Victoria-The Lakes

Victoria-The Lakes

Nova Scotia electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Nova Scotia House of Assembly
MLA	Keith Bain Progressive Conservative
District created	1867
Last contested	2013
Demographics
Population (2011)	11,518
Electors	11,823
Area (km²)	3,438
Pop. density (per km²)	3.4
Census divisions	Victoria County, Cape Breton RM

Victoria—The Lakes is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

Its Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since the 2017 election has been Keith Bain of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.

It was created in 1867 as Victoria, composing all of Victoria County. In 1993, the district gained the area north of the southern border of the Cape Breton Highlands National Park. In 2003, Victoria was renamed Victoria-The Lakes. It lost the top of Inverness County to Inverness and gained some of the rural areas of Cape Breton The Lakes.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
63rd	2017–present		Keith Bain	Progressive Conservative
62nd	2013–2017		Pam Eyking	Liberal
61st	2009–2013		Keith Bain	Progressive Conservative
60th	2006-2009
59th	2003-2006		Gerald Sampson	Liberal
58th	1999-2003		Kennie MacAskill	Liberal
57th	1998-1999
56th	1993-1998
55th	1988-1993
54th	1984-1988		Fisher Hudson	Progressive Conservative
53rd	1981-1984
52nd	1980-1981
	1978-1980		Peter John Nicholson	Liberal
51st	1974-1978		Maynard MacAskill	Liberal
50th	1970-1974		Fisher Hudson	Progressive Conservative
49th	1967-1970
48th	1963-1967		Carleton L. MacMillan	Liberal
47th	1960-1963
46th	1956-1960
45th	1953-1956
44th	1949-1953
43rd	1945-1949		John Malcolm Campbell
42nd	1941-1945
41st	1937-1941
40th	1933-1937		Frederick Walker Baldwin	Liberal-Conservative

Election results

2017 general election

2017 Nova Scotia general election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Keith Bain	4,373	59.55	+24.31
	Liberal	Pam Eyking	1,969	26.81	-12.18
	New Democratic	Lisa Bond	544	7.41	-16.19
	Green	Adrianna MacKinnon	265	3.61	N/A
	Independent	Stemer MacLeod	192	2.61	+0.43
Total valid votes			7,343	100.0
Total rejected ballots			37	0.50
Turnout			7,380	59.75
Eligible voters			12,352

2013 general election

2013 Nova Scotia general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal Party of Nova Scotia	Pam Eyking	3,150	38.99	+8.39
	Progressive Conservative	Keith Bain	2,847	35.24	-3.44
	New Democratic Party	John Frank Tomey	1,907	23.60	-3.28
	Independent	Stewart M. (Stemer) MacLeod	176	2.18	+0.28

2009 general election

2009 Nova Scotia general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Keith Bain	2,417	38.68	-8.8
	Liberal	Gerald Sampson	1,912	30.60	-5.34
	New Democratic Party	Fraser Patterson	1,680	26.88	+14.94
	Green	Jim O'Brien	143	2.74	-0.45
	Independent	Stemer MacLeod	97	1.90	-0.35

2006 general election

2006 Nova Scotia general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Keith Bain	3,001	47.48
	Liberal	Gerald Sampson	2,272	35.94
	New Democratic Party	Joan O'Liari	755	11.94
	Green	Michelle Smith	173	2.74	–
	Independent	Stemer MacLeod	120	1.90

2003 general election

2003 Nova Scotia general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Gerald Sampson	2,284	36.44
	Progressive Conservative	Keith Bain	2,036	32.48
	New Democratic Party	Nancy MacKeigan	934	14.90
	Independent	Brian Boudreau	750	11.97
	Independent	Stemer MacLeod	120	4.21

External links

• CBC riding profile (2003)