Cumberland South

Cumberland South
Cumberland South
Flag of Nova Scotia.svg  Nova Scotia House of Assembly
provincial electoral district
Cumberland South.png
Member of the
Legislative Assembly		       Jamie Baillie
PC
Population (2006) 13,778
Electors (2010) 10,075
Area (km²)
Pop. density (per km²)
Riding created 1993
Census divisions Cumberland County
Subdivisions Oxford
Parrsboro
Springhill

Cumberland South is a provincial electoral district in Cumberland Country, Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

The communities of Oxford, Parrsboro and Springhill are within its boundaries.

The Member of the Legislative Assembly since 1998 has been held by the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia. A Tory stronghold, Cumberland South has been dominated by Progressive Conservative Murray Scott for over a decade and now Jamie Baillie.

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Members of the Legislative Assembly

  • Jamie Baillie, Progressive Conservative (2010 - present)
  • Murray Scott, Progressive Conservative (1998 - 2010)
  • Guy Brown, Liberal (1993 - 1998)

Election results

1999 general election

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
     Progressive Conservative Murray Scott 5527 74.01
     Liberal John Harrison 1000 13.39
     New Democratic Party Scott McKee 941 12.60

2003 general election

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
     Progressive Conservative Murray Scott 4898 71.70
     Liberal Harriet McCready 1189 17.40
     New Democratic Party Scott McKee 745 10.90

2006 general election

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
     Progressive Conservative Murray Scott 5082 76.76
     New Democratic Party Andrew Kernohan 753 11.37
     Liberal Mary Dee MacPherson 681 10.29
     Green James Dessart 92 1.39
     Independent David R. Amos 13 .20

2009 general election

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
     Progressive Conservative Murray Scott 4353 67.94
     New Democratic Party Don Tabor 1641 25.61
     Liberal Joseph Archibald 325 5.07
     Green Danny Melvin 88 1.37

2010 by-election

October 26, 2010 by-election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
     Progressive Conservative Jamie Baillie 3,262 57.20%
     Liberal Kenny Jackson 2,165 37.96%
     New Democratic Party Scott McKee 276 4.84%

External links

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Current
Annapolis • Antigonish • Argyle • Bedford-Birch Cove • Cape Breton Centre • Cape Breton North • Cape Breton Nova • Cape Breton South • Cape Breton West • Chester-St. Margaret's • Clare • Colchester-Musquodoboit Valley • Colchester North • Cole Harbour • Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage • Cumberland North • Cumberland South • Dartmouth East • Dartmouth North • Dartmouth South-Portland Valley • Digby-Annapolis • Eastern Shore • Glace Bay • Guysborough-Sheet Harbour • Halifax Atlantic • Halifax Chebucto • Halifax Citadel • Halifax Clayton Park • Halifax Fairview • Halifax Needham • Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville • Hants East • Hants West • Inverness • Kings North • Kings South • Kings West • Lunenburg • Lunenburg West • Pictou Centre • Pictou East • Pictou West • Preston • Queens • Richmond • Sackville-Cobequid • Shelburne • Timberlea-Prospect • Truro-Bible Hill • Victoria-The Lakes • Waverley-Fall River-Beaverbank • Yarmouth
Historic
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
See also: 2006 election • List of elections • Politics of Nova Scotia


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