madar	63	0.87
Total			3,333	33.33%

Nova Scotia general election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Terry Donahoe	4,584	39.23
	Liberal	Liz Crocker	4,505	38.55
	New Democratic Party	Mary Sparling	2,433	20.82
	Independent	Jan Morrison	85	0.73
	Natural Law	Gilles Bigras	78	0.67

Nova Scotia general election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Arthur R. Donahoe	3,283	35.11
	New Democratic Party	Eileen O'Connell	3,057	32.70
	Liberal	Jay Abbass	2,882	30.82
	Independent	Frank J. Fawson	128	1.37

Nova Scotia general election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Arthur R. Donahoe	3,652	40.40
	New Democratic Party	Eileen O'Connell	2,864	31.68
	Liberal	John Godfrey	2,524	27.92

Nova Scotia general election, 1981
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Arthur R. Donahoe	4,141	44.55
	Liberal	Brenda Shannon	2,690	28.94
	New Democratic Party	Tom Sinclair-Faulkner	2,465	26.52

Nova Scotia general election, 1978
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Arthur R. Donahoe	3,780	40.56
	Liberal	Ronald Wallace	3,525	37.82
	New Democratic Party	Michael Bradfield	2,015	21.62

Nova Scotia general election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ronald Wallace	4,299
	Progressive Conservative	Richard MacLean	3,071
	New Democratic Party	Michael Bradfield	1,452

Nova Scotia general election, 1970
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Ronald Wallace	4,572
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Smith	3,833

Nova Scotia general election, 1967
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Smith	4,771
	Liberal	Robert Matheson	3,522
	New Democratic Party	M. Rae Gillman	317

References

↑ http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/dist27.pdf

External links

Coordinates: 44°38′10″N 63°34′41″W / 44.636°N 63.578°W / 44.636; -63.578

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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