Prov-Status: | active |
Province: | Nova Scotia |
Prov-Rep-Party: | Progressive Conservative |
Prov-Rep: | Chris Palmer |
Demo-Census-Date: | 2011 |
Demo-Pop: | 19495 |
Prov-Election-First: | 1956 |
Prov-Election-Last: | 2021 |
Demo-Electors: | 15,019 |
Demo-Area: | 1143 |
Prov-Created: | 1956 |
Demo-Cd: | Kings County |
Kings West is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It includes the towns of Berwick and Kingston, and the village of Greenwood.
The electoral district of Kings West has 1143km2 of land area.[1]
This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
46th | 1956-1960 | Hiram Thomas | Progressive Conservative | |||
47th | 1960-1963 | Edward D. MacArthur | Liberal | |||
48th | 1963-1967 | Paul Kinsman | Progressive Conservative | |||
49th | 1967-1970 | Gordon Tidman | Progressive Conservative | |||
50th | 1970-1971 | |||||
1971-1974 | Frank Bezanson | Liberal | ||||
51st | 1974-1978 | |||||
52nd | 1978-1981 | George Moody | Progressive Conservative | |||
53rd | 1981-1984 | |||||
54th | 1984-1988 | |||||
55th | 1988-1993 | |||||
56th | 1993-1998 | |||||
57th | 1998-1999 | |||||
58th | 1999-2003 | Jon Carey | Progressive Conservative | |||
59th | 2003-2006 | Leo Glavine | Liberal | |||
60th | 2006-2009 | |||||
61st | 2009–2013 | |||||
62nd | 2013–2017 | |||||
63rd | 2017–2021 | |||||
64th | 2021-present | Chris Palmer | Progressive Conservative |
|- |Liberal|Leo Glavine|align="right"|5,890|align="right"|74.31|align="right"|+13.46|- |Progressive Conservative|Jody Alan Frowley|align="right"|1,275|align="right"|16.09|align="right"|-4.22|- |New Democratic Party| Robert K. (Bob) Landry|align="right"|603|align="right"|7.61|align="right"|-9.42|-|}
2017 provincial election redistributed results[2] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Party | Vote | % | |||
4,559 | 52.06 | ||||
3,255 | 37.17 | ||||
653 | 7.46 | ||||
270 | 3.08 | ||||
21 | 0.24 |