Digby (provincial electoral district)

Digby was a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elected one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. It existed from 1867 to 1993.

From 1867 to 1949, the district included all of Digby County. After 1949, the Municipality of Clare received its own electoral district.^[1] From 1949 to 1993, the district included the town of Digby and the Municipality of Digby.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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

Legislature	Years	Member		Party
55th	1988-1993		Joseph H. Casey	Liberal
54th	1984-1988		Merryl Lawton	Progressive Conservative
53rd	1981-1984		Joseph H. Casey	Liberal
52nd	1978-1981
51st	1974-1978
50th	1970-1974
49th	1967-1970		Robert Baden Powell	Progressive Conservative
48th	1963-1967		Robert Baden Powell	Progressive Conservative
47th	1960-1963		Victor Cardoza	Liberal
46th	1956-1960		Malcolm Stewart Leonard	Progressive Conservative
45th	1953–1956		Victor Cardoza	Liberal
44th	1949–1953		E. Keith Potter	Progressive Conservative
43rd	1945-1949		Joseph William Comeau	Liberal
42nd	1941-1945
41st	1937-1941
40th	1933-1937
Digby returned two members before 1933
39th	1928-1933		Joseph William Comeau	Liberal		Alexander Stirling MacMillan	Liberal
38th	1925-1928		Jean-Louis Philippe Robicheau	Liberal-Conservative		William Hudson Farnham	Liberal-Conservative
37th	1920-1925		Henry Ward Beecher Warner	Liberal		Joseph William Comeau	Liberal
36th	1916-1920		Henry Ward Beecher Warner	Liberal
35th	1911-1916		Harry Hatheway Marshall	Liberal-Conservative
35th	1911		Allan Ellsworth Wall	Liberal
34th	1910-1911		Allan Ellsworth Wall
	1907-1910	Angus Morrison Gidney
	1906-1907		Ambroise-Hilaire Comeau
33rd	1901-1906
32nd	1897-1901
31st	1895-1897
31st	1894-1895	Eliakim Tupper
30th	1890-1894	Eliakim Tupper
29th	1886-1890	Henri M. Robicheau	John S. McNeill
28th	1882-1886		John S. McNeill
27th	1878-1882				Benjamin Van Blarcom	Liberal-Conservative
26th	1874-1878				Colin Campbell	Liberal
25th	1871-1874	William Berrian Vail	Urbine Doucett
24th	1867-1871	William Berrian Vail	Urbine Doucett

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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