Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook

Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook (formerly known as Sackville—Eastern Shore and Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore) is a federal electoral district in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
2001	84,209	—
2006	86,963	+3.3%
2011 (2003 redist.)	91,266	+4.9%
2011 (2013 redist.)	85,853	−5.9%
2016	86,498	+0.8%
2021	89,524	+3.5%

From the 2006 census

Ethnic groups:

European Canadian: 89.9%
African Canadian: 3.8%
First Nations: 2.2%
Chinese Canadian: 0.4%
Arab Canadian: 0.3%
Other: 0.8%

Languages:

English: 95.0%
French: 3.1%
German: 0.4%
Arabic: 0.3%
Other: 1.2%

Religions:

Protestant: 51.3%
Catholic: 36.8%
Other Christian: 1.2%
No religious affiliation: 10.2%

Education:

No certificate, diploma or degree: 22.7%
High school certificate: 23.9%
Apprenticeship or trade certificate or diploma: 13.0%
Community college, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma: 21.7%
University certificate or diploma: 18.6%

Median Age:

38.4

Median total income:

$29,212

Average total income:

$34,589

Median household income:

$64,588

Average household income:

$72,245

Median family income:

$71,566

Average family income:

$78,873

Unemployment:

5.9%

Geography

The district includes the part of the Halifax Regional Municipality located on the Atlantic coast between Lake Charlotte and Jeddore Harbour in the east to Halifax Harbour in the west excluding the community of Dartmouth and the community of Eastern Passage. It also includes HRM's northern suburbs in the Sackville River valley north to the boundary with Hants County. The land area is 645.18 km (249.11 sq mi).

History

The electoral district was created in 1996 from Central Nova and Dartmouth ridings, and was known as "Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore" from 1999 to 2003. MP Peter Stoffer tabled a Private Members Bill to change the name of the riding to "Sackville—Preston—Eastern Shore". As per the 2012 federal electoral redistribution, this riding was largely dissolved into the new riding of Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook (94%), with small portions going to Central Nova (4%) and Dartmouth—Cole Harbour (2%).

Following the 2022 federal electoral redistribution, the riding will largely be replaced by Sackville—Bedford—Preston. It gains the Bedford, Hammonds Plains and Lucasville areas from Halifax West; it gains the area north of Highways 111 and 118 plus the Lake Charles area from Dartmouth—Cole Harbour; and it loses the Lawrencetown, Porters Lake and the Chezzetcook areas to Central Nova.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore Riding created from Central Nova and Dartmouth
36th	1997–2000	Peter Stoffer	New Democratic
37th	2000–2004	Peter Stoffer	New Democratic
Sackville—Eastern Shore
38th	2004–2006	Peter Stoffer	New Democratic
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook
42nd	2015–2019	Darrell Samson	Liberal
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–present

Election results

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Graph of election results in Sackville—Musquodoboit Valley—Eastern Shore, Sackville—Eastern Shore, Sackville—Preston—Chezzetcook (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

Sackville—Bedford—Preston

2021 federal election redistributed results
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	22,199	44.65
	Conservative	12,424	24.99
	New Democratic	12,317	24.78
	People's	1,732	3.48
	Green	1,019	2.05
	Others	23	0.05