Halifax Fairview

Halifax Fairview
Nova Scotia electoral district

Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Nova Scotia House of Assembly
District created	1993
District abolished	2013
Last contested	2009
Demographics
Population (2011)	19,937
Electors	14,508
Census divisions	Halifax RM
Census subdivisions	Halifax

Halifax Fairview is a former provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada which existed from 1993-2013. It elected one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. In its last configuration, the electoral district included the communities of Fairview, Armdale, Cowie Hill, Fairmount and Kline Heights - all within the Halifax Regional Municipality.

The electoral district was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was replaced by the new electoral districts of Halifax Armdale and Clayton Park West.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years		Party
56th	1993–1996	Alexa McDonough	New Democratic
56th	1996–1998	Eileen O'Connell	New Democratic
57th	1998–1999
58th	1999–2001
58th	2001–2003	Graham Steele	New Democratic
59th	2003–2006
60th	2006–2009
61st	2009–2013

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Graham Steele	4,680	63.71	5.2
	Liberal	Brad Armitage	1,544	21.02	6.4
	Progressive Conservative	Paul Henderson	893	12.15	-10.98
	Green	Jane Hester	229	3.11	-0.45

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Graham Steele	4,172	58.51	12.66
	Progressive Conservative	Bruce MacCharles	1,649	23.13	0.68
	Liberal	Cecil MacDougall	1,055	14.80	-15.65
	Green	Kris MacLellan	254	3.56	-

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Graham Steele	3,439	45.85	-12.32
	Liberal	Susan Hayes	2,284	30.45	3
	Progressive Conservative	Bruce MacCharles	1,684	22.45	9.92
	Nova Scotia Party	David F. Boyd	94	1.25	0.42

Halifax Fairview by-election, 2001^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Graham Steele	2,164	58.17	11.94
	Liberal	Jeremy Akerman	1,021	27.45	3.3
	Progressive Conservative	Narayana Swamy	466	12.53	-14.55
	Marijuana	Melanie Patriquen	38	1.02	-
	Nova Scotia Party	Heather Drope	31	.83	-1.72

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Eileen O'Connell	3,615	46.23	-7.57
	Progressive Conservative	Narayana Swamy	2,117	27.08	10.88
	Liberal	Greta Murtagh	1,888	24.15	-5.85
	Nova Scotia Party	Marie Alexandridis	199	2.55	-

Nova Scotia general election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Eileen O'Connell	4,649	53.80	-11.44
	Liberal	Bob Britton	2,597	30.00	13.64
	Progressive Conservative	Brian Nash	1,402	16.20	-2.19

Halifax Fairview by-election, 1996
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Eileen O'Connell	4,434	65.24	19.72
	Progressive Conservative	Rosanna Liberatore	1,250	18.39	-1.36
	Liberal	Mary Ann Crowley	1,112	16.36	-17.46

Nova Scotia general election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic Party	Alexa McDonough	4,789	45.52	-
	Liberal	Art Flynn	3558	33.82	-
	Progressive Conservative	Rosanna Liberatore	2,078	19.75	-
	Natural Law	Mark Hawkins	96	.01	-

References

↑ Elections Nova Scotia, Complete Results and Statistics of Provincial By-Elections 1930 - 2007, Complete Poll By Poll Results (March 6, 2001). Retrieved on October 30, 2007

External links

Coordinates: 44°38′06″N 63°38′38″W / 44.635°N 63.644°W / 44.635; -63.644

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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