Eastern Passage (electoral district)
 Nova Scotia electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Nova Scotia House of Assembly | ||
| MLA |
Progressive Conservative | ||
| District created | 2019 | ||
| First contested | 2024 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Electors | 10,512 | ||
| Area (km²)[1] | 42 | ||
| Census division | Halifax Regional Municipality | ||
| Census subdivision | Halifax Regional Municipality | ||
Eastern Passage is a provincial electoral district of Nova Scotia, Canada, that came into effect at the 2021 Nova Scotia general election. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia.
The riding was created by the 2019 provincial redistribution out of part of Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage.
The riding contains the communities of Cow Bay, Eastern Passage, Shearwater, McNabs Island, and the Dartmouth neighbourhood of Imperoyal in the Halifax Regional Municipality.[2]
Members of the Legislative Assembly
This riding has elected the following MLAs:
| Eastern Passage | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legislature | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created from Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage | ||||
| 64th | 2021–2024 | Barbara Adams | Progressive Conservative | |
| 65th | 2024–present | |||
Election results
| 2024 Nova Scotia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Barbara Adams | 2,754 | 63.75 | 18.93 | ||||
| Liberal | Chris Peters | 1,110 | 25.69 | -0.52 | ||||
| Independent | Tammy Jakeman | 456 | 10.56 | – | ||||
| Total | 4,320 | – | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 85 | |||||||
| Turnout | 4,408 | 40.82 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 10,798 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | |||||||
| Source: Elections Nova Scotia[3] | ||||||||
| 2021 Nova Scotia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Progressive Conservative | Barbara Adams | 2,469 | 44.82 | +9.11 | $29,475.98 | |||
| Liberal | Joyce Treen | 1,444 | 26.21 | -8.60 | $45,473.02 | |||
| New Democratic | Tammy Jakeman | 1,222 | 22.18 | -2.56 | $24,550.06 | |||
| Green | Corey Myers | 374 | 6.79 | +1.95 | $2,771.86 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 5,509 | 99.53 | – | $64,783.35 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 26 | 0.47 | ||||||
| Turnout | 5,535 | 52.65 | ||||||
| Eligible voters | 10,512 | |||||||
| Progressive Conservative notional hold | Swing | +8.86 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Nova Scotia[4][5] | ||||||||
| 2017 provincial election redistributed results[6] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |
| Progressive Conservative | 2,182 | 35.71 | |
| Liberal | 2,121 | 34.81 | |
| New Democratic | 1,512 | 24.74 | |
| Green | 296 | 4.84 | |
See also
References
- ^ "Electoral District Information". Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
- ^ Nova Scotia Legislature (2024). "Electoral History for Eastern Passage" (PDF). nslegislature.ca.
- ^ Nova Scotia, Chief Electoral Officer (2025). 42nd Provincial General Election, November 26, 2024: Volume 1 – Statement of Votes & Statistics (PDF) (Report). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
- ^ Nova Scotia, Chief Electoral Officer (2022). 41st Provincial General Election, August 17, 2021: Volume 1 – Statement of Votes & Statistics (PDF) (Report). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
- ^ Nova Scotia, Chief Electoral Officer (2022). 41st Provincial General Election, August 17, 2021: Volume 3 – Financial Information & Statistics (PDF) (Report). Elections Nova Scotia. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
- ^ "Transposition of Votes from the 2017 Provincial General Election to 2019 Electoral District Boundaries" (PDF). Elections Nova Scotia. 12 April 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.