Dartmouth East

Dartmouth East is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The riding is located in the Dartmouth region of the Halifax RM.

In 1978, the district was created to provide for an increase in representation of six members. In 2003, it lost a northern area to Waverley-Fall River and gained an area in Woodlawn. In 2013, following the recommendations of the Electoral Boundaries Commission report, it gained the Portobello area from Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank and lost the area east of Bell Lake to Cole Harbour-Portland Valley and lost the area north of Main Street and east of Caledonia Road until Geovex Court to Preston-Dartmouth.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years		Party
63rd	2017–present	Tim Halman	Progressive Conservative
62nd	2015-2017	Andrew Younger	Independent
62nd	2013-2015		Liberal
61st	2009–2013		Liberal
60th	2006–2009	Joan Massey	New Democratic
59th	2003–2006	Joan Massey	New Democratic
58th	1999–2003	Jim Smith	Liberal
57th	1998–1999
56th	1993–1998
55th	1988–1993
54th	1984–1988
53rd	1981–1984	Richard L. Weldon	Progressive Conservative
52nd	1978–1981	Richard L. Weldon	Progressive Conservative

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2017
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Tim Halman	3,309	41.5
	Liberal	Edgar Burns	3,118	37.9
	New Democratic	Bill McEwen	9,64	12.2
	Green	Matthew Richey	650	8.4
Total valid votes			8,041	100.0
Total rejected ballots			52	0.64
Turnout			8,093	54.84
Eligible voters			14,758

Nova Scotia general election, 2013
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal	Andrew Younger	5,469	63.85
New Democratic Party	Deborah M. Stover	1,929	22.52
Progressive Conservative	Mike M. MacDonnell	1,167	13.63

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
Liberal	Andrew Younger	4,073	45.09	+24.26
New Democratic Party	Joan Massey	3,903	43.21	-0.01
Progressive Conservative	Bert Thompson	873	9.66	-23.61
Green	Anna Mukpo	184	2.04	-0.65

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
New Democratic Party	Joan Massey	3,822	43.22	+4.49
Progressive Conservative	Jim Cormier	2,942	33.27	-3.51
Liberal	Tracey Devereaux	1,842	20.83	-0.97
Green	Elizabeth Perry	238	2.69	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
New Democratic Party	Joan Massey	3,272	38.73	+10.18
Progressive Conservative	Terry Degen	3,107	36.78	+2.72
Liberal	Debra Barlow	1,842	21.80	-15.59
Marijuana	Hugô St-Onge	101	1.20
Nova Scotia Party	Scott Anderson	98	1.16
Independent	Sebastien Theriault	28	0.33

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal	Jim Smith	2,975	37.39
Progressive Conservative	Terry Degen	2,710	34.06
New Democratic Party	Heather Henderson	2,272	28.55

Nova Scotia general election, 1998
	Candidate	Votes	%
Liberal	Jim Smith	3,326	40.9
New Democratic Party	Viola Huntington	2,954	36.3
Progressive Conservative	Ralph Hawley	1,849	22.7

Nova Scotia general election, 1993
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal	Jim Smith	4,912
Progressive Conservative	Gwen Haliburton	2,429
New Democratic Party	Owen Hertzman	1,504

Nova Scotia general election, 1988
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal	Jim Smith	5,193
Progressive Conservative	Jack Greenough	4,940
New Democratic Party	Maureen Vine	1,950

Nova Scotia general election, 1984
	Candidate	Votes
Liberal	Jim Smith	4,004
Progressive Conservative	Richard Weldon	3,101
New Democratic Party	Gerry Legere	2,058

Nova Scotia general election, 1981
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive Conservative	Richard Weldon	4,253
Liberal	Jim Smith	3,351
New Democratic Party	Gerry Legere	2,400

Nova Scotia general election, 1978
	Candidate	Votes
Progressive Conservative	Richard Weldon	5,098
Liberal	Barbara Hart	3,488
New Democratic Party	Gabriel Des Rochers	1,030

References

↑ Dartmouth East - Constituency History Nova Scotia Legislature

External links

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 Guysborough–Port Hawkesbury 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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