Kings West

For the former New Brunswick provincial electoral district, see Kings West (New Brunswick electoral district).

Kings West

Nova Scotia electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Nova Scotia House of Assembly

Leo Glavine
Liberal

District created

1956

Last contested

Demographics

Population (2011)

19,495

14,614

Area (km²)

1,063

Pop. density (per km²)

18.3

Census divisions

Kings West 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) is Leo Glavine of the Liberal Party of Nova Scotia.

Major towns include Berwick and Kingston.

Demographics

Population: 20,970 (2003)
Avg. Income: $23,743 (2003)
Unemployment rate: 7.9% (2003)

Members of the Legislative Assembly

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		Gordon Tidman	Progressive Conservative
50th	1971-1974		Frank Bezanson	Liberal
51st	1974-1978		Frank Bezanson	Liberal
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–present

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2013
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Leo Glavine	5,890	74.31	+13.46
	Progressive Conservative	Jody Alan Frowley	1,275	16.09	-4.22
	New Democratic Party	Robert K. (Bob) Landry	603	7.61	-9.42
	Green	Barbara G. Lake	158	1.99	+0.18

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Leo Glavine	4,996	60.85
	Progressive Conservative	Chris Palmer	1,668	20.31
	New Democratic Party	Carol Tobin	1,398	17.03
	Green	Nistal Prem de Boer	149	1.81	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Leo Glavine	3940	46.67
	Progressive Conservative	John Prall	2801	33.18
	New Democratic Party	Greg Hubbert	1590	18.83
	Green	Nistal Prem de Boer	112	1.33	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Leo Glavine	3045	36.91
	Progressive Conservative	Jon Carey	2935	35.58
	New Democratic Party	Greg Hubbert	2269	27.51

Nova Scotia general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Progressive Conservative	Jon Carey	4,033
	Liberal	Don Clarke	2,346
	New Democratic Party	Jacquie DeMestral	1,629
	Nova Scotia Party	Frances Adams	166

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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