Dartmouth South-Portland Valley

Nova Scotia electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Nova Scotia House of Assembly

MLA

District created

2003

District abolished

2013

Last contested

2009

Demographics

Population (2011)

24,651

Electors

18,609

Area (km²)

11.00

Pop. density (per km²)

2,241

Census divisions

Halifax Regional Municipality

Dartmouth South-Portland Valley is a former provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada which existed from 2003-2013. It elected one member to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. In its last configuration, the electoral district included the southern part of Dartmouth in the Halifax Regional Municipality.

The electoral district was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was largely replaced by the new electoral districts of Dartmouth South and Cole Harbour-Portland Valley.^[1]^[2]

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The electoral district was represented by the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:

Legislature	Years		Party
61st	2009–2013	Marilyn More	New Democratic
60th	2006-2009
59th	2003-2006
Dartmouth South and Cole Harbour—Eastern Passage prior to 2003

Election results

Nova Scotia general election, 2009
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
New Democratic Party	Marilyn More	5579	54.57
Liberal	Colin Hebb	2946	28.81
Progressive Conservative	George Jordan	1389	13.59
Green	David Croft	310	3.03	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2006
	Candidate	Votes	%	±
New Democratic Party	Marilyn More	4493	48.05
Progressive Conservative	Tim Olive	3041	32.52
Liberal	Brian Hiltz	1509	16.14
Green	Danny Melvin	308	3.29	–

Nova Scotia general election, 2003
	Candidate	Votes	%
New Democratic Party	Marilyn More	3844	43.30
Progressive Conservative	Tim Olive	2813	31.86
Liberal	Colini MacEachern	2218	24.84

References

External links

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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