Cumberland North

For the United Kingdom parliamentary constituency, see North Cumberland (UK Parliament constituency).

Cumberland North

Nova Scotia electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Nova Scotia House of Assembly

Terry Farrell
Liberal

District created

1993

Last contested

Demographics

Population (2011)

18,148

14,452

Area (km²)

1,050

Pop. density (per km²)

17.3

Census divisions

Cumberland County

Census subdivisions

Amherst, Pugwash

Cumberland North is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Prior to 1993, it was part of Cumberland East.

The communities of Amherst and Pugwash are within its boundaries.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This electoral district has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
62nd	2013–Present		Terry Farrell	Liberal
61st	2009–2013		Brian Skabar	New Democratic
60th	2007-2009		Ernest Fage	Independent
60th	2006-2007			Progressive Conservative
59th	2003-2006
58th	1999-2003
57th	1998-1999
56th	1997-1998
56th	1993-1997		Ross Bragg	Liberal

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2013
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Terry Farrell	2,944	39.81
	Progressive Conservative	Judith Marie Giroux	2,230	30.15
	New Democratic Party	Brian Skabar	1,943	26.27
	Green	Jason Blanch	279	3.77

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	New Democratic Party	Brian Skabar	3170	40.16	+25.51
	Independent	Ernest Fage	2164	27.42	-35.22
	Progressive Conservative	Keith Hunter	1359	17.22	-45.42
	Liberal	Brent Noiles	1073	13.59	-6.39
	Green	Aviva Silburt	127	1.61	-1.12

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Ernest Fage	4640	62.64
	Liberal	Bruce Alan Fage	1480	19.98
	New Democratic Party	Kim Cail	1085	14.65
	Green	Darryl Greyory Whetter	202	2.73	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Ernest Fage	4609	61.20
	Liberal	Marsh Fox	1380	19.41
	New Democratic Party	Kim Cail	1105	14.87
	Independent	Jason Blanch	337	4.53

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Ernest Fage	5936
	Liberal	Kathy Langille	1595
	New Democratic Party	Doug Wilson	856
	Independent	Jason Blanch	337

Nova Scotia general election, 1998
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Ernest Fage	5451
	Liberal	Russell Scott	2438
	New Democratic Party	Peter Stewart	854

Nova Scotia by-elections, November 4,1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Ernest Fage	4954
	Liberal	Russell Scott	2123
	New Democratic Party	Dorothy Jorgensen	1014

Nova Scotia general election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Ross Bragg	5605
	Progressive Conservative	Ernest Fage	4354
	New Democratic Party	Curtis Leland Bird	756

External links

References

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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