Colchester North

This article is about the Canadian electoral district. For the UK railway station, see Colchester railway station. For the defunct UK Parliament Constituency, see Colchester North (UK Parliament constituency).

Colchester North

Nova Scotia electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Nova Scotia House of Assembly

Karen Casey
Liberal

District created

1978

Last contested

Demographics

Population (2011)

18,238

13,879

Area (km²)

2,235

Pop. density (per km²)

8.2

Census divisions

Colchester County

Colchester North is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It was created in 1978 from Colchester.

The Member of the Legislative Assembly has been Karen Casey of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia from 2006-2011 and the Liberal Party of Nova Scotia from 2011–present.

The riding includes the northern half of Colchester County. Communities include Debert, Great Village, and Tatamagouche.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
62nd	2013–Present		Karen Casey	Liberal
61st	2011–2013			Liberal
61st	2009–2011			Progressive Conservative
60th	2006–2009			Progressive Conservative
59th	2003–2006		Bill Langille	Progressive Conservative
58th	1999–2003		Bill Langille	Progressive Conservative
57th	1998–1999		Ed Lorraine	Liberal
56th	1993–1998
55th	1988–1993
54th	1984–1988		Jack Coupar	Progressive Conservative
53rd	1981–1984		Ed Lorraine	Liberal
52nd	1978–1981		Bill Campbell	Progressive Conservative
Colchester prior to 1978

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2013
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Karen Casey	5,005	60.95	+44.47
	Progressive Conservative	John Kendrick MacDonald	2,167	26.39	-23.77
	New Democratic Party	Jim Wyatt	1,040	12.66	-18.54

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Karen Casey	3784	50.16
	New Democratic Party	Arthur Hartlen	2354	31.20
	Liberal	Lorenda Ebbett	1243	16.48
	Green	Judy Davis	163	2.16	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Karen Casey	3809	50.96
	Liberal	Bob Taylor	1979	26.47
	New Democratic Party	Rob Assels	1511	20.21
	Green	Judy Davis	176	2.35	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Langille	3324	45.22
	Liberal	John Davidson	2183	29.70
	New Democratic Party	Garfield Forrest	1843	25.07

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Langille	3728	44.31
	New Democratic Party	Ralph Martin	2411	28.66
	Liberal	John Davidson	2274	27.03

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 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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